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Global energy group ENGIE has taken a 13% minority stake in HomeBiogas, a company working in the field of household biogas solutions. HomeBiogas is an Israeli startup that ‘transforms household biowaste into energy’. According to the company’s website, its off-grid HomeBiogas 2.0 small size biogas digester is able to produce up to two hours of cooking gas every day solely from…
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An innovative technique could help breakdown fats, oils and grease (FOG), allowing greater quantities of the methane rich material to be used in biogas digesters. Cooking oil, grease and other wastes are a growing problem. They clog pipes, are harmful to wildlife, and can congeal into massive ‘fatbergs’ which block sewage systems. However, FOG also has significant potential as a…
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Enviva Partners has reported its financial results for the second quarter 2018, and announced two major contracts in Europe and Japan. The company has reported net second quarter revenue of $132.1 million, a 3.6% or $4.6 million increase year on year with the second quarter 2017. Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of 2018 was $21.1 million, compared to $23.3 million for the corresponding…
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The August edition of the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Short-Term Energy Outlook has been published, revealing forecasts on renewables consumption in the US. Biomass generating capacity for the electric power sector is expected to hit 7,363 megawatts by the end of 2018, up from 7,313 megawatts in the previous year. The projected figure for 2019 is 7,526 megawatts. Of this…
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Nordmethan, a company in the Weltec Biopower group, has taken over an insolvent biogas plant in Südergellersen, Lower Saxony. According to a statement, the company plans to ‘modernise the technical and operational overall concept’ of the 2.2MW plant. The plant was built in 2009, and expanded in 2014. The AD facility used horse manure as a feedstock, and sold digestate as…
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John Laing Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) has added to its anaerobic digestion portfolio with the acquisition of a new plant. The listed environmental infrastructure fund has acquired Merlin Renewables, located in Hibaldstow, North Lincolnshire UK for £18.1 million. The facility has a thermal capacity of 5MWth and, according to a JLEN announcement, predominantly produces biomethane to be…
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Major UK energy supplier Drax has switched on the fourth biomass generating unit at its power station in North Yorkshire, marking a significant step in what it claims to be Europe’s largest decarbonisation project. Back in June this year, Drax took the coal-fired generating unit offline in preparation for its conversion to running on sustainable biomass. Three of the site’s six coal…
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Three Canadian companies have been selected to advance technologies that improve the business case for the on-farm production of renewable natural gas in British Columbia. The companies have been selected by Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre and BE Bioenergy Network (BCBN) as finalists in the ARCTIC Innovation challenge. They will receive funding and support to advance their technology…
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A new joint venture between Raízen and Geo Energética will create ‘the world’s first’ commercial scale plant to use the sugar cane by-products vinasse and filter cake as feedstocks in biogas production and power generation, according to a statement from the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce. Geo Energética claims to currently be the only company to use…
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Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) has signed an agreement with Clean Energy to power the airport’s vehicle fleet with renewable natural gas (RNG). The agreement will see Clean Energy provide the airport with its Redeem band of RNG, which the natural gas provider claims is the ‘first renewable and commercially available vehicle fuel made entirely from 100 percent organic…
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Foresight has announced the purchase of the 2.5MW anaerobic digestion (AD) plant on the Isle of Wight, a move the company says demonstrates its ‘appetite’ to aggregate operational AD assets.   Located in Arreton, the 24 acre site that converts biogas to biomethane has been purchased by Foresight in a multi-million pound deal. Having already established a market leading…
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The UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has set out a proposal to close the country’s Feed-In-Tariffs (FITs) scheme. In the proposal, the scheme would be closed to new applications after 31 March 2019. Feed-In-Tariffs are the UK government’s subsidy scheme for generation of renewable electricity from small-scale low-carbon installations. Both anaerobic…
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Air Liquide has held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the grand opening of its landfill gas (LFG) to renewable gas (RNG) purification plant in Walnut, Mississippi. The new biomethane production plant is located in the Northeast Mississippi Landfill (NEML) site, which is owned by Northeast Mississippi Solid Waste Management Authority and operated by Waste Connections, a national solid waste…
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The City of Toronto has announced plans for a new renewable natural gas (RNG) to grid project at a solid waste management facility. In collaboration with Enbridge Gas Distribution, the City will begin installing new equipment at the Dufferin Solid Waste Management Facility later in 2019. This equipment will transform raw biogas from Toronto’s ‘Green Bin’ organic waste into RNG,…
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