The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) has called for a change to immigration rules to allow the waste and recycling sector to recruit heavy-goods vehicle (HGV) drivers in the face of severe shortages. The REA’s call follows major concerns over the reduced frequency or even suspension of food and garden waste collections by councils UK-wide.... [Read More]

The Henkel Fragrance Centre in Krefeld, Germany will switch its production entirely to climate-neutral energy, using biogas. The research and production site now covers its entire energy demand in production and research with green electricity and biogas. The conversion is an important step towards achieving Henkel’s ambitious sustainability goals. Since 1956,... [Read More]

RoadEX, a major California drayage company, is adding 16 new natural gas trucks to its fleet through Chevron and Clean Energy Fuels’ Adopt-A-Port programme. In switching from diesel fuel to RNG, RoadEX has committed to approximately 960,000 gallons of RNG over the contract term. In May, Chevron invested an additional $20 million (€16.9 million) in Clean Energy’s... [Read More]

Privilege Finance and Investec Bank have announced a long-term partnership that will release up to £90 million (€105 million) worth of funds for UK climate change projects. The funding will be offered to existing anaerobic digestion (AD) customers to refinance their projects as they hit operations, providing interest savings to borrowers and freeing up Privilege’s... [Read More]

The Biofertiliser Certification Scheme (BCS) has welcomed its 100th anaerobic digestion (AD) operator. Barkip AD plant in North Ayrshire has joined the BCS as the 100th member of the scheme, which was established in 2007 and is administered by Renewable Energy Assurance Limited (REAL). The scheme continues to grow, and around half of the total number of waste-fed... [Read More]

A ‘ booming’ UK-wide hydrogen economy could be worth £900 million (€1 billion) and create over 9,000 jobs by 2030, according to the UK Government's first-ever Hydrogen Strategy. The Hydrogen Strategy drives forward the commitments laid out in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s 10 Point Plan for a green industrial revolution, setting the foundation for how the government... [Read More]

Clean Energy Fuels has announced several new deals in response to high RNG demand. RNG represents more than 74% of the 26 million gallons of fuel Clean Energy expects to provide through these newly signed agreements. The company signed a multi-year agreement with the City of Pasadena in California for an anticipated 1.5 million gallons of RNG to fuel 53 vehicles,... [Read More]

Flogas Britain has received its first shipment of bio-LPG, marking the latest step in achieving its 2040 Vision. Bio-LPG produces far fewer carbon emissions than other off-grid traditional fossil fuels such as oil, and delivers low levels of nitrous oxides, sulphur oxides, and particulate matter – some of the main contributors to air pollution. “As a market leader... [Read More]

Anaerobic digestion (AD) plant operators are being offered a new opportunity to benefit from an ‘innovative’ carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) model, proposed by BioCarbonics. The UK-based green CO2 company has created a new channel to market for the biogas industry to enable CO2 captured from biogas facilities to be taken to market. Green CO2 produced from... [Read More]

UK energy provider Flogas has added two new compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles to its growing fleet. The new IVECO trucks, which offer up to an 85% CO2e reduction from diesel to bio-CNG, are helping Flogas on the road towards a lower carbon future, as it commits to reducing its direct carbon emissions by 20% by 2025. Fully operational from August, the new CNG-powered... [Read More]

Monarch Bioenergy, a joint venture (JV) between Smithfield Foods and Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE), has installed manure-to-energy technology on nearly all of Smithfield’s Northern Missouri hog finishing farms. The new technology, completed ahead of the JV’s 10-year anniversary, captures methane emissions and converts them into carbon-negative RNG to power homes,... [Read More]

The Prince of Wales opened J V Energen’s newly installed CO2 capture facility in Dorset on 9 June, where green CO2 is supplied to its new joint venture business, BioCarbonics. The green CO2 is captured at J V Energen’s Rainbarrow Farm anaerobic digestion (AD) and biomethane-to-grid plant. It is processed into a food and beverage-grade product, where it is used for... [Read More]

FortisBC Energy is now receiving carbon-neutral RNG from Alberta-based Lethbridge Biogas. Following the expansion of its facility to add a biogas upgrading system, Lethbridge Biogas has signed an agreement to provide FortisBC with up to 350,000 gigajoules of RNG annually. This is FortisBC’s third source of RNG from outside of British Columbia to date, as the firm... [Read More]

TruStar Energy, an OPAL Fuels company, has signed a contract with CITY Furniture to build three RNG fuelling stations and supply fuel. TruStar will manage the development, construction, and service in Miami Gardens, Ocoee, and Plant City, Florida. Under the contract, OPAL Fuels will supply the company with 7.75 million gasoline gallon equivalents of RNG over the terms... [Read More]

Greenlane Renewables’ wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenlane Biogas North America, has signed a total of $12.8 million (€8.7 million) in contracts for biogas upgrading systems for US RNG projects. One of the contracts involves the supply of one of Greenlane’s membrane separation biogas upgrading systems for a project owned by an international energy company. Greenlane... [Read More]