May 12, 2021
Chevron invests $20m in Clean Energy RNG initiative
Biogas News
May 11, 2021
Ingevity Corporation has announced a strategic partnership with and investment in GreenGasUSA, an integrated RNG solutions provider.
With this investment, announced on 27 April, Ingevity now holds less than 50% ownership in GreenGas.
Based in Charleston, South Carolina, GreenGas contracts with agricultural farms, landfills, and industrial and municipal wastewater... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 11, 2021
A multi-disciplinary team at Teagasc, a state agency providing research, advisory and education in agriculture, horticulture, food, and rural development in Ireland, has held the first online meeting of the technical working group for a new anaerobic digestion (AD) project called FLEET.
FLEET will identify farm-scale, landscape-level and national-level economic and... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 11, 2021
Energy firm St1 Norge has partnered with Nor-log Gruppen and Knapphus Energi to build a network of biogas filling points in Norway.
St1 Norge, a subsidiary of Nordic energy company St1 Nordic Oy, has signed an agreement with Knapphus og Biogrønn to purchase 33.33% of the shares in the company Biogas Energi Aksdal. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval.
St1’s... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 11, 2021
Weltec Biopower is building a biomethane plant for Spanish dairy farm Torre Santamaria.
Since the first 250 kW biogas plant went live in 2011, the Catalan family business has covered its entire energy demand from its residues. The farm was the first milk producer in Spain to use any residual materials to produce energy.
The investment in the new renewable natural... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 10, 2021
Yarra Valley Water’s waste to energy facility has processed 100,000 tonnes of food waste, enough to fill 40 Olympic sized swimming pools.
The emissions saved are equal to removing more than 45,000 cars from the road in Victoria, Australia, for a year, with enough renewable electricity produced to power Yarra Valley Water’s head office for 11 years.
This major... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 10, 2021
Brightmark broke ground on the Caballero Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) project on 4 May.
The project includes the construction of new anaerobic digesters at Caballero Dairy Farms, an 8,800 animal farm in Eloy, Arizona.
On completion of the project, the digesters are expected to generate 214 MMBtu of RNG daily. The gas will be delivered into the El Paso Natural Gas... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 10, 2021
A US cheese company will build a new state-of-the-art cheese and whey protein processing plant and produce biogas in Dodge City, Kansas.
Hilmar Cheese Company, founded in 1984, is one of the world’s largest producers of US-style cheese and whey products. The new facility is expected to create 247 new jobs and represents $460 million in capital investment. The project... [Read More]
Policy News
May 10, 2021
Every home in England will receive easier and more consistent recycling collections, the government has announced.
Under new plans to boost recycling and protect the environment, every household will receive separate, weekly food waste collections from 2023.
Plans being considered include the introduction of statutory guidance on new minimum service standards for... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 7, 2021
Arla and its farmers are closing the loop on the renewable electricity produced on-farm, keeping the power generated within the company value chain.
While some of the company’s dairy farmers engage in biodiversity projects and others provide manure for biogas, many of Arla’s cooperative farmers generate green electricity for their own farms and the public grid,... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 7, 2021
Renewable Energy Ireland (REI) has published 40by30, a roadmap to achieve 40% of heat from renewable sources in Ireland by 2030.
The plan was developed by XD Consulting on behalf of REI with advice from organisations working in district heating, bioenergy, heat pumps, renewable gas, and geothermal. The plan would reduce Ireland’s CO2 emissions by 7% annually, in line... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 7, 2021
Clean Energy Fuels has announced new RNG contracts as fleets across the US and Canada increasingly continue to adopt clean, low-carbon fuel to power heavy and medium-duty trucks.
The company has reported new fuelling agreements across the US, in Los Angeles, Portland, British Columbia, and Florida.
“Fleets are learning that RNG, together with natural gas engine... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 7, 2021
Carbon Clean has joined forces with BayoTech to develop on-site hydrogen with carbon capture solutions.
Carbon Clean, a leader in cost-effective CO2 capture and separation technology, signed a memorandum of understanding with BayoTech, to explore commercial opportunities targeted at hydrogen and carbon capture and utilisation deployment.
Initially, the companies... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 6, 2021
The Raízen biogas power plant in Brazil now generates energy using agricultural by-products.
The Penetron System – including PENETRON ARC, an innovative acid-activated coating specifically designed for anaerobic and biogas conditions – was specified to ensure a waterproof and durable solution for the Guariba plant’s concrete structures.
The $28 million (€23... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 5, 2021
Scandinavian Biogas Fuels is investing 170 million krone (€17 million) in a liquid biogas plant in Skogn, outside Trondheim.The company already has the world's largest plant to produce liquid biogas on the site in Norway.
The plant will be operational in the third quarter of 2022 and will produce 35 GWh of biogas. Skogn has been supplying liquid biogas since 2018.
Skogn... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 30, 2021
Vanguard Renewables and utility company ONE Gas have launched an initiative designed to develop and expand farm-based renewable natural gas (RNG) projects across Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
This will be Vanguard’s first mid-continent alliance with a local natural gas distribution company that is committed to innovating its clean energy fuel mix through RNG.
“We... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 30, 2021
Net Zero Waste Abbotsford, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EverGen, Canada’s RNG infrastructure platform, is entering into a 20-year offtake agreement with FortisBC Energy.
Under the agreement, FortisBC will purchase up to 173,000 gigajoules of RNG annually for injection into its natural gas system, upon completion of an anaerobic digester project at EverGen’s existing... [Read More]
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The Régie des matières résiduelles du Lac-Saint-Jean (RWM) and Waga Energy have announced the signing of an agreement to implement an RNG production project at the Hébertville-Station engineered landfill site (ELS) in Quebec
Waste-to-hydrogen producer Compact Syngas Solutions (CSS) will be creating 200kg of hydrogen from waste to power a 40-day sea trial of a zero-emission marine hydrogen engine
