Jun 30, 2022
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Biogas News
Jun 30, 2022
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), India, has recently clarified that it will run eight small biogas plants which it had planned to shut down, by making technological changes.
On June 29, a source in India reported: “25 biogas plants set up at Rs100 were to be shut down by Pune civic body.”
Kunal Khemnar, PMC Additional commissioner, and Asha Raut, head of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 29, 2022
Arbor Renewable Gas, a Houston-based company that produces renewable gasoline and green hydrogen from wood waste and forest residue, is evaluating West Baton Rouge Parish for a planned $800 million manufacturing and distribution facility employing carbon capture and sequestration emissions-reduction technology.
Operating as Magnolia Renewable Fuels, the new facility... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 23, 2022
Mr Lovans Owusu-Takyi, the director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Solutions (ISEES) has called on Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to adopt biogas digesters for sustainable waste management.
He also urged food processing companies and industries to do the same for effective management of waste.
Mr Owusu-Takyi said:... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 22, 2022
Veidekke unit Seby secured a 205 million-Norwegian-krone ($20.6 million) contract from Norwegian utility Nedre Romerike Avløpsselskap IKS to build a biogas plant in Lillestrøm, Norway.
The 6,000-square-metre project will include a process building, sludge reception, dewatering building and administration building, according to a statement from the company.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 22, 2022
PATRIZIA, a leading partner for global real assets, has acquired an 80 percent majority stake in Italian bio-Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) producer Biomet through its European Infrastructure Fund II.
The circa €75 million deal, which comprises the equity stake and a committed capex programme, marks the debut investment for PATRIZIA’s recently acquired infrastructure... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 17, 2022
Proteum Hydrogen Technologies, a subsidiary of Proteum Energy, LLC, and the University of Regina have embarked on a joint project aimed at advancing Proteum’s patented and proprietary steam non-methane reforming (SnMR™) technology.
Laurence Tree, Proteum’s CEO, said: “Leveraging Proteum’s SnMR™ technology holds great promise for ethanol producers as the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 16, 2022
The president of the Italian Biogas Consortium (CIB), Piero Gattoni, has been appointed vice president of the board of the European Biogas Association (EBA).
The appointment comes after the association’s assembly last month elected Anders Mathiasson as their new president and Michael Niederbacher as vice president, representing industry members.
The latest EBA... [Read More]
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]
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