Jan 26, 2015
Tibbar Energy plans construction on biogas power plant
Biogas News
Jan 26, 2015
Cleansing Service Group, a UK-based privately owned waste management company, has announced it is investing in the renewable energy technology sector.
The company has gained an equity stake in Refgas, the Deeside-based developer of a modular 'green gas and energy' generating plant, in return for an 'undisclosed but material investment'.
This will help Refgas to build and... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 20, 2015
At Cannington Cold Stores' 45,000 tonne Bridgwater site in Somerset, UK, Veolia has installed a 2MW biogas combined heat and power (CHP) plant. This adds to four existing 324kW CHPs it has already successfully installed at the site.
The biogas solution has been supplied by Cogenco, Veolia's package CHP team and is fuelled by waste food, helping the chilled food storage... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 13, 2015
Renewable energy company Tamar Energy has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Energy for its current 11MW generation portfolio.
The PPA covers Tamar Energy's first five anaerobic digestion plants, at Basingstoke, Hampshire; Holbeach, Lincolnshire; Retford, Nottinghamshire; Halstead, Essex and Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. The PPA was signed with EDF... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 12, 2015
Waste-to-product business, Shanks Group, has announced that Iris Solutions, a consortium led by Orgaworld Canada, part of Shanks' Organics division, has been selected as the preferred proponent for the Surrey Biofuels Processing Facility project in Canada.
Shanks will build the plant, which will process 115,000 tonnes of residual kitchen and garden waste from Surrey each... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 12, 2015
A biogas plant complete with gas upgrading facility has been installed for Icknield Gas in Oxfordshire, UK.
Construction began in June 2014 and was complete in six months; since 12 December Icknield Gas has been feeding green energy into the existing Southern Gas Networks grid.
Using a combination of pig slurry, farm by-products and energy crops, the facility is able to... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 7, 2015
Clean Energy Fuels, a provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America, has sold its majority interest in the McCommas Bluff biomethane production plant in Dallas, Texas to minority interest owner Cambrian Energy for approximately $40.6 million (€34.2 million).
Clean Energy will continue to have the right to market and sell biomethane produced at the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 5, 2015
UK-based anaerobic digestion (AD) specialist Clearfleau has revealed its energy output results for the plant it built for global food and beverage supplier Nestlé, one year after commissioning.
Clearfleau designed and built the onsite bioenergy plant for Nestlé's Fawdon confectionary factory, near Newcastle, which is helping Nestlé develop environmentally... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 5, 2015
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, with help from Waste Services of the Bluegrass, is converting methane from a local landfill into renewable electricity to power Toyota's Georgetown assembly plant.
Scheduled for completion in early 2015, the project will provide enough power to produce 10,000 vehicles annually, but it will also lead to improved air quality, reducing... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 18, 2014
The European Biogas Association (EBA) has released its Biogas Report 2014, which found there are now more than 14,500 biogas plants in Europe and this figure is still growing.
In central Europe, countries such as Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic experienced an 18% increase in the number of biogas plants. Other key producing countries included the UK, France... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 18, 2014
GoBiGas, the world's first demonstration plant for large-scale production of biogas through the gasification of forest residues, is now operational.
The plant has been supplying biogas to the Swedish natural gas grid since 15 December.
'After intensive work with the commissioning of the plant over the past year, we have now reached an important milestone,' says project... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 16, 2014
Hungarian energy firm Ormánsági Zöldenergia is reported to be investing HUF950 million (€3 million) into a new biogas plant in Vajszló in the southwest of the country.
Using waste products sourced from nearby farms, the plant will have a capacity to generate 4.5GWh of electricity when it comes online in Q2 2015.
In addition to Ormánsági... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 16, 2014
Via its subsidiary Sita, Suez Environment has been awarded a €150 million operating contract for the Amétyst anaerobic digestion plant in Montpellier, France, for a period of 10 years.
Sita has operated the Amétyst plant since 2008, which will benefit from a €10 million investment programme funded by Sita. This investment will increase its electricity... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 2, 2014
Last year, around 51,000 hectares of UK agricultural land were utilised for bioenergy crops – around 0.8% of all arable land in the nation. This is according to a new report, Areas of Crops Grown for Bioenergy in England and the UK: 2008-2013, released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
Of this 51,000 hectares of land used for bioenergy,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 2, 2014
The quantity of biomethane being injected into the UK's gas grid will more than quadruple by the end of this year. This is according to data compiled by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA).
Having analysed information shared by the UK's four Gas Distribution Networks (GDNs), ADBA's results show that the number of biomethane upgrading plants has... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 11, 2014
Microsoft and the University of Wyoming (UW) have officially opened their zero emission green data centre that is fuelled by methane biogas and allows the university to run computing and modelling applications from the Laramie campus.
A cable-cutting ceremony for the Cheyenne Biogas Power Plant, which is located at the Dry Creek Water Reclamation Facility, was scheduled... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 3, 2014
A new £319.5 million (€409 million) waste treatment plant in North Yorkshire, UK is to receive a £33.1 million investment from the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB).
The project is expected to process up to 320,000 tonnes of household, commercial and industrial waste per year. It will divert more than 7 million tonnes of waste from landfill over its lifetime... [Read More]
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