The UK is now halfway to meeting its target of net-zero emissions by 2050, new research shows. According to analysis by Carbon Brief, the UK’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2020 were 51% below 1990 levels. The milestone was reached after a ‘record-breaking’ 11% fall in GHG emissions in 2020, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Emissions are likely to rebound... [Read More]

By John Hanselman, co-founder, chairman and CEO, Vanguard Renewables. The US has built its historic strength in large part from the efforts of our remarkable farming community. I am privileged to work with farmers every day, and I see their commitment to feeding the US and to being the best stewards of the land that they harvest. We at Vanguard Renewables have spent... [Read More]

Toyota Motor Manufacturing’s plant in Wales, UK, could be powered by biogas with the help of EQTEC. EQTEC has signed a collaboration framework agreement with Toyota Motor Manufacturing for the development of a waste-to-energy project in Flintshire, Wales. The agreement will be in place through EQTEC’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Logik WTE, the existing project special... [Read More]

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $2 million (€1.67 million) to four research and development projects advancing clean hydrogen production technologies. In a statement, the DOE said these technologies may prove ‘pivotal’ to reducing carbon emissions and reducing the Biden Administration’s climate change goals. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm... [Read More]

The Zero Carbon Humber (ZCH) Partnership has won its £75 million (€87.5 million) bid to pursue its major decarbonisation infrastructure project. This latest news is further boosted by a successful bid from the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), which provides offshore pipeline and safe storage for emissions captured in the Humber region and Teesside. The three... [Read More]

The American Biogas Council (ABC) has announced the eight fastest-growing biogas businesses in the US - DMT, Envitec Biogas, Greenlane Biogas, Nacelle, DVO, Inc, Evonik, Paques Environmental Technologies, and PlanET Biogas. Results were determined by gross revenue growth from 2019 to 2020. Collectively, revenue from the fastest eight grew by more than 300%. “Biogas... [Read More]

Two of BiON’s four biogas plants are now supplying electricity to the grid in Malaysia. The company announced that two of its plants are now selling electricity to Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Malaysia’s largest integrated electricity company, and also revealed it has expanded into the UK, opening an office in London. Once fully operational, BiON’s current... [Read More]

Metro Vancouver and FortisBC Energy have joined forces to achieve regional climate action goals in British Columbia (BC) and introduced a new biogas plant at a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in the region. The new Lulu Island renewable natural gas (RNG) facility located in Richmond, BC, at Metro Vancouver’s Lulu Island WWTP site, now allows the unused biogas to... [Read More]

Valio, a Finnish dairy products manufacturer, has fuelled its first milk truck with biogas from one of its dairy farms. The Vuorenmaa dairy farm has provided the first manure-powered milk truck in the country. With 180 cows, Vuorenmaa dairy farm in Haapavesi produces Valio Oltermanni® cheese. For years, the farm has used the manure its cows produce to generate electricity... [Read More]

The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) has sued to stop Active Energy Renewable Power and Lumberton Energy Holdings, subsidiaries of Active Energy Group (AEG) from illegally polluting the Lumber River in violation of the Clean Water Act. The complaint filed by the conservation groups on 10 March in the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina... [Read More]

A project to use biogas from a wastewater treatment facility as a vehicle fuel in Lincoln, Nebraska, is complete. The Lincoln Transportation and Utilities Department (LTU) began the biogas sustainability initiative at the Theresa Street Water Resource Recovery Facility in 2017. The digestion of solids in the wastewater that goes to the facility produced methane.... [Read More]

Clean Energy Fuels has opened a new public fuelling station in California that will provide renewable natural gas (RNG). The new station in Carson will fuel trucks in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and service many truck terminals and warehouses in the area. “This RNG station will allow more vehicles to take advantage of the cleanest fuel available today,... [Read More]

The Energy Networks Association (ENA) has published the programme for its Gas Goes Green programme for the rest of the year, highlighting the crucial role biomethane will play in decarbonising the gas network. The Gas Goes Green Pathway to Net Zero is the response of the UK's five gas network companies - Cadent, Northern Gas Networks, SGN, Wales & West Utilities,... [Read More]

Greenlane Renewables has reported record revenue of $8.8 million (€5.8 million) for the fourth quarter of 2020, an increase of 167% compared to the same period in 2019. The company announced its financial results for Q4 and the fiscal year ending 31 December 2020, reporting a gross margin of $2.4 million (€1.6 million) and a positive adjusted EBITDA of $0.2 million... [Read More]

Funding of up to $116,800 (€77,500) has been allocated to the Canadian Biogas Association (CBA) to boost sustainable agricultural development, including biogas. Canada’s Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Marie-Claude Bibeau, announced the funding on 9 March. Bibeau met with Jennifer Green, executive director of the CBA, and Rob McKinlay of Harcolm Farms... [Read More]

More than 100 tonnes of food waste was collected in the first week of a new waste service in a UK borough. The food waste came from around 41,000 caddies and totalled 111.3 tonnes, meaning each household contributed roughly 2.7 kilograms of food waste. Bracknell Forest Council's food waste collection service started on 1 March and will enable food waste to be diverted... [Read More]