Apr 26, 2021
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Biogas News
Apr 26, 2021
St Austell Brewery in Cornwall, UK has switched to a 100% renewable, sustainable CO2 supply.
The company switched the supply at its site in St Austell and Hare Brewery, home of Bath Ales, to the renewable CO2 derived from the anaerobic digestion (AD) process. The CO2 will be used in the carbonation of its packaged beers, the purging of road tankers, and pressurising... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 26, 2021
SoCalGas is expanding its partnership with transport company Landi Renzo USA to convert 200 Ford F-250 service pickup trucks to run on renewable natural gas (RNG).
The latest Landi Renzo Eco-Ready™ equipment is a California Air Resources Board-certified ultra-low emissions vehicle system, expected to reduce over 2,000 tonnes of CO2-equivalent per year after the completion... [Read More]
Other News
Apr 26, 2021
Global energy-related CO2 emissions are expected to surge by 1.5 billion tonnes in 2021 – the second-largest increase in history, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The increase, largely driven by an increase in coal demand, would reverse most of 2020’s decline, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and would be the biggest annual rise in emissions since... [Read More]
Policy News
Apr 23, 2021
WWF, alongside other non-governmental organisations, has suspended its role in the European Commission’s (EC) Platform on Sustainable Finance over the bioenergy and forestry criteria included in the EU Taxonomy.
With this step, WWF said it is protesting against the “greenwashing” of the forestry and bioenergy criteria in the climate taxonomy, and the process that... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 23, 2021
Business rates are an “unacceptable threat” to anaerobic digestion (AD) operators, according to industry representatives, and will hinder the UK’s ability to meet its net-zero targets.
With charges escalating year-on-year, business rates are now a “real burden” to the AD industry and putting many plants out of business, according to the Anaerobic Digestion... [Read More]
Other News
Apr 23, 2021
Enexor Bioenergy has been chosen as one of 11 companies in North America to participate in the inaugural Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change.
This programme recognises Enexor, which generates green energy from organic waste, as a top company providing innovative and impactful climate change solutions.
Launching in June, the three-month programme grants... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 23, 2021
Trondheim in Norway will receive its first gas filling station this summer.
The new station, due to open in early August, is part of Gasum’s Nordic gas filling station network for heavy-duty vehicles and will provide liquefied and compressed gas. The project was developed by Gasum and retail cooperative firm, Coop, and will enable low-emission logistics for several... [Read More]
Policy News
Apr 22, 2021
The bioenergy industry has welcomed the EU Taxonomy, which classifies sustainable bioenergy as an environmentally sustainable activity.
Released by the European Commission, the EU Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act aims to support sustainable investment by making it clearer which economic activities most contribute to meeting the EU’s environmental objectives. On 21 April,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 22, 2021
Green Arrow Capital (GAC) has acquired four biomethane production plants, continuing its commitment to the sector.
The €75 million agreement with Lazzari e Lucchini (L&L) made last year was completed through the GAC Fund and includes the acquisition of 4BIO S.r.l. Holding, which owns four biomethane plants, still partly under construction. L&L will remain... [Read More]
Policy News
Apr 22, 2021
The European Biogas Association (EBA) has welcomed the adoption of the EU Taxonomy by the European Commission (EC), which recognises biogas’ contribution to climate targets, but warned that the criteria adopted will put the use of biomethane in transport “at stake”.
According to the EBA, the decision to label biogas production from anaerobic digestion as a low-carbon... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 22, 2021
EverGen, Canada’s renewable natural gas (RNG) infrastructure platform, has acquired Fraser Valley Biogas in British Columbia.
Fraser Valley Biogas has been in operation since 2011 and is the ‘original’ RNG project in western Canada; it was also the first project to produce RNG into FortisBC’s network. The facility combines anaerobic digestion and biogas upgrading... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 21, 2021
The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) has welcomed the publication of the UK Government’s Biomass Strategy Call for Evidence.
The call for evidence aims to strengthen the government’s evidence base around biomass and will contribute to a review of the potential for biomass to support the UK’s net-zero goals.
“The REA warmly welcomes... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 21, 2021
Bioenergy Devco has secured conditional approval from Sussex County Council in Delaware to build one of the state’s first anaerobic digesters.
According to an article by the Delaware Business Times, Devco, based in Maryland, bought the former Perdue Farms AgriRecycle facility and continues to compost 30,000 tons of poultry waste from the site. Now, the company plans... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 21, 2021
Ignoring the potential of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and bio-LNG and waiting for future fuels is a ‘mistake’, according to SEA-LNG.
The organisation, a multi-sector industry coalition created to accelerate the widespread adoption of LNG as a marine fuel, believes the industry needs to take advantage today of the confirmed reduction in greenhouse gases (GHGs) of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 20, 2021
Construction is due to begin on Gevo’s manure-derived renewable natural gas (RNG) plant in north-west Iowa.
The company announced it has closed a $68.15 million (€56.5 million) Green Bond to finance the construction of the project, which will generate RNG captured from dairy cow manure.
The feedstock will be supplied by three dairy farms located in north-west... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 20, 2021
Biogest and SWEN Capital Partners (SWEN CP) have invested €30 million in biomethane projects in Europe and North America and established a new company - Biogest Invest.
SWEN CP recently created the first European fund committed to renewable gas - the SWEN Impact Fund for Transition (SWIFT) - whose core target is biomethane production assets and associated renewable... [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
