Jul 3, 2017
German biogas equipment specialist launches spin-off company – Vogelsang
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Jul 3, 2017
InnoEnergy, Europe’s sustainable energy innovation engine, is making its “Investment Round”, for supporting and launching revolutionary clean energy innovations, open year-round to offer flexibility to businesses to shorten the journey from lab to launch.
During 2017, the Investment Round has already supported seven new projects in the fields of renewables,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 3, 2017
India-based renewable power producer Orient Green Power (OGPL) has announced that it has approved the sale of its loss-making biomass operations to promoter firm Shriram Ventures (SVL).
According to media reports in the Business Standard, OGPL will get rid of that business at an enterprise value of INR 2.75 billion (€37m). The transaction will not include the 20MW... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 3, 2017
China Everbright International has announced that it has officially commenced construction on its Can Tho waste-to-energy project in Vietnam.
Everbright International won the bid for the Can Tho project in July of 2016 on a BOO (Build-Operate-Own) model, and signed a project investment agreement with the Can Tho Construction Department of Vietnam in December 2016.
The... [Read More]
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Jul 3, 2017
UPS has announced “aggressive” new sustainability goals to add more alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles to its fleet while increasing its reliance on renewable energy sources.
The goals, available in the company’s 2016 Corporate Sustainability Report, support UPS’s commitment to reduce its absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 30, 2017
DuPont Industrial Biosciences and silage storage specialists Bock UK have announced a strategic partnership which will see Bock demonstrate DuPont’s biogas enzyme technology at commercial scale in the UK market.
The new collaboration will expand the distribution footprint of biogas enzymes. Bock UK are a silage storage supplier working with over 50 AD plants in the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 30, 2017
The American Biogas Council (ABC), the trade association for the US biogas industry, has welcomed the recent introduction of the Agriculture Environmental Stewardship Act, House companion legislation to Senate Bill 988.
Introduced in early May, the Act will increase agricultural viability by helping to deploy nutrient recovery and biogas systems that recycle organic material... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 29, 2017
Using waste and biomass for gasification can produce low carbon power efficiently, potentially reducing the cost of meeting the UK’s 2050 carbon targets by more than 1% of GDP, according to a new report from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI).
Titled ‘Targeting new and cleaner uses for wastes and biomass using gasification,’ the ETI report sets out... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 28, 2017
A team from Nagoya University has explored a different chemical approach to the catalysis of biomass.
With ever declining oil feedstocks and campaigning from environmentalists, the chemical industry is increasingly being pushed to look for new renewable sources to sustain its activities. Biomass from sources including wood, garbage and agricultural waste is one of the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 28, 2017
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage Commission has approved a revised 20-year agreement with Waste Management to use biogas from the company’s Metro landfill in Franklin, Wisconsin, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
An $11 million gas treatment plant will be built at the landfill site by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD). Waste Management... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 27, 2017
FCC, the Spanish environmental services, infrastructure and water management group, has helped celebrate 25 years of the EU’s LIFE Programme with a demonstration of MethaMorphosis at Ecoparc 2 in Barcelona, a project co-financed by the programme that converts waste treatment plants into bioenergy facilities.
As part of the ceremony, presentations were made by Gloria... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 26, 2017
TTcogen, a 50/50 joint venture of combined heat and power (CHP) experts Tecogen and TEDOM, has announced its expansion into the US wastewater treatment facility biogas CHP market.
The joint venture already has experience with several hundred wastewater treatment facilities in Europe via TEDOM. Now, TTcogen hopes to be able to transfer and apply that experience to the US... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 26, 2017
A biomass facility in California that was temporarily shut down earlier this year is planning to restart operations in July 2017.
Blue Lake Power announced its plans to restart its 12MW biomass plant located in Blue Lake, CA, with a press release. The company also announced it is currently looking for partners for short and long term contracts.
The facility, located close... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 23, 2017
An at times controversial waste to energy plant has won a sustainability award.
The St Austell’s incinerator in Cornwall, UK, has been announced sustainable property of the year at the 2017 Michelmores property awards, which celebrates outstanding property and construction projects in Cornwall, Devon, Bristol, Somerset and Dorset, according to <a href="http://www.cornwalllive.com/st-dennis-incinerator-cornwall-energy-recovery-centre-wins-sustainable-property-project-award/story-30406105-detail/story.html">Cornwall... [Read More]
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Jun 23, 2017
The Environmental Services Association has raised concerns over Ofgem’s recently announced decision to reduce payments to small decentralised generators by almost 95%.
A trade association of companies in the UK’s resource and waste management industry, the ESA says that Ofgem’s reforms “make a mockery” of circular economy ambitions. Ofgem... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 22, 2017
The Environment Committee of the London Assembly has launched an investigation into waste management in London. Among other things, the wide ranging study will look into the role played by energy from waste facilities in the British capital.
With a population of 8.674 million making it one of the biggest cities in Europe, London generates a huge amount of waste –... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 22, 2017
ERDF Flanders and Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP) have signed an agreement for an investment of €9.36 million as part of a project to build up a new research infrastructure specifically for gas fermentation and down-stream processing. The initiative comes under the framework of the IMPACT project.
Financing for the investment has come from the European Regional... [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
