Biogas News

Waga Energy, a global expert in the production of renewable natural gas (RNG) from landfills, has signed a commercial agreement with the Waste Commission of Scott County, an inter-governmental solid waste management agency, and Linwood Mining and Minerals Corporation, a leader in the limestone industry in the Midwest, to produce RNG at the Scott Area landfill in Davenport, Iowa in the US. Waga…
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The conversion and assembly work at Germany's largest integrated bio-LNG plant with bio-CO2 liquefaction - BioEnergie Park Güstrow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - has just been completed, announced EnviTec Biogas. The company is now ready to begin the plant's operation. "Now that the last component, the 300,000-litre LCO2 tank made of pressure vessel steel, has been integrated, we can start…
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VARO Energy (VARO) has announced the successful placement of a $165 million (€150.1m) green loan, the first in the company’s history. The green loan, part of a wider $3.33 billion (€3bn) financing announced separately today, will partly refinance VARO’s acquisition of the Bio Energy Coevorden (BEC) biogas manufacturing facility. The green loan represents an important milestone in the…
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Atmos Energy Corporation, Black Hills Colorado Gas doing business as Black Hills Energy, Colorado Springs Utilities, and Xcel Energy – Colorado announced that they have jointly issued a request for information (RFI) to identify future developers of renewable natural gas (RNG), including recovered methane projects associated with Colorado’s Clean Heat Statute. The development of RNG helps…
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The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company, has has provided a €35m senior loan facility to develop a 46MW biomass power plant in Côte d’Ivoire, the largest facility of its kind in West Africa. Biovea Energie, which is owned by EDF International, Meridiam and SIFCA, will own and operate the plant when operational, having been…
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CNH Industrial brand New Holland, a world leader in clean energy, has announced a partnership with leading companies in the biomethane sector in Brazil. This partnership will aid in creating an innovative ecosystem for gas production, generated from the decomposition of organic waste. The new ecosystem is the first of its kind in the country and promises to revolutionise its biogas market,…
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Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur and Eau d'Azur have awarded the civil engineering contract for the new Haliotis 2 wastewater treatment facility to the consortium led by Suez and comprising Razel-Bec and Triverio Construction (a local VINCI Construction subsidiary). The facility, worth €700m in total, will be the largest wastewater treatment and recovery complex in France. The work, which is due…
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Yorkshire Water has signed 15-year agreements with SGN Commercial Services and Centrica Energy Trading that will see biomethane gas to grid plants introduced at its Knostrop and Blackburn Meadows wastewater treatment works. Biogas is produced as a by-product of Yorkshire Water’s sewage wastewater treatment processes and can be upgraded to separate methane from the other component gases. As…
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WM has opened a new 14,430 square-foot renewable natural gas (RNG) facility in Springdale, Arkansas in the US. The $35 million (€31.2m) WM Eco Vista RNG facility is expected to recover and distribute approximately 750,000 MMBtu per year of RNG, which serves the equivalent of 25,000 households annually, or the equivalent of 649 heavy-duty vehicles. A portion of the RNG produced at the facility…
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Evergen Infrastructure Corp. made its first injection of renewable natural gas (RNG) at its GrowTEC facility in Alberta, Canada in late June, following utility grid connection upon completion of gas quality sampling, and has been producing daily volumes of up to 180 gigajoules per day. The completion of phase 1 of the GrowTEC RNG expansion project delivers production capacity of 80,000…
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Anaergia has been selected as the Energy Recovery Contractor for a new system that will produce renewable power from wastewater sludge at the East County Advanced Water Purification (East County AWP) facility now under construction in Santee, California. Anaergia anticipates the Energy Recovery project will also eventually digest food waste along with the wastewater sludge. Anaergia is expected…
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BIGSQUID (biogas-to-liquid) technology has resulted in the creation of an industrial plant capable of producing biomethanol from biogas, which is operational at the Località Giove in Città di Castello, in the province of Perugia in Italy. The plant is the culmination of five years' of work by Politecnico di Milano and Fattoria Autonoma Tabacchi S.C., with the university stating it has solved…
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The Spanish Confederation of Service Station Employers (CEEES) and the Spanish Gas Association (Sedigas) have agreed to collaborate to carry out promotional actions related to the decarbonisation of the sector through the use of renewable gases, biomethane and renewable hydrogen. The agreement, signed by Jorge de Benito and Joan Batalla, presidents of CEEES and Sedigas, respectively, also…
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Italian group BelEnergia has announced plans for two waste recovery plants, which will be located in the town of La Almunia de Doña Godina, in Zaragoza; and in the municipality of San Esteban de La Litera, in Huesca, reported CE NoticiasFinancieras. The two plants, which have been declared of regional interest by the Council of Government, represent an investment of around €62.8 million euros…
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