Nov 24, 2020
RNG included in Québec Government’s green economy plans
Biogas News
Nov 23, 2020
Norwegian energy firm TrønderEnergi has become the largest shareholder in Scandinavian Biogas (SB), a major biogas producer in the Nordics.
As an industrial owner, TrønderEnergi will provide a long-term perspective and support the growth ambitions of SB. As part of the agreement, SB becomes approximately 97% owner of its Norwegian subsidiary Biokraft Holding.
TrønderEnergi,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 23, 2020
Australia’s first biomethane-to-gas project will see thousands of homes and business in Sydney using green gas for heating, cooking, and hot water.
Energy infrastructure company Jemena has signed an agreement with Sydney Water to generate biomethane at the Malabar Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in South Sydney.
The zero-carbon emission biomethane gas will be... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 23, 2020
Aemetis Biogas, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Aemetis, has been awarded $7.8 million (€6.56 million) in matching grants through the 2020 California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Dairy Digester Research and Development Programme (DDRDP).
The firm was awarded approximately 50% of the total projects awarded in the 2020 DDRDP grant cycle. The DDRDP provides... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 23, 2020
Bio-LNG makes carbon-neutrality a reality for EU transport, according to a joint paper published today.
The European Biogas Association (EBA), Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE), the Natural & bio Gas Vehicle Association and SEA-LNG published a joint paper which demonstrates the concrete benefits of using bio-LNG to decarbonise hard-to-abate transport sectors through... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 20, 2020
Air Liquide will build its first two biomethane production units in collaboration with its local partner Dentro il Sole (DIS) in Italy.
The two units will be built in Truccazzano, Milan, and Fontanella (Bergamo), recycling organic material from agricultural and livestock activities to convert it into biomethane.
The production units, scheduled to be operational in... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 20, 2020
CenterPoint Energy in Minneapolis, US, has received approval from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to open its natural gas distribution system to locally-made RNG.
RNG is produced by recycling biogas derived from organic materials such as agricultural waste, wastewater, and commercial food waste.
Earlier this year, CenterPoint Energy submitted the proposal... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 20, 2020
Village Farms Clean Energy (VFCE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Village Farms, has renewed and extended its contract with the City of Vancouver under which VCFE receives landfill gas captured by the city’s landfill site in Delta, British Columbia.
The 20-year extension, with an option for an additional five-year extension, will begin on the start-up of the Delta RNG... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 20, 2020
Construction of Connecticut’s first biogas dairy digester system is almost complete.
The new facility at Fort Hill Farms in Thompson will recycle food waste and manure into renewable energy and soil products. Once complete, the digester is expected to produce 550 kW of electricity and reduce 25,000 tons of organic waste annually.
The project is progressing thanks... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 19, 2020
Gas Network Ireland has opened the country’s second publicly-accessible, fast-fill compressed natural gas (CNG) station.
Strategically located off the M8 (Dublin to Cork) motorway, the new facility at Circle K’s forecourt in County Tipperary can fill 50 heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) per day, with each fill taking no more than five minutes.
The new station allows... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 19, 2020
Renewi, Nordsol, and Shell have started construction on the first bio-LNG installation in Amsterdam Westpoort.
The new bio-LNG installation is an extension for the current processing of, among other things, outdated supermarket products.
With a multi-million-euro investment, technical partner Nordsol will be the first to produce bio-LNG in the Netherlands. Renewi... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 19, 2020
BiON is to establish a consortium to accelerate the expansion of biogas activities in Malaysia.
The environmental engineering, wastewater treatment, and renewable energy solutions firm signed several non-binding memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with three parties with complementary expertise and resources in the biogas industry in Malaysia.
The parties will now... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 19, 2020
Renewable fuels provider Gasrec said results of a recent major study have highlighted the ‘significant’ environmental and financial benefits of gas over diesel, particularly in long-haul applications.
The Low Emissions Freight Trial (LEFT) report, published following a £20 million government-funded programme to trial, develop, and demonstrate low-emission vehicles... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 18, 2020
Greenlane Renewables has announced its third-quarter financial results, reporting record revenues.
The firm, based in Vancouver, Canada, generated record revenue of $6.5 million (€4.19 million) in Q3 2020, a 30% year-over-year increase from $5 million (€3.2 million) in Q3 2019.
Greenlane reported a gross margin of $1.7 million (€1.09 million), 31% higher than... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 17, 2020
The world’s largest containership powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) has completed its first LNG bunkering with Total’s LNG bunker vessel, the Gas Agility, at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
The 23,000 TEU1 CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE containership received around 17,300 m3 of LNG, incorporating 13% biomethane. making it the largest LNG bunkering operation... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 17, 2020
The energy weighted carbon intensity (CI) value of California’s natural gas vehicle portfolio in the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) programme achieved carbon-negative status for the first time in 2020.
Data from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for the second quarter of 2020 shows the CI value was below zero at 0.85 gCO2e/MJ – the first time in the history... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 17, 2020
Food waste recycler Andigestion’s site in Gloucestershire has become one of just four anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in the UK to be certified under a new scheme which recognises operational and environmental excellence.
The company’s Bishop’s Cleeve site near Cheltenham recycles up to 34,000 tonnes of household and commercial food waste each year. Biomethane... [Read More]
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Moeve has announced a €600 million investment plan for the construction of up to 30 new biomethane plants by 2030
During the signing ceremony, Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Maria Malmer Stenergard, announced a donation of USD 1.5 million for prefeasibility and detailed engineering studies
ADTechOptima’s technologies aim to solve two key problems: the underperformance of anaerobic digesters and the quality of the digestate produced as part of the process
