Mar 19, 2021
Bp, Aria Energy announce dairy RNG project in California
Biogas News
Mar 19, 2021
Minnesota’s first renewable natural gas (RNG) plant is now operational.
DMT Clear Gas Solutions and Amp Americas partnered to deliver the project – a three-dairy facility that captures more than 700,000 gallons of manure to convert 2,000 standard cubic feet per minute of biogas into more than 98% RNG, using DMT’s membrane separation technology, the Carborex®... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 18, 2021
Aemetis has received approval for the construction of a 32-mile extension to its existing four-mile private pipeline in California that was completed in 2020.
The Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors accepted and approved the Aemetis Biogas Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration for the construction by a unanimous vote.
The pipeline is designed to carry biogas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 18, 2021
Hexagon Composites's subsidiaries have signed a multi-year agreement with Certarus for the supply of distribution models for compressed natural gas (CNG) and renewable natural gas (RNG) fuel storage systems for Certarus’s heavy-duty truck fleet.
Under the agreement with Certarus, which specialises in clean energy solutions, Hexagon Agility received an initial order... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 18, 2021
Biomass will be included in the second phase of the UK Government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme.
The scheme was designed to pave the way for the decarbonisation of large public buildings such as schools and hospitals.
The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) has welcomed the announcement. Previously, the REA expressed its disappointment... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 18, 2021
CHAR Technologies has received an order from one of Canada’s largest steel producers for up to 1,000 tonnes of its CleanFyre biocoal.
CleanFyre is a carbon-neutral, solid biofuel, made from various woody biomasses and wood wastes and provides a low greenhouse gas (GHG) emission biocoal substitute to integrate into existing steelmaking processes.
The contract builds... [Read More]
Other News
Mar 18, 2021
The UK is now halfway to meeting its target of net-zero emissions by 2050, new research shows.
According to analysis by Carbon Brief, the UK’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2020 were 51% below 1990 levels. The milestone was reached after a ‘record-breaking’ 11% fall in GHG emissions in 2020, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Emissions are likely to rebound... [Read More]
Features
Mar 17, 2021
By John Hanselman, co-founder, chairman and CEO, Vanguard Renewables.
The US has built its historic strength in large part from the efforts of our remarkable farming community. I am privileged to work with farmers every day, and I see their commitment to feeding the US and to being the best stewards of the land that they harvest. We at Vanguard Renewables have spent... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 17, 2021
Toyota Motor Manufacturing’s plant in Wales, UK, could be powered by biogas with the help of EQTEC.
EQTEC has signed a collaboration framework agreement with Toyota Motor Manufacturing for the development of a waste-to-energy project in Flintshire, Wales.
The agreement will be in place through EQTEC’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Logik WTE, the existing project special... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 17, 2021
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $2 million (€1.67 million) to four research and development projects advancing clean hydrogen production technologies.
In a statement, the DOE said these technologies may prove ‘pivotal’ to reducing carbon emissions and reducing the Biden Administration’s climate change goals.
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 17, 2021
The Zero Carbon Humber (ZCH) Partnership has won its £75 million (€87.5 million) bid to pursue its major decarbonisation infrastructure project.
This latest news is further boosted by a successful bid from the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), which provides offshore pipeline and safe storage for emissions captured in the Humber region and Teesside.
The three... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 16, 2021
The American Biogas Council (ABC) has announced the eight fastest-growing biogas businesses in the US - DMT, Envitec Biogas, Greenlane Biogas, Nacelle, DVO, Inc, Evonik, Paques Environmental Technologies, and PlanET Biogas.
Results were determined by gross revenue growth from 2019 to 2020. Collectively, revenue from the fastest eight grew by more than 300%.
“Biogas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 16, 2021
Two of BiON’s four biogas plants are now supplying electricity to the grid in Malaysia.
The company announced that two of its plants are now selling electricity to Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Malaysia’s largest integrated electricity company, and also revealed it has expanded into the UK, opening an office in London.
Once fully operational, BiON’s current... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 16, 2021
Metro Vancouver and FortisBC Energy have joined forces to achieve regional climate action goals in British Columbia (BC) and introduced a new biogas plant at a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in the region.
The new Lulu Island renewable natural gas (RNG) facility located in Richmond, BC, at Metro Vancouver’s Lulu Island WWTP site, now allows the unused biogas to... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 15, 2021
Valio, a Finnish dairy products manufacturer, has fuelled its first milk truck with biogas from one of its dairy farms.
The Vuorenmaa dairy farm has provided the first manure-powered milk truck in the country. With 180 cows, Vuorenmaa dairy farm in Haapavesi produces Valio Oltermanni® cheese.
For years, the farm has used the manure its cows produce to generate electricity... [Read More]
Pellets News
Mar 15, 2021
The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) has sued to stop Active Energy Renewable Power and Lumberton Energy Holdings, subsidiaries of Active Energy Group (AEG) from illegally polluting the Lumber River in violation of the Clean Water Act.
The complaint filed by the conservation groups on 10 March in the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 15, 2021
A project to use biogas from a wastewater treatment facility as a vehicle fuel in Lincoln, Nebraska, is complete.
The Lincoln Transportation and Utilities Department (LTU) began the biogas sustainability initiative at the Theresa Street Water Resource Recovery Facility in 2017.
The digestion of solids in the wastewater that goes to the facility produced methane.... [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
