Sep 21, 2021
Redexis supplies biomethane to Spanish bus fleet
Biogas News
Sep 21, 2021
Ireland needs a ‘whole of energy’ approach to the future, including repurposing the gas network to carry biomethane and hydrogen, Ervia’s CEO, Cathal Marley, told a conference last week.
Ervia provides strategic national gas and water infrastructure and services through its subsidiaries, including Gas Networks Ireland (GNI). The company appointed Marley as CEO... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 21, 2021
FortisBC Energy has reopened its RNG programme to customers, following a temporary pause due to soaring demand.
FortisBC first launched the RNG initiative in 2011 and was the first utility in North America to offer RNG to its customers as a simple way to lower their greenhouse gas emissions. As more customers saw the value of RNG as a carbon-neutral energy source, demand... [Read More]
Pellets News
Sep 20, 2021
Drax Group has partnered with the National Farmers Union (NFU) of England and Wales to identify opportunities to scale-up perennial energy crop production.
The Climate Change Committee previously stated that if the UK is to meet its decarbonisation objectives, a ‘substantial area’ of energy crops must be planted each year to deliver the low carbon renewable fuel... [Read More]
Features
Sep 20, 2021
Bioenergy Insight speaks to EQTEC’s CEO, David Palumbo, about gasification, the green recovery, and hydrogen’s role in a net-zero future.
Could you tell our readers about yourself and your background in the energy industry?
Over the last 15 years, I have founded and co-founded several companies across various industries, particularly in finance and technology.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 20, 2021
Dutch energy storage company VTTI has acquired a bioenergy project on an industrial site in Tilburg, the Netherlands, from Re-N Technology Group.
Following the acquisition, announced on 11 August, VTTI will construct a new state-of-the-art bioenergy facility of industrial scale and is expected to be commissioned in the third quarter of 2023.
The new facility will... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 17, 2021
EQTEC has acquired a second decommissioned waste-to-energy plant in Croatia and will convert it into a biomass gasification facility.
The 1.2 MWe facility in Karlovac was acquired through Synergy Projects, a joint venture between EQTEC and its Croatian project development partner Sense ESCO. The move follows the company’s recent acquisition of a similar plant in Belišće.
Located... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 17, 2021
Greenlane Biogas has signed a $6.1 million (€4.08 million) supply contract with Green Impact Partners for an RNG project in Colorado.
Greenlane will supply a biogas upgrading system for the GreenGas Colorado project, which consists of two dairy farms and broke ground in July. The project will utilise two of Greenlane’s pressure swing adsorption upgrading systems,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 17, 2021
Foodservice provider Moy Park has placed the largest single order of IVECO natural gas trucks in the UK.
The Northern Irish firm has committed to the mass decarbonisation of its transport operation with 50 bio-LNG IVECO Stralis NP trucks.
As concerns grow over the vehicular impact on the environment, Moy Park has turned to bio-LNG fuelled trucks to help ‘green’... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 17, 2021
UGI Energy Services (UGIES) has joined forces with California Bioenergy (CalBio) and Sevana Bioenergy to develop RNG dairy digester projects in South Dakota.
Through a new joint venture (JV), MBL Bioenergy, the companies will develop several clusters of dairy farm digester projects to produce RNG.
The projects are expected to produce 650 million cubic feet of RNG... [Read More]
Pellets News
Sep 17, 2021
Drax Group has started construction on the second of three satellite wood pellet plants in Arkansas.
Work is underway at the site in Russellville, Pope County, north-western Arkansas, with commercial operations expected to begin at the plant in 2022. The move is part of a $40 million (€34 million) investment by Drax in the state, creating around 30 new direct jobs... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 16, 2021
GLS, one of Italy’s main express couriers, will add 120 new LNG and bio-LNG powered vehicles to its fleet.
The new IVECO S-WAY vehicles, which will replace a diesel vehicle fleet made up of 70% Euro VI vehicles and 30% Euro V vehicles, will have a significantly positive impact on the environment.
Switching to fossil methane will result in a reduction of CO2 amounting... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 16, 2021
Packaging firm DS Smith has invested €7.5 million in expanding the anaerobic treatment facility at its paper mill in northern France.
The investment enables Rouen Paper Mill to generate green energy from 100% of its wastewater and improve the quality of discharged water – building the circular economy and taking another step towards DS Smith’s carbon goals.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 16, 2021
Hitachi Zosen Inova’s (HZI) German subsidiary, HZI BioMethan (HZIB), will build the company’s biggest biogas upgrading plant to date in Dunaföldvár, Hungary.
Irish firm ClonBio Group commissioned HZI to build the biomethane plant that will upgrade 5,000 Nm3/h of inlet biogas. The upgrading facility will be constructed in 2022 at Europe’s largest grain biorefinery,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 16, 2021
Aemetis Biogas has signed a utility pipeline interconnection agreement with Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) and made the final payment for the installation of PG&E’s equipment.
Under the Aemetis Biogas Central Dairy Digester Project, Aemetis has already built and currently operates two dairy biogas digesters, on-site dairy gas upgrading and pressurisation... [Read More]
Pellets News
Sep 16, 2021
Network Rail has completed work on a £2.1 million (€2.46 million) project to repair and strengthen a bridge used by Drax Group.
Aire Bridge in North Yorkshire is used by 100 freight services transporting materials to and from Drax Power Station on average each week.
Over the 10-day blockade, Network Rail staff removed more than 100 metres of track so that a new... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 15, 2021
Two new large recycling vehicles powered entirely from food waste-derived biogas are now in operation in the west of England.
The biogas-fuelled vehicles are powered from the food waste they collect, and now service cafes, restaurants, schools and offices.
They are the latest addition to the expanding fleet of ‘Bio-Bees’, which have served the city of Bristol... [Read More]
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India's state of Haryana has inaugurated a 240-tonne-per-day biomass pellet plant in Rewari. The facility was opened by Union Minister for New & Renewable Energy, Pralhad Joshi
The transition will be delivered through a 15-year partnership with Carbon AMS, a leading biomethane producer, and forms part of AstraZeneca’s flagship decarbonisation programme, Ambition Zero Carbon
Verdant is seeking approval for a $70 million (€39 million) overhaul that would see the generator run on around 700,000 tonnes of biomass each year
