Aug 16, 2021
Turning trash into treasure
Biogas News
Aug 16, 2021
Anaerobic digestion (AD) plant operators are being offered a new opportunity to benefit from an ‘innovative’ carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) model, proposed by BioCarbonics.
The UK-based green CO2 company has created a new channel to market for the biogas industry to enable CO2 captured from biogas facilities to be taken to market.
Green CO2 produced from... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 16, 2021
Monarch Bioenergy, a joint venture (JV) between Smithfield Foods and Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE), has installed manure-to-energy technology on nearly all of Smithfield’s Northern Missouri hog finishing farms.
The new technology, completed ahead of the JV’s 10-year anniversary, captures methane emissions and converts them into carbon-negative RNG to power homes,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 16, 2021
UK energy provider Flogas has added two new compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles to its growing fleet.
The new IVECO trucks, which offer up to an 85% CO2e reduction from diesel to bio-CNG, are helping Flogas on the road towards a lower carbon future, as it commits to reducing its direct carbon emissions by 20% by 2025.
Fully operational from August, the new CNG-powered... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 13, 2021
The Prince of Wales opened J V Energen’s newly installed CO2 capture facility in Dorset on 9 June, where green CO2 is supplied to its new joint venture business, BioCarbonics.
The green CO2 is captured at J V Energen’s Rainbarrow Farm anaerobic digestion (AD) and biomethane-to-grid plant. It is processed into a food and beverage-grade product, where it is used for... [Read More]
Features
Aug 13, 2021
A decision by the Norwegian Parliament to equalise biogas with hydrogen and electricity has provided a boost for the country’s bioenergy sector.
The Norwegian Parliament’s decision in May to equalise biogas with electricity and hydrogen in all public policies was undoubtedly a major step forward for the bioenergy industry in Norway and also, potentially, for the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 13, 2021
FortisBC Energy is now receiving carbon-neutral RNG from Alberta-based Lethbridge Biogas.
Following the expansion of its facility to add a biogas upgrading system, Lethbridge Biogas has signed an agreement to provide FortisBC with up to 350,000 gigajoules of RNG annually. This is FortisBC’s third source of RNG from outside of British Columbia to date, as the firm... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 13, 2021
Clare County Council in Ireland has given the green light for the construction of a biomass plant in Stonehall.
In September 2020, Carbon Sole Group submitted plans for the construction of a biomass processing and storage area, a gasification and methanation facility for the production of advanced biofuels, and a gasification and combined heat and power facility.
Carbon... [Read More]
Other News
Aug 12, 2021
ArcelorMittal Ghent has chosen to use biocoal from Dutch company Perpetual Next in its steel production process.
The company is starting a pilot to use biocoal as a high-quality partial replacement for fossil coal. The partnership between Perpetual Next and ArcelorMittal in Ghent starts with an initial delivery of 30,000 tonnes of biocoal to the Ghent blast furnace,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 12, 2021
TruStar Energy, an OPAL Fuels company, has signed a contract with CITY Furniture to build three RNG fuelling stations and supply fuel.
TruStar will manage the development, construction, and service in Miami Gardens, Ocoee, and Plant City, Florida. Under the contract, OPAL Fuels will supply the company with 7.75 million gasoline gallon equivalents of RNG over the terms... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 12, 2021
Greenlane Renewables’ wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenlane Biogas North America, has signed a total of $12.8 million (€8.7 million) in contracts for biogas upgrading systems for US RNG projects.
One of the contracts involves the supply of one of Greenlane’s membrane separation biogas upgrading systems for a project owned by an international energy company.
Greenlane... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 12, 2021
The World Biogas Association (WBA) has responded to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, stating that anaerobic digestion (AD) is 'dangerously overlooked' as an immediate climate solution.
The WBA has renewed its call for the potential of the biogas industry to be ‘urgently unlocked’ so that it can help deliver the “rapid reductions... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 12, 2021
Gasification solutions firm EQTEC has acquired a 1.2 MWe waste-to-energy gasification plant in Croatia.
EQTEC acquired the facility in Belišće through Synergy Projects, a joint venture (JV) between the EQTEC and its Croatian project development partner, Sense ESCO.
Originally commissioned in 2016, the plant was built around EQTEC’s proprietary and patented advanced... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 11, 2021
UK resource and waste management company FCC Environment has been growing energy crops for biomass fuel at its old landfill and quarry sites.
The company, based in Northampton, has been planting Miscanthus grass, also known as elephant grass, at several of its old sites across the UK that it has restored following their closure.
FCC recently harvested this year’s... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 11, 2021
Black Sheep Brewery in Yorkshire has signed a three-year deal with biogas producer Warrens Group.
The agreement will support the Masham-based brewery by generating a new income stream from the by-products of the brewing process, the Yorkshire Post reported.
Warrens Group, based in Newton Aycliffe, is one of the first food waste recycling firms in the UK to power... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 10, 2021
Green Gas Day 2021, the UK’s largest gas-to-grid industry gathering, will take place in Birmingham on 9 September.
After the 2020 edition was moved due to the pandemic, this year’s event will take place in-person at Birmingham’s National Motorcycle Museum.
The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) and CNG Services have been running Green... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 10, 2021
UK timber frame manufacturer SO Modular has installed new machinery at its facility in South Wales, including production lines, a treatment tank and a biomass boiler.
The development of the facility in Neath began in April 2020 and is set to open at the end of the summer. Once completed, with all the new machinery installed and running, the site will immediately be... [Read More]
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