Jan 4, 2023
Suburban Propane Partners acquires RNG assets from Equilibrium Capital Group
Biogas News
Jan 3, 2023
The transaction for the sale of Sonorgás, by Dourogás Group, to iCON Infrastructure Partners VI, L.P., a fund advised by iCON Infrastructure LLP (“iCON”) was successfully completed in December, having met all regulatory approvals and having received the consent from the third-party entities.
Dourogás Group, one of the Portugese natural gas sector's largest operators,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 3, 2023
French company TotalEnergies and Electricite Holdings intend to take over Polska Grupa Biogazowa, reported Money Poland. The application for consent to the acquisition was submitted to the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection in December 2022.
The Polish firm own 15 biogas-fired CHP plants and two photovoltaic farms in the country. In addition, the company... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 23, 2022
California Bioenergy (“CalBio”) has announced a funding partnership, of up to $500 million (€471m), with Brookfield Renewable and its institutional partners (“Brookfield”) to scale CalBio’s growth in renewable natural gas (RNG) and other waste-to-energy opportunities.
CalBio has established a market-leading position partnering with dairy farmers to design,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 23, 2022
Acorn Bionergy, the firm behind strongly opposed proposals for a £25m (€28m) biogas plant in Easter Ross, Scotland, said it would address objectors' concerns.
The company intends to build an anaerobic digestion plant (ADP) on a 7.5-hectare site at Fearn Airfield, near Balintore to produce "clean, green biogas" using crops and by-products from local farms and distilleries.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 23, 2022
The state government of New Delhi had an initial target of setting up 5,000 compressed biogas plants (CBG plants) by 2023-24 in its SATAT scheme, but only 40 CBG plants have been developed. A panel reviewing the scheme said that a lot of ground needs to covered, in a report tabled in the Lok Sabha on 21 December, according to Energy World.
The SATAT scheme is designed... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 22, 2022
An alternative source of heat could significantly reduce the carbon footprint of a process which turns food waste into power, new research suggests.
A University of Glasgow-led team of scientists have demonstrated that using air-source heat pumps to support anaerobic digestion could cut the carbon emitted during the production of biogas by more than a third.
Their findings... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 21, 2022
Gree Energy, which aims to decarbonise food processors in developing countries by transforming their wastewater into biogas, has secured US$3.2m (€3m) in a pre-Series A round of investment, reported e27.
Hong Kong-based family business Earthcare Group, which focuses on climate change mitigation, led this round.
This deal comes about eight months after the clean energy... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 21, 2022
Timber frame specialist NorFrame based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, is designing and building a factory that will be powered exclusively by renewable energy, thanks to a heat capturing design.
The first of its kind in the UK, NorFrame’s factory will manufacture timber kit frames for homes, schools and commercial buildings using power generated from an on-site anaerobic... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 20, 2022
SUEZ and Waga Energy have commissioned a new Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) production unit at the Madaillan landfill in Milhac-d’Auberoche (southwestern France) - the fifth RNG production unit to be commissioned jointly by SUEZ and Waga Energy.
Recovering RNG from biogas sourced from the fermentation of waste within landfills is a growing challenge in terms of waste management... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 20, 2022
Objectors to plans for a bid to establish a £25m anaerobic digestion plant (ADP) in Easter Ross say it would have "severe economic, environmental and social impacts" on the area, reported Ross-Shire Journal.
Acorn Bioenergy outlined its proposals to create news ADPs in the Highlands, Moray and Aberdeenshire, with total invesment plans amounting to £105m.
The Easter... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 19, 2022
The Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine (GTSOU) has launched a series of online meetings as part of a project entitled "Biomethane talks" with business representatives, experts and government agencies.
During the first discussion on the topic "Biomethane industry: the experience of the Czech Republic", Martin Schwartz, head of the biomethane section of the Czech... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 16, 2022
Retrospective plans for a biogas power plant from Deal Farm Biogas that was branded an "abomination on the countryside" have been rejected, reported the BBC.
South Norfolk councillors unanimously voted to refuse the latest proposals for the anaerobic digester in Bressingham, near Diss.
The plant is already built but the company was accused of making alterations that... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 16, 2022
Vision RNG has announced a Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) agreement with the Laurel Ridge Landfill (a subsidiary of Waste Connections) in Corbin, Kentucky, US.
The project will use produce 450,000 MMBtu of RNG annually that will be injected into a nearby natural gas transmission pipeline. This RNG will be used by various customers across the US for transportation fuel and... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 15, 2022
Over 150 biogas digesters have been built across Zimbabwe to be used as a source of renewable energy, according to a senior government official.
Public Service Commission (PSC) secretary Dr Tsitsi Choruma said the country will keep building biogas digesters because they are "cost effective and technologically smart" means of producing energy.
"Green energy sources in... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 14, 2022
Renewable energy firm Acorn Bioenergy has unveiled proposals which, if given the green light by Moray Council planners, would see two plants built in Moray, one near Hill of Rathven by Buckie at the junction of March Road and the A98 and other at Longmorn, on the outskirts of Elgin, reported Grampian Online. The Buckie plant would occupy around seven hectares of land.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 14, 2022
Construction on the third phase of a bioenergy recycling project in Shanghai, China, began on 11 December.
With an investment of 1.65 billion yuan (€222 million), the third phase of the Shanghai bioenergy recycling centre will cover nearly 20 hectares in the Laogang ecological and environmental protection base in Pudong New Area.
The project, scheduled for completion... [Read More]
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