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Nov 10, 2021
The RFS Power Coalition commended Representative John Garamendi for introducing the ‘Biomass and Biogas for Electric Vehicles Act’ late last week. If passed, this bill will require the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to finally process the outstanding project and pathway applications for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) which have been waiting for the EPA’s action ‘for many…
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Nov 10, 2021
Plans to create Scotland’s lowest-carbon grain distillery have been approved by planners. St Boswells Distillery in the Scottish Borders will take local cereals from the surrounding Tweed Valley and process them with renewable energy into the spirit. Once spent, they will be passed to the adjacent anaerobic digestion plant, where they will be converted into methane, with the remaining…
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Nov 9, 2021
On 10 November, the World Biogas Association (WBA) will call for the transformational change of waste management systems at a live-streamed COP26 Blue Zone event. During the event, the WBA will demonstrate the ‘critical value’ of anaerobic digestion (AD) in reducing global methane emissions. Human activities generate billions of tonnes of organic wastes annually which, if left untreated,…
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Nov 9, 2021
Bloom Energy has announced a 1 MW fuel cell at a California dairy farm to produce on-site, renewable electricity from manure. The installation at Bar 20 Dairy Farms in Kerman marks Bloom’s first dairy farm biogas project. To convert manure into renewable electricity, the dairy farm combined a methane digester, gas clean-up skid, and Bloom Energy fuel cells for an end-to-end,…
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Nov 9, 2021
The European Biogas Association (EBA) is launching the first comprehensive categorisation of European biogas and gasification technologies. It is hoped this will give visibility to high-quality European products and services from the biogas sector. Global leaders are now discussing the next steps in the climate agenda at the COP26 summit and the urgent need for ‘deep and sustained’…
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Nov 9, 2021
Arbaflame has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with the Romanian state to phase out the country’s coal consumption. The transition will reduce the power plants’ CO2 emissions by more than 90% and the company plans to build a ‘high number’ of factories in Romania. Romania’s Energy Minister Virgil Popescu and Bjørn Knappskog, CEO of Arbaflame, signed an LOI on 4 November intending…
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Nov 8, 2021
Funding is being made available in Africa and Asia; the challenge for bioenergy producers will be to extract a fair share of funding and resources. Assessing the current state of bioenergy plans, prospects and progress across Africa and Asia during the early days of COP26 certainly concentrated the mind. The world’s attention on climate change mitigation became increasingly intense…
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Nov 8, 2021
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is on track to generate record levels of green energy, with the help of anaerobic digestion (AD). Welsh Water has invested £153 million (€178 million) in the past six months on projects that will improve services for customers but also help to tackle the climate crisis. The not-for-profit company is aiming to be 35% energy self-sufficient by 2025 with a further £21…
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Nov 8, 2021
Flogas Ireland has agreed to acquire Naturgy Ireland from its Spanish parent company, Naturgy Energy Group. Naturgy Ireland is a market-leading supplier of renewable electricity, natural gas, biogas and energy services to large energy users in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the UK. Its customers include food and beverage producers, major retailers, manufacturing and transport businesses. The…
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Nov 8, 2021
Energy infrastructure holding firm SJI and REV LNG, a full-service supplier of LNG, CNG and RNG, will build an anaerobic digester at Connecticut’s largest dairy farm. The $12 million (€10.3 million) RNG facility is a ‘pivotal’ clean energy venture for SJI that will enable Elizabethtown natural gas customers to utilise renewable energy. Expected to be operational by September next…
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Nov 8, 2021
Southern California Gas Co has opened a new RNG fuelling station in Menifee, California. The Menifee CNG fuelling station is the sixteenth public station operated by SoCalGas. It will exclusively offer RNG derived from methane that would otherwise be emitted from landfills, dairy farms, and other waste sources. According to a recent report, RNG use as a transportation fuel in California has…
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Nov 5, 2021
Enviva has announced its financial and operating results for the third quarter of 2021, highlighting a net revenue increase of 5.2% and progress at several of its new production sites. Construction of the Lucedale plant is nearing completion, and commissioning is expected to commence later this year. Enviva’s terminal at the Port of Pascagoula also remains on track to receive, store and load…
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Nov 5, 2021
Researchers at the University of Vermont (UVM) have partnered with Casella Waste Systems to test a new food de-packaging system. One-third of food waste in Vermont is still packaged, creating difficulties when it comes to the mandatory diversion of food waste away from landfills under the state’s new Universal Recycling Law (Act 148 banned food scraps from landfills from July…
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