Biogas News

Bio Capital Group, a UK commercial energy-from-food-waste producer, has added a fourth asset to its portfolio in Scotland. The company works with partners such as local authorities, food manufacturers and retail chains to reduce their carbon emissions by diverting their food waste from landfill and transforming it into biogas and electricity. The newly acquired Linwood food waste transfer…
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Spain’s Official Credit Institute (ICO) has announced a €15 million investment into its bespoke biomethane fund. Last year ICO, with its partner IAM Carbonzero, launched the MAPFRE Energías Renovables II, FCR fund - Europe's first fund dedicated to biomethane, according to the organisation. ICO will be investing €15 million in the fund through Axis, its venture capital…
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The International Biogas Congress & Expo returns to Brussels on 18-19 June, and will once again bring together world-class speakers and exhibitors. Brian Tracey, director of gas sales at Vanguard Renewables, is amongst them Can you give us an introduction to Vanguard Renewables and the work that you do? Vanguard Renewables was founded in 2014 and is the largest developer, owner and operator…
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Biovic, a Grupo Gimeno company, plans to design large projects for new facilities worth around €400 million until 2027. The Valencia-based company developed projects during 2023 valued at around €30 million euros, including major biomethane plants in different parts of Spain, such as Catalonia, Castilla-La Mancha, Murcia and Valencia. In the words of Carlos Parrado, head of Agro business…
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Spain's National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) has approved the resolution (RDC/DE/004/22) that will simplify the procedures for biomethane producers to connect their facilities to the gas network in an agile, transparent and non-discriminatory manner. Biomethane production has strong potential in Spain because it is linked to agricultural and agri-food activities, according to the…
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Ukraine’s energy grid is set to receive support from a £1.9 million (€2.2 million) UK-led project to build micro power plants fuelled by waste biomass to provide energy to local communities. Waste-to-energy company Compact Syngas Solution, which is based in North Wales, said it has developed an advanced gasification process that uses waste products to generate a syngas – a mix of…
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FuelCell Energy's carbonate fuel cell technology will be used in a biogeneration project developed by Ameresco for the Sacramento Area Sewer District (Sacramento Sewer) to convert on-site biofuel into clean electricity. One of the company’s 2.8-Megawatt carbonate fuel cell platforms, which produces power and useful heat from biogas and has the potential for future production of renewable green…
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AGR Biogas, an Andalusia-based company focusing on the promotion, construction and management of industrial biogas plants, has announced construction of the first biogas plant with biomethane injection in Andalusia. The project consists of an approximate investment of €25 million, with almost €20 million provided by Project Finance, granted by ING Bank. It is the first biomethane project…
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Green Genius, a renewable energy company operating in eight European markets, is upgrading its biogas plant portfolio in Lithuania to biomethane production. It is the largest biogas portfolio in the Baltics, and Green Genius said it will invest €35 million to modernise it. Swedbank Lithuania is partly financing the project, and it has received €8.5 million from the Ministry of the…
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bp’s Archaea Energy has celebrated the startup of its original Archaea Modular Design (AMD) renewable natural gas (RNG) plant in Jeffersonville, Kentucky, with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The plant is next to the Montgomery County Landfill, which is owned by Rumpke Waste and Recycling. Using the AMD process, the Montgomery County plant captures the gas from Rumpke’s landfill and converts it…
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TotalEnergies and Vanguard Renewables have signed an agreement to create an equally owned joint venture to develop, build and operate Farm Powered® renewable natural gas (RNG) projects in the United States. The signing took place in New York on 12 April in the presence of Patrick Pouyanné, chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies and Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, of which Vanguard…
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Brimex Energy, a joint venture between Mexico-based Grupo Serrano and England-based Farmergy, has obtained the first permit in Mexico for the production of biomethane. The permit authorises the production and storage of biomethane. The venture was successfully advised by Holland & Knight. The project includes a biodigester system for waste treatment. Located in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco,…
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Naftogaz Group is ready to support investment in expanding the production of biomethane, promote its transportation, and has plans to buy up biomethane from Ukrainian producers, according to Ukrinform. A statement was made by Naftogaz Group CEO Oleksiy Chernyshov at the opening of the First Ukraine Biomethane Forum, reported the publication. “We are confident in the enormous export potential…
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Vitol has acquired renewable energy company, BioMethane Partners, to form Vitol BioMethane (VBM). VBM's leadership has more than 100 years of combined experience in designing, building and operating gas collection systems, natural gas treatment plants and pipeline interconnects and injection across the landfill gas (LFG) and traditional natural gas businesses. VBM has four renewable natural gas…
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