Oct 18, 2021
Wasted effort: avoiding pellet degradation in production
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]
Pellets News
Oct 15, 2021
The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) and the US Industrial Pellet Association (USIPA) have slammed a recent report by think tank Chatham House, which the organisations claim misrepresents well-established carbon accounting methodologies for the use of biomass in energy.
The report found that US-sourced wood pellets burned in the UK were responsible... [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]
Other News
Oct 15, 2021
EQTEC has signed an agreement for the proposed acquisition of a 5 MWe project in Greece.
The agreement concerns a project in Drama, north-eastern Greece, and was made through the recently established EQTEC Synergy Projects, a joint venture (JV) between EQTEC and its Greek strategic partners, German EPC company ewerGy (operating in Greece via its local partner, ECO Hellas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 14, 2021
Australian firm Blue Lake Milling will offset almost all its monthly energy costs by converting oat husks into bioenergy.
The company completed construction of its $8.1 million (€5.1 million) biogas plant last week, the Border Chronicle reported. The facility will generate enough bioenergy to power both the plant and nearby homes.
The mill processes more than 24,000... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 13, 2021
Saoradh Enterprise Partners (SEP) and one of its portfolio companies, X3Energy, have partnered to enhance the availability of RNG in Colorado.
SEP, a cleantech venture capital and research firm based in Boulder, acquired a minority ownership interest in X3CNG Colorado through its advanced fuel vehicles and technologies fund. X3Energy, a global energy partner specialising... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 13, 2021
Veolia has started renewable electricity production through biogas valorisation on its landfill sites in Brazil.
The company brought on-stream three new thermoelectric power plants in Brazil located in Iperó, Sao Paulo and Biguacu, in three of its sanitary landfills in the country.
The units will produce 12,400 kW (12.4 MW) of renewable electricity from biogas produced... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 11, 2021
The Swiss company CO2 Energie AG has commissioned Hitachi Zosen Inova to construct an installation to separate and liquefy renewable carbon dioxide at an existing biogas plant.
This renewable by-product will be made available for industrial purposes, avoiding the use of fossil carbon dioxide, and contribute to global climate protection and decarbonisation efforts in a... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 8, 2021
Zero-emissions transport and energy infrastructure company Nikola Corporation has joined forces with OPAL Fuels to develop hydrogen fuelling stations and use RNG in hydrogen production.
OPAL Fuels, which specialises in delivering RNG and renewable fuelling infrastructure for heavy-duty truck fleets, will work with Nikola to co-develop and co-market hydrogen refuelling... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 8, 2021
Residents of a village in Bressingham, Norfolk are attempting to block the development of a biogas plant.
Around 70 residents attended a meeting to oppose the completion of Deal Farm Biogas – an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Kenninghall Road.
Deal Farm Biogas will be an agricultural by-products, crop and manure biomethane-to-grid project located near the town... [Read More]
Features
Oct 8, 2021
Andrius Smaliukas, CEO of Baltpool, talks to Bioenergy Insight about biomass trading, SBP certification, and sustainability.
Baltpool International Biomass Exchange (Baltpool) is an online trading platform, where buyers and sellers meet to trade in biomass and timber products. Currently operating in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland,... [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
