Sep 1, 2021
Biogest enters Greek market with two biogas projects
Biogas News
Aug 31, 2021
SGN Commercial Services (SGN) will design, construct, operate, and maintain biogas processing installations at Thames Water’s wastewater treatment facilities in the UK.
SGN has worked on around 30 new plant installations, including its world-first biomethane injection and blending hub at Portsdown Hill, Portsmouth. The company forms part of the SGN Group, which owns... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 31, 2021
An application for a food waste anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been rejected.
The plan for a £40 million (€46 million) centralised AD plant in Belfast Harbour faced opposition from Giants Park, a group hoping to transform 250 acres of the 340-acre development site into a mixed-use leisure, commercial and sports area.
At a special... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 31, 2021
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is investing in a new project involving ethanol and biogas production in Brazil.
The $70 million (€59 million) financing for Grupo Cocal (Cocal) will strengthen the diversification of the country’s energy matrix, expanding the company’s ethanol and biogas production. The project will... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 27, 2021
Hexagon Agility has supported whisky producer Glenfiddich in its use of RNG for transport.
In July, Glenfiddich, based in Moray, announced it will run its delivery vehicles on biogas generated from whisky waste. The trucks are equipped with Hexagon’s ProRail® CNG fuel systems with Type 4 composite technology.
Glenfiddich announced the initiative to address the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 27, 2021
HyGear’s subsidiary, HyGear Asia, has signed a memorandum of understanding with GPS Renewables, a waste management cleantech firm with close to 100 modular biogas installations in India.
The companies will collaborate on converting organic waste and landfill gas into green hydrogen with GPS Renewables’ state-of-the-art biomethanation plants, downstream bio-CNG installations,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 27, 2021
CHAR Technologies (CHAR) will upgrade its operational high-temperature pyrolysis facility to produce around 20,000 gigajoules per year of RNG.
The firm’s pyrolysis facility converts woody materials and organic waste into renewable gases and biocarbon: activated charcoal ‘SulfaCHAR’ and solid biofuel ‘CleanFyre’.
The approval of a $300,000 (€201,000) grant... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 26, 2021
The ZooShare Biogas Cooperative, in partnership with Toronto Zoo, Loblaw Companies and EnerFORGE, has announced its most recent project is now operational.
The ZooShare Biogas Project is the first of its kind in Canada and provides an example of the circular economy in action. The facility converts 2,000 tonnes of zoo manure and 15,000 tonnes of food waste from supermarkets,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 26, 2021
NGVAmerica has pledged that by 2030, 80% of natural gas vehicle (NGV) on-road motor fuel in the US will be derived from renewable sources, rising to 100% by 2050.
In 2020, RNG collected at local landfills, wastewater treatment facilities, commercial food waste plants, and agricultural digesters displaced conventional fossil-derived natural gas sources as the dominant... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 26, 2021
Scirocco Energy has completed its £1.2 million (€1.4 million) investment in Energy Acquisitions Group (EAG), a specialist acquisition and operating vehicle in the sustainable energy sector.
By creating a joint venture (JV) platform alongside EAG, Scirocco Energy will leverage EAG’s strong network and experience to gain access to a pipeline of already identified... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 25, 2021
Brightmark and Chevron U.S.A. (Chevron) have further expanded their joint venture (JV), Brightmark RNG, which aims to own projects across the US, producing and marketing dairy biomethane.
Brightmark RNG’s subsidiaries currently own RNG projects in New York, Michigan, Florida, South Dakota and Arizona. Additional equity investments by each firm in the JV will fund... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 25, 2021
Kinder Morgan has closed on its previously announced acquisition of Kinetrex Energy.
The $310 million (€263 million) deal includes two small-scale, domestic LNG production and fuelling facilities, a 50% interest in a landfill-based RNG facility in Indiana, and signed commercial agreements for three additional RNG facilities, with construction to begin shortly.
Kinetrex... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 24, 2021
BorgWarner has invested $10 million (€8.5 million) in Enexor BioEnergy, a company providing on-site renewable energy and carbon conversion solutions.
Enexor’s patented and modular Bio-CHP™ system uses locally sourced organics or plastic waste to generate clean on-site energy and can be deployed quickly in almost any setting. According to Enexor, each system can... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 24, 2021
Sludge suction vehicles in the Swedish municipality of Örebro can now run on biogas.
Approximately 8,200 sludge ‘empties’ are made annually in Örebro. The municipality said it is responsible for households with their own sewers, which are spread out, meaning the vehicles have to travel long distances. Now, new cars from septic system service company Renall have... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 24, 2021
bp will purchase poultry litter-derived RNG from CleanBay Renewables under a 15-year agreement.
Through this agreement, bp’s trading and shipping team will sell the fuel to its customers, initially in California. There is strong demand for RNG fuel in the state due to incentives from its Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
The RNG will be processed from poultry litter –... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 23, 2021
Gasum will supply LNG and bio-LNG to the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency and the Finnish Border Guard for 2021-2022.
The energy company won the framework agreement in a competitive tendering process organised by the Finnish Government’s central purchasing body, Hansel. The agreement includes the option of being extended by two years.
Gasum started biogas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 20, 2021
The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) has called for a change to immigration rules to allow the waste and recycling sector to recruit heavy-goods vehicle (HGV) drivers in the face of severe shortages.
The REA’s call follows major concerns over the reduced frequency or even suspension of food and garden waste collections by councils UK-wide.... [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
