Mar 5, 2015
Waste-to-energy facility approved for construction in Tennessee
Biogas News
Feb 26, 2015
Gasrec, a European supplier of liquefied gas fuel for transport, has welcomed the EU's latest compromise agreement with the European Parliament which will pave the way for an increase in weight for HGVs converting to run on gas, ensuring they maintain their full load carrying capacity.
Under the agreement, investment in clean fuels such as liquefied biomethane and LNG... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 23, 2015
UK-based anaerobic digestion (AD) plant operator Tamar Energy has secured a landmark £32 million (€43 million) non-recourse project finance facility, the first such financing facility in the AD industry.
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is providing the seven-year term facility which will refinance Tamar Energy's existing five AD plants. The new financing facility... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 23, 2015
In the US, Applied LNG has signed an agreement to purchase biomethane from BP Energy Company.
Applied LNG will use the biogas, sourced from waste landfill sites which produce methane as a by-product, to produce LNG in its liquefaction facility in Topock, Arizona that will be sold to the transportation fuel market.
'We are committed to providing affordable, cleaner and... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 16, 2015
In California, a consortium of US companies joined together with state energy officials to launch the Calgren Ethanol Biodigester, which utilises waste from dairy farms to power the production of tens of millions of gallons of ethanol.
The Two-Stage Mixed Plug Flow Digester, designed by DVO of Wisconsin and built by Regenis, is the first California digester to use agricultural... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 10, 2015
Blue Sphere, a developer of waste-to-energy projects, has closed a joint venture to build and operate a 5.2MW biogas plant in Charlotte, North Carolina, with affiliates of York Capital Management.
Under the terms of the JV, Blue Sphere owns 25% of the project. The company received an initial payment of $1,250,000 (€1,108,000) in cash at the closing with a second payment... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 9, 2015
Aria Energy, a provider of baseload renewable energy, will partner with Casella Waste Systems, a regional solid waste, recycling and resource management services company, to develop, build, own and operate a 4.8MW landfill gas-to-energy project located at the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town, Maine, US.
The facility, which will utilise methane gas generated through organic... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 9, 2015
In the UK, bioenergy and bulk materials handling firm Saxlund International, part of the Opcon energy and environmental group, has secured contracts from Barhale Trant Utilities to design and supply sludge cake truck loading silos for Southern Water waste water treatment works (WWTW) at Budds Farm in Havant and Millbrook near Southampton.
The projects include the construction... [Read More]
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Jan 27, 2015
Waste-to-energy solutions provider PHG Energy (PHGE) of Nashville, Tennessee, has acquired a municipal gasification plant and multiple intellectual property assets following the bankruptcy of Florida-based MaxWest Environmental Systems.
In addition, Jeff Snyder has joined PHGE from MaxWest to lead the sales division. Snyder had served nearly three years as head of sales... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 26, 2015
Tibbar Energy USVI, a Nervada-based construction company, will begin construction on its bioenergy power plant on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, in Q2 2015.
The 7MW anaerobic digestion biogas power plant will utilise Viaspace’s Giant King Grass, which is now ready for the production fields and will be obtained from its nurseries on St. Croix.
Tibbar will... [Read More]
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]
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The conference was opened by Swedish MEP Emma Wiesner (Renew Europe), who underlined bioenergy’s key role in achieving Europe’s energy and climate ambitions
Gasum, in partnership with REMA Distribution, has today inaugurated a new biogas filling station for liquefied biogas (LBG) at REMA Distribution’s facility in Vinterbro, south of Oslo
The agreement, concluded under Singapore’s new 'biomethane sandbox' launched by the Energy Market Authority and the Economic Development Board on 27 October, is designed to pilot biomethane imports for power generation and industrial use
