Jun 3, 2021
Bruks to deliver large chipper to new US pellet plant
Biogas News
Jun 3, 2021
Nordsol and DBG Bio Energy have signed an agreement to collaborate on a new bio-LNG installation in the Netherlands.
The installation will be established and owned by DBG while Nordsol will supply the bio-LNG installation and provide its expertise on bio-LNG permitting processes and the bio-LNG and bioCO2 supply chain, and process calculations to support DBG in developing... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jun 3, 2021
Production of CoalSwitch™ pellets at Active Energy Group’s (AEG) Ashland, Maine facility has begun.
AEG, based in London, announced on 2 June that the five-tonne per hour production facility is now producing the CoalSwitch pellets, formed of locally-sourced residual biomass, including bark and treetops/branches, which burn at temperatures nearly identical to coal.
Deliveries... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 3, 2021
Bright Biomethane has partnered with Australian company Eneraque to build a biogas upgrading facility.
The project will represent Bright’s first biogas upgrader build in Australia and will be constructed for energy company Jemena at the Sydney Malabar wastewater treatment (WWT) site.
Biogas from Sydney Water will be purified into biomethane for distribution through... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 2, 2021
Biogest has received orders to build two biomethane (RNG) plants using agricultural waste and by-products from chicken farms in western France.
Biomethane (RNG) production from animal, agricultural and food waste is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors of renewable energy, said Biogest.
The first project Enerfées is located close to Rennes, jointly run by the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 2, 2021
Hawaii’s Supreme Court is giving a biomass plant another chance to win over state regulators after it was blocked due to environmental concerns.
Honua Ola Bioenergy has been working on the project for more than a decade, spending nearly $500 million, according to Hawaii News Now. But before the project was completed, it was blocked by the Public Utilities Commission... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 2, 2021
Pioneer Point Partners has confirmed its first two investments in an Irish biogas platform and a renewables platform in Spain.
From its maiden institutional fund, Pioneer Infrastructure Partners, the fund is committing €120 million to the two platforms.
Stream BioEnergy, a developer and operator of anaerobic digestion plants in Northern Ireland and the Republic... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 2, 2021
Macquarie Asset Management has agreed to acquire Beauparc Utilities, a recycling and processing-led waste-to-resource business based in Ireland.
Through the Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 6, Macquarie will acquire Beauparc from founder Eamon Waters and Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Fund.
Beauparc holds a market-leading position across Ireland and a significant... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 2, 2021
Gasum’s biogas plant in Lohja, Finland has officially been opened by Jari Leppä, the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.
The Lohja facility uses biodegradable waste from the Helsinki region to produce renewable biogas and organic recycled fertiliser, suitable for organic farming. Demand for renewable biogas is constantly growing and with it the need for organic... [Read More]
Other News
Jun 2, 2021
Vattenfall will build a 150 MW ‘Power-to-Heat’ e-boiler at its facility in Diemen, Amsterdam.
The company has been granted a permit and a Dutch SDE++ subsidy to build the boiler, which is believed to be the largest in Europe and can be put into use in 2024.
“We are very glad to have been awarded both the permit and the SDE++ subsidy for building a large 150... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 1, 2021
Wärtsilä has been selected to supply a biogas liquefaction plant to Norway-based Biokraft.
The plant for Biokraft, a subsidiary of the Scandinavian Biogas Group, will have a 25 tons-per-day (tpd) capacity and will extend an existing bio-LNG production plant in Skogn, also supplied by Wärtsilä, to a combined total of 50 tpd. This makes it the largest facility of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 1, 2021
Estes Express Lines, a major US freight carrier, has ordered a further 50 natural gas-powered trucks from Hexagon Agility.
The trucks use Hexagon’s 175 diesel gallon equivalent (DGE) ProCab CNG/RNG fuel systems. Estes’s new trucks will be equipped with Cummins-Westport near-zero-emissions natural gas engines and Hexagon’s integrated Blue iQ system.
Estes has... [Read More]
Features
Jun 1, 2021
“Water scrub technology remains the optimal solution for biogas upgrading in the industrial sector,” according to Malmberg, an international cleantech company based in Sweden.
Malmberg, with 155 years of experience, has created a high-quality product capable of guaranteeing unique performance such as 98% availability, economic and environmental stability for the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 1, 2021
Toronto Zoo’s biogas plant is now operational, transforming manure and food waste into bioenergy and fertiliser.
ZooShare, a community cooperative led by Daniel Bida, pitched its proposal to zoo officials in October 2010. The concept had already been introduced in Munich but had not yet been trialled in North America.
According to Toronto.com, getting ZooShare’s... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jun 1, 2021
SCA, a major forest owner in Sweden, has invested SEK 50 million (€4.9 million) to reduce its pellet mill's environmental impact.
The investment into the Härnosänd pellet mill will also reduce ‘discomforts’ for the neighbouring community.
Since 1992, the Härnosänd site in Murbergsviken, northern Sweden has been producing wood pellets made from sawdust from... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 28, 2021
Volvo Cars’s manufacturing facility in Torslanda, Sweden, is now ‘climate-neutral’.
Volvo Cars counts a manufacturing site as fully climate-neutral when it registers no net increase in the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere as a result of the electricity and heating used by the plant.
The Torslanda facility, the company’s oldest site,... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 28, 2021
EnviTec Biogas and Liqvis have signed an agreement for the supply of bio-LNG.
EnviTec Bioenergie Güstrow, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EnviTec Biogas, will start supplying Liqvis with bio-LNG from the third quarter of next year.
From autumn 2022, bio-LNG will be produced at the biogas plant in Güstrow. To date, this plant has been used to produce biomethane and... [Read More]
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Big step for biogas in the Arctic 🌱✈️
Norway's Longyearbyen Airport (Svalbard Lufthavn) has now switched to biogas, cutting its net emissions to almost zero
Despite covering 40% of national gas consumption, Lars Kaspersen, chief executive of Biogas Danmark warns: "The tempo in expansion does not match the need."
The company actively captures CO₂ from biogas and the whisky industry and is now scaling up operations internationally
