Nov 11, 2021
CMA CGM, ENGIE partner to develop green shipping fuels
Biogas News
Nov 10, 2021
Plans to create Scotland’s lowest-carbon grain distillery have been approved by planners.
St Boswells Distillery in the Scottish Borders will take local cereals from the surrounding Tweed Valley and process them with renewable energy into the spirit. Once spent, they will be passed to the adjacent anaerobic digestion plant, where they will be converted into methane,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 10, 2021
Independent clean energy producer, Envest Corp, has successfully commissioned a significant expansion of its wholly owned subsidiary, Seacliff Energy Corp.
Seacliff is the first privately-owned, commercial-scale anaerobic digester in Canada. Envest is a pioneer of the Canadian biogas industry as an early private commercial processor of industrial, commercial and institutional... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 10, 2021
The RFS Power Coalition commended Representative John Garamendi for introducing the ‘Biomass and Biogas for Electric Vehicles Act’ late last week.
If passed, this bill will require the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to finally process the outstanding project and pathway applications for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) which have been waiting for the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 10, 2021
Burnham RNG, a Virginia-based developer of RNG facilities, has closed on an investment by affiliates of Edge Natural Resources to build, acquire, own and operate RNG assets across the US.
Edge Natural Resources is a Dallas-based private equity company that invests in the small-cap North American energy sectors.
Burnham has built a pipeline of RNG development assets... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 10, 2021
Bioenergy Devco has secured $100 million (€86 million) in financing from Irradiant Partners, to develop multiple anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities in North America.
Irradiant, an alternative investment manager, joins Bioenergy Devco’s existing investor base that includes Newlight Partners, a growth equity investment firm, and Sagewind Capital, a New York-based... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 9, 2021
The European Biogas Association (EBA) is launching the first comprehensive categorisation of European biogas and gasification technologies. It is hoped this will give visibility to high-quality European products and services from the biogas sector.
Global leaders are now discussing the next steps in the climate agenda at the COP26 summit and the urgent need for ‘deep... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 9, 2021
Bloom Energy has announced a 1 MW fuel cell at a California dairy farm to produce on-site, renewable electricity from manure.
The installation at Bar 20 Dairy Farms in Kerman marks Bloom’s first dairy farm biogas project. To convert manure into renewable electricity, the dairy farm combined a methane digester, gas clean-up skid, and Bloom Energy fuel cells for an... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 9, 2021
On 10 November, the World Biogas Association (WBA) will call for the transformational change of waste management systems at a live-streamed COP26 Blue Zone event.
During the event, the WBA will demonstrate the ‘critical value’ of anaerobic digestion (AD) in reducing global methane emissions. Human activities generate billions of tonnes of organic wastes annually... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 8, 2021
Southern California Gas Co has opened a new RNG fuelling station in Menifee, California.
The Menifee CNG fuelling station is the sixteenth public station operated by SoCalGas. It will exclusively offer RNG derived from methane that would otherwise be emitted from landfills, dairy farms, and other waste sources.
According to a recent report, RNG use as a transportation... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 8, 2021
Energy infrastructure holding firm SJI and REV LNG, a full-service supplier of LNG, CNG and RNG, will build an anaerobic digester at Connecticut’s largest dairy farm.
The $12 million (€10.3 million) RNG facility is a ‘pivotal’ clean energy venture for SJI that will enable Elizabethtown natural gas customers to utilise renewable energy.
Expected to be operational... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 8, 2021
Flogas Ireland has agreed to acquire Naturgy Ireland from its Spanish parent company, Naturgy Energy Group.
Naturgy Ireland is a market-leading supplier of renewable electricity, natural gas, biogas and energy services to large energy users in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the UK. Its customers include food and beverage producers, major retailers, manufacturing and... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 8, 2021
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is on track to generate record levels of green energy, with the help of anaerobic digestion (AD).
Welsh Water has invested £153 million (€178 million) in the past six months on projects that will improve services for customers but also help to tackle the climate crisis. The not-for-profit company is aiming to be 35% energy self-sufficient by... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 5, 2021
Xebec has acquired Colorado-based UECompression (UEC), a premier designer and builder of custom air and gas compressor solutions for power generation, industrial, and energy applications.
The acquisition of UEC provides Xebec with a ‘cost-effective, timely’ pathway towards expanding production capacity five-fold for standardised renewable gas systems.
The move... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 5, 2021
Researchers at the University of Vermont (UVM) have partnered with Casella Waste Systems to test a new food de-packaging system.
One-third of food waste in Vermont is still packaged, creating difficulties when it comes to the mandatory diversion of food waste away from landfills under the state’s new Universal Recycling Law (Act 148 banned food scraps from landfills... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 4, 2021
Dairy firms Stonyfield Organic and Cabot are joining forces with the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance (FPSA) and Dairy Farmers of America to place dairy as a leader in decarbonisation efforts.
The FPSA, founded in 2020 by Vanguard Renewables, Unilever, Starbucks, and Dairy Farmers of America, aims to accelerate long-term commitments to avoid or eliminate food waste first... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 3, 2021
Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria and start-up Rouge H2 Engineering have produced high-purity hydrogen from biogas directly at a biogas plant.
Green hydrogen is seen as a ‘beacon of hope’ in the energy and mobility revolution, the university said, but it is not yet suitable for mass production, for several reasons. Hydrogen is currently produced... [Read More]
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Germany's Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has awarded a total of 187.3 megawatts (MW) to 244 biomass projects in the latest round of its competitive tendering process
Veolia and Waga Energy have inaugurated a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at the Granges landfill site in Burgundy, eastern France
Repsol is preparing to begin producing biomethane and hydrogen at its industrial complex in Sines, Portugal, with operations expected to start in 2026
