Feb 9, 2022
NI project to recycle plastic from food waste feedstock wins funding
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2022
Estonian energy company Alexela is one of the first in the country and in the Baltics to supply the domestic market with a 100% carbon-neutral fuel - liquefied biomethane (LBM).
LBM is considered the most sustainable fuel in road transport today, helping to reduce greenhouse gases of heavy-duty vehicles in the logistics chain.
Alexela has several other projects connected... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2022
BHP Group has welcomed the world’s first LNG-fuelled Newcastlemax bulk carrier, which will transport iron ore between Western Australia and Asia from this year.
BHP has chartered five LNG-fuelled Newcastlemax bulk carriers from Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) for five years and awarded the LNG contract to Shell. In the future, the vessels could also use bio-LNG.
On... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2022
Finnish sugar company Sucros Oy will switch from using heavy fuel oil and coal to LNG and liquefied biogas (LBG) at its sugar beet factory in Säkylä.
Supplied by Gasum, the fuel will help Sucros, part of Nordzucker, to significantly reduce emissions in its existing three boilers.
Gasum already receives wastewater sludge and biosludge from Sucros’s subsidiary,... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 7, 2022
A report into the decarbonisation of heating in UK homes does not consider the range of renewable technologies available, including biomass and biomethane, according to the REA.
The REA welcomed the report’s finding that there is much more to be done to decarbonise home heating, but warned it “fails to consider” the potential of green gases, such as biomethane.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 7, 2022
Brazilian biogas firm Geo Biogás & Tech and sugar and ethanol company UISA will build a biogas plant in the state of Mato Grosso.
The project - in its initial phase - will generate electricity, biomethane and biofertiliser from sugarcane residues, other biomass and residues from local agro-industrial industries.
UISA, one of Brazil’s largest biorefineries,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 4, 2022
Scottish Water Horizons’ Deerdykes Bioresources Centre in North Lanarkshire, UK, has generated 50 GWh of green electricity since 2010.
Deerdykes has saved more than 170,000 tonnes of carbon. The facility processes food waste through anaerobic digestion to generate green energy using a CHP engine.
“The numbers are impressive but quite difficult to visualise –... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 4, 2022
New data from NGVA Europe shows there was rapid growth in the use of biomethane as a transport fuel in Europe in 2020.
With more than a quarter of the gas used in road transport being renewable, an “overwhelming amount” of Europe’s 3,810 CNG stations delivered biomethane to European consumers in December 2020.
The leading countries offering biomethane as a... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 4, 2022
A senior official from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) visited the University of York on 3 February to discuss its anaerobic digestion (AD) research.
Tamara Finkelstein visited the university’s Department of Biology to find out about its partnership with Yorkshire Water to develop AD processes.
Professor James Chong greeted the Permanent... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 4, 2022
Air Liquide will build its largest ever biomethane production unit in Illinois, US.
Located in the city of Rockford, the new unit will produce biomethane from biogas from a solid waste treatment plant owned and operated by Waste Connections.
It will have a capacity of 380 GWh per year, representing the largest production capacity per plant for Air Liquide. With this... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 3, 2022
Danish postal service provider PostNord now has 10 biogas trucks on the roads in Denmark, replacing 10 diesel-powered cars and saving approximately 850 tonnes of CO2 each year.
The new trucks run on compressed biogas, produced from cow and pig manure, helping to reduce the amount of methane in the atmosphere. Biogas-fuelled trucks reduce CO2 emissions and emit less... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 3, 2022
TotalEnergies and Veolia have agreed to produce biomethane from Veolia’s waste and water treatment facilities in 15 countries.
The partners will develop and co-invest in a portfolio of international projects, with the aim of producing up to 1.5 TWh of biomethane annually by 2025.
This production of renewable gas made from organic waste will be equivalent to the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 2, 2022
Snam4Mobility and OrangeGas (OG), a Dutch owner and operator of sustainable fuel service stations, have agreed to develop a new bio-LCNG (bio-LNG and bio-CNG) fuelling station in Germany.
The agreement forms part of a larger cooperation project between the two companies in the sustainable mobility field. The station will be built in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 2, 2022
Greenlane Renewables has closed its acquisition of Airdep – a provider of biogas desulphurisation and air deodorisation products based in Vicenza, Italy.
The acquisition of Airdep brings in-house an effective and proven technology to remove hydrogen sulphide (H2S) from biogas for integration with Greenlane’s portfolio of biogas upgrading systems that produce low-carbon... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 2, 2022
Axpo Iberia has inaugurated the first biogas plant in Spain to convert all organic waste from a livestock operation into 100% renewable biogas and electricity.
Axpo Iberia, the Spanish subsidiary of Axpo, a major producer of renewable energy and a leader in energy trading, worked with family-owned Torre Santamaría dairy cattle farm in Catalonia on the project.
Under... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 2, 2022
The EU has met the 10% target level for 2020 for the share of renewable energy in transport, according to Eurostat.
The target includes liquid biofuels, biomethane and green electricity used in transport, and was included in Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources.
Eurostat data shows the average share of energy from renewables... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 1, 2022
Gevo has started the process of bringing its dairy manure-based RNG project online.
Located in northwest Iowa, the project, known as Gevo NW Iowa RNG, is expected to produce approximately 355,000 MMBtu of RNG per year.
The project fits in with Gevo’s business model of exploring ways to use renewable carbon to make the most of energy opportunities by ‘dialling... [Read More]
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