AstraZeneca (AZN) is leveraging its global industrial-scale manufacturing and digital capabilities to boost US renewable natural gas (RNG) productivity through a planned expanded collaboration with Vanguard Renewables. With an ambition of achieving a multiple fold increase in productivity, the collaboration aims to accelerate parity with fossil fuel-generated natural... [Read More]

EVENSOL LLC, a renewable energy project developer focusing on biogas and methane mitigation, has developed two renewable natural gas (RNG) facilities in North Carolina, US, that are now operational. The Foothills Renewables Project in Caldwell County, NC, and the Upper Piedmont Renewables Project in Person County, NC, convert landfill gas from Republic Services' landfills... [Read More]

EverGen Infrastructure Corp. (EverGen) has announced the signing of a 10-year offtake agreement with Irving Oil Limited (Irving Oil) for the supply of renewable natural gas (RNG) produced at the Grow the Energy Circle Ltd. facility (GrowTEC). GrowTEC, located on the Perry Family Farm near Lethbridge, Alberta, is an operating farm scale RNG facility which has been converting... [Read More]

BIOGEST Group's new brand BIOP has begun the construction of its first biomethane plant in Italy. The new project, Collarmele, is located in L’Aquila, Italy, and converts 73,000 tonnes/year of chicken manure and vegetable waste (fennels, carrots and potatoes) into 500 Nm³/h of biomethane, utilising BIOGEST PowerRing and PowerDigest technology. The project includes... [Read More]

Technology group Wärtsilä has announced the engineering, delivery, and installation of the biogas upgrading solution to a new biogas 17 tons-per-day liquefaction plant in Hjørring, Denmark. The contract was awarded to Wärtsilä in 2022, and the official start-up took place in June 2023 The facility is one of two biogas plants owned and operated by GrønGas A/S in... [Read More]

Global biogas producer Nature Energy and energy and fibre network Andel have made "world history", according to Danish Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, Morten Bødskov. He was speaking during the inauguration of the first plant in the world to commercially increase the production of biogas via electrolysis and biological methanation. The new Power-to-X... [Read More]

São Martinho, one of the world's largest sugarcane energy companies, has announced plans to construct its first biomethane plant. Produced through the anaerobic digestion of vinasse, a residue from ethanol production, the plant will process 100% of the vinasse generated at the Santa Cruz unit, located in Américo Brasiliense, in the interior of São Paulo (SP), to produce... [Read More]

Bioenergy Devco (BDC), the North American division of BTS Bioenergy, LLC and a leader in the design, engineering, construction, financing and operation of anaerobic digestion facilities, has released a statement commending local legislators' efforts to divert organic waste from landfills and reduce methane emissions. A group of more than 50 leaders from across the US... [Read More]

A person has been tragically killed in a blast due to a biogas plant leak in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly in India, according to a report from ANI News. As many as four people sustained serious injuries, local police said on 1 November "One person died while four were injured in a blast which occurred after a biogas plant leak here under the Bithri Chainpur police station... [Read More]

EverGen Infrastructure Corp. (EverGen) has announced mechanical completion of the Fraser Valley Biogas RNG Expansion Project. The Fraser Valley Biogas RNG Expansion Project commenced construction in Q3 2022, with a scope that included improvements to the feedstock processing system, installation of a new RNG upgrader and the commissioning of a third anaerobic digester. The... [Read More]

Cenergy Holdings has announced that Corinth Pipeworks, its steel pipes segment, has been awarded two contracts by Società Gasdotti Italia. With a value of over €10 million, Corinth Pipeworks will produce and supply approximately 82km of high frequency welding steel pipes (HFW) for the development of the gas pipeline network in the Southern Italy. The first contract,... [Read More]

Gasum has opened its newest gas filling station in Keminmaa, Finland. The new station is the first gas filling station in Finnish Lapland, Gasum’s second northernmost filling station and Europe’s northernmost liquefied biogas (LBG) filling station. The Keminmaa station serves heavy duty transport and passenger cars because it allows refueling with liquefied and compressed... [Read More]

The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) has released a report looking at a possible solution for India's energy security and decarbonisation goals. Produced in a positive policy environment, where the Indian government has introduced several changes to accelerate growth and investments in the biogas sector, the report outlines the country's renewed... [Read More]

The first large-scale biomethane production plant in Spain, using waste from a controlled waste repository, is expected to prevent the emission of 17,000 tonnes of CO₂ a year. The Naturgy group gas distributor, Nedgia, will inject biomethane through its grid with a 6-kilometre pipeline constructed as part of the project. Located in the PreZero Spain Controlled Waste... [Read More]

Kadri Simson, the European Commissioner for Energy, delivered a speech for European Biomethane Week on 25 October, in which she said that biomethane's role in Europe's energy transition is "even more critical" now than one year ago. Delivering a keynote speech at the European Biogas Association's 2023 Conference at The EGG Centre in Brussels, Simson said that the EU... [Read More]

Pakistan's chief minister Mohsin Naqvi laid the foundation stone of one of the country's biggest biogas plants at an official level on 25 October. Naqvi launched the construction work of the 6,000 cubic metre biogas plant at Gujjar Colony Rakh Chand Rai Lahore. The plant will cost Rs350 million (€1.2 million), with Rs80 million (€273,000) expected to be generated... [Read More]