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bp’s Archaea Energy has announced the official startup of its original Archaea Modular Design (AMD) renewable natural gas (RNG) plant in Medora, Indiana in the US. Located next to a landfill owned by Rumpke Waste and Recycling, this is the first plant to come online since bp’s acquisition of Archaea in December 2022. Using the AMD design, the Medora plant captures the gas from Rumpke’s…
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The REA (Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology) has published its annual ‘state of the industry’ report REview23, saying that the entire energy transition still faces significant challenges which are currently delaying the roll out of low carbon technologies across all sectors. The report, which presents the latest deployment and employment figures for the renewable energy…
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The Washington State Department of Commerce has announced seven grants totaling $4.76 million (€4.5 million) from the state’s Clean Energy Fund to enhance dairy digesters and advance clean energy in rural communities. These investments will result in improved air and water quality or soil health, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and local economic benefits, according to the…
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Wasaline will start operating with certified biogas one day a week from 13 October, in preparation for the EU emissions trading system that will come into force next year. The biogas is supplied by Nordic energy company Gasum. Biogas is more expensive than LNG (liquefied natural gas), the current primary fuel of M/S Aurora Botnia, but the company said it will cover the extra costs on behalf of…
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Veolia, via its subsidiary OTV, led a consortium responsible for designing and carrying out the works in a wastewater treatment plant in Bonneuil-en-France, a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in the north of the country. The facility, which treats wastewater from 35 municipalities in the eastern district of the Val d'Oise department, was inaugurated on 29 September by the…
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Brétéché, a fuel distributor that operates in six French departments, inaugurated its first hydrogen station in Maché (Vendée), on the Challans to La Roche-sur-Yon road axis on 29 September. The station has been designed with a high hydrogen supply capacity. This station now offers green hydrogen with a refuelling capacity of up to 800 kilograms per day. With this station located on the…
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A lightning strike hit a UK food waste recycling plant on Monday, sending a huge fireball into the sky, reported AFP. Severn Trent Green Power, which runs the Cassington anaerobic digestion (AD) facility near Yarnton, just north of the city of Oxford, said the strike "caused an explosion in our biogas tanks". "Thankfully no one has been hurt and we are working with the emergency services to…
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Japanese company RENOVA has announced delays to the start of operation of two of its biomass plants - the Tokushima-Tsuda biomass power plant and the Ishinomaki Hibarino biomass power plant. The two plants were due to begin operation in September 2023. However, further time was required for the final adjustments of boiler and turbine facilities to ensure long-term and stable operation at both…
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The Federal German Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) announced that no bids were received in a recent auction for biomethane installations, in an auction held on 1 September. The "innovation auction", on the other hand, was "significantly oversubscribed". Bids in the innovation auction are only accepted if they represent combinations of wind farms or solar installations with facilities that…
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AstraZeneca (AZN) and Vanguard Renewables have announced a partnership to enable the delivery of renewable natural gas (RNG) to all of AZN’s US sites by the end of 2026. Neil H. Smith, Vanguard Renewables’ CEO, tells Bioenergy Insight more. From June this year, AZN began purchasing RNG produced by Vanguard Renewables for its Newark Campus in Delaware, where the company packages 26 medicines…
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Fortum's new biomass-fuelled combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Jelgava, Latvia, was inaugurated on 11 September by Latvia's president Andris Bērziņš and the president of Finland Sauli Niinistö. The new plant will provide district heating to the residents and businesses in Jelgava as well as electricity to the electricity market. The new plant covers approximately 85% of the city’s…
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Severn Trent Green Power’s anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Derby, UK, is ready to receive food waste again following a programme of refurbishment. The site in Megaloughton Lane now incorporates a front-end treatment process and additional digestion capacity through the construction of two additional digester tanks. After a 12-month refurbishment process, the site, which can treat up to…
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Anaergia has announced that its subsidiary Rhode Island Bioenergy Facility (RIBF) has closed a $20 million term loan (€18.8 million) with East West Bank, a California Corporation. The loan will finance the remaining construction and commissioning of the RIBF project in the Town of Johnston, Rhode Island, US and working capital. This financing has a seven-year term, and bears interest on US…
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