Dec 10, 2021
Gasum and Metsä Fibre to produce biogas
Biogas News
Dec 10, 2021
CleanBay Renewables has secured investment from AVG Group (AVG), a Luxembourg-based asset manager.
AVG’s investment will help fund CleanBay’s development portfolio of bioconversion facilities across the US, recycling poultry litter and repurposing it into RNG and natural, controlled-release fertiliser.
The capital will also allow the company to explore additional... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 9, 2021
A new project producing biogas from sewage discharged by cargo ships is underway in Finland.
The Baltic Sea Action Group (BSAG) is collaborating with multiple companies, including Gasum, on the new Ship/t Waste Action project. The initiative turns sewage into biogas that will be used as fuel by the heavy-duty transport sector.
The Ship/t Waste Action cooperation... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 9, 2021
Scirocco Energy’s subsidiary, SEUK, has signed an exclusivity agreement with sustainability technology provider, SEM Energy Limited (SEM), for a nutrient recovery system.
It is anticipated that SEM will provide SEUK’s investee company, Energy Acquisitions Group (EAG), with digestate management and nutrient recovery technology, known as the H2OPE System.
The system... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 9, 2021
The Restaurant Group (TRG) has signed a green gas contract with TotalEnergies Gas & Power.
The contract between TRG, a major player in the UK casual dining market, and TotalEnergies, means all TRG’s directly controlled supplies of electricity, gas and LPG used in its Wagamama, Pubs and Leisure (Frankie & Benny’s and Chiquito) divisions will be from renewable... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2021
UK-based spaceflight company Orbex and Calor, a major UK LNG supplier, have entered into an agreement that will see Calor supply ultra-low carbon fuel to launch the Orbex Prime rocket.
Under the terms of the new deal, Calor will supply Orbex with its bio-LPG solution, a clean-burning propane produced from renewable feedstocks such as plant and vegetable waste material.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2021
Green Gas Trading’s Biomethane Certification Scheme (BMCS) is one of only two Approved Certification Schemes for evidencing green gas supply in the UK’s upcoming Green Gas Levy.
The Green Gas Levy, first announced in the March 2020 Budget, will fund the Green Gas Support Scheme (GGSS) which is designed to support the deployment of new anaerobic digestion (AD) and... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2021
The US Environmental Protection (EPA) has proposed a package of actions setting biofuel volumes for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) programme for 2020, 2021, and 2022. However, the American Biogas Council has the volumes to not accurately reflect biogas' contribution.
Under the RFS, the biogas industry produces gaseous and liquefied RNG, renewable electricity, renewable... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2021
The first US industrial-scale RNG facility using agricultural residues as a feedstock has started operations in the city of Nevada, Iowa.
Following two-and-a-half years of construction and transformation of VERBIO’s Nevada plant, Greg Faith, the company’s president and general manager, announced the facility is now injecting pipeline-quality natural gas into Alliant... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 7, 2021
SEA-LNG said it fully supports the objectives of the European Commission to create a common regulatory framework to address maritime greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with EU Green Deal objectives.
SEA-LNG, an industry coalition demonstrating the benefits of LNG as a marine fuel, said the proposed policy measures are goal-based and technology-neutral, which will... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 7, 2021
BTS Biogas has partnered with the University of Padua in Italy to develop a research project which aims to increase biogas yield by at least 10%.
Achieving the sustainable disposal and valorisation of organic waste are two of the biggest challenges facing the world. Biogas reconciles these two needs; however, the seasonal nature of many of the by-products of the agricultural... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 7, 2021
Adista and Datafarm Energy are planning to commission a data centre powered exclusively by renewable energy from recycling agricultural biowaste in France.
The project is a first in the data centre world, which is constantly seeking long-term renewable, low-carbon and secure energy solutions. Both companies are aiming for the first part to start operation in 2022 and... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 6, 2021
Compost organisations globally have established the International Compost Alliance – a voluntary partnership to advance awareness and understanding of the benefits and use of compost on a global scale.
The Alliance looks to offer solutions for climate change mitigation, soil health and food security, building on years of collaboration between organics recycling organisations.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 6, 2021
Waga Energy (Waga) and Meridiam, an investment fund specialising in public infrastructure finance, have obtained a €10.4 million loan to refinance four WAGABOX biomethane units in France.
The loan from BNP Paribas and Banque Populaire Grand Quest underpins Waga’s ability to rely on financial institutions to deploy its innovative WAGABOX gas-to-biomethane technology.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 2, 2021
A new biogas plant has opened in Taiwan – the country’s first to use livestock manure as a feedstock.
For the project in Hualien County on Taiwan’s east coast, the new Pushige Biomass Energy Centre features six of Landia’s externally-mounted GasMix systems, which have a verified track record of enhancing biogas yields.
The 18.5 kW units, ordered by Fluid... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 2, 2021
The CMA CGM Group and Shell have performed a bio-LNG bunkering trial in Rotterdam.
Containerships Aurora, a 1,400 twenty-foot equivalent units LNG-powered vessel was bunkered by Shell with a nearly 10% blend of low-carbon bio-LNG while calling at Rotterdam. The vessel received around 483 m3 of LNG, 44 m3 of which were bio-LNG.
The operation was performed by the barge... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 2, 2021
bp has acquired a 28.57% stake in Gasrec, the UK’s largest dual provider of bio-LNG and bio-CNG to road transport.
Gasrec builds, owns and operates biomethane refuelling stations, providing renewable solutions to the heavy goods vehicle industry. The company opened a CNG refuelling station for online supermarket Ocado in September.
bp will supply Gasrec with renewable... [Read More]
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Moeve has announced a €600 million investment plan for the construction of up to 30 new biomethane plants by 2030
During the signing ceremony, Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Maria Malmer Stenergard, announced a donation of USD 1.5 million for prefeasibility and detailed engineering studies
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