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Oct 9, 2023
Göteborg Energi makes €217.7m biomass boiler investment
Biogas News
Oct 9, 2023
Waitrose is the first UK retailer to use renewable natural gas (RNG) to power tractors at its farm, in what it described as an industry-leading move.
In 2021, the company announced it will use its Leckford Estate farm in Hampshire, England, to facilitate change by experimenting with a variety of environment-friendly agricultural techniques.
James Bailey, executive director... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 9, 2023
Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) Alternate Energy (Pvt) Limited (SSGC-AE) and Green Waste Energy (Pvt) Limited have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to unlock the potential of "Green Molecules" renewable natural gas (RNG).
In a strategic move, Green Waste Energy will supply biogas/biomethane to SSGC-AE.
The MoU was signed by Imran Maniar, chairman, SSGC-AE... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 6, 2023
Bacardi, the largest privately held international spirits company, has opend its new Combined Heat & Power (CHP) system in Puerto Rico, which the organisation said will cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the BACARDÍ rum brand in half.
Bacardi marked the opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the world’s largest premium rum distillery located in Cataño, Puerto... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 6, 2023
Greenlane Renewables has been awarded a contract valued at C$35.3 million (€24.8 million) by a leading environmental services company in Brazil that is investing in a portfolio of landfill assets across the country to produce biomethane.
Under the terms of the agreement, Greenlane will supply its Cascade PSA LF product, a complete landfill gas-to-biomethane solution... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 5, 2023
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,... [Read More]
Other News
Oct 5, 2023
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... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 5, 2023
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... [Read More]
Other News
Oct 4, 2023
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... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 4, 2023
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... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 4, 2023
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... [Read More]
Features
Oct 3, 2023
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... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 3, 2023
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... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 3, 2023
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... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 3, 2023
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... [Read More]
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Unilever has begun using biomethane derived from palm oil waste to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at its largest facility in Indonesia, marking the country’s first commercial biomethane offtake
A renewable energy company in Brown County, Wisconsin, US, has sought bankruptcy protection after struggling with years of financial and operational setbacks
U.S. landfill biogas facilities are achieving record levels of energy capture and investment, according to new analysis released Wednesday by the American Biogas Council (ABC)
