Aug 15, 2023
SoCalGas files application for “largest RNG project in the state of California”
Policy News
Aug 11, 2023
India's central government has so far commissioned six compressed natural gas (BioCNG) plants and 11,143 small biogas plants under National Bioenergy Programme (NBP) which was notified in November 2022.
RK Singh, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, informed India's lower parliamentary house Lok Sabha of the number in a written reply to a question.
Of the six... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 9, 2023
Brazil’s Energisa has acquired 83.3% of Agric Adubos e Gestão de Resíduos Industriais e Comerciais, a Santa Catarina state company that composts industrial organic waste to produce biofertiliser, reported BNAmericas.
The operation involved the payment of R$6.5 million (€1.2 million) and a capital contribution to the company of R$53.5 million (€9.9 million).
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 8, 2023
Synthica Energy, an energy transition platform that designs, builds, owns and operates large-scale, contracted anaerobic digestion facilities to convert pre-consumer organic waste into renewable natural gas (RNG), has closed on a large equity investment from the Infrastructure Business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs).
The new capital will help grow... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 8, 2023
A team of researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) is studying ways to generate renewable energy from dairy farm waste to charge electric vehicles.
Wei Liao, a professor in MSU’s Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering (BAE) and the director of MSU’s Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center (ADREC), led a demonstration workshop on 19 July... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 8, 2023
BioEnergy, a German company that provides technology and engineering design for biomass-based gas plants, has entered the Indian market in partnership with a Noida-based start-up, Gruner Renewable Energy (GRE).
A welcome & greetings ceremony was held in Nagpur, India, on 5 August, which invited partners, attendees, media representatives and guests.
The ceremony commenced... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 7, 2023
Insolvency proceedings for biogas trader bmp greengas were initiated on 1 August, with a restructuring plan to occur "due to the dramatic change in the procurement situation" - as a result of market shifts and the fall-out from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This meant that the firm was unable to meet its obligations to its customers.
The Association of Municipal Companies... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 4, 2023
Renewable energy company Sunview Group Bhd has aborted plans to venture into the biogas renewable energy industry after it terminated the proposed acquisition of Provectus Bioenergy Sdn Bhd.
Provectus Bioenergy is engaged in the operation of generation facilities that produce electric energy.
In a bourse filing on 3 August, Sunview stated that the termination was a result... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 4, 2023
Global sustainable energy producer EDL and key project stakeholders Republic Services, NW Natural Renewables and Pennant Midwest have commenced operations at the Limestone Renewable Natural Gas Facility (RNG) near Youngstown, Ohio in the US.
EDL has upgraded an existing landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) power plant to an RNG facility near Republic Services’ Carbon Limestone... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 3, 2023
UGI Energy Services, has acquired GHI Energy (GHI), a Houston-based renewable natural gas company.
GHI is a leading renewable natural gas (RNG) marketer in California, a state with one of the most robust carbon credit trading programmes in the US.
GHI is primarily focused on providing vehicle fleets with RNG by coordinating supply from a portfolio of sources across the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 2, 2023
Enerdyne Power Systems, a Landfill Group Company based in Charlotte, North Carolina in the US, commenced operation of a project collecting and upgrading landfill gas into pipeline quality renewable natural gas (RNG) at the Twin Chimneys Landfill in Honea Path, SC on 31 March 31,.
The Twin Chimneys Power Producers (TCPP) project is the first RNG project to reach commercial... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 1, 2023
The Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) has announced that North America now has 300 operational renewable natural gas (RNG) facilities, up from just over 30 facilities in 2011, when RNG Coalition was founded.
The organisation said this is a landmark achievement, and that the growth reflects the RNG industry's commitment to mitigating climate change, fostering... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 1, 2023
Aemetis, a renewable natural gas (RNG) and renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products, has announced the closing of its second $25 million (€22.7 million) 20-year term loan.
It was guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a total of $50 million (€45.5 million) of Aemetis Biogas project financing, arranged by Greater Commercial... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 31, 2023
Waga Energy, a global expert in the production of renewable natural gas (RNG) from landfills, has signed a commercial agreement with the Waste Commission of Scott County, an inter-governmental solid waste management agency, and Linwood Mining and Minerals Corporation, a leader in the limestone industry in the Midwest, to produce RNG at the Scott Area landfill in Davenport,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 27, 2023
The conversion and assembly work at Germany's largest integrated bio-LNG plant with bio-CO2 liquefaction - BioEnergie Park Güstrow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - has just been completed, announced EnviTec Biogas.
The company is now ready to begin the plant's operation.
"Now that the last component, the 300,000-litre LCO2 tank made of pressure vessel steel, has been... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 27, 2023
VARO Energy (VARO) has announced the successful placement of a $165 million (€150.1m) green loan, the first in the company’s history.
The green loan, part of a wider $3.33 billion (€3bn) financing announced separately today, will partly refinance VARO’s acquisition of the Bio Energy Coevorden (BEC) biogas manufacturing facility.
The green loan represents an important... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 24, 2023
Atmos Energy Corporation, Black Hills Colorado Gas doing business as Black Hills Energy, Colorado Springs Utilities, and Xcel Energy – Colorado announced that they have jointly issued a request for information (RFI) to identify future developers of renewable natural gas (RNG), including recovered methane projects associated with Colorado’s Clean Heat Statute.
The... [Read More]