Biogas News

UK biogas company Warrens Emerald Biogas is to ‘ramp up’ the processing capacity at its plant by 40% following a major cash injection. Warrens Group, based in the North East of England, was recently acquired by Bio Capital, an environmental investment fund. The site converts food waste into renewable energy and was the region’s first anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in 2012. Warrens…
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Seven companies have joined the American Biogas Council (ABC) board of directors, joining the likes of Brightmark Energy, Environmental Energy Capital and AgriReNew. Bryan Nudelbacher, director of business development at U.S. Gain, Chip Stoicovy, vice-president of clean energy solutions at Air Liquide, Charles Love, renewable energy acquisition at Trillium, Tom Murray, vice-president of…
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US biotech company Aemetis has been awarded a $4.1 million (€3.7 million) grant to construct a biogas upgrading facility. Aemetis’ subsidiary company, Aemetis Biogas, received the grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC). The new facility will convert dairy biogas to renewable natural gas (RNG) as a final processing step after biogas is delivered via pipeline from anaerobic…
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Clean Energy Fuels has announced it delivered 143 million gallons of Redeem renewable natural gas (RNG) in 2019, as sales of the fuel continued. The environmental impact of replacing this volume of diesel fuel with RNG is the equivalent to reducing 745,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, planting 12 million trees, removing 158,000 cars from the road, or reducing 260,000 tons of waste that…
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Greenlane Renewables has signed an agreement in principle with France-based SWEN Capital Partners to create a joint venture (JV) to encourage deployment of Greenlane’s biogas upgrading systems. The JV will provide an innovative finance solution for customers in Europe using a build, own, operate model. The two companies intend to use the JB to help remove the burden of ownership on…
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Planning permission has been refused for a biogas plant in Gort, Ireland. The plans were opposed by locals, who submitted hundreds of objections to the facility. Sustainable Bio-Energy submitted plans to the county council for the biogas plant on a 10-hectare site in the west of Ireland. The plant would have treated farm waste to produce renewable energy and fertiliser. The county council…
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British Gas has launched a 100% renewable tariff, providing customers with renewable electricity matched through Guarantees of Origin certificates or Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin Certificates. The Green Future Tariff includes green gas, with 10% sourced from biomethane produced by renewables, and the remaining 90% carbon offset thanks to a partnership with ClimateCare. The carbon is…
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Alpheus Environmental has won a contract to provide wastewater services at Glenmorangie Distillery to generate renewable energy. The Cambridgeshire, UK-based company, a contracting arm of Anglian Water Group, will install an anaerobic digestion facility to generate electricity from wastewater by-products at the distillery. Three full-time workers from Alpheus will be employed on-site. Declan…
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Renewable natural gas (RNG) firm U.S. Gain has purchased an anaerobic digester in Wisconsin, US. The company is coordinating the installation of biogas clean-up equipment at Deer Run Dairy to strip the impurities from the dairy-derived biogas. U.S. Gain will lead project certification efforts with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB). Once…
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Danish biomass boiler firm Aalborg Energie Technik (AET) has secured a contract to help build a poultry manure-fired plant in Turkey. AET will assist Gülsan Holding’s subsidiaryMAV Elektrik with the project to create cleaner air, prevent water and soil contamination and provide a commercial income from poultry manure, which was previously seen as a waste product. The plant in Turkey’s…
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Nevada, US-based NV Energy is requesting proposals to add new renewable energy projects to its portfolio. The company is seeking proposals for all areas of renewables, including biomass, biogas, wind, solar and geothermal, which are compliant with Nevada’s existing renewable portfolio standards. The announcement follows the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada’s approval of 1,190…
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California, US-based Brightmark Energy has partnered with four dairy farms in central Florida on a biogas project. Brightmark and Larson Family Farms will build three anaerobic digesters to convert a total of 230,000 tonnes of dairy manure per year from 9,900 cows into biogas. Brightmark will develop, own and operate the project in Okeechobee Country, Florida. Once the project is complete, the…
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Three organisations in the biogas and transport sector have called on EU policymakers to boost the deployment of infrastructure to deliver natural gas and renewable gas/biomethane across the European Union (EU). The European Biogas Association (EBA), the Natural & Biogas Vehicle Association (NGVA Europe) and the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) believe Europe needs…
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A food waste anaerobic digestion (AD) company is calling for “rejuvenated government support” in its drive to eradicate food waste from landfill. ReFood, which has three AD facilities in the UK, has lobbied for a UK-wide ban since launching its ‘Vision 2020’ roadmap in 2013. The organisation believes that achieving the goal of preventing all food waste from going to landfill would be…
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