Biogas News

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has announced that it is leading a £2.78 million (appr. €4 million) UK-based collaboration to help strengthen the UK’s position within industrial biotechnology. The three year project – SeaGas – is working on producing bio-methane from seaweed through anaerobic digestion (AD). The project launched in July 2015 and consists of…
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On 7 and 8 October, Nextgen Expo will return to the NAEC, Stoneleigh, with an exciting and innovative conference programme that is now live on the company's website. In addition, a wide range of companies and organisations will be exhibiting at the event, delivering maximum value for delegates. 2015 has been a challenging time for the renewable and low carbon energy industries. In recent weeks,…
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Clearfleau, a UK-based provider of on-site anaerobic digestion (AD) solutions for food and beverage companies, has handed over its latest bioenergy plant at Diageo's Glendullan distillery. The Glendullan plant, which was visited by Scotland Office Minister Lord Dunlop on 13 August, optimises energy output using co-products from the distillation process. The project involved close collaboration…
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The Longchamps biomethane plant in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France has gone live. The plant supplies 70m3/h of biomethane to the natural gas grid of the French gas distributor GrDF (Gaz réseau Distribution France). As feedstock, the plant uses approximately 6,000 tonnes of agricultural leftovers a year for the production of biogas from anaerobic digestion. To ensure effective…
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The European Biogas Association (EBA) is organising two events taking place in Brussels in early September. On 2 September, the FABbiogas Project will hold its Final Conference at the historical Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts (which co-organises the event). Since its introduction in 2013, the EU co-funded project aims at changing the mindsets of all stakeholders in the…
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Greenlane Biogas has received an order for a 'Rimu' biogas upgrading plant from Sifang Leo Livestock Science and Technology (SF Leo), a dairy farm engineering company and manufacturer of high-tech livestock equipment and farm machinery in China. Greenlane's water scrubbing based biogas upgrading plant will be used in an eco-dairy farm demonstration operation to convert organic waste into…
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The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) has announced that the anaerobic digestion (AD) industry now delivers an electrical equivalent capacity (electricity and biomethane) of 514MW across 411 plants in the farming, waste and water sectors. Commenting on this progress, ADBA's CEO Charlotte Morton says: 'ADBA's market data now shows that AD offers over 500MWe electrical…
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Valoneo, a French waste-to-energy company, has started trading on the deregulated market Marche Libtre of Euronext Paris. The company’s market capitalisation runs at €14 million, with shares trading at €11.60 after being on the market since July. Valoneo was listed on the public market through a direct quotation, advised by French corporate finance adviser Atout Capital. Founded…
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Marathon Capital has announced the successful sale of OwnEnergy, a locally-owned renewable energy systems manufacturer, to EDF Renewable Energy (EDF). The acquisition of OwnEnergy's team, development platform, and pipeline of wind projects will add to EDF’s North American portfolio containing 3.2GW of biomass, biogas, wind, and solar projects. Marathon Capital led a comprehensive market…
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Ecotricity has announced it is to develop a third Green Gas Mill, a new green energy site in Somerset, UK, that will generate enough gas from grass to power up to 2,500 homes. The company launched its first Green Gas Mill project in Gloucestershire back in April, with a second announced in August in Hampshire, while a fourth is also due to be unveiled before the end of the year. Green Gas Mills…
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California-based CR&R Waste and Recycling Services is set to build a $100 million (€88.7 million) anaerobic digester complex in Perris, California. The company expects to have the plant up and running by early 2016. Using food scraps and garden waste as feedstock, the facility will produce fertiliser and biogas, which will be used to power 45% of the vehicles in CR&R’s waste…
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Long Island Compost (LIC) and its American Organic Energy (AOE) affiliate are moving forward with a plan to build a $40 million (€35.6 million) facility to turn food waste into natural gas. After delays, AOE is planning to begin construction of an anaerobic digester in Yaphank, New York state by early next year. Accepting and separating 180,000 tonnes of food waste from supermarkets,…
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Bettaland Products, a composting company part of Organic Recycling, is set to complete an anaerobic digestion plant in Crowland, UK by the end of 2015. Once completed, the plant l, located at Decoy Farm, will provide power to more than 1,400 homes through the conversion of crops and waste. Plans for the plant were greenlit last August, with the original intention of building an energy and…
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Metrogas, a natural gas developer from Chile, is working on a project to process street market waste into biogas for vehicles in two years. The company has completed research tests and will install a pilot anaerobic digestion plant in 2016 by investing up to $350,000 (€313,000). This investment is expected to be followed by an industrial plant in the next years. Chile’s capital…
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