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]

WELTEC BIOPOWER has registered keen interest in its plant technology in Greece and expanded a facility originally built in 2015. In the past year, Weltec expanded its reach in the country by building four further projects and expanding three existing plants. Due to the great potential of organic residues to produce biogas and biomethane, especially in the north of the... [Read More]

EQTEC has shared its trading update for the fourth quarter of 2021, revealing strong revenue growth. The company’s CEO, David Palumbo, said 2021 was a busy and rewarding year. EQTEC confirmed progress towards the commissioning of Market Development Centres (MDCs) in Italy and Croatia. Both are expected to be commissioned in the first half of this year and will be... [Read More]

RNG Energy Solutions, a New Hampshire, US-based developer of complex energy infrastructure projects, has completed the development phase of the Linden Renewable Energy Project (LRE). The large organic waste anaerobic digester project in Linden, New Jersey has secured all the required City of Linden, Union County and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection... [Read More]

Swedish Biogas increased sales to the haulage sector by 145% in 2021 when compared to 2020. The company, which produces and distributes biogas as a vehicle fuel in solid and liquid form, said players in the transport sector are increasingly investing in renewable biogas in liquid (LBG) and compressed (CBG) form. Tekniska verken, Swedish Biogas’s parent company,... [Read More]

PYREG, an engineer and builder of carbonisation technology for active CO2 removal, has built the first climate-neutral district heating project in Switzerland with Basel-based energy service provider, IWB. The newly developed PX 1500 from PYREG, a modularly configurable carbonisation system, carbonises unused biomass such as green waste into high-quality biochar. This... [Read More]

Iona Management Services (IMS) has acquired Biogas Power Operations (BPO), which operates and maintains three of Iona Capital’s gas-to-grid biogas plants in Scotland. Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, Spyros Iliakis will become a director of BPO and have significant equity ownership of the firm. Iliakis joined the BPO team at its inception and will now... [Read More]

Somerset-based Wyke Farms, the UK’s largest independent cheese producer, has created the world’s first carbon-neutral branded cheddar. The cheese was made using 100% green energy, with electricity and gas sourced from Wyke Farms’ own self-generated solar power and from biogas generated from farm and dairy waste. The anaerobic digester saves 20 million kilos of... [Read More]

Aemetis Biogas has completed an additional seven miles of underground pipeline to transport biogas from five new dairy digesters. The pipeline will transport the biogas to the centralised RNG upgrading facility at the Aemetis Keyes biofuels plant. Including the four miles of pipeline commissioned in late 2020, Aemetis has now installed more than 11 miles of pipeline... [Read More]

A project in British Columbia has received funding to collect residual fibre from logging processes and generate bioenergy. LP Building Solutions received $665,000 (€468,000) in funding from the Forest Enhancement Society of BC (FESBC), to utilise nearly 17,500 m3 of residual fibre – equivalent to 430 logging truckloads – to generate power at its facility in Golden. Much... [Read More]

CHAR Technologies will deploy, own and operate a high-temperature pyrolysis (HTP) system adjacent to a biomass plant in Quebec. The facility, on land reserved for CHAR by the City of Saint- Félicien, will produce approximately 5,000 tonnes per year of biocarbon and 250,000 GJ per year of RNG, for which the firm has received a letter of interest from the local natural... [Read More]

Anaergia has signed a follow-up contract with Carbon Cycle North Carolina (C2NC) to help the company generate renewable energy from food industry and agricultural by-products. Under the terms of this new agreement, the scope of Anaergia’s activities will be ‘significantly expanded’ at C2NC’s facility in the town of Warsaw, North Carolina, which converts agricultural... [Read More]

Could energy crop pellets help solve the UK’s energy security issue? Domestic biomass energy supplier White Horse Energy outlines its latest project. As the world’s attention turns to the threat to our planet posed by climate change post-COP26, the energy sector is under intense scrutiny. Coal has long been the answer to the energy conundrum, but in the 21st century,... [Read More]

Scandinavian Biogas will invest SEK 300 million (€28.6 million) in expanding its bio-LNG plant in Gladö Kvarn on Södertörn, south of Stockholm. The expanded plant, expected to be complete in the second half of 2023, will become the largest of its kind in northern Europe, producing 220 GWh of bio-LNG annually. The former largest plant is Norwegian Skogn, which is... [Read More]

Texas-based Harvest Midstream has formed a partnership with NOVUS Wood Group to convert wood waste into RNG. The newly formed company, MaderaGas, will develop a greenfield facility near Houston to produce RNG on a commercial scale. As currently planned, the MaderaGas plant will be comprised of 5 production trains, each of which will process 100,000 tons of wood waste... [Read More]

Clean Energy Fuels Corp (Clean Energy) has signed an agreement to build a methane capture digester at a dairy in Idaho, the company will announce as part of its five-year outlook. The firm will share the direction and specific activities it is taking to grow its RNG business in a webcast today (26 January). As part of the presentation, Clean Energy will discuss plans... [Read More]