Mar 4, 2020
Biomethane could deliver 30% of the UK’s carbon budget, says ADBA
Biogas News
Mar 4, 2020
UK-based organics recycling and renewable energy company Eco Sustainable Solutions has been awarded a £14 million (€16.1 million) contract with Dorset Council.
Eco Sustainable Solutions, based in Dorset, is the owner and operator of one of the UK’s leading purpose-built sites for organics recycling and renewable energy generation. It will now continue composting... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 2, 2020
A new biogas refuelling station is to be built in Linköping, Sweden. The project, led by Svensk Biogas, will be the first of its kind in Linköping - Sweden’s fifth-largest city.
“A liquid biogas refuelling station in Linköping means that we can offer our locally produced renewable biogas even to heavy truck transportation, which today run on liquid methane,”... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 2, 2020
Australian water services company SA Water has revealed an $18 million (€10.6 million) upgrade at its Port Lincoln Wastewater Treatment Plant, including a new anaerobic digester.
SA Water revealed that the new anaerobic digestion (AD) facility’s 20-tonne steel cover was put into place last week. Port Lincoln-based Shillabeer Crane Hire worked with local crews from... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 2, 2020
Italian oil and gas firm Eni is planning to have 55GW of installed renewable energy capacity by 2050.
The company’s Long-Term Strategic Plan to 2050 includes plans to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its energy products by 80% by 2050, using biomethane, hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, methanol and products from the recycling of waste materials.
“The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 26, 2020
Global beverage company Distell has ramped up its sustainability efforts with the help of South African company SustainPower. The two companies collaborated on a combined heat and power (CHP) plant, which was recently installed at Distell’s Springs cider manufacturing facility to convert the effluent treatment plant’s biogas by-product into power.
SustainPower provides... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 26, 2020
Liverpool has launched the UK’s biggest eco-friendly fleet of refuse vehicles powered by biomethane a compressed natural gas (CNG). The 20-strong fleet will help to cut Liverpool City Council’s carbon footprint, as they produce 80% fewer carbon emissions and 90% less nitrogen oxide than the previous diesel vehicles.
Each new CNG-fuelled wagon will cover more than... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 24, 2020
Lidl Denmark has added two biogas-powered trucks to its fleet of Lidl's distribution trucks. The new trucks, built in partnership with Scania Denmark, will work in the supermarket chain's distribution division, based in Lidl's logistics centre in Køge and throughout Zealand and the metropolitan area.
The new trucks run on biogas and cool the cargo with cyrotechnics.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 24, 2020
Smithfield Foods and Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) have announced an additional $45 million (€41.5 million) investment in their Monarch Bioenergy joint venture.
The project involves methane being captured from hog manure to produce renewable natural gas (RNG) in Missouri, US. The latest investment will enable the companies to expand the project on Smithfield's... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 24, 2020
UK recycling firm Suez' Eco Park, currently under construction in Surrey, UK, is making 'steady progress', according to the company. The site is in the final stages of testing for the anaerobic digestion (AD) facility and 'ongoing hot commissioning' of the gasification facility.
Once completed, the Eco Park will handle and process bulky waste, recyclables and residual... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 24, 2020
One of the world's leading energy infrastructure companies, Snam, and a state-owned energy firm of the Republic of Azerbaijan, SOCAR, have signed a cooperation agreement to research the development of renewable gases and the use of sustainable energy.
The two companies signed the agreement to deliver renewable gas through the Southern Gas Corridor including Trans Adriatic... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 21, 2020
Brightmark Energy is to expand its western New York dairy waste-to-biogas project. The San Francisco-based waste to energy company announced plans to expand its project, partnering with six total farms in the region.
The ‘Yellowjacket’ project will extract methane from 265,000 gallons of dairy manure per day and convert it into renewable natural gas (RNG) and other... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 19, 2020
Aggreko, a global provider of mobile, modular power, is working with RE Power Group to produce renewable electricity from biogas in Thailand.
Aggreko is delivering 6MW of biogas-fuelled power to provide a 'flexible, fast and cost-efficient' way of scaling-up the biogas project and delivering cleaner energy for the region.
The plant’s feedstock is sourced from a... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 19, 2020
Greencoat Capital has launched a new closed-ended private markets fund, Greencoat Renewable Income (GRI), for investments in bioenergy, wind, solar and renewable heat. The firm has secured £277 million (€333 million) of commitments from UK pension investors Brunel and the Trustee of the Superannuation Arrangements of the University of London (SAUL).
GRI offers institutional... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 18, 2020
UK-based bus transportation firm First West of England has launched 77 biomethane-powered buses in the city of Bristol. The first 10 biogas buses came into operation in January 2020, refuelling at an existing biogas station that opened in 2019. As part of the company’s latest initiative, First has constructed a new gas filling station at the Lawrence Hill depot where... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 18, 2020
Versalis, an Italian chemical company and subsidiary of Eni, has announced that the biomass plant it acquired in 2018 has been restarted.
Versalis acquired M&G’s bio companies after the firm filed for bankruptcy in Europe and the US in October 2017. The acquisition included the assets and resources related to development activities, industrialisation, technologies... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 18, 2020
Canadian firm XEBEC ADSORPTION, a global provider of clean energy solutions, has signed an agreement with Bähler Biogas to develop a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility.
The new integrated facility, to be constructed in Québec, will process various organic wastes for the production of RNG and biofertilisers. It will process more than 45,000 tonnes of organic waste... [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
