Rice Acquisition Corp (RAC), a special purpose acquisition company focused on the energy transition, has announced its stockholders have approved the business combination of Aria Energy and Archaea Energy. The merger, valued at an estimated $1.15 billion (€973 million), will create an industry-leading RNG platform, dedicated to reducing carbon emissions through landfill... [Read More]

LS Power and The Landfill Group announced that construction has started on an RNG project at a landfill in South Carolina. Enerdyne Power Systems, a Landfill Group company based in Charlotte, is building the state-of-the-art RNG project at the Twin Chimneys Landfill site. The Twin Chimneys Power Producers (TCPP) project is expected to achieve commercial operations by... [Read More]

Cayuga RNG, a joint venture (JV) between UGI Energy Services (UGIES) and Global Common Energy, has entered into an agreement to develop its second RNG project in upstate New York. The JV’s first project is being developed at Spruce Haven Farm, a dairy farm in Cayuga County in New York’s Finger Lakes region. This project incorporates an existing anaerobic digester... [Read More]

Aemetis has received building permits from Stanislaus County in California to construct the next phase of dairy biogas digesters in the Aemetis Biogas Central Dairy Digester Project. The project will be connected via a 32-mile private pipeline to the Aemetis ethanol plant near Modesto, connecting dairy RNG facilities. “In addition to the California Environmental... [Read More]

Starwood Energy Group (Starwood) has entered into an investment partnership with BerQ RNG, a premier developer of RNG projects in the US and Canada. The new platform will develop and acquire RNG projects in all stages, from early development to operating projects. The platform will be majority-owned by Starwood and operate under the name BerQ RNG. Based on Oakville,... [Read More]

Host and Birch Solutions (Birch) have signed an exclusive partner agreement to market Host’s biogas technology alongside Birch’s services and operations in the UK. Birch is an established AD plant service operator, with capabilities including biogas plant optimisation. Bioenergy technology provider, Host, headquartered in the Netherlands, has over 350 bioenergy... [Read More]

Online supermarket Ocado Group has signed a deal to open another CNG refuelling station in the UK, using a higher biomethane blend. In January 2019, Ocado became the first UK retailer to self-fund the purchase of an on-site grid-connected gas refuelling station at its depot in Hatfield. The new facility, at the firm’s Dordon Customer Fulfilment Centre in Warwickshire,... [Read More]

Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) and Circle K have opened two new CNG stations. The two publicly accessible, fast-fill CNG stations are now open at Circle K’s forecourt in Dublin and in Limerick City. Strategically located to support prominent haulier routes, the state-of-the-art stations can fill 50 heavy-goods vehicles (HGVs) a day, with each fill taking no more than... [Read More]

Clarke Energy USA will design, supply, and install a biogas upgrading plant to generate biomethane (RNG) with BioTown Biogas in Indiana. The agreement includes a biogas engine generating renewable electricity and heat. BioTown is an existing renewable energy business expanding into the generation of biogas to be cleaned to gas grid injection standards as biomethane. Five... [Read More]

Heavy-duty vehicle fleets are increasingly turning to near-zero-emissions (NZE) natural gas vehicles (NGVs) and carbon-negative RNG, according to the California Natural Gas Vehicle Partnership (CNGVP). During a press conference, the organisation said NZE NGVs are available now, delivering critical and cost-effective emissions reductions throughout California, where... [Read More]

Petrobras Distribuidora (Vibra) has signed a cooperation agreement with ZEG Biogas e Energia (ZEG) to jointly develop biomethane projects. The companies aim to promote the growth of the biomethane market in Brazil, providing producers with technological solutions for the manufacture of biomethane from by-products of the industrial process that originates ethanol. Vibra... [Read More]

Wales & West Utilities (W&W) has received the green light to inject biogas containing up to 1% hydrogen into its gas network in Swindon. This is the first time the Health & Safety Executive has permitted natural gas with an elevated hydrogen level to be used in the national network. W&W is working with ABSL, which will inject bio-substitute natural... [Read More]

Household food waste is rising following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions in the UK, according to a report by the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP). The latest UK Food Trends Survey shows that self-reported food waste has rebounded to pre-lockdown levels as restrictions lift, and more food is potentially going to waste in UK homes as life returns to normal.... [Read More]

Portuguese firm Dourogás GNV, working with HAVI Logistics, has refuelled its first heavy-duty vehicles with biomethane at Santo António dos Cavaleiros filling station. The biomethane incorporated at Dourogás filling station in Loures comes from a pioneering demonstration of a concept project that allows the production of 100% RNG from the anaerobic digestion of organic... [Read More]

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has deployed a linear generator – a mobile power generation technology utilising natural gas and directed at renewable biogas - to displace existing diesel generation at its Angwin site in Napa County. Working with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources and Mainspring Energy, PG&E deployed the 240 kW Mainspring linear... [Read More]