Oct 9, 2023
Waitrose is “first UK retailer” to implement RNG-powered tractors
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 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 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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
Biogas News
Oct 2, 2023
Severn Trent Green Power’s anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Derby, UK, is ready to receive food waste again following a programme of refurbishment.
The site in Megaloughton Lane now incorporates a front-end treatment process and additional digestion capacity through the construction of two additional digester tanks.
After a 12-month refurbishment process, the site,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 29, 2023
Anaergia has announced that its subsidiary Rhode Island Bioenergy Facility (RIBF) has closed a $20 million term loan (€18.8 million) with East West Bank, a California Corporation.
The loan will finance the remaining construction and commissioning of the RIBF project in the Town of Johnston, Rhode Island, US and working capital.
This financing has a seven-year term,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 29, 2023
Naturgy is set to build its sixth biomethane production plant in Spain and the first in Andalusia in the municipality of Utrera (Seville).
The plant will be built in collaboration with KEPLER Engineering and Ecogestion, and is scheduled to begin operation in 2025.
The Utrera project, which currently in administrative processing, will be one of the largest in Naturgy's... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 28, 2023
Latvia has submitted a request to the European Commission (EC) to amend the country's recovery and resilience plan, proposing to add a REPowerEU chapter, according to Latvian news agency LETA.
The REPowerEU chapter includes a reform aimed at promoting the development of renewable energy communities and energy self-generation.
The reform also aims to increase the use... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 28, 2023
Cambi has signed a contract for the Woodman Point Water Resource Recovery Facility, the largest wastewater treatment plant in Perth and in Western Australia.
The facility, owned by Water Corporation, will utilise thermal hydrolysis process (THP) technology to increase sludge treatment capacity without needing to build additional digesters.
This will enable the utility... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 27, 2023
FDE, a carbon-negative energy producer, has announced the formation of a Norwegian subsidiary, Biogy Solutions AS. The new company is set to become a frontunner in the biogas and bio-CO2 maret across Scandinavia, according to FDE.
The chairman of FDE, Julien Moulin, was positive about the company's prospects in Norway, stating: "Biogy Solutions AS is a newly founded Norwegian... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 27, 2023
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has agreed to lend the Vinnytsia Poultry Farm of MHP Group in Ukraine up to $30 million (€28.4 million) for the modernisation and expansion of a plant that produces biomethane from agricultural waste.
The IFC board of directors approved the project on September 21.
The company already operates two biogas plants that process... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 27, 2023
A group of Indonesian companies have started detailed discussions on the best means of the commercialisation of biomethane derived from palm oil mill effluent (POME) in the country.
The organisations include Indonesian natural gas supplier PT Perusahaan Gas Negara Tbk (PGT), a subsidiary of the country's national oil company Pertamina; JGC Holdings Corporation (JGC);... [Read More]
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