Sep 1, 2015
Waste-to-gas company Valoneo goes public
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]
Biogas News
Aug 3, 2015
UK on-site biogas plants increased their power generation by 40% in the last year, a survey by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has found.
According to DECC’s annual Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics, the farming sector led the rise in biogas capacity from 164MW in 2013 to 216MW in 2014.
Anaerobic digestion (AD) plants took the lead from... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 31, 2015
France is set to increase its feed-in tariffs for biogas installations and small photovoltaic (PV) systems, says the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy.
The feed-in tariff for electricity produced by cogeneration installations running on biogas will be raised for both new and existing installations.
On a project basis, depending on individual size... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 30, 2015
Viaspace has completed the engineering and design work for a 2MW biogas power plant in Papua New Guinea for Clean Energy Solutions Pacific (CES).
CES, based in Salt Lake City, US, is an independent power producer focused on developing power for frontier and emerging markets with experience in project development and management, engineering, and construction of power plants.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 28, 2015
Greenlane Biogas, global supplier of integrated full system solutions to upgrade biogas released from organic waste to biomethane, has partnered with China Agricultural University (CAU) to install a biogas upgrading system to facilitate research in the generation of renewable natural gas (RNG).
The top academic institution in China for agricultural studies, CAU will use... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 28, 2015
Alkcon Corp., a developer of natural gas processing equipment, has entered into an exclusivity agreement and a letter of intent with Flogas Group of Leicestershire, England.
The agreement grants Flogas the exclusive right to market and sell the company's proprietary methane-to-propane gas conversion technology in the UK, Ireland, France, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands and... [Read More]
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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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