Sep 16, 2021
GLS to add 120 LNG, bio-LNG vehicles to fleet
Biogas News
Sep 16, 2021
Packaging firm DS Smith has invested €7.5 million in expanding the anaerobic treatment facility at its paper mill in northern France.
The investment enables Rouen Paper Mill to generate green energy from 100% of its wastewater and improve the quality of discharged water – building the circular economy and taking another step towards DS Smith’s carbon goals.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 16, 2021
Hitachi Zosen Inova’s (HZI) German subsidiary, HZI BioMethan (HZIB), will build the company’s biggest biogas upgrading plant to date in Dunaföldvár, Hungary.
Irish firm ClonBio Group commissioned HZI to build the biomethane plant that will upgrade 5,000 Nm3/h of inlet biogas. The upgrading facility will be constructed in 2022 at Europe’s largest grain biorefinery,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 16, 2021
Aemetis Biogas has signed a utility pipeline interconnection agreement with Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) and made the final payment for the installation of PG&E’s equipment.
Under the Aemetis Biogas Central Dairy Digester Project, Aemetis has already built and currently operates two dairy biogas digesters, on-site dairy gas upgrading and pressurisation... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 15, 2021
Two new large recycling vehicles powered entirely from food waste-derived biogas are now in operation in the west of England.
The biogas-fuelled vehicles are powered from the food waste they collect, and now service cafes, restaurants, schools and offices.
They are the latest addition to the expanding fleet of ‘Bio-Bees’, which have served the city of Bristol... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 15, 2021
Chevron U.S.A., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, has signed definitive agreements to form a joint venture (JV) with Mercuria Energy Trading (Mercuria).
Mercuria is one of the world’s largest integrated energy and commodities companies and has partnered with Chevron to own and operate American Natural Gas (ANG) and its network of 60 CNG stations across the US.
Chevron... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 15, 2021
Summit Natural Gas, based in Yarmouth, Maine, will receive a portion of $64.7 million in funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a dairy biogas project.
Summit’s digester project is among 22 projects chosen by the DOE focused on producing cost-effective, low-carbon biofuels. US Senator Susan Collins, of Maine, and Representatives Chellie Pingree... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 14, 2021
Rice Acquisition Corp (RAC), a special purpose acquisition company focused on the energy transition, has announced its stockholders have approved the business combination of Aria Energy and Archaea Energy.
The merger, valued at an estimated $1.15 billion (€973 million), will create an industry-leading RNG platform, dedicated to reducing carbon emissions through landfill... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 14, 2021
LS Power and The Landfill Group announced that construction has started on an RNG project at a landfill in South Carolina.
Enerdyne Power Systems, a Landfill Group company based in Charlotte, is building the state-of-the-art RNG project at the Twin Chimneys Landfill site. The Twin Chimneys Power Producers (TCPP) project is expected to achieve commercial operations by... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 10, 2021
Cayuga RNG, a joint venture (JV) between UGI Energy Services (UGIES) and Global Common Energy, has entered into an agreement to develop its second RNG project in upstate New York.
The JV’s first project is being developed at Spruce Haven Farm, a dairy farm in Cayuga County in New York’s Finger Lakes region. This project incorporates an existing anaerobic digester... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 10, 2021
Aemetis has received building permits from Stanislaus County in California to construct the next phase of dairy biogas digesters in the Aemetis Biogas Central Dairy Digester Project.
The project will be connected via a 32-mile private pipeline to the Aemetis ethanol plant near Modesto, connecting dairy RNG facilities.
“In addition to the California Environmental... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 9, 2021
Starwood Energy Group (Starwood) has entered into an investment partnership with BerQ RNG, a premier developer of RNG projects in the US and Canada.
The new platform will develop and acquire RNG projects in all stages, from early development to operating projects. The platform will be majority-owned by Starwood and operate under the name BerQ RNG.
Based on Oakville,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 9, 2021
Host and Birch Solutions (Birch) have signed an exclusive partner agreement to market Host’s biogas technology alongside Birch’s services and operations in the UK.
Birch is an established AD plant service operator, with capabilities including biogas plant optimisation. Bioenergy technology provider, Host, headquartered in the Netherlands, has over 350 bioenergy... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 9, 2021
Online supermarket Ocado Group has signed a deal to open another CNG refuelling station in the UK, using a higher biomethane blend.
In January 2019, Ocado became the first UK retailer to self-fund the purchase of an on-site grid-connected gas refuelling station at its depot in Hatfield. The new facility, at the firm’s Dordon Customer Fulfilment Centre in Warwickshire,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 8, 2021
Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) and Circle K have opened two new CNG stations.
The two publicly accessible, fast-fill CNG stations are now open at Circle K’s forecourt in Dublin and in Limerick City.
Strategically located to support prominent haulier routes, the state-of-the-art stations can fill 50 heavy-goods vehicles (HGVs) a day, with each fill taking no more than... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 8, 2021
Clarke Energy USA will design, supply, and install a biogas upgrading plant to generate biomethane (RNG) with BioTown Biogas in Indiana. The agreement includes a biogas engine generating renewable electricity and heat.
BioTown is an existing renewable energy business expanding into the generation of biogas to be cleaned to gas grid injection standards as biomethane.
Five... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 7, 2021
Heavy-duty vehicle fleets are increasingly turning to near-zero-emissions (NZE) natural gas vehicles (NGVs) and carbon-negative RNG, according to the California Natural Gas Vehicle Partnership (CNGVP).
During a press conference, the organisation said NZE NGVs are available now, delivering critical and cost-effective emissions reductions throughout California, where... [Read More]