Biogas News

The European Commission has approved a €45 million, six year extension of an aid scheme to support biogas production in Luxembourg. According to a statement from the European Commission, the goal of the scheme is to ensure a stable remuneration for plants which produce biogas from biomass and inject it into the natural gas network. The prolongation of the scheme was approved on 24 October…
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In a press release, ‘Europe’s largest’ biogas producer Nature Energy announced that it has acquired fellow Danish biogas plant designer Xergi. “Denmark has unique expertise when it comes to circular economy, and biogas production is circular economy at its best,” said Peter Gæmelke, chairman of Nature Energy’s board of directors. “We're extremely…
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Energy firm Fluence has been awarded a €1.7 million contract to develop a waste-to-energy contract in Argentina, according to a statement. According to the release, the system will be built for an existing customer, Arrebeef Energia, described as a prominent beef producer in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is Fluence’s first system to be constructed in Argentina. The system itself will…
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In a press release, the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) responded to the new post-Brexit agriculture bill designed to subsidise farmers for producing clean energy. The bill, introduced on the 12 September, outlines the UK government’s intentions to reward the production of cleaner energy as part of delivering a ‘Green Brexit’. A government press release…
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A part of the technology group Wärtsilä, Puregas solutions has been contracted to supply a turnkey biogas upgrading plant to the USA. The plant is set to upgrade an existing anaerobic digester (AD) to produce biomethane. It has been ordered by a leader in sustainable agricultural practices, located in the state of Oregon. The Puregas solution will process 3100cfm (cubic feet per minute)…
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In a press release, the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) announced that it is calling for the UK government to ‘do the right thing’ and enable separate food waste collection in England, as is the case in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Separate food waste collection is only available to 25% of households in England. The National Infrastructure…
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The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that renewable methane producer RNG Energy Solutions had formed a joint venture with Philadelphia Energy Solutions to build a $120 million (€102 million) anaerobic digester. The report claims that the project, named the Point Breeze Renewable Energy Project, will be able to covert upwards of 1,100 tons of food waste into methane gas. It will be built on 22…
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As reported by local news outlet, The Glamorgan Gem, Dwr Cymru Welsh Water is set to begin a €53.7 million ($63.1 million) investment scheme to improve the ‘green energy’ output at one of its facilities. Named Cog Moors, the wastewater treatment works is in the town of Sully in southern Wales. The plant in question was built in the 1990s and assists in filtering wastewater for…
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The new offices of North Lincolnshire, UK’s Birch Solutions are powered 100% by renewable energy produced from onsite biogas plants, the company has announced. Founded in 1815, Singleton Birch has since diversified into a number of sectors while keeping the global supply of chalk and lime as its core business. Birch Solutions was formed after Singleton Birch bought a controlling share of…
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Four biogas plants, which will produce energy from more than half a million tonnes of food waste, are set to be built in Oman, local media are reporting. According to the Times of Oman, the cost of the project, is OMR50 million. Oman Environmental Holdings, also known as Be’ah, is building the biogas plants. The Times of Oman article notes that the country generates 560,000 tonnes of food…
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The partnership agreement between Bright Biomethane from the Netherlands and Biogen Biotechnologies from the Caribbean, Barbados, will be used to help to promote and further develop biogas upgrading technology and biomethane production in Barbados.    The strategic partnership will utilise the island’s organic materials such as seaweed, sea moss and industrial waste, making for…
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Created in 2017 by the merger of Shanks Group and Van Gansewinkel Groep, Renewi is a leading waste-to-product company that aims to become part of the solution to some of the main environmental problems that society faces today.    After selling its 50% share in the Energen Biogas anaerobic digestion facility in Cumbernauld, Renewi has left the UK organics sector. The facility has been…
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As Denmark moves away from fossil fuels, Nature Energy has become one of the country’s biggest success stories. Here, Bioenergy Insight speaks with the company’s CEO, Ole Hvelplund. Mr Hvelplund will be speaking on the story of Nature Energy and the role of biogas in the circular economy at the upcoming International Biogas Congress and Expo in Berlin, Germany. Nature Energy is…
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South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) is planning to install two biogas plants that will process cattle dung, according to The Times of India. They will be installed at Nangloi and Goyla Dairy Colony in Najafgarh and will each have a daily capacity of 200MT by March 2019. A senior official told Times of India that private concessionaires are set to design, engineer, finance, construct…
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