Aug 26, 2022
Germany to remove “regulatory hurdles” to increase domestic biogas production
Biogas News
Aug 24, 2022
The City Armed Reserve (CAR) campus in Adugodi has become the first in the city's police department to have a waste management facility, according to the New Indian Express. The biogas generated through wet waste will soon be used to cook food for its huge dog squad here.
Hasiru Dala, a social impact organisation that works for the welfare of waste pickers, has installed... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 23, 2022
Energy company St1 has made an investment decision to build a plant for upgrading and liquefaction of biogas at Sobacken in Borås, Sweden. A prerequisite for the investment decision is a long-term agreement for the purchase of raw biogas, which St1 has signed with Borås Energi och Miljö.
As part of the agreement, Bor å s Energi and Milj ös will transfer both gas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 23, 2022
Circular biotechnology company specialising in biogas and organic fertilisers Ductor Biogas Sweden AB, has joined forces with Swedish egg production company CA Cedergren to create a circular farming model.
The project site is located approximately 1km from Cedergren's operations, and will be used to build and operate a Ductor biogas and fertiliser plant. In July 2022,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 22, 2022
Toowomba Regional Council (TRC) will reduce its methane emissions by around three million cubic metres a year and produce about $3 million worth of carbon credits over seven years when the biogas electricity generating plant at Wetaller Water Reclamation Facility begins operating in mid-September, according to Country Caller.
In a first for Queensland, methane recovered... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 17, 2022
A new report from The Centre for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) at Vermont Law and Graduate School entitled “Rethinking Manure Biogas: Policy Considerations to Promote Equity and Protect the Climate and Environment” analyses the utilisation of manure anaerobic digesters to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from animal agriculture operations.
"Manure... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 16, 2022
The American Biogas Council (ABC) has welcomed the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act by the Senate and the US House of Representatives - it passed the latter on 12 August with a majority of 13 (220-207). All Democrats voted in favour and all Republicans opposed the act, and it will be heading to president Joe Biden for signature.
The bill's passage would... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 16, 2022
Punjab’s New and Renewable Energy Sources Minister Aman Arora has said Asia's largest compressed biogas (CBG) plant - which was commissioned in April this year - has started commercial production in Sangrur, India, according to The Hindu.
Anora said the plant - which has a total capacity of 33.23 tonne CBG per day - had started production of CBG, which... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 15, 2022
The installation of a Fluid Motions' Solution (part of NOV) "Mono Muncher" at a Spanish biogas plant has helped increase gas yields by eight percent, according to the company.
The Mono Muncher is designed for the homogenisation of sludge in digestion, feeding and recirculation, and the firm said the inline machine's tearing, shearing and crushing action has removed... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 12, 2022
French micro-turbomachinery expert ENOGIA has announced a €6.5 million contract for the supply of ORC modules and associated services to a client in Germany.
The sale means it will provide 40 ORC modules to "a major German player in biogas".
ENOGIA's ORC modules will be installed in the world's largest anaerobic digestion plant, which will become Europe's largest... [Read More]
Other News
Aug 11, 2022
The UK government's planning inspectorate could give the go-ahead to controversial plans for a biogas plant in Keynsham, Somerset, after plans were rejected by the local council, according to the Bristol Post.
Bath and North East Somerset Council (BANES) turned down plans from Resourceful Energy Anaerobic (REA) to build a 92,000 tonne anaerobic digester facility on... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 11, 2022
Oil giant British Petroleum and US commodities trader Bunge have put their Brazilian sugar and ethanol joint venture BP Bunge Bioenergia up for sale, according to newspaper Valor Economico.
It said investment firm Mubadala, based in Abu Dhabi, and Brazilian energy company Raizen (a joint venture between oil giant Shell and bioethanol producer Cosan), were interested... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 10, 2022
Skyline Clean Energy Fund has acquired a biogas facility located in Lethbridge, Alberta through the purchase of 100% of the units in Lethbridge Biogas and the shares in Lethbridge Biogas General Partner.
The Lethbridge facility is expected to convert 120,000 tonnes of organic waste into renewable natural gas annually. The facility generates revenue primarily through... [Read More]
Other News
Aug 9, 2022
Prime minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Støre and the Minister of Trade and Industry Jan Christian Vestre visited Norwegian forest owner group Viken Skog's Follum mill in Hønefoss on 5 August.
A long-term partnership between renewable packaging material producer BillerudKorsnäs and Voken Skog will establish the production of bleached chemi-thermomechanical pulp (BCTMP)... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 8, 2022
The sale of Danish green energy producer Nature Energy is attracting initial interest from energy majors including BP and Shell, according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported.
It claimed BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners and EQT AB are also considering submitting potential offers for the company, amid surging demand for alternative fuel sources.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 5, 2022
Chipinge Town Council, Zimbabwe, has began a biogas digester project to produce biogas using biodegraded waste from the marketplace to meet the energy needs of local businesses and residents, according to The Manica Post. The project is conducted in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The bio-digester is 95% complete, and is expected to... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 4, 2022
Nottingham City Transport has taken delivery of its first new biogas double deck buses from its latest £7 million investment in 23 brand new buses.
NCT already operates the world’s largest fleet of biogas double decks in the world at 120 buses.
The biogas buses already run on three quarters of NCT’s double deck services, and the current fleet has covered over... [Read More]
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