Jul 29, 2021
SGN, Vital Energi to develop low-carbon heat networks
Pellets News
Jul 29, 2021
Drax Group has cut the carbon emissions from its power generation by over 90% in less than a decade, the company reported in its half-year results.
With this reduction, Drax has become one of Europe’s lowest-carbon intensity power generators, moving it closer to achieving its ambition to be carbon negative by 2030.
Formerly the largest coal power station in Western... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 28, 2021
Waga Energy and Veolia have joined forces again for their fourth biomethane injection project.
Veolia, specialising in optimised resource management and Waga Energy, a European leader in recovering gas from landfill waste in the form of biomethane, will recover gas from the Chatuzange energy storage centre in southeastern France.
This is the fourth renewable gas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 28, 2021
Scottish whisky producer Glenfiddich has announced it will run its vehicles on biogas generated from whisky waste.
The distiller’s parent company, William Grant & Sons, launched the closed-loop system at the site in Dufftown, Moray, converting the residues from the distilling process into biogas. The technology converts production waste into an ultra-low carbon... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 28, 2021
Foresight, through the Foresight Italian Green Bond Fund, has invested €7.5 million to finance the construction of an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Sardinia, Italy.
Biogas Sardegna Green, the construction-ready AD plant, will have the capacity to process 30,000 tonnes of animal waste annually and generate 0.6 MW of combined heat and power.
The plant will produce... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 27, 2021
Weber GreenTech will become an operating partner of and an investor in Renergon International, a Swiss biogas technology company.
The merger between Renergon and Weber GreenTech, owned by the Marksdorf-based Weber entrepreneur family, will create a new major player in the construction and operation of organic waste processing plants, as well as in the field of healthy... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 27, 2021
Government officials, county staff, and contractors gathered at Tajiguas Landfill on 16 July to open the Santa Barbara County ReSource Center.
The new $130 million (€110 million) centre will divert an additional 60% of waste from the landfill, bringing the region to a diversion rate of 85%. Additionally, the facility will create enough energy to power 2,000 homes.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 27, 2021
The City of Toronto will generate RNG from green bin organics, working in partnership with Enbridge Gas.
The City of Toronto’s Solid Waste Management Services Division has installed infrastructure at Dufferin Solid Waste Management Facility that will enable the city to take raw biogas produced from processing green bin organics, turn it into RNG, and inject it into... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jul 27, 2021
Following the opening of Fonterra’s wood pellet boiler at its Te Awamutu site, the dairy cooperative revealed plans to convert another of its sites from coal to biomass.
Fonterra, a multinational dairy cooperative based in New Zealand, officially opened Te Awamutu’s pellet boiler facility with the Minister for Energy and Resources, Dr Megan Woods. At the same time,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 26, 2021
Bipartisan legislation has been introduced by US Senators to encourage investment in biodigester and nutrient recovery systems while establishing a new market for farmers.
The Agricultural Environmental Stewardship Act, a bill brought forward by US Senators John Thune and Sherrod Brown, will help expand the market for renewable biogas by providing a 30% investment tax... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 26, 2021
CHAR Technologies will develop a high-temperature pyrolysis-to-green hydrogen system at Hitachi Zosen Inova’s (HZI) anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in California.
The test project at HZI’s San Luis Obispo (SLO) facility will see CHAR’s high-temperature pyrolysis system process 18,000 tonnes per year of solid anaerobic digestate into 1,320 tonnes of green hydrogen... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 26, 2021
Host is building an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant at Charlton Park Estate in Wiltshire, UK, developed by Raw Energy.
Once complete, the facility will produce five million Nm3 of biomethane from 50,000 tonnes of agricultural and food waste, enough to supply gas to 2,500 homes.
“To say that we are proud of this large order would be an understatement,” said Sjaak... [Read More]
Features
Jul 26, 2021
In the US, RUF Briquetting Systems helped a Pennsylvania company to utilise wood waste and sawdust, creating a new revenue stream.
As prices for petroleum and other traditional fuel sources fluctuate, many businesses in the US are turning to wood briquettes as an energy alternative. Carbon neutral and easy to use, briquettes have gained popularity and businesses are... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 22, 2021
Vanguard Renewables’ anaerobic digester in Vermont – the largest in the north-eastern US – is now producing gas.
Representatives from Middlebury College, Vanguard Renewables, Vermont Gas Systems (VGS), Goodrich Family Farm and the state of Vermont, all celebrated the start of gas production at the facility on 21 July, at an event on the dairy farm in Salisbury.
The... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 22, 2021
Global food waste levels are 1.2 billion tonnes higher annually than previously thought, according to a new study.
WWF and supermarket giant Tesco have published Driven to Waste, a report that quantifies the total amount of food lost on farms globally, revealing an estimated 2.5 billion tonnes of food goes uneaten around the world annually. This is an increase of approximately... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 22, 2021
CIM Group has made a ‘significant investment’ in MAS Energy, a privately held Atlanta, Georgia-based owner, developer, and operator of RNG production assets and biogas to power facilities.
CIM Group and MAS CanAm, the holding company for all RNG activities undertaken by MAS Energy, will partner on investments in future RNG projects, advancing CanAm’s position... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 21, 2021
DHL Supply Chain is expanding its fleet of environmentally friendly LNG gas trucks, transporting car parts from the Czech Republic to Germany.
The three new tractor units running on LNG put into operation in October 2020 will now be followed by eight more low-emission trucks. This step will enable DHL Supply Chain to reduce CO2 emissions by 187 tonnes per year.
The... [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
