Jun 16, 2022
European Biogas Association appoints new president and vice president
Biogas News
Jun 16, 2022
Perpetual Next, the Dutch climate tech company that upgrades biological waste streams into renewable raw materials such as bio-carbon and green gas, has acquired €320 million in new equity capital in a Series A financing round. The company will use the capital for technology acquisitions and projects aimed at carbon removal: storing carbon in products that would otherwise... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 16, 2022
Combined heat and power (CHP) engines are one of the most crucial components of an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant, converting biogas into usable heat and electricity. As the UK AD industry continues to mature, many of the CHPs originally installed on biogas plants across the country are now reaching 48,000 hours of operation, at which point they require an E70 service.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 15, 2022
Anaergia has released its 2021 Sustainability (ESG) Report. The company completed its initial public offering in June 2021.
The report highlights Anaergia’s ESG achievements for 2021, including a net total of 465,000 tonnes (CO2e) of greenhouse gas emissions that Anaergia projects helped to avoid - about 41 times more than what the company’s operations produced.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 15, 2022
The technology group Wärtsilä will supply its Puregas CA50 biogas upgrading plant for an innovative green gas mill project in the UK. According to Wärtsilä, the project will turn grass into gas that can be used to heat homes. The project is being led by Ecotricity, a British energy company dedicated to fighting climate change by ending the use of fossil fuels.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 15, 2022
Conventional biogas plants produce methane, but over 40 percent of their total production is a by-product, CO2, which then still has to be released into the atmosphere. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM have now found a way to convert this waste product into additional methane, thus drastically increasing the methane yield... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 14, 2022
Aemetis a renewable natural gas and renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) have recognised and celebrated a significant Aemetis Biogas LLC renewable natural gas (RNG) project milestone with a ribbon-cutting ceremony held at the Aemetis Advanced Fuels facility in Keyes, California.
The event... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 14, 2022
Deal Farm Biogas (DFB) has decided to withdraw plans for an anaerobic digester (AD) plant and waste lagoons in Bressingham, near Diss, before resubmitting a revised design, the company announced on Thursday, June 9.
Fresh plans will now be submitted to South Norfolk Council and a new round of consultation will begin.
The AD plant would use organic waste and crops... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 13, 2022
The International Solar Alliance (ISA) and the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in India are working on an innovative concept, which will bring down the cost of production of green hydrogen and utilise the tonnes of daily cow dung generated on a daily basis.
Officials are thinking of a hybrid model that makes use of solar energy during the day and biogas at night... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 13, 2022
Swedish biogas producer Scandinavian Biogas Fuels International AB said it has entered into an agreement valued at an initial 2.7 billion Swedish kronor ($269 million) to deliver bio-liquefied natural gas to Alternoil GmbH in Germany.
The company said that the agreement will see it deliver 8,000 metric tons in 2024, rising to 11,500 tonnes a year between 2025 and 2030,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 13, 2022
The California Energy Commission has awarded Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) a $750,000 grant to pursue development of a novel hydrogen production system using biogas to create affordable, scalable, renewable hydrogen.
The project will build upon innovations in modular hydrogen production technology to create a system powered by renewable electricity that can use... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 9, 2022
Aemetis, a renewable natural gas and renewable fuels company focused on below zero carbon intensity products, has announced the completion of 20 miles of biogas pipeline and approval for construction of the remaining biogas pipeline in Merced County, California.
Construction of the 39-mile main biogas pipeline is on schedule for completion in Q4 2022.
“Issuance... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 8, 2022
Anaergia has announced it has officially commissioned a new biomethane facility in Italy, the Calimera Bio plant in the Province of Lecce. The facility is the second of seven facilities Anaergia is building which together will form one of the largest food waste to biomethane platforms in Europe.
The Calimera Bio facility has the capacity to anaerobically digest 24,000... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 8, 2022
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, two group companies of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, will jointly launch demonstration testing of MHIENG’s CO2 capture technology in biogas engine generator sets operated by MHIET.
The testing constitutes an integral part of MHI Group’s goal for realising carbon... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 8, 2022
Ukraine has a real opportunity to completely abandon gas imports through developing its own production, including of biogas.
This was stated by Serhiy Makogon, CEO of Gas Transmission System Operator Ukraine of Ukraine LLC (Gas TSO of Ukraine), according to Ukrinform.
"Ukraine has a very large potential for biogas production – up to 8 billion cubic metres of biogas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 7, 2022
Officials from Punjab Energy Development Authority (Peda) and the civic body recently visited the biogas plant of Haibowel, India, to study how to run it at full capacity, to prevent dairy waste from running into the Buddha Nullah, which is the seasonal water stream that runs through the Malwa region of Punjab.
The waste flowing in from the dairy units via the sewers... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 7, 2022
FortisBC Energy will produce renewable natural gas (RNG) from its first project in Northern BC, teaming up with the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George to produce RNG from landfill gas generated at the Foothills Boulevard Regional Landfill, located in Prince George.
FortisBC expects to produce approximately 90,000 gigajoules of RNG a year from this project over... [Read More]