Jul 24, 2015
Envitec to build a new AD plant in the UK
Biogas News
Jul 23, 2015
Geomembrane Technologies (GTI) has announced it is now the exclusive distributor of double-membrane gasholders, manufactured by VSO Biogas Technologies, in the United States and Canada.
The Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, based company’s cover experts can deliver, install, and commission these gasholders, and provide advice on how to maximize the use... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 21, 2015
UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) and Equitix have announced a commitment to fund the construction of a £30 million (€43 million) energy facility in Sheffield.
The Equitix managed fund Energy Savings Investments (ESI), in which GIB is a cornerstone investor, is investing £14.6 million in the project. An additional £15 million of private capital has... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 16, 2015
In the US, the California Department of Food and Agriculture has announced that the AgPower Visalia project in Tulare County has been awarded a $3 million (€2.7 million) dairy digester R&D grant.
The project, developed by Camco Clean Energy, will be built by Regenis at the Moonlight Dairy in Visalia, the heart of California's largest in the nation dairy industry,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 16, 2015
Norske Skog is planning to build a biogas plant at the site of one of its mills in Norway, which will use bio-waste from the paper production process as feedstock.
The company will invest NOK150 million (€17 million) in the project.
'We are planning to commercialise bio-waste from raw material into gas at our mills. Despite challenging markets, we believe that our... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 16, 2015
HoSt, a specialist in bioenergy systems, has received an order from Ataro Clima to construct a 1.5MWe biogas plant in Tsalapitsa, Bulgaria.
This is the third such plant which HoSt will build in Bulgaria, and the second which will be able to handle large amounts of straw due to the addition of a straw input line.
The need to digest these large amounts of straw instead of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 7, 2015
The University of Aarhus has revealed findings from an extensive study into the performance of Landia's externally-mounted GasMix system, showing that it increases methane production by almost 11% in a digester treating agricultural residues.
The study also showed that viscosity was decreased by more than 31% when Landia's GasMix was used in a heat exchange tank treating... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 7, 2015
UK-based Clearfleau, a provider of on-site AD-based treatment solutions for the food and beverage sector, has finished the first stage in a major sustainability project for First Milk, at one of the UK's largest cheese creameries. Once operational, the plant will feed biomethane into the gas grid – the first dairy processing site in Europe to do so.
Lake District... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 29, 2015
Tamar Energy, operators and developers of commercial anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in the UK, has announced that two of its AD sites have achieved a key industry quality standard.
The company's AD plants at Retford, Nottinghamshire and Holbeach, Lincolnshire have been awarded PAS 110 certificates – a standard backed by WRAP and the British Standards Institute to... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 23, 2015
Wastech, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Belkorp Environmental Services, has officially opened its Landfill Gas Utilization Plant at the Cache Creek Landfill in British Columbia, Canada.
The plant will generate electricity at a rate of 4.8MW – enough to power more than 2,500 homes. The project uses technology to trap gas that is naturally generated from the landfilling... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 23, 2015
In New York, US, BioFerm Energy Systems/Viessmann Group has been selected as the anaerobic digester technology provider for a community organic diversion project expected to begin this year.
An estimated 900 tonnes of organic waste from nearby residences, restaurants and grocery stores are currently sent to area landfills in North Elba each year. Once the BioFerm technology... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 9, 2015
Blue Sphere Corp., a clean energy company that develops, manages and owns waste-to-energy projects, has broken ground on its waste-to-energy project in Johnston, Rhode Island in the US.
The plant will produce 3.2MW of clean energy from uneaten food that would normally end up in local landfills. That electricity will then be sold to the national grid to provide power to... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 1, 2015
Renewable energy company Columbia Biogas has scrapped plans to build an anaerobic digestion plant in Oregon, US.
The $55 million (€50 million) plant would have converted the community's food waste into renewable energy.
However, on 29 May, Columbia Biogas' president John McKinney issued this statement on the company's website: 'As of the end of this month, Columbia... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 1, 2015
Viaspace has been engaged by Clean Energy Solutions Pacific (CES), an independent power producer focused on developing power for energy markets, to provide engineering and design work for a 2MW biogas power plant fuelled by Giant King Grass.
The CES project located in Papua New Guinea is to own and operate a biogas power plant and Giant King Grass plantation that delivers... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 21, 2015
BioEnergy Hawaii (BEH) a designer, developer and operator of waste treatment and alternative energy systems, has partnered with impact investment firm Ulupono Initiative to finance a resource recovery facility planned for the west side of Hawaii Island.
The project will include advanced recycling operations and produce multiple value products from the waste streams: recyclable... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 20, 2015
Blue Sphere, a clean energy company that develops, manages and owns waste-to-energy projects, announced today they have acquired four fully operational biogas facilities in Italy. Each of these facilities produce 1MW.
Blue Sphere Italy signed a definitive agreement with Kinexia, an Italian public company, and will now await a change of control process that could take up... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 5, 2015
Republic Services, an industry leader in US recycling and non-hazardous solid waste, has announced a new landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) project located at Sunshine Canyon Landfill near Los Angeles, California. The 20MW renewable energy project is capable of generating enough electricity to power nearly 25,000 area homes.
'Landfills play a more consequential role in society... [Read More]
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