Biogas News

Last year, around 51,000 hectares of UK agricultural land were utilised for bioenergy crops – around 0.8% of all arable land in the nation. This is according to a new report, Areas of Crops Grown for Bioenergy in England and the UK: 2008-2013, released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Of this 51,000 hectares of land used for bioenergy, 42,000 of them (just…
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A new £319.5 million (€409 million) waste treatment plant in North Yorkshire, UK is to receive a £33.1 million investment from the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB). The project is expected to process up to 320,000 tonnes of household, commercial and industrial waste per year. It will divert more than 7 million tonnes of waste from landfill over its lifetime and generate 203GWh of…
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Renewable energy company Columbia Biogas has scrapped plans to build an anaerobic digestion plant in Oregon, US. The $55 million (€50 million) plant would have converted the community's food waste into renewable energy. However, on 29 May, Columbia Biogas' president John McKinney issued this statement on the company's website: 'As of the end of this month, Columbia Biogas will no longer…
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Microsoft and the University of Wyoming (UW) have officially opened their zero emission green data centre that is fuelled by methane biogas and allows the university to run computing and modelling applications from the Laramie campus. A cable-cutting ceremony for the Cheyenne Biogas Power Plant, which is located at the Dry Creek Water Reclamation Facility, was scheduled for 6 November. The data…
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Viaspace has been engaged by Clean Energy Solutions Pacific (CES), an independent power producer focused on developing power for energy markets, to provide engineering and design work for a 2MW biogas power plant fuelled by Giant King Grass. The CES project located in Papua New Guinea is to own and operate a biogas power plant and Giant King Grass plantation that delivers reliable electricity to…
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In the US, DTE Biomass Energy has completed its 9.6MW landfill gas-to-energy project at the Uwharrie Environmental Landfill in Mt. Gilead, North Carolina. The landfill site at which it is located is owned and operated by Republic Services of North Carolina.DTE Biomass Energy started operating the facility in September. Landfill gas at the site is used to generate renewable energy which is then…
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UK lime works company Singleton Birch has opened its 1.5MW biogas plant in North Lincolnshire, England. The new plant will generate 40% of Singleton Birch's power requirements, with four local farmers providing 30,000 tonnes of feedstock annually. This includes manure, slurry, maize and sugar beet, as well as grass from the Humberside Airport. PlanET Biogas UK was responsible for constructing the…
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In the UK, Willen Biogas is developing a 27,000 tonne per year biogas plant at Cattlegate Farm in Enfield, London. Willen Biogas is owned by the investment funds Foresight Environmental Fund (FEF) and UK Waste Resources and Energy Investments fund (UKWREI), with both funds managed by Foresight Group, and by Adrian Williams, Howard Williams, Brian Williams and Mark Lennon. 'This is the second…
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In the US, infrastructure and support services firm AECOM has been awarded a design-build contract from National Grid, in partnership with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for the Newtown Creek Renewable Natural Gas Project in New York City. The project will consist of injecting pipeline-quality gas into…
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A new anaerobic digestion (AD) research plant has been officially opened at Cranfield University in the UK. The plant, part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and supported by Shanks Waste Management, will divert up to 10 tonnes a year of food waste from landfill. It will also save up to 5 tonnes of CO2 and produce up to 8 tonnes of biofertiliser. At the opening ceremony,…
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ZooShare has raised over $1 million (€790,000) for what is soon to be the first zoo-based biogas plant in North America. The plant will have a capacity of 500kW when it comes online in December 2015. ZooShare bonds, which are being used to build the biogas plant, pay a return of 7% each year for seven years. The facility will convert animal manure from the Toronto Zoo and food waste from…
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Viridor, a UK-based renewable energy, waste management and recycling company, says it backs a House of Commons select committee calls to alter the UK's waste policy if the nation is to avoid missed recycling targets and the loss of energy resources. The firm is currently investing over £1 billion (€1.25 billion) in 'next generation' recycling and energy recovery infrastructure to help…
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UK biogas investment firm Iona Capital has completed its investment in a Charlesfield, Scotland-based anaerobic digestion (AD) plant. The plant will process a mixture of farm generated waste and inject biomethane directly into the local gas grid. This project follows Iona's first Scottish project, located in Perth, which is expected to start its commissioning process shortly. The company's latest…
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In the UK, the West Country's first biogas filling station has been officially opened and will supply low emission road transportation fuel. The new open access filling station, located at Bridgwater, is part of a national network of biogas stations being developed by Gasrec. The facility, along with others across the UK, allows HGV fleet operators to cut fuel and pollution costs by converting to…
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