Apr 29, 2022
WM to invest $825m in RNG infrastructure
Biogas News
Apr 29, 2022
Delorean Corporation (Delorean) has been awarded the contract for Yarra Valley Water’s second food waste-to-energy plant in Victoria, Australia.
Delorean’s Engineering Division will design, build, operate, and maintain the anaerobic digestion (AD) facility for Yarra Valley Water. The facility will be one of the largest of its kind in Victoria, diverting around 50,000... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 28, 2022
Greencoat Capital has acquired Margam Green Energy Plant (MGEP) – a waste wood-fired biomass plant in South Wales, UK from Glennmont Partners.
MGEP has been operational since May 2019 and is one of the UK’s largest biomass plants, with a processing capacity of around 290,000 tonnes per year of waste wood. The facility’s net capacity of 41.8 MW can offset around... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 28, 2022
Nestlé has switched 75% of its truck fleet from diesel to bio-LNG.
The food and beverage giant will now make its deliveries around the UK and Ireland emitting up to 95% less carbon, marking a significant step towards Nestlé’s commitment to be net zero by 2050.
Nestlé has been exploring solutions to reduce its carbon emissions in its transport and logistics network... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 28, 2022
Anaergia has commissioned its Easy Anaergia Ambiente RNG facility in Pontinia, Italy.
The facility can process 36,450 tons of landfill-diverted food scraps and other organic waste each year and convert it into over 3.2 million m3 of RNG, to be injected into the region’s gas pipelines.
The new plant will also treat the remaining digestate to create 4,500 tons per... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 28, 2022
Duke Energy has invested in two projects to convert landfill gas into RNG in North Carolina.
The two projects, named Foothills Renewables and Upper Piedmont Renewables, will be located in Caldwell County and Person County, respectively.
Each project is expected to produce roughly 500,000 dekatherms (Dth) of RNG every year. The combined 1 million Dth is equivalent... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 27, 2022
UK-based Stobart Energy, which processes waste wood into biomass fuel, has been renamed as Esken Renewables.
The company supplies around 1.7 million tonnes of fuel to dedicated biomass plants across the UK. The fuel is used to generate renewable energy equivalent to the annual domestic electricity needs of 2% of the population.
The name change follows parent company... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 27, 2022
A new research project designed to unlock the potential of sustainable shrimp production in the UK plans to co-locate production with anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities.
The project, led by experts at the University in Exeter in partnership with the University of Reading and Rothamsted Research, has received a multi-million pound funding boost.
The research, which... [Read More]
Product News
Apr 27, 2022
CPM, a manufacturer of pellet mills, pelleting equipment and automation products, has launched new technology to improve wood pellet mill efficiency.
The company’s patented Twin Track technology has been developed after a decade of research to reduce energy demand, ensure consistent pellet quality, and boost mill capacity.
Twin Track uses two rollers inside the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 27, 2022
Wärtsilä will supply equipment for a major bio-LNG facility in Germany.
The facility will be the second-largest of its kind in the world, capable of liquefying biomethane and synthetic methane from renewable energy to produce REEFUEL - a carbon-neutral transportation fuel.
The contract was placed in March by German energy company REEFUELERY – a joint venture... [Read More]
Pellets News
Apr 26, 2022
Stora Enso has agreed to divest its two sawmills and forest operations in Russia.
The company’s Nebolchi and Impilahti sawmills will be divested to local management. The divestment includes Stora Enso’s Russian forest operations, which supply wood to the sawmills.
Stora Enso’s assessment is that, due to uncertainties in the Russian market, local ownership and... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 26, 2022
Aemetis Biogas is ready to launch Phase 2 of its dairy biogas production project in California.
The company will achieve this by completing the construction of its third dairy digester and testing the seven-mile biogas pipeline section to be used by the next five digesters.
Testing was recently completed for the $12 million (€11.2 million) dairy biogas-to-RNG upgrading... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 26, 2022
US energy infrastructure company, TC Energy, and GreenGasUSA have joined forces to explore the development of a network of natural gas transportation hubs, including RNG.
The hubs would provide centralised access to existing energy transportation infrastructure for RNG sources, such as farms, wastewater treatment facilities, and landfills.
As part of this strategic... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 26, 2022
PT Pertamina, Osaka Gas Co, JGC Holdings, and INPEX Corporation have entered into a joint study agreement to explore the feasibility of a clean natural gas and LNG project in Indonesia, involving the production of biomethane from palm oil mill effluent (POME).
Indonesia is the world’s largest producer and exporter of palm oil and the industry employs more than 3 million... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 25, 2022
UGI Corporation’s subsidiary, UGI Energy Services, has acquired a 33% equity interest in Ag-Grid Energy.
Ag-Grid develops and operates small-scale renewable power projects that support local energy demands while lowering emissions in the US. The company currently has four operational projects in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and two projects under construction with... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 25, 2022
The Dutch Government has decided to immediately stop new subsidies for woody bio-based raw materials for low-grade heat.
The decision specifically concerns the production of low-temperature heat (100oC) from woody bio-based raw materials. This heat is mainly used for heating buildings and greenhouses.
Minister Jetten for Climate and Energy said: “Bio-raw materials... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 25, 2022
EnTech Solutions, Northern Biogas, and Dane County, Wisconsin have unveiled a new dairy waste-to-RNG facility.
The organisations worked together to repurpose an AD facility (the Middleton facility), which formerly produced electricity, to generate clean RNG using agricultural waste from four local dairy farms.
The Middleton facility incorporates advanced technology,... [Read More]
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Moeve has announced a €600 million investment plan for the construction of up to 30 new biomethane plants by 2030
During the signing ceremony, Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Maria Malmer Stenergard, announced a donation of USD 1.5 million for prefeasibility and detailed engineering studies
ADTechOptima’s technologies aim to solve two key problems: the underperformance of anaerobic digesters and the quality of the digestate produced as part of the process
