Sep 2, 2021
UK household food waste on the rise after lockdown easing
Biogas News
Sep 2, 2021
Portuguese firm Dourogás GNV, working with HAVI Logistics, has refuelled its first heavy-duty vehicles with biomethane at Santo António dos Cavaleiros filling station.
The biomethane incorporated at Dourogás filling station in Loures comes from a pioneering demonstration of a concept project that allows the production of 100% RNG from the anaerobic digestion of organic... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 2, 2021
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has deployed a linear generator – a mobile power generation technology utilising natural gas and directed at renewable biogas - to displace existing diesel generation at its Angwin site in Napa County.
Working with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources and Mainspring Energy, PG&E deployed the 240 kW Mainspring linear... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 1, 2021
A project to facilitate more planting of Miscanthus has been awarded over £150,000 (€174,000) of UK Government funding.
Miscanthus specialist, Terravesta, received the funding through the government’s Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme, to help contribute to 2050 net-zero targets.
Terravesta was successful in its bid to secure Phase 1 funding for its OMENZ... [Read More]
Policy News
Sep 1, 2021
The Irish Bioenergy Association (IrBEA) has expressed frustration over the recent Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) consultation.
IrBEA believes that the additional value of renewable electricity generation from bioenergy ahead of intermittent generation, in terms of continuous supply and grid stability, is not recognised in the RESS system.
The RESS system... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 1, 2021
BIOGEST will build its first biogas plants based on agricultural and food waste in Greece.
The first project, on the island of Rhodes, will be a 500 kW Biogest PowerRing® plant, designed to run on olive pomace, oil residues, food residues from hotels, and by-products from the food and beverage industry. The facility will be able to supply around 1,300 households with... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 31, 2021
SGN Commercial Services (SGN) will design, construct, operate, and maintain biogas processing installations at Thames Water’s wastewater treatment facilities in the UK.
SGN has worked on around 30 new plant installations, including its world-first biomethane injection and blending hub at Portsdown Hill, Portsmouth. The company forms part of the SGN Group, which owns... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 31, 2021
An application for a food waste anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been rejected.
The plan for a £40 million (€46 million) centralised AD plant in Belfast Harbour faced opposition from Giants Park, a group hoping to transform 250 acres of the 340-acre development site into a mixed-use leisure, commercial and sports area.
At a special... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 31, 2021
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is investing in a new project involving ethanol and biogas production in Brazil.
The $70 million (€59 million) financing for Grupo Cocal (Cocal) will strengthen the diversification of the country’s energy matrix, expanding the company’s ethanol and biogas production. The project will... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 27, 2021
Hexagon Agility has supported whisky producer Glenfiddich in its use of RNG for transport.
In July, Glenfiddich, based in Moray, announced it will run its delivery vehicles on biogas generated from whisky waste. The trucks are equipped with Hexagon’s ProRail® CNG fuel systems with Type 4 composite technology.
Glenfiddich announced the initiative to address the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 27, 2021
HyGear’s subsidiary, HyGear Asia, has signed a memorandum of understanding with GPS Renewables, a waste management cleantech firm with close to 100 modular biogas installations in India.
The companies will collaborate on converting organic waste and landfill gas into green hydrogen with GPS Renewables’ state-of-the-art biomethanation plants, downstream bio-CNG installations,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 27, 2021
CHAR Technologies (CHAR) will upgrade its operational high-temperature pyrolysis facility to produce around 20,000 gigajoules per year of RNG.
The firm’s pyrolysis facility converts woody materials and organic waste into renewable gases and biocarbon: activated charcoal ‘SulfaCHAR’ and solid biofuel ‘CleanFyre’.
The approval of a $300,000 (€201,000) grant... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 26, 2021
The ZooShare Biogas Cooperative, in partnership with Toronto Zoo, Loblaw Companies and EnerFORGE, has announced its most recent project is now operational.
The ZooShare Biogas Project is the first of its kind in Canada and provides an example of the circular economy in action. The facility converts 2,000 tonnes of zoo manure and 15,000 tonnes of food waste from supermarkets,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 26, 2021
NGVAmerica has pledged that by 2030, 80% of natural gas vehicle (NGV) on-road motor fuel in the US will be derived from renewable sources, rising to 100% by 2050.
In 2020, RNG collected at local landfills, wastewater treatment facilities, commercial food waste plants, and agricultural digesters displaced conventional fossil-derived natural gas sources as the dominant... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 26, 2021
Scirocco Energy has completed its £1.2 million (€1.4 million) investment in Energy Acquisitions Group (EAG), a specialist acquisition and operating vehicle in the sustainable energy sector.
By creating a joint venture (JV) platform alongside EAG, Scirocco Energy will leverage EAG’s strong network and experience to gain access to a pipeline of already identified... [Read More]
Pellets News
Aug 26, 2021
Equis Development Pte (Equis), a major renewable energy and waste infrastructure developer in Asia-Pacific, has secured $282 million (€239 million) to build a biomass plant in Japan.
Equis will build the 50 MW Niigata East Port Biomass Power Plant in Niigata, a port city on Honshu, Japan’s main island. The financing was committed by 14 syndication banks and insurance... [Read More]
Pellets News
Aug 25, 2021
The Port of Tyne, UK, has discharged its largest ever wood pellet shipment - 62,522 tonnes - destined for Drax Power Station, North Yorkshire.
The consignment of sustainable biomass pellets provides Drax with enough fuel to generate reliable, flexible renewable electricity for around 1.3 million homes.
The vessel carrying the shipment, the 299-metre-long Ultra Lynx,... [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
