Jul 28, 2017
Biochar could save ‘millions’ of dollars per year in health care costs
Biogas News
Jul 28, 2017
The US Environmental Protection Agency has invited the San Francisco Public Utility Commission (SFPUC) to apply for a $625 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan.
SFPUC’s project focuses on wastewater treatment system upgrades. San Francisco’s 60-year-old solids treatment facility will be replaced with upgraded infrastructure that... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 27, 2017
Lorries using the UK’s first gas filling station emitted 84% less carbon dioxide (CO2) than equivalent diesel vehicles, a newly released study claims.
The UK’s biggest gas network, Cadent, commissioned independent analysis of the first 14 months of operation of the fuelling station, operated by CNG Fuels at Leyland, Lancashire. The first station on the high... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 27, 2017
The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) has called for the UK government to make buses and heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) fuelled by biomethane central to its Clean Air Strategy, joining a growing push for biomethane to become a key part of the UKs drive to clean up its fuel sources.
The call comes as the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 26, 2017
Recycling food waste through anaerobic digestion could help save a single county millions of pounds a year, it’s been claimed.
If all residents in the county of Surrey, UK, put their food waste in their separate recycling bin instead of the general waste, the county would save more than £3 million.
The council claims that it costs half as much to recycle food... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 26, 2017
Biomethane must be included in the UK government’s Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO), according to Clearfleau.
An article on the anaerobic digestion specialist’s website argues that bioenergy has a “key” role to play in the further decarbonisation of the UK’s food and beverage sector. It calls for the previously “non-committal”... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 25, 2017
The UK’s renewable energy industry, including heat, power and transport, employed a record 125,940 people in 2015/16, according to a new report.
The report is called REView 2017 and is the sector’s authoritative annual publication.
The number of jobs grew by 2.5% between 2014/15 and 2015/16, a significant decline in growth from two years previous when growth... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 24, 2017
Norway-headquartered Geminor has signed a new agreement to supply refuse-derived fuel (RDF) to the Amager Bakke energy-from-waste plant in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Part of a contract to supply 30,000 tonnes of waste to support the commissioning of the plant, the delivery marks the agreement’s commencement, which will see Geminor manage the transport of RDF material from... [Read More]
Policy News
Jul 24, 2017
The UK government is promising a revolution in the way electricity is made, used and stored.
The announcement comes as the UK government promoted its Industrial Strategy. According to the government, consumers in the UK could save billions of pounds when new rule s come into place to make it easier for people to generate their own power with solar panels, store it in batteries... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 21, 2017
Canada-based biogas upgrading company Greenlane Biogas has extended its biogas upgrading equipment line-up.
In a statement, the company said that it had expanded its Kauri upgrading system to help provide solutions for large-scale projects.
With the capacity to treat up to 3,000 standard cubic feet per minute (SCFM) of biogas, the ‘Kauri’ will enable biogas... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 21, 2017
Wood pellet giant Enviva has released its latest proprietary Track & Trace forestry data, highlighting the company’s ongoing commitment to a sustainable and transparent supply chain.
These data are another key tool for measuring and demonstrating Enviva’s sustainability practices throughout the Southeastern US.
“We are committed to keeping forests... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 21, 2017
The first sales of biofertiliser produced from the anaerobic digestion process in the UK have been described as “a game-changing moment in the restoration of the UK’s soils”, according to trade body Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA).
Farming family Steve and Sarah Suggitt of Suggitt Farm Services in Norfolk are using digestate,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 20, 2017
UK power giant Drax has announced that it is pressing ahead with its biomass plans as new figures show the company produced about 17% of the UK’s renewable electricity in the first half of 2017.
The company, which runs a coal and biomass plant in North Yorkshire, UK, published its half-year results for the six months ended 30 June, 2017, yesterday (19 July,2017).
Three... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 19, 2017
Rick Perry, the US Secretary of Energy, has announced $40 million in Department of Energy (DOE) awards for the creation of four DOE Bioenergy Research Centres (BRCs).
Each led by a DOE National Laboratory or a ‘top’ university, the centres are designed to “lay the scientific groundwork for a new bio-based economy that promises to yield a range of important... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 19, 2017
EQTEC, a technology solution company for waste gasification-to-energy projects, has entered into a non-binding heads of terms agreement with Inava Ingenieria de Analisis SL and its majority shareholder, EBIOSS Energy SE, to ‘spin off’ their subsidiary, EQTEC Iberia, and combine it with EQTEC.
In order to generate additional capital for the newly enlarged group... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 18, 2017
A new plant for the production of biomethane and carbon dioxide has been inaugurated and started operation in Montello, Italy. The biogas upgrading plant is the ‘first’ in Italy able to produce biomethane and carbon dioxide exclusively from the treatment of municipal solid waste.
The new facility has been created by Tecno Project Industriale (TPI), a company... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 18, 2017
ExxonMobil and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. The research forms part of a bigger drive to identify scalable, commercially viable solutions to meet growing global energy demand with renewable resources.
The collaboration between... [Read More]
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