Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHIENG), a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, has received an order for a compact CO2 capture system for a biomass power plant in Japan. The order comes from Taihei Dengyo Kaisha, a provider of plant construction, maintenance, and auxiliary services. The CO2 capture system offers a capacity of 0.3 tonnes per day. Taihei... [Read More]

Mid Sussex District Council in the UK will trial kerbside food waste collections next year and send the waste to an anaerobic digestion facility. On 29 November, the Council’s cabinet agreed to proceed with the trial in partnership with West Sussex County Council, which includes weekly food waste and absorbent hygiene product collections. The trial will help the... [Read More]

The Green Gas Certification Scheme (GGCS) has announced it will be one of only two Approved Certification Schemes for evidencing green gas supply in the upcoming Green Gas Levy. The Green Gas Levy, first announced in the March 2020 Budget, will fund support for biomethane injection into the gas grid through the new Green Gas Support Scheme (GGSS). The GGSS is designed... [Read More]

EQTEC has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Wood, a consulting and engineering company across energy and the built environment. Under the agreement, the companies will target and pursue market opportunities for the collaborative development and deployment of clean, waste-to-synthetic natural gas (SNG) and waste-to-hydrogen solutions and delivery of related... [Read More]

Haffmans, a subsidiary of US firm Pentair, and McCulla, an ambient, chilled, and frozen logistics solutions company, have launched a new biogas upgrading plant. The new plant enables McCulla in Northern Ireland to fuel its fleet of trucks with compressed natural gas (bio-CNG). The Pentair Biogas Upgrading System – Pentair BioCompact- has capacity for 450 standard... [Read More]

Optimal Group and BOC/Elgas, a subsidiary of Linde, have agreed to jointly explore the development of Australia’s first bio-LNG facility. Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU), the companies are seeking to develop the facility at the BOC-ELGAS Westbury LNG plant in Tasmania. The agreement will allow the companies to investigate the potential of Optimal’s... [Read More]

Exeter City Council in Devon, UK has thanked residents for participating in the first phase of a food waste collection roll-out. Almost 10,000 kilograms (10 tonnes) of food waste has been collected from 1,300 homes in Alphington, a suburb of Exeter, since the service began at the start of November. Around 80% of households put their food waste out for collection weekly. Previously,... [Read More]

By 2050, 30-40% of Europe’s total gas consumption could be made up of sustainable biomethane, according to the European Biogas Association (EBA). In its 11th Statistical Report, the EBA provides an in-depth analysis on biogas and its upgraded form, biomethane, and the best pathways to ensure full deployment in the coming years. The report analyses the current availability... [Read More]

Barcelona is exploring ways of running the city’s buses on sewage sludge-derived biomethane. Bosses of the city’s transport system are looking at transforming sewage sludge left over from wastewater treatment into biomethane to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. EU funding through the Nimbus Project is being used to try and create greener public transport. According... [Read More]

QUBE Renewables discusses a recent project in Kenya, helping a local flower farm to generate biogas from its waste. The World Energy Council assesses the World Energy Trilemma Index. This is an annual measurement of national energy system performances across three dimensions: energy security, energy equity, and environmental sustainability. Although Kenya’s trilemma... [Read More]

The UK Government has granted £11.3 million (€13.3 million) in funding to help four UK distilleries switch from fossil fuels to hydrogen and biogas. The multi-million-pound investment into low-carbon green distilleries will see four projects receive a share of the funding to decarbonise their distilling processes for the UK’s iconic whiskies and spirits. The... [Read More]

The UK’s cow manure, food waste and household sewage can produce enough green gas to heat over 750,000 homes this winter, according to the Energy Networks Association (ENA). Released by the ENA as part of its first annual Britain’s Green Gas Scoreboard, the data shows that enough biomethane is now being produced to supply 770,654 homes while also supporting greener... [Read More]

Residents in Southern Oxfordshire, UK, put around 700 tonnes of food into their black bins last December, emitting nearly 150 tonnes of CO2 equivalent (CO2e). As Christmas approaches, when food waste levels are high, South Oxfordshire and the Vale of White Horse District Councils are urging residents to “do their bit” by reducing food waste and, if they have any,... [Read More]

Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo (PGNiG), a Polish state-controlled oil and gas company, has signed an agreement to develop the biogas and biomethane sector. Several representatives of the PGNiG Group participated in the project, initiated by the Ministry of Climate and Environment and the Government Plenipotentiary for RES, Ireneusz Zyska. The agreement... [Read More]

The Forest Enhancement Society of BC (FESBC) has helped a community to harvest wood burned in wildfires to convert into bioenergy. After a wildfire burns through a forest, a lot of debris and charred trees are left behind, as in the Elephant Hill fire in 2017. Often, this charred woody fibre can burn again but is left and not salvaged, as the economic cost of doing... [Read More]

Drax is considering building a biomass plant in the US whose power generation will absorb more emissions than it creates. The announcement came from Drax’s CEO, Will Gardiner, who was speaking at the Reuters Events Energy Transition Europe Summit on 23 November. Drax is currently developing bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technology for its plant... [Read More]