Jun 25, 2021
Trial success leads to biogas facility plans in Goa, India
Biogas News
Jun 25, 2021
The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) has submitted to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson the UK AD and Biogas Industry Climate Declaration, whereby the industry commits to doing everything in its powers to reduce carbon emissions and reach net-zero goals.
With this declaration, the UK AD and biogas sector wants to send a ‘clear message’ to the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 25, 2021
A ‘pioneering’ pig farm in North Carolina, US has reported a 10%+ increase in its biogas yields by investing in two new chopper pumps.
Soon after Butler Farms opened just over 25 years ago, the owner quickly wanted to reduce its environmental impact, culminating in the development of its own pig manure-powered biogas plant in 2011.
As a contract grower that takes... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 24, 2021
An industrial-scale landfill gas-to-biomethane plant has been inaugurated in Genoa, Italy.
Green energy company Asja oversaw the conversion of the existing electricity production facility into an advanced biomethane production plant.
The plant, built and managed by Asja, under concession from waste management firm AMIU Genoa, entered into operation at the end of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 24, 2021
Southwest Gas has invested in several RNG projects in Arizona and California.
The firm is working with RNG developers to interconnect various RNG projects across its service areas with Southwest Gas’s facilities. There are currently four projects in Arizona and one in California that are approved and will take RNG to market shortly, the company said.
Together,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 24, 2021
EnviTec Biogas has commissioned a third EnviThan biogas upgrading plant in Estonia.
Following the construction and commissioning of two EnviThan facilities in Tartu and Vinni, the third facility in Oisu was completed on schedule, taking just six months from signature to handover.
“Our customer here again was AS EG Ehitus, a subsidiary of gas network provider AS... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 23, 2021
Dynamic Group has broken ground on BC Organics, a 16-unit anaerobic digestion (AD) project in Wisconsin, US.
Once completed and operational, BC Organics will be one of the largest dairy waste-to-renewable natural gas projects in the US, according to Hoard’s Dairyman, and is expected to process more than 360 million gallons of manure per year.
Dynamic Group is the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 22, 2021
Proposals for an industrial-scale organic fertiliser lagoon in Devon, UK have been given the green light.
District council planning chiefs in East Devon approved the scheme for a sealed digestate storage facility, with a capacity of 7,000 cubic metres of liquid, near the village of Upton Pyne.
The project will support the operation of Gorst Biogas’s anaerobic digestion... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 22, 2021
AgLand Renewables, the California subsidiary of CleanBay Renewables, will receive $1.7 million (€1.42 million) in tax credit.
AgLand was chosen by the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to receive the significant tax credit from the California Competes Tax Credit (CCTC) programme. With this support, the firm can begin the development... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 22, 2021
Host will build an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Ilkeston, UK.
By treating mainly green waste and liquid food waste at the Stanton Recycling site for Stanton Energy, the AD facility will produce more than 3.5 million Nm3 of biomethane for gas grid injection and distribution annually.
The project is in line with the future UK Government’s strategy of the Green Gas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 18, 2021
Scovan Engineering and Matter Global Solutions have joined forces to develop RNG projects in Canada.
In March 2020, the British Columbia Utilities Commission approved a biomethane/RNG purchase agreement (to a maximum of $30 (€20.30) per gigajoule) between FortisBC and Matter, supplied by the Clayhurst project.
Located 80 kilometres east of Fort St John, the Clayhurst... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 18, 2021
Peoples Gas, Florida’s largest natural gas distribution utility, will build, own, and operate a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility with Alliance Dairies.
The facility, to be constructed on the dairy’s property in Trenton, near Gainesville, is expected to produce 105,000 MMBtu of RNG, enough to serve about 4,400 homes annually.
The Alliance RNG facility will... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 18, 2021
The American Biogas Council (ABC) has applauded the reintroduction of the US Agricultural Environmental Stewardship Act, which will support biogas production.
Congressmen Ron king and Tom Reed reintroduced the Act, demonstrating their continued support for the on-farm economy and the deployment of technologies that promote sustainable agriculture.
The Act, which... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 17, 2021
Montauk Renewables is planning to expand its dairy digester RNG cluster project in Jerome, Idaho.
The planned expansion is expected to be triggered by a recent amendment to the project’s feedstock arrangement, providing for around 65,000 gallons per day (GPD) in minimum feedstock supply. The increases are to be staged over 12-36 months, as are the development fees... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 17, 2021
Waga Energy has secured a contract with Brome-Missiquoi Intermunicipal Waste Management Board (RIGMRBM) to produce biomethane (renewable natural gas) at a landfill in Québec.
This is the second contract in Canada for Waga Energy, which was selected earlier this year by Enercycle to equip the Saint-Étienne-des-Grès landfill.
Waga Energy will build a WAGABOX® purification... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 17, 2021
A town in Norfolk, UK will become one of the first to be supplied mainly with green gas from an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant.
As part of a £17 million (€19.8 million) upgrade project by Privilege Finance, 100,000 tonnes of food waste collected from local households and businesses will be processed by the AD plant, to produce green gas for use in 4,000 homes in... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 17, 2021
The Irish Bioenergy Association (IrBEA) said it is “disappointed and dismayed” that a recent report fails to recognise the potential and role of biofuels and biogas as part of transport decarbonisation plans.
The Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action in Ireland (Oireachtas Committee) published its report on ‘Reducing emissions in the transport sector... [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
