Sep 8, 2015
UK consortium awarded £11m to develop first-of-its-kind biogas plant
Biogas News
Sep 7, 2015
Bettaland Products, a composting company part of Organic Recycling, is set to complete an anaerobic digestion plant in Crowland, UK by the end of 2015.
Once completed, the plant l, located at Decoy Farm, will provide power to more than 1,400 homes through the conversion of crops and waste.
Plans for the plant were greenlit last August, with the original intention of building... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 2, 2015
Long Island Compost (LIC) and its American Organic Energy (AOE) affiliate are moving forward with a plan to build a $40 million (€35.6 million) facility to turn food waste into natural gas.
After delays, AOE is planning to begin construction of an anaerobic digester in Yaphank, New York state by early next year.
Accepting and separating 180,000 tonnes of food waste... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 1, 2015
Ecotricity has announced it is to develop a third Green Gas Mill, a new green energy site in Somerset, UK, that will generate enough gas from grass to power up to 2,500 homes.
The company launched its first Green Gas Mill project in Gloucestershire back in April, with a second announced in August in Hampshire, while a fourth is also due to be unveiled before the end of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 1, 2015
California-based CR&R Waste and Recycling Services is set to build a $100 million (€88.7 million) anaerobic digester complex in Perris, California.
The company expects to have the plant up and running by early 2016.
Using food scraps and garden waste as feedstock, the facility will produce fertiliser and biogas, which will be used to power 45% of the vehicles... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 1, 2015
Valoneo, a French waste-to-energy company, has started trading on the deregulated market Marche Libtre of Euronext Paris.
The company’s market capitalisation runs at €14 million, with shares trading at €11.60 after being on the market since July.
Valoneo was listed on the public market through a direct quotation, advised by French corporate finance adviser... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 27, 2015
Marathon Capital has announced the successful sale of OwnEnergy, a locally-owned renewable energy systems manufacturer, to EDF Renewable Energy (EDF).
The acquisition of OwnEnergy's team, development platform, and pipeline of wind projects will add to EDF’s North American portfolio containing 3.2GW of biomass, biogas, wind, and solar projects.
Marathon Capital led... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 25, 2015
The European Biogas Association (EBA) is organising two events taking place in Brussels in early September.
On 2 September, the FABbiogas Project will hold its Final Conference at the historical Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts (which co-organises the event).
Since its introduction in 2013, the EU co-funded project aims at changing the mindsets of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 25, 2015
Greenlane Biogas has received an order for a 'Rimu' biogas upgrading plant from Sifang Leo Livestock Science and Technology (SF Leo), a dairy farm engineering company and manufacturer of high-tech livestock equipment and farm machinery in China.
Greenlane's water scrubbing based biogas upgrading plant will be used in an eco-dairy farm demonstration operation to convert... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 25, 2015
The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) has announced that the anaerobic digestion (AD) industry now delivers an electrical equivalent capacity (electricity and biomethane) of 514MW across 411 plants in the farming, waste and water sectors.
Commenting on this progress, ADBA's CEO Charlotte Morton says: 'ADBA's market data now shows that AD offers over... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 24, 2015
The Longchamps biomethane plant in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France has gone live.
The plant supplies 70m3/h of biomethane to the natural gas grid of the French gas distributor GrDF (Gaz réseau Distribution France).
As feedstock, the plant uses approximately 6,000 tonnes of agricultural leftovers a year for the production of biogas from anaerobic digestion.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 18, 2015
Clearfleau, a UK-based provider of on-site anaerobic digestion (AD) solutions for food and beverage companies, has handed over its latest bioenergy plant at Diageo's Glendullan distillery.
The Glendullan plant, which was visited by Scotland Office Minister Lord Dunlop on 13 August, optimises energy output using co-products from the distillation process. The project involved... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 18, 2015
On 7 and 8 October, Nextgen Expo will return to the NAEC, Stoneleigh, with an exciting and innovative conference programme that is now live on the company's website. In addition, a wide range of companies and organisations will be exhibiting at the event, delivering maximum value for delegates.
2015 has been a challenging time for the renewable and low carbon energy industries.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 6, 2015
Belarus plans to use sewage sludge to produce biogas, says Sergei Zavyalov, head of the department on the impact on the atmosphere and water resources at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Belarus.
According to Zavyalov, the rainfall handling technology was discussed at a meeting in the Housing and Utilities Ministry not long ago.
‘Out of four variants... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 5, 2015
The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has announced that it is leading a £2.78 million (appr. €4 million) UK-based collaboration to help strengthen the UK’s position within industrial biotechnology.
The three year project – SeaGas – is working on producing bio-methane from seaweed through anaerobic digestion (AD).
The project launched in... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 4, 2015
The first commercial-scale UK seaweed farm is scheduled to be scheduled in Argyll off the coast of Scotland in late summer 2015.
The new facility, planned by scientists at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban, will be run as a demonstration project that will help shape the UK’s fledling seaweed cultivation sector.
Seven native seaweed... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 4, 2015
The use of pulsed electric fields for conditioning substrates can significantly enhance yields in commercial biogas plants, a new study by the Institute for Bioprocessing and Analytical Measurement Techniques, a German researcher, finds.
Although the primary effect of an electric field in biogas production is cracking cell structures for better availability of nutrition,... [Read More]
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Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy, Gillian Martin MSP, has visited BrewDog’s anaerobic digestion (AD) and biomethane facility in Ellon
Tuas Power has announced plans to convert its Tembusu Multi-Utilities Complex (TMUC) on Jurong Island to run entirely on renewable biomass by 2028 — 22 years ahead of Singapore’s national decarbonisation timeline
Egypt’s Ministry of Environment, through the Bioenergy Foundation for Sustainable Development, has signed a cooperation agreement with Italian energy company Eni to advance biogas production and support the country’s clean energy transition
