Jul 19, 2021
Kinder Morgan to acquire Kinetrex Energy
Biogas News
Jul 19, 2021
Passenger shipping company Destination Gotland will increase its biogas fuel blend from 1% to 10% in its gas-powered ships.
Destination Gotland operates one of the most popular holiday routes in Sweden, with over 1.8 million passengers annually from mainland Sweden, in the ports of Nynäshamn and Oskarshamn, to the island of Gotland. By increasing its use of biogas,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 16, 2021
Ameresco has achieved commercial operations at its landfill gas-to-RNG plant in Houston, Texas.
The plant, located at Republic Services’ McCarty Road Landfill, has an installed capacity of over 1.1 million dekatherms per year and can process 4,500 standard cubic feet per minute of raw landfill gas.
After breaking ground on the project in the Q2 2020, the Ameresco... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 16, 2021
Retrospective plans to install an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in the Forest of Dean, UK have been approved.
Plusterwine Biogas has been granted permission by district planners for three digesters with a feeder plant, two dryer units, and two 500 kW combined heat and power (CHP) engines at Plusterwine House, Woolast.
According to a report by Gloucestershire Live,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 16, 2021
Serbian sugar producer Sunoko, a member of MK Group, has opened an on-site biogas plant to produce electricity.
With an investment of over €9 million, the plant produces around 2.4 MW of electricity per hour and provides enough annual power for around 5,000 households.
The plant in the town of Vrbas uses technology from Wabio Technologie, a German company that... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 16, 2021
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEEIT) will invest around €31 million in a large-scale green gas-to-grid project in Indiana, US.
The investment by SEEIT, the first UK-listed company of its kind to invest exclusively in the energy efficiency sector, involves the acquisition of an operating renewable power facility in Reynolds and the expansion of the facility... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 15, 2021
StormFisher has opened a $20 million (€13.5 million) resource recovery facility in Ontario, Canada.
The project, developed in partnership with sustainable infrastructure company Generate, provides food waste recycling services to handle packaged organics and divert waste from landfills.
StormFisher’s new facility in Drumbo will enable more municipalities, restaurants,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 15, 2021
Global impact-investing pioneer Lightrock has invested in Antec Biogas, a Norwegian technology company specialising in biogas production.
Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oslo, Antec has developed a proprietary, modular and highly-efficient biogas reactor technology, leveraging a multi-chamber approach to convert organic wastes into biogas.
The process is versatile... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 14, 2021
Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, has entered into a partnership with GreenGas USA to receive RNG.
Early next year, South Carolina-based RNG developer GreenGas will deliver RNG derived from vegetable waste that is currently decomposing in lagoons and emitting methane emissions directly into the atmosphere.
Working at an existing wastewater treatment facility... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 14, 2021
Bryon Shire Council in New South Wales, Australia is exploring the feasibility of a new bioenergy facility in the area.
The proposed location for the bioenergy plant is on council property at the Byron Sewage Treatment Plant. If successful, the Byron Bioenergy Facility will be the first of its kind in Australia.
Byron Shire Council is considering a bioenergy facility... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 13, 2021
UK rail freight provider Freightliner, working in partnership with a consortium of specialist suppliers, has secured government funding to develop a dual-fuel solution for the Class 66 locomotive.
The technology, utilising biogas and hydrogen, is one of the 30 winners of the latest round of the First of a Kind competition announced by the UK Transport Secretary. Already... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 13, 2021
Keravan Energia and Q Power have joined forces to produce synthetic methane in connection with the Kerava biopower plant in Finland.
Synthetic methane is a carbon-neutral fuel that can be used in transport and energy production. It is produced from CO2 recovered from the biogas plant’s flue gases and hydrogen produced with carbon-neutral electricity.
In the spring,... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 13, 2021
CPL Industries, a UK manufacturer and distributor of smokeless fuels, has partnered with Severn Trent Green Power to transform food waste into low-carbon solid fuels used for heating.
Using hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC) processing, CPL converts the by-product from Severn Trent’s food waste processing to produce low-carbon fuels.
Across its waste sites, Severn... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 13, 2021
Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) will take over Schmack Biogas Service and microbEnergy, both headquartered in Bavaria, by the end of the year.
HZI entered into an agreement with Viessmann Group to acquire the business activities of both entities on 9 July. The final closing is expected after formal approval by the regulatory authorities. By this date, the business activities... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 12, 2021
Adapt Biogas is the first in the UK to generate its own onsite heat and electricity using liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Flogas.
Feeding two combined heat and power (CHP) engines, Flogas' LNG provides electricity to power Adapt's unique biogas-to-grid injection system, as well as heat, to kick-start its biogas production cycle.
The anaerobic digestion (AD) plant... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 12, 2021
Liqvis, L.I.T. Cargo and IVECO Magirus have joined forces on a flagship project using 100% bio-LNG from renewable sources.
As part of the project, Liqvis, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Uniper that is building and operating an LNG infrastructure for heavy-duty trucks, provided bio-LNG from its site in Hamm, Germany, to logistics company L.I.T. The firm ran up to 16 IVECO... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 9, 2021
A joint study by engineering firm Beca, gas distribution company First Gas Group and dairy co-operative Fonterra revealed renewable gas is a ‘viable, untapped solution’ to decarbonising New Zealand’s residential natural gas network.
The report found renewable gas has the potential to replace nearly 20% of the country’s total gas usage by 2050. It concluded that... [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
