Deal Farm Biogas (DFB) has decided to withdraw plans for an anaerobic digester (AD) plant and waste lagoons in Bressingham, near Diss, before resubmitting a revised design, the company announced on Thursday, June 9. Fresh plans will now be submitted to South Norfolk Council and a new round of consultation will begin. The AD plant would use organic waste and crops... [Read More]

The International Solar Alliance (ISA) and the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in India are working on an innovative concept, which will bring down the cost of production of green hydrogen and utilise the tonnes of daily cow dung generated on a daily basis. Officials are thinking of a hybrid model that makes use of solar energy during the day and biogas at night... [Read More]

Swedish biogas producer Scandinavian Biogas Fuels International AB said it has entered into an agreement valued at an initial 2.7 billion Swedish kronor ($269 million) to deliver bio-liquefied natural gas to Alternoil GmbH in Germany. The company said that the agreement will see it deliver 8,000 metric tons in 2024, rising to 11,500 tonnes a year between 2025 and 2030,... [Read More]

The California Energy Commission has awarded Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) a $750,000 grant to pursue development of a novel hydrogen production system using biogas to create affordable, scalable, renewable hydrogen. The project will build upon innovations in modular hydrogen production technology to create a system powered by renewable electricity that can use... [Read More]

Aemetis, a renewable natural gas and renewable fuels company focused on below zero carbon intensity products, has announced the completion of 20 miles of biogas pipeline and approval for construction of the remaining biogas pipeline in Merced County, California.  Construction of the 39-mile main biogas pipeline is on schedule for completion in Q4 2022. “Issuance... [Read More]

Anaergia has announced it has officially commissioned a new biomethane facility in Italy, the Calimera Bio plant in the Province of Lecce. The facility is the second of seven facilities Anaergia is building which together will form one of the largest food waste to biomethane platforms in Europe. The Calimera Bio facility has the capacity to anaerobically digest 24,000... [Read More]

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, two group companies of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, will jointly launch demonstration testing of MHIENG’s CO2 capture technology in biogas engine generator sets operated by MHIET.  The testing constitutes an integral part of MHI Group’s goal for realising carbon... [Read More]

Ukraine has a real opportunity to completely abandon gas imports through developing its own production, including of biogas. This was stated by Serhiy Makogon, CEO of Gas Transmission System Operator Ukraine of Ukraine LLC (Gas TSO of Ukraine), according to Ukrinform. "Ukraine has a very large potential for biogas production – up to 8 billion cubic metres of biogas... [Read More]

Officials from Punjab Energy Development Authority (Peda) and the civic body recently visited the biogas plant of Haibowel, India, to study how to run it at full capacity, to prevent dairy waste from running into the Buddha Nullah, which is the seasonal water stream that runs through the Malwa region of Punjab. The waste flowing in from the dairy units via the sewers... [Read More]

FortisBC Energy will produce renewable natural gas (RNG) from its first project in Northern BC, teaming up with the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George to produce RNG from landfill gas generated at the Foothills Boulevard Regional Landfill, located in Prince George. FortisBC expects to produce approximately 90,000 gigajoules of RNG a year from this project over... [Read More]

Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM have now found a way to convert waste methane from biogas plants into additional methane, thus drastically increasing the methane yield from biogas plants. The process is up and running and the research team is currently scaling up the demonstration plant to five cubic meters of methane... [Read More]

The chief executive of the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), Charlotte Morton, has been awarded an OBE for services to the development of the biogas industry. Currently in the process of stepping down from her role at ADBA, Morton is now chief executive of the World Biogas Association (WBA), an organisation that works to drive global adoption... [Read More]

Homes and institutions in Kajiado, Kenya are now benefitting from the Ministry of Energy’s new Domestic Biogas Programme. According to the Programme’s Kajiado county coordinator, Elizabeth Mbuthia, its aim is to phase out the use of charcoal and firewood. “In support of the Big Four Agenda, the Ministry of Energy rolled out the Domestic Biogas Demonstration Programme... [Read More]

Construction work to expand the EnviTec Biogas premises in Lohne, Lower Saxony “is in full progress, the foundation is already poured” the company said. With the addition of an extra 640 sqm, this will mean the site then offers a total of 3,000 sqm of office space, with 750 sqm of storage. EnviTec CEO Olaf von Lehmden: "Building this extra capacity in terms of... [Read More]

The Netherlands’ first bio-LNG plant has now achieved a production milestone of one million kilograms, enabling about four million kilometres of sustainable transport with heavy-duty trucks. For initiators Nordsol, Renewi and Shell, this is “an important proof point” that sustainable heavy-duty road transport is possible. Nordsol’s bio-LNG plant in Amsterdam... [Read More]