Biogas News

Arcadis and the Government of Canada have partnered to develop a joint programme to help Chile achieve its climate change goals in the waste management sector. The Reciclo Orgánicos program is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by optimising waste management processes across eight Chilean cities, cutting the amount of organic waste disposed in sanitary landfills. The national…
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A report from the Press Association shows that the amount of waste food Parliament has sent to anaerobic digestion facilities has more than doubled over the last three years. Disposed wasted food reached 130 tonnes in 2016, rising to 282 in the last year. Charlotte Morton, chief executive of the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association, says she agrees that the food waste hierarchy…
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The collaboration will focus on the development of four small-scale liquefaction plants for natural gas and biomethane to make LNG and renewable bio-LNG more available for transport in Italy. Snam and Baker Hughes have signed an agreement to develop micro-liquefaction infrastructure to boost sustainable mobility in heavy duty trucks and to promote sustainability in maritime transportation. Snam…
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New research is suggesting that advanced anaerobic digestion and reverse osmosis filtration in agriculture could be leaving behind ‘concerning levels’ of antibiotic residues. According to the World Health Organisation: “Antibiotics are medicines used to prevent and treat bacterial infections. Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria change in response to the use of these…
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Major UK pub company JD Wetherspoon has signed an agreement with Veolia in a bid to increase the company’s food recycling. Resource management company Veolia has been appointed to increase J D Wetherspoon’s recycling and divert all its food waste from landfill. The company’s food waste stream will be used to produce green energy through anaerobic digestion. According to a…
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A new report, commissioned by Cadent and carried out by Ernst & Young has examined what market framework, mechanisms and incentives would be needed to roll out bioSNG (bio-substitute natural gas) plants across the UK. According to a Cadent statement, the newly published report aims to ‘kick start an exploration of what foundations need to be in place to facilitate a green gas revolution…
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A Ugandan and German team called ‘Agali Awamu’ has developed an ‘innovative and feasible’ solution for electricity and biogas supply in Uganda. The project was facilitated by the lab of tomorrow, an organisation run by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) formed to encourage ‘the private sector to engage in translating…
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Coming into effect on 22 May, the legislation will increase the amount available to biogas and biomethane producers under the scheme and impose new feedstock requirements. The Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) has been told that legislation has passed that will restore higher tariff levels under the Non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive. The tariffs are being seen as a…
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Vermont Coffee Company said on 17 May that it has become the first US coffee roaster to use 100% renewable biogas to roast its coffee. Both thermal and electric energy are sourced from renewable methane. The company says that it has been trying to get to this system in place for some time.  "Renewable electricity was the easy part," says company founder and CEO, Paul Ralston. "The real…
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CNG Fuels is reporting that demand for ‘100% renewable biomethane’ from its refuelling station in Leyland, UK has more than tripled in the last year. The facility was first unveiled in March 2016, with CNG Fuels stating at the time it was the facility of its kind in the UK. Capable of refuelling more than 500 heavy-duty vehicles per days, the facility also supplies 100% renewable…
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The growth follows the opening of facilities in the US and Europe. Since the beginning of 2018, the Paris-based Air Liquide has commissioned three new biomethane production units, in the United States, in France, and in the United Kingdom. With these units, the company has doubled its biomethane production capacity, which now stands at 60 MW, the equivalent of 500 GWh for a full year of…
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Biomethane’s potential to replace natural gas has been analysed in a new report from IEA Bioenergy. As well as looking at the available substrates and technologies for green gas production, the report analyses the logistic demands of injecting green gas into existing gas grid infrastructure. According to the IEA Bioenergy Task 37 study, there are ‘good opportunities for cross-border…
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The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), the association for the UK’s anaerobic digestion industry, is among the signatories of a letter calling on the Scottish Government ‘to do more to help agriculture turn a corner and substantially reduce its greenhouse gas emissions’. Specifically, the joint letter urges Scottish Cabinet Secretaries Roseanna Cunningham…
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British builder of on-site waste to energy plants Clearfleau has been acquired by German water treatment company EnviroChemie. Part of SKion’s water portfolio, EnviroChemie supplies advanced water and wastewater treatment plants for clients in the industrial and commercial sectors. Clearfleau designs and builds on-site anaerobic digestion plants designed to generate renewable energy from…
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