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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 Sanchez Santos, head of…
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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 will maintain a gas…
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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 most widely available…
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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 why it believes…
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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 into baseload…
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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 UK. DuPont works with…
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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 cogeneration plant in…
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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, smart and efficient…
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Germany-headquartered biogas equipment and pump technology specialist Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau has announced that it has founded a spin-off company entitled Vogelsang. With this step, the Essen/Oldenburg-based machine construction company transferred all operational business areas to the newly-created company. Harald Vogelsang, CEO of Vogelsang, said: “We decided on this spin-off, in…
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ADBA will launch the pilot of a pioneering new scheme to improve the environmental, operational and safety performance of the AD industry this week (5-6 July) at its global tradeshow UK AD & Biogas and World Biogas Expo 2017. The UK-based organisation has also announced a new partnership with insurance brokers Jelf Group to reward AD operators certifying under the…
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A new biogas power plant is to be built in the Turkish city of Gaziantep. Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality will use the new facility to produce electricity for the city’s rail system, claims Turkish news site Milliyet, who cited Gaziantep’s mayor, Fatima Sahin. According to Renewables Now, the electricity produced by the facility is estimated to satisfy 60% of the electricity needs…
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Most community biogas plants in Thiruvananthapuram are ‘dysfunctional’, according to an article from the Times of India. Eight out of 14 biogas plants in the city are currently not operational, according to a newly released report from the city’s health committee. The report also claims that the city’s corporation has failed to frame annual maintenance contracts with any…
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At the UK’s Glastonbury festival, a portable toilet has been installed to turn festival goers’ urine into energy. ‘Pee Power’, developed by scientists at the Bristol Bioenergy Centre BBiC in the Bristol Robotics at the University of the West of England, has already been shown to be capable of powering lights and charging mobile phones. At Glastonbury, it will be used to…
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A Scottish biomass specialist is set to unveil its UK expansion plans this week, at the Royal Highland Show. Uphall-based Scot Heat and Power is expanding its core offering of highly efficient wood chip/wood pellet-fuelled boilers across multiple Scottish depots. Recently, the company established a new base in Windermere, Cumbria, which it believes will become the lynchpin of its expansion…
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