Biogas News

The new renewable gas offloading station at Dane County landfill in Wisconsin will receive its first load of biogas this week. In April 2019, a biogas upgrading facility opened at the Dane County landfill to convert waste and cow manure into renewable natural gas (RNG), to be injected into the natural gas pipeline and used as a transport fuel. The RNG offloading station, built alongside the…
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Austrian firm Biogest has signed a cooperation agreement with Spanish firm Biologist SC SLU for further expansion in the Spanish market. Biologist leads process integration projects under the concepts of a circular green economy in various locations in the Iberian Peninsula. According to Biogest, which has worked on projects in the UK, France, India, South Korea and Croatia, to name but a few,…
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The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has provided recommendations for prioritising waste collection services, listing food waste as a high priority. According to DEFRA, it is 'non-statutory guidance' to help local authorities to maintain services during the COVID-19 pandemic. On food waste, the government body said that where food waste is collected weekly,…
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South Africa-based wastewater solutions company Talbot has installed the first Econvert Eco Digester on the African continent. Econvert Water and Energy, Talbot's technology partner, is a European specialist in the delivery of anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas water treatment solutions. Talbot has the exclusive rights to the technology across Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands. The AD…
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US-based Capstone Turbine Corporation has received an order for an 800 kilowatt (kW) Signature Series microturbine to upgrade the City of Roseville, California wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). Capstone's low-emission C800S microturbine system will allow the City of Roseville to yield "significant benefits" for customers and the environment in the near and long-term, according to the company.…
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Finnish-Swiss biotech company Ductor is building three combined biofertiliser-biogas facilities in northern Poland. The new facilities will be built in Poland's Zachodniopomorskie region, approximately 100km off the coast of the Baltic Sea. The plants will use 100% poultry waste to create renewable electricity and organic nitrogen fertiliser, helping to significantly reduce greenhouse gas…
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UK-based Severn Trent Green Power (STGP) has won a five-year contract with Peterborough City Council to convert the city's food waste into energy using anaerobic digestion (AD). The contract begins this week and includes responsibility for the collection, haulage and treatment of food waste collected through kerbside recycling. There will be a possibility of extending the contract by three…
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Environmental infrastructure investment fund JLEN has invested £11 million (€12.5 million) in an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Scotland. The Peacehill Farm AD plant in Fife was commissioned in December 2015. It has a capacity of around 5MW and predominantly produces biomethane to be exported to the national gas grid. The Peacehill Farm AD facility is accredited under the Renewable…
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HoSt is supplying a turnkey Microferm Green Gas installation at a dairy farm in Boornbergum in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. The installation will be built as part of the 'Jumpstart' initiative by the Dutch dairy cooperative, FrieslandCampina. The manure digester will utilise proprietary manure to produce 40 cubic metres of biomethane per hour. With the help of Host's Microferm…
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The European Biogas Association (EBA) has appointed Harmen Dekker as its new director. Dekker, who formerly served as an advisory board member, is taking up his position with the EBA on 1 April and will be co-responsible for executing the strategy of the association in the coming years. He has worked in the sustainability sector for almost 15 years and is committed to the mitigation of climate…
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Trident Processes has been selected as the nutrient recovery technology provider for a new anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Salisbury, Vermont. Construction is underway for Vanguard Renewables' new farm-powered biogas facility at Goodrich Family Farm's dairy. Once the facility has been built in Q3 2020, the facility will process 280 tons of manure and organic waste per day into renewable…
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US company KeHE Distributors, a natural & organic, fresh and speciality distributor has partnered with Clean Energy Fuels to add renewable natural gas (RNG) trucks to its fleet. KeHE will add the low-carbon emission trucks to its California fleet in 2020, replacing five diesel trucks. In doing so, KeHE hopes to reduce its carbon emissions by 674 tonnes, equivalent to planting 11,120 trees…
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Anaerobic digestion (AD) plant operators could soon be working at maximum capacity, due to an increase in food waste as a result of panic buying. Pump manufacturer Landia has said that AD and biogas plant operators could see "an avalanche of food" coming to their facilities, as those worried about coronavirus over-purchase food. Howard Burton, technical sales engineer at Landia, said: "The…
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Gasum is to supply Sweden's largest fuel company, Preem, with a new fuel blend consisting of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and 10% renewable liquefied biogas (LBG). This is the first agreement that involves Gasum delivering a blend containing renewable fuel to a maritime sector customer on a regular basis. Preem's vessels to be supplied with the renewable maritime fuel blend are the…
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