The Heineken Brewery in Manchester, UK is turning wasted beer into biogas. The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) predicts around 87 million pints will have been thrown away as a result of pub closures during the pandemic, equivalent to almost £331 million (€384 million) worth of beer. As part of its ‘Brewing A Better World’ sustainability strategy, Heineken... [Read More]

Innovative green projects creating the next generation of electric trucks and hydrogen-fuelled buses are set to secure jobs and cut carbon emissions thanks to over £54 million (€62.6 million) in funding allocated by the UK Government. On 22 March, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng announced that three projects in Cwmbran, Warwickshire, and Ballymena will receive... [Read More]

From this week, 50,000 UK homes will be upgraded with green improvements from a £562 million (€650 million) government fund. The funding will enable over 200 local authorities across England and Scotland to fund a nationwide upgrade of the UK’s least energy efficient and fuel-poor homes, helping to reduce carbon emissions and support green jobs. According to... [Read More]

On 23 February, the first biomass thermal power plant using UK agri-tech was officially opened in Moldova’s capital. The launch of the newly-installed 150 kW biomass thermal power plant – a project pilot - in Chisinau marked the start of the transition of the energy supply system from imported fossil gas to renewable energy. The project aims to switch the Centralised... [Read More]

JLEN Environmental Assets Group has acquired a 100% equity stake in Rainworth Energy (REL). REL holds the rights and operational assets that make up the Rainworth anaerobic digestion (AD) plant, a 2.2 MW electrical facility based in Nottinghamshire, UK, close to an existing AD plant held by JLEN – Biogas Meden. The plant has been operational since 2016 and supplies... [Read More]

GAIL and Ranchi Municipal Corporation have signed an agreement to build a compressed biogas (CBG) plant in Ranchi, India. Under the agreement, GAIL will set up a CBG plant to process 150 tons per day of organic municipal solid waste. The facility will produce five tons of CBG per day and approximately 25 tons of bio-manure. It is hoped the plant will benefit the community... [Read More]

An industry award programme for students has been re-launched by Privilege Finance, with a focus on rewarding innovative approaches and research into climate change solutions. The Climate Change Thought Leadership Award is now open to applications from undergraduate, masters, or PhD students at UK universities. Privilege has provided a £2,000 (€2,300) prize fund,... [Read More]

Renewable natural gas (RNG) produced from diverted landfill waste is now flowing into Southern California Gas’s (SoCalGas) pipeline system from the Rialto Bioenergy Facility. The facility is located in San Bernardino County and owned by Rialto Bioenergy Facility, an Anaergia company. A new one-mile pipeline connects the facility to an existing SoCalGas pipeline. Using... [Read More]

Whisky and spirit producers in the UK will benefit from an almost £9 million (€10.4 million) cash boost announced by the government. The initiative, announced on 20 March, will drive forward plans to create low-carbon green distilleries. Having already received collective funding of more than £1 million (€1.16 million) to kick-start green innovation projects,... [Read More]

Italian energy firm Eni’s subsidiary, Ecofuel, has agreed to acquire FRI-EL Biogas, an Italian biogas producer. FRI-EL Biogas owns 21 plants generating electricity from biogas and a plant for processing the organic fraction of municipal solid waste, which Eni intends to convert to produce biomethane. When fully operational, this facility will supply more than 50 million... [Read More]

A microgrid powered through biogas co-generation, solar power, and backup energy storage will supply electricity for a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Rialto, California. The City of Rialto in California, Rialto Water Services and Veolia North America, announced their joint commitment to the next phase of the ‘ambitious’ microgrid plan. One of the first... [Read More]

Bp and Aria Energy will capture methane from waste at three California dairy farms and process it into renewable natural gas (RNG) via a new project. Digesters will be installed at three dairy farms in California’s Central Valley, producing biogas from farm waste rather than allowing it to decompose and release methane into the atmosphere. The biogas will then be... [Read More]

Minnesota’s first renewable natural gas (RNG) plant is now operational. DMT Clear Gas Solutions and Amp Americas partnered to deliver the project – a three-dairy facility that captures more than 700,000 gallons of manure to convert 2,000 standard cubic feet per minute of biogas into more than 98% RNG, using DMT’s membrane separation technology, the Carborex®... [Read More]

Aemetis has received approval for the construction of a 32-mile extension to its existing four-mile private pipeline in California that was completed in 2020. The Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors accepted and approved the Aemetis Biogas Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration for the construction by a unanimous vote. The pipeline is designed to carry biogas... [Read More]

Hexagon Composites's subsidiaries have signed a multi-year agreement with Certarus for the supply of distribution models for compressed natural gas (CNG) and renewable natural gas (RNG) fuel storage systems for Certarus’s heavy-duty truck fleet. Under the agreement with Certarus, which specialises in clean energy solutions, Hexagon Agility received an initial order... [Read More]

Biomass will be included in the second phase of the UK Government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme. The scheme was designed to pave the way for the decarbonisation of large public buildings such as schools and hospitals. The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) has welcomed the announcement. Previously, the REA expressed its disappointment... [Read More]