Aug 14, 2017
Waste-to-energy plant and commercial greenhouse pilot project unveiled in Kuujjuaq
Biogas News
Aug 11, 2017
EnviTec Biogas Service UK has strengthened its offer across the UK under a landmark agreement with diesel engine specialist MAN Rollo.
The new union sees EnviTec Biogas Service UK developing a service package for MAN Rollo – a global supplier of MAN engines.
Signed at the UK AD & Biogas and World Biogas Expo 2017 in Birmingham recently, the agreement will lead... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 11, 2017
A combined solar and methane power plant is set to commence operations in southern Australia. The facility, built on a landfill site, is believed to be the first of its kind in Australia.
The new project will generate approximately 2000 megawatt hours of renewable electricity each year, enough to power more than 345 homes in the local area.
Northern Adelaide Waste Management... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 9, 2017
Cenex, the UK’s ‘first’ centre of excellence for low carbon technologies, has announced its involvement in the UK’s largest trial of biomethane fuelled lorries.
The ‘Dedicated to Gas’ trial will see large fleet operators including Kuehne + Nagel, Wincanton, ASDA, Brit European, Howard Tenens and Great Bear, trial the effectiveness of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 9, 2017
A biomethane fuelled double-decker bus is set to hit Bristol’s roads from 21 August.
The renewable, sustainable biomethane gas will be created from a feedstock of household food waste.
Local bus operator First West of England will use the new biogas double-decker as a ‘pathfinder’ to assess how well the new bus copes with the demands of city-wide operations... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 8, 2017
A company operating an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Plaistow, West Sussex has gone into administration, according to the West Sussex County Times.
Crouchlands Biogas, based in Dunsfold, Surrey, will continue to trade the business and retain its 11 staff as it seeks new investment and ownership, administrators FRP Advisory told the West Sussex County Times.
Since 2010,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 8, 2017
The Bioenergy Insight Conference, a world-leading bioenergy event, will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 4 and 5 October 2017, covering the whole bioenergy supply chain.
The show will focus on all the new developments and the latest challenges.
Topics covered in the seminars include the global biomass market, financing bioenergy projects and ensuring sustainability... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 8, 2017
Recently released research shows that a shift to biogas in southern India helped revive some of the region’s forests.
Published in July’s edition of the journal Global Ecology and Conservation, the new study describes how forests in south India that had become degraded due to excessive fuelwood extraction recovered after villagers living nearby switched to... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 7, 2017
North London-based football club Arsenal has switched to 100% green energy after extending its partnership with renewables provider Octopus Energy.
Octopus, which has been the club's official energy partner since October 2016, will now provide 100% power to the club's 60,000 capacity Emirates Stadium in North London under a contract signed on 3 August, 2017.
Power... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 4, 2017
A ground-breaking ceremony has been carried out for EnviTec’s first biogas project in the Philippines.
The German biogas specialist, headquartered in Lower Saxony, will construct a 1.2 MW biogas plant in Candelaria, Quezon province.
“In addition to this project under construction we are planning to develop and replicate more projects to help the local farmers... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 3, 2017
Tamar Energy, an organic waste management company, has earnt a key industry certification across all of its UK anaerobic digestion (AD) network, as well as achieving a range of business quality standards.
All five of the UK based company’s AD plants now meet PAS 110, a key industry standard backed by WRAP and the British Standards Institute, demonstrating the highest... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 1, 2017
As the primary component of natural gas, methane is a common, problematic by product of oil drilling.
A greenhouse gas 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide over the course of a century, methane is a costly challenge for the energy industry. Piping it from remote areas is expensive, so companies burn off about a third of the gas they produce in bright flares that can... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 31, 2017
Germany-headquartered EEW Energy from Waste has been awarded a contract to build and operate an energy-from-waste plant in the Polish city of Gdansk by the city’s publicly-owned waste management company, Zaklad Utylizacyjny (ZUT).
Bernard M. Kemper, CEO of Chinese-owned German firm, EEW, described the successful participation in the tender process as a milestone... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 31, 2017
The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), the UK’s technology innovation provider for process manufacturing, announced that the SeaGas collaboration has successfully harvested a 20-tonne batch of seaweed, the largest harvest of farmed seaweed in the UK to date.
The SeaGas project, funded jointly between Innovate UK and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 31, 2017
The Straus Family Creamery in Marin County, California, has announced the launch of the ‘first’ full-scale electric truck powered by biomethane created from cow manure.
California dairy farmer Straus Family is a pioneer in organic dairy and sustainable agriculture. The new truck is the next step in the dairy’s quest to show that it can be carbon positive,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 28, 2017
The US Environmental Protection Agency has invited the San Francisco Public Utility Commission (SFPUC) to apply for a $625 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan.
SFPUC’s project focuses on wastewater treatment system upgrades. San Francisco’s 60-year-old solids treatment facility will be replaced with upgraded infrastructure that... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 27, 2017
Lorries using the UK’s first gas filling station emitted 84% less carbon dioxide (CO2) than equivalent diesel vehicles, a newly released study claims. The UK’s biggest gas network, Cadent, commissioned independent analysis of the first 14 months of operation of the fuelling station, operated by CNG Fuels at Leyland, Lancashire. The first station on the high... [Read More]
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The cuts could represent more than 30% of the site’s 465-strong workforce
GreenValue GmbH has advised Balance Erneuerbare Energien on the acquisition of a biogas plant portfolio spanning Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — with a combined thermal input capacity of 46 MW.
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Ireland is backing five research teams with €2.6 million to tackle some of the biggest challenges in renewable gas — from biomethane production using macroalgae to AI-powered digital twins of gas infrastructure.
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