Biogas News

Construction has begun on a biogas plant to be co-located with the historic Qvidja castle in Finland, with the goal to develop sustainable agriculture. The Qvidja castle, situated on the Lemlahdensaari isle in Parainen, is Finland’s oldest manor estate, with building recorded as having begun in mid-15th Century. Two years ago it passed into the ownership of Ilkka Herlin, who wants to make…
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US waste and recycling firm Rumpke is partnering with Energy Developments (EDL) to construct a landfill gas-to-electricity facility at an Ohio landfill. The 4.8MW facility, to be located at the Brown County Landfill near Georgetown, is estimated to produce enough electricity to power nearly 3,000 homes. The electricity will go directly from the site to American Municipal Power (AMP) Ohio, who…
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A new trade body called the World Biogas Association (WBA) has been launched at the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 22 at Marrakesh, Morocco. Following the adoption by the United Nations of a shared vision for transforming lives by 2030 through the Sustainable Development Goals and the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate agreement between the 195 national…
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Spanish automaker SEAT and water management company Aqualia have joined forces to produce renewable biofuel from wastewater to be used in compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered vehicles. To kick off the five-year collaboration agreement, both companies have begun performing pilot tests in the wastewater treatment plant located in Jerez de la Frontera in the city of Cádiz. As part of the…
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Finland-based biotechnology company Ductor Corp. has announced a new partnership with California-headquarted ES Engineering Services to boost the biogas industry in North America. Together, Ductor and ES will work to integrate Ductor fermentation technology within existing and new biogas plants located in North America. ES will provide all technical design and project management services required…
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UK recycling company Tamar Energy‘s anaerobic digestion (AD) plant has achieved the PAS 110 industry quality standard, ensuring the quality and consistency of the biofertiliser produced through the AD process. The Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, plant can process up to 40,000 tonnes of municipal and commercial food waste annually to generate 1.5MW of renewable energy, enough for 3,000…
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Dutch wastewater and biogas purification specialist Paques opened on Monday a new factory in India in order to tap the subcontinent’s growing markets. The new subsidiary Paques Environmental Technology India, located in Sri City on the east coast of South India, is the company’s fourth and most modern sales/production site. The new approximately 2,500m2 plant is situated in one of…
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US state of New Jersey has proposed a bill that will require restaurants, supermarkets, and other large food waste generators to separate and recycle their waste for use in waste-to-energy plants and as compost. The bill S-771, passed by the New Jersey Senate Environment and Energy Committee, would encourage the state to build more waste-to-energy facilities. According to the US Environmental…
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UK anaerobic digestion (AD) specialist Agrivert has announced the successful completion of G59 (first electricity supply to grid) at its two latest AD facilities; securing their tariffs for the next 20 years. The two new plants in South Wales and North London will strengthen the network of food waste facilities that Agrivert operate to a total of five, increasing the company’s total food…
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Power firm Hoosier Energy has started up its latest landfill methane generation facility in Illinois, US. The station is located at Advance Disposal’s landfill in Rockford, Illinois. The engines are presently being tested and synched to Hoosier’s grid. The company expects to be producing power onto the grid sometime by the middle to the end of this November. The 16MW Orchard Hills…
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Swedish renewable energy producer OX2 has received a 22 million krona (€2.3m) grant to build a new food waste-to-biogas processing facility in Sweden. OX2 is also investing 18 million krona of its own capital in the plant, which will be located in the city of Helsingborg in southern Sweden. The company already operates NSR’s biogas plant in Filborna, for which it received a contract…
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US technology juggernaut Apple has entered into an agreement with the University of Aarhus in Denmark to establish a biogas research and development programme. The venture, along with a €1.7 billion investment, comes after Apple in February 2015 announced it was planning to build two data centres powered entirely by renewable energy in Europe. The facilities will be built in Athenry,…
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UK anaerobic digestion (AD) plant operator Biogen has officially opened its 2MW Merevale facility, the company’s seventh food waste recycling plant in the UK. The plant’s, located near Atherstone in Warwickshire, processing capacity of 45,000 tonnes of waste food from household and commercial sources annually joins Biogen’s network of AD plants that together recycle a…
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US-based biotechnology company Microvi has been awarded a grant from the US Department of Energy for a new biocatalytic technology that converts methane and carbon dioxide in biogas into liquid chemicals. The new technology, based on Microvi’s MicroNiche Engineering Platform Technology, can convert biogas that is created at facilities like landfills and wastewater treatment plants into…
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