The winners of the 2023 AD and Biogas Industry Awards were revealed at a gala ceremony at the Vox in Birmingham, UK, on 29 March. Run by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) and the World Biogas Association (WBA), the Awards celebrate excellence and innovation in the global anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas sector across 12 categories. Chris... [Read More]

Harare City Council (HCC) in Zimbabwe has cancelled a biogas digester contract worth US$465.2k (€429.8k), that was awarded to Synlak (Pvt) Ltd after the company failed to complete the project within set timelines, according to News Day. The European Union granted the non-State actors funding for the construction of a 100-kilowatt biogas project in Mbare in December... [Read More]

Electricity Generating Public Company (EGCO) has confirmed the successful completion of its acquisition of a 49% interest in Rhode Island State Energy Center (RISEC), a 609MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant situated in Johnston, Rhode Island in the US. The transaction resulted in an increase to EGCO'S MWe capacity of 298MWe. Thepparat Theppitak, EGCO Group's... [Read More]

The German Biogas Association (GBA) has selected EnviTec Biogas' Saerbeck facility as its "Biogas Plant of the Month". The plant is operated by Saergas GmbH & Co. KG, a company of 16 farmers, as well as EnviTec Biogas and the machinery cooperative Maschinenring Steinfurt-Bentheim. It is part of the Saerbeck Bioenergy Park, which has won multiple awards. The GBA... [Read More]

Future Biogas has been acquired by FTSE 250-listed firm 3i Infrastructure - which has a portfolio worth over £3.4 billion (€3.8bn). The funding from 3i Infrastructure’s funding and support means Future Biogas can push on with its Project Carbon Harvest, its venture to "design and operate the next generation of AD plants delivering Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and... [Read More]

EnviTec has said that its strategy to serve the growing French market more quickly is beginning to pay off. The firm invested in an in-house laboratory for EnviTec Biogas France in summer 2022. "This was exactly the right decision, to offer our French customers an efficient and above all time-saving local analysis service,” said Martin Brinkmann, managing director of... [Read More]

US-based BioTown Biogas (BTB), a leading renewable energy producer in the waste-to-value energy market, is today (22 March) activating its new digester and processing facility, one of the largest on-farm biodigesters in the world. An on-site commissioning ceremony marking the ceremony will be attended by Indiana's Lieutenant Governor and the state's Secretary of Agriculture... [Read More]

Intermunicipal environmental firm EcoWerf opened its new anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Leuven, Belgium, on 17 March. EcoWerf already produces 20,000 tonnes of valuable compost from source-separated biowaste each year, and biogas will now be produced from the same biowaste. To achieve this, DRANCO has constructed a new digester for the plant. "DRANCO stands for a... [Read More]

Bioenergy Devco, the North American division of BTS Bioenergy has announced a $30 million (€27.8m) investment by Annapolis-based HASI, a leading investor in climate solutions. Bioenergy Devco is a leading player in the design, engineering, construction, financing, and operation of anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities to recycle organic material and produce renewable... [Read More]

On 14 March, the European Parliament adopted draft measures to increase the rate of renovations and reduce energy consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions in the EU building sector by 2030. The proposed revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive aims to make the sector climate-neutral by 2050. It also aims to increase the rate of renovations of energy-inefficient... [Read More]

Global NRG Advisory Limited (Global) and Matter Global Solutions Inc (Matter) have announced they have signed a seven-year financing agreement that will see Global advise on the funding of Matter’s pipeline until 2030, starting with its Renewable Natural Gas (“RNG”) facility in Clayhurst, British Columbia, Canada. The first project will process up to 60,000... [Read More]

Anaergia has announced the commission of a new biomethane facility in Northern Italy, representing a further expansion of its extensive waste-to-biomethane portfolio in Europe. The plant, Ambiente & Risorse, is owned by Anaergia and has the capacity to anaerobically digest 40,000 metric tons of landfill-diverted food scraps, converting it to 3,900,000 cubic meters... [Read More]

Scandinavian Biogas has awarded AFRY an engineering assignment for its new biogas production plant in Mönsterås, Sweden, which is expected to be commissioned during Q4 2024. AFRY has been involved in the project in the early development stages, and as the project enters its implementation phase, AFRY has been appointed as a detail engineering partner. AFRY will deliver... [Read More]

Technology group Wärtsilä has announced it will supply a biogas upgrading solution to Transwaste, a British waste management and environmental services company. The plant, near Hull in the North of England, will produce biogas from municipal waste and will inject up to 6 million m3 of biomethane into the national gas grid each year. The order with Wärtsilä was entered... [Read More]

Australian technology company Hazer said that its 100 t/yr commercial demonstration plant (CDP) in Munster, Western Australia will be ready to commence hydrogen production in the second half of 2023, reported Argus. The plant utilises biogas feedstock and iron ore as a catalyst to produce 380 t/yr of graphitic carbon, said Hazer chief executive officer Glenn Corrie. The... [Read More]

Clean Effentech International (CEF), a New Delhi-based renewable energy and organic fertiliser start up, has installed almost a dozen plants across India for the production of compressed biogas (CBG) and fertiliser, said founder and CEO Maninder Singh Nayyar. The plants that are being set up are part of plans of the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation... [Read More]