May 26, 2021
Jemena calls for renewable gas target in Australia
Biogas News
May 26, 2021
Hive Energy has acquired 50% of Dutch green energy company, DBG Group, to develop biogas projects.
This partnership marks UK-based Hive’s latest progression in its mission to create transformational change for a cleaner future through partnering with circular economy companies.
In the first waste-to-energy project of the partnership, the companies will process... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 25, 2021
Leyline Renewable Capital has partnered with PurposeEnergy to convert Ben & Jerry’s dairy waste into clean water and power.
Leyline, a provider of pre-construction debt and equity capital for renewable energy development, will facilitate the development of the SAINT project in St Albans, Vermont, that will anaerobically convert industrial food waste, including... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 24, 2021
Severn Trent Green Power has secured a contract extension with Oxfordshire County Council to process its household food and garden waste until 2029.
The partnership, which began in 2009, will see Severn Trent continue to treat Oxfordshire’s food waste at its Cassington and Wallingford anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities.
Between them, the two plants treat around... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 24, 2021
In the last two years, grocery retailer ICA Sweden has greatly increased its use of biogas, going from zero to over 2,500 tonnes in 2020.
In 2021, ICA Sweden will increase its biogas use to approximately 3,200 tonnes, reducing CO2 emissions by 10,000 tonnes compared to if the vehicles were run on diesel.
ICA is one of the biggest owners and operators of biogas-fuelled... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 24, 2021
Casella Waste Systems and Rudarpa officially broke ground on a new landfill gas-to-RNG facility in New Hampshire, US on 19 May.
The new processing facility, to be built at the North Country Environmental Services disposal facility I Bethlehem, is designed to capture the landfill gas which is currently being flared and separate it into marketable gases, focusing on methane... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 24, 2021
Projects selected for Phase 1 of the UK Government’s direct air capture and greenhouse gas removal programme have been revealed.
In June last year, the Prime Minister announced up to £100 million (€115 million) of new research and development funding to help develop direct air capture technologies in the UK. As part of this, the innovation competition seeks to... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 24, 2021
Macquarie Capital Principal Finance has acquired Evercreech Renewable Energy, a greenfield anaerobic digestion (AD) development in the UK.
Macquarie Capital’s investment will fund the end-to-end construction of the plant, which is expected to begin injecting green gas into the UK’s national gas network by early next year.
It will become part of the company’s... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 21, 2021
WSSC Water commissioners have approved an 18-year contract with Washington Gas (WGL) for a renewable natural gas (RNG) project.
The contract is for the construction and installation of approximately 900 feet of natural gas pipeline and related infrastructure to supply natural gas to, and convey RNG from, WSSC Water’s Piscataway Bioenergy facility in Accokeek, Maryland,... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 21, 2021
Air Liquide has launched its first green bond issue, by raising €500 million dedicated to financing and refinancing the development of sustainable projects, including biogas, hydrogen, and oxygen.
This operation is in line with the company’s first SRI-labelled bonds, which the firm had issued as early as 2012 to finance the expansion of its Home Healthcare business.... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 21, 2021
DMT Environmental Technology has been acquired by Broadview Energy Solutions.
DMT's shareholders, E.H.M Dirkse Beheer BV and NV NOM, have decided to sell 100% of their holdings to Broadview, a Dutch company that is active in the field of liquefied natural gas distribution.
With the new shareholder, DMT will continue to develop and expand its business. It will continue... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 20, 2021
Aemetis Biogas, a subsidiary of Aemetis, has started constructing a dairy biogas cleanup and compression unit in California.
The biogas cleanup unit at the Aemetis Biogas Central Dairy Digester project will produce RNG that meets utility gas pipeline standards and will be used as a transportation fuel.
Construction crews began site preparation and excavation this... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 20, 2021
Amp Americas has announced a deal with Equilibrium and Green Gas Partners (GGP) to operate and manage their dairy RNG project in Arizona.
The project, in operation since 2018, was developed by Equilibrium, an investment firm in carbon transition infrastructure, and GGP. It is designed to capture dairy waste from around 30,000 milking cows across three dairy farms to... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 20, 2021
Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) is building a second Kompogas plant in Greece’s Peloponnese region.
The Swiss cleantech company was awarded the contract to deliver the core module for a Kompogas® plant in the region. This will be the second plant constructed on behalf of Terna Energy on the Green peninsula.
Following on quickly from the contract to supply two Kompogas... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 19, 2021
FCC Environment has signed a contract with East Lothian Council in Scotland to provide food waste recycling and collections.
From 1 May, FCC took over the services for some 54,000 properties in East Lothian.
Steve Longdon, operations director of FCC, said: “The last 14 months have been hard for everyone, but as key workers we had to carry on, proving the resilience... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 18, 2021
Several UK bioenergy projects under the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) will be granted a 12-month extension, in a move that supports the nation’s decarbonisation goals.
The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy has increased the budget cap for non-Tariff Guarantee Extensions under the Non-Domestic RHI.
Welcomed by the Association... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 17, 2021
Southern Company Gas has taken ownership of the Meadow Branch Landfill Methane Recovery Facility, a renewable natural gas (RNG) plant in Tennessee, US.
The facility is located at the Meadow Branch Landfill in Athens, run by sister company PowerSource. The plant is now operated by Southern Company Gas Renewables, a new subsidiary dedicated to growing Southern Company... [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
