Jun 25, 2021
ADBA highlights AD sector’s commitment to net zero in letter to UK PM
Biogas News
Jun 25, 2021
A ‘pioneering’ pig farm in North Carolina, US has reported a 10%+ increase in its biogas yields by investing in two new chopper pumps.
Soon after Butler Farms opened just over 25 years ago, the owner quickly wanted to reduce its environmental impact, culminating in the development of its own pig manure-powered biogas plant in 2011.
As a contract grower that takes... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 24, 2021
An industrial-scale landfill gas-to-biomethane plant has been inaugurated in Genoa, Italy.
Green energy company Asja oversaw the conversion of the existing electricity production facility into an advanced biomethane production plant.
The plant, built and managed by Asja, under concession from waste management firm AMIU Genoa, entered into operation at the end of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 24, 2021
Southwest Gas has invested in several RNG projects in Arizona and California.
The firm is working with RNG developers to interconnect various RNG projects across its service areas with Southwest Gas’s facilities. There are currently four projects in Arizona and one in California that are approved and will take RNG to market shortly, the company said.
Together,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 24, 2021
Mercer Celgar, a pulp and paper mill in British Columbia, is working to facilitate and increase fibre utilisation with help from the Forest Enhancement Society of BC (FESBC).
The company, which also produces bioenergy to power its operations and serve homes in the area, is working in the Kootenay-Boundary Forest Region with $3 million in funding from FESBC. The funding... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 24, 2021
EnviTec Biogas has commissioned a third EnviThan biogas upgrading plant in Estonia.
Following the construction and commissioning of two EnviThan facilities in Tartu and Vinni, the third facility in Oisu was completed on schedule, taking just six months from signature to handover.
“Our customer here again was AS EG Ehitus, a subsidiary of gas network provider AS... [Read More]
Policy News
Jun 24, 2021
Time is running out for realistic climate commitments, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) said in its latest progress report.
In what the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) described as a ‘sobering’ report, the CCC said while the UK Government has made ‘historic climate promises’, it has been too slow to follow these with delivery.
This... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jun 23, 2021
Dutch wood pellet imports reached a new high in 2020, totalling $511 million (€427 million), or 2.76 million metric tons (MMT).
Figures released by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service on 26 April showed the US was the leading non-EU supplier of pellets to the Netherlands in 2020.
The report shows the current share... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 23, 2021
Dynamic Group has broken ground on BC Organics, a 16-unit anaerobic digestion (AD) project in Wisconsin, US.
Once completed and operational, BC Organics will be one of the largest dairy waste-to-renewable natural gas projects in the US, according to Hoard’s Dairyman, and is expected to process more than 360 million gallons of manure per year.
Dynamic Group is the... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jun 23, 2021
Woodsure, the UK quality assurance certification scheme for woodfuel, will take over the running of the government’s Biomass Suppliers List (BSL), on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
The BSL is a list of woodfuel that meets the eligibility requirements for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme. It allows RHI participants... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 22, 2021
Proposals for an industrial-scale organic fertiliser lagoon in Devon, UK have been given the green light.
District council planning chiefs in East Devon approved the scheme for a sealed digestate storage facility, with a capacity of 7,000 cubic metres of liquid, near the village of Upton Pyne.
The project will support the operation of Gorst Biogas’s anaerobic digestion... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 22, 2021
AgLand Renewables, the California subsidiary of CleanBay Renewables, will receive $1.7 million (€1.42 million) in tax credit.
AgLand was chosen by the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to receive the significant tax credit from the California Competes Tax Credit (CCTC) programme. With this support, the firm can begin the development... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 22, 2021
Host will build an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Ilkeston, UK.
By treating mainly green waste and liquid food waste at the Stanton Recycling site for Stanton Energy, the AD facility will produce more than 3.5 million Nm3 of biomethane for gas grid injection and distribution annually.
The project is in line with the future UK Government’s strategy of the Green Gas... [Read More]
Policy News
Jun 21, 2021
US Senators have written to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging the Biden Administration to support the biomass industry.
In a bipartisan letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan, Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Susan Collins, among others, call for the US Government to address ‘languishing applications’ under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) programme,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 21, 2021
UK construction products distributor Artex has received £300,000 (€349,000) to install a biomass heating system.
The company, which forms part of the Saint-Gobain Group and is based in Nottinghamshire, was chosen as a recipient of Saint-Gobain’s INVEST Carbon Fund, one of two carbon funds available to businesses and employees to suggest ways in which carbon can... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 21, 2021
AC Energy Corp has divested of biomass power companies in Negros, the Philippines, to focus on expanding its solar and wind portfolio.
In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, The Philippine Star reported, AC Energy said its joint venture with the Zabaleta Group, Negros Island Biomass Holdings, signed binding agreements to divest its shareholdings in three... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 18, 2021
Scovan Engineering and Matter Global Solutions have joined forces to develop RNG projects in Canada.
In March 2020, the British Columbia Utilities Commission approved a biomethane/RNG purchase agreement (to a maximum of $30 (€20.30) per gigajoule) between FortisBC and Matter, supplied by the Clayhurst project.
Located 80 kilometres east of Fort St John, the Clayhurst... [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
