Oct 25, 2021
DMT celebrates opening of Arizona RNG facility
Biogas News
Oct 25, 2021
Vision RNG has announced a partnership with Meridian Waste Acquisitions to complete projects at multiple US landfills to generate RNG.
The partnership will undertake projects at landfills across Missouri and Virginia to capture landfill gases for conversion into RNG for end users. Construction is already underway on the gas collection and control systems at the sites.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 22, 2021
TerraVest Industries has received its first manufacturing contract to supply a biogas upgrading system for a project in Western Canada.
The system will be able to process up to 1,200 Nm3/h of raw biogas and remove impurities such as hydrogen sulphide and CO2 to produce RNG suitable for pipeline injection.
“We are extremely pleased that our renewables group, which... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 22, 2021
Seaspan Ferries has become the first Canadian marine company to pilot the use of RNG.
Seaspan expects that data from the pilot will confirm that, by using RNG, greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced by more than 85% compared to traditional diesel fuel.
Like conventional natural gas, RNG can be used as a transport fuel in the form of CNG or LNG. RNG has been approved... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 21, 2021
Consultations have opened in Australia on national reforms to support the roll-out of hydrogen, biomethane, and other renewable gases to be used in the country’s gas networks.
Energy Ministers agreed in August to expedite reforms to support investment in projects that will help to scale up Australia’s clean hydrogen and biomethane industries.
The aim of these... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 21, 2021
The British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) has approved FortisBC’s RNG offtake agreement with EverGen Infrastructure Corp’s (EverGen) anaerobic digester expansion project.
According to EverGen, Canada’s RNG infrastructure platform, the agreement concerns its wholly-owned subsidiary, Net Zero Waste Abbotsford (NZWA) - a composting and organic processing facility... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 20, 2021
British Columbia (BC) is investing in renewable gas capture at a Vancouver landfill.
The Province is investing $4.28 million (€2.98 million) to expand the Vancouver landfill gas capture system through the CleanBC Industry Fund, with matching funds from the City of Vancouver.
Vancouver landfill is a 320-hectare site owned by the City of Vancouver. Approximately... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 20, 2021
Agri-Cycle (ACE) has announced a new food waste recycling partnership with the Greater Upper Valley (GUV) Solid Waste Management District in Vermont.
ACE currently provides food scrap recycling for several Vermont businesses, including supermarket chain Hannaford, and is seeking to work with more. Its operations include plans to manage the compost site at the GUV Solid... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 19, 2021
Irish natural gas distribution and supply company, firmus energy, has partnered with Granville Eco Park to decarbonise its fleet.
Firmus energy will initially use a jointly branded van, currently being fuelled by Granville’s renewable biomethane gas produced at its anaerobic digestion plant in Dungannon to showcase the sustainability credentials of CNG technology,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 19, 2021
Weltec Group in Germany has taken over the operations of biogas plant manufacturer AD AGRO.
Jens Albartus, director of biogas specialist WELTEC BIOPOWER, said through the merger Weltec will establish “promising synergies” in the entire value chain of biogas and biomethane.
AD AGRO was established as BD Agro Renewables by the Big Dutchman Group in May 2006. In... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 18, 2021
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) is the first utility in Maryland to gain regulatory approval for the use of RNG in its gas distribution system.
Approval of BGE’s RNG tariff from the Maryland Public Service Commission comes as Maryland’s first RNG plant, owned and operated by Bioenergy Devco, nears completion in Howard County.
Bioenergy DevCo’s food... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 18, 2021
SoCalGas’ biomethanation reactor system will be used to help produce renewable energy as part of a power-to-gas demonstration at a dairy digester in Maine.
The power-to-gas process converts renewable electricity into hydrogen. The biomethanation reactor converts the hydrogen and biogenic CO2 into methane that can be used on-site or injected into the grid. The system... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 18, 2021
Vitol will acquire a minority equity stake in Waga Energy, collaborating on landfill RNG projects.
The arrangement between Dutch energy and commodity trading company Vitol and Waga Energy, which specialises in RNG recovery from landfill waste, forms part of the equity sale associated with Waga Energy’s current IPO on Paris Euronext.
Two billion tonnes of waste... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 15, 2021
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation announced that the construction of its landfill RNG pipeline project in Ohio has been completed.
The firm’s subsidiary, Aspire Energy, constructed the 33.1-mile pipeline, which will transport RNG generated from Noble Road Landfill in Shiloh to Aspire Energy’s pipeline system, displacing ‘conventionally produced’ natural gas.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 15, 2021
Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands, officially opened the country’s first bio-LNG plant on 14 October.
The plant was developed by Nordsol, Shell and Renewi and will produce an estimated 3.4 kilotons of bio-LNG annually – enough for 13 million kilometres of driving - preventing approximately 14.3 kilotons of fossil CO2 from entering the atmosphere.
Nordsol’s... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 15, 2021
From the start of October, six cities in Finland will use vehicles fuelled by biogas to transport wastewater sewage sludge and biowaste.
The six cities in the outer zone of the Uusimaa region – Hanko, Hyvinkää, Lohja, Loviisa, Porvoo and Raasepori – will transport the sludge and waste collected by waste management company Rosk’n Roll Oy Ab to the Gasum biogas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 15, 2021
Food waste recycler Warrens Group is lobbying local authorities in the North East of England to turn food into fuel.
The Environmental Bill is set to mandate household food recycling by 2023. Warrens is working to ensure North East councils are at the forefront of implementing the service and making strides towards the UK’s 2050 net-zero goal.
By starting conversations... [Read More]
CONNECT WITH US
Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy, Gillian Martin MSP, has visited BrewDog’s anaerobic digestion (AD) and biomethane facility in Ellon
Tuas Power has announced plans to convert its Tembusu Multi-Utilities Complex (TMUC) on Jurong Island to run entirely on renewable biomass by 2028 — 22 years ahead of Singapore’s national decarbonisation timeline
Egypt’s Ministry of Environment, through the Bioenergy Foundation for Sustainable Development, has signed a cooperation agreement with Italian energy company Eni to advance biogas production and support the country’s clean energy transition
