Virtual Equity Partners (VEP) has taken ownership of BTS Biogas, the largest provider of biogas plants in Italy. BTS Biogas was founded in 2008 and quickly established itself as a worldwide technological leader in the development, construction and management of biogas and biomethane plants. Despite the acquisition, the company’s structure will remain the same to prevent... [Read More]

Tokyo’s government has switched from fossil fuels to biomass energy to power most of its Shinjuku Ward headquarters. The move to biomass to supply around 80% of electricity at the premises forms part of efforts to achieve net zero carbon dioxide emissions in the city by 2050, according to a report by Kyodo News. Around 30 million kilowatt hours of renewable energy... [Read More]

The UK has enough grass to power every household if it were turned into renewable gas, according to the founder of green energy company Ecotricity. Dale Vince, a Stroud-based businessman, said that his company plans to build the UK’s first grass-powered energy plant in Hampshire by the end of 2019. Vince believes that the project, which will cost £15 million (€16.3... [Read More]

Researchers have combined supercomputing with nano-imaging to reveal how to efficiently break down plant biomass and convert it into transportation fuels. Fuels derived from agricultural or forestry waste, known as ‘lignocellulosic biomass’, have helped to reduce the use of fossil fuels worldwide. However, plant cell walls are difficult and expensive to break down. A... [Read More]

French multinational gas company Air Liquide is celebrating the first year of operations at its biomethane plant in Mississippi, US. In 2018, Air Liquide opened its first large-scale biomethane production plant in the town of Walnut. In the same year, the company also announced it had doubled its global biomethane production capacity. The Mississippi plant receives... [Read More]

The German Government will grant Ghana €5 million for the construction of a biogas plant. The planned 400 kW-capacity plant will produce electricity from waste. The agreement was signed by Anja Karliczek, the German Federal Minister of Education and Research, and Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, the Ghanaian Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation. In... [Read More]

The owner of a biogas plant in Nebraska, US has passed blame onto two other companies regarding a foul smell in the area in response to multiple lawsuits. The Sioux City Journal reported that Wisconsin-based Big Ox Energy submitted replies in Dakota County District Court to more than a dozen lawsuits filed against the company. Those who filed the lawsuits, mostly neighbours,... [Read More]

A New Zealand dairy plant has announced it is moving away from coal in favour of a wood biomass boiler. Fonterra, the owner of the Studholme milk processing plant in Canterbury on New Zealand’s South Island, had received permission from Environment Canterbury and the Waimate District Council to build a 30-tonne-per-hour coal-fired boiler at the plant. However, it... [Read More]

Calls for a US college to rethink its plan to build a biomass heating plant have escalated after a public forum was opened. Attendees at the forum – which was intended to discuss potential locations for the plant – voiced their concerns that the planned project by Dartmouth College could worsen air pollution in Hanover, New Hampshire. The current heating system... [Read More]

A Lincolnshire fish and chip company is launching a new biogas project as part of its zero waste to landfill pledge. The Elite Fish and Chip Company will now ensure all of its waste is reused, recycled, composted or converted into energy. The 30-year-old business has partnered with resource management group Veolia to begin dividing its rubbish into separate bins, including... [Read More]

Two councils in Derbyshire have invited waste industry firms to take over building and maintenance of a waste treatment plant. The £145 million (approximately €158 million) project was approved in 2013 and was intended to manage household waste in the area. Derby City Council and Derbyshire County Council had been working with Resource Recovery Solutions (RRS), a... [Read More]

US waste disposal and removal services firm Republic Services has set new 2030 sustainability goals, which incorporate biogas targets. The plans include reducing Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 35% compared to a 2017 baseline. The Arizona-based company previously reported generating almost 13.8 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide within these... [Read More]

Calgren Dairy Fuels and Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) have announced the completion of Calgren’s dairy renewable natural gas facility. The project, located in Pixley in the state’s Central Valley, is the first of its kind in California and is predicted to be the largest dairy biogas operation in the US within the next six months. Calgren collects cow manure... [Read More]

Danone has announced a NZ$40 million (€23.7 million) investment in a new biomass project at its New Zealand spray drying plant. The company has a target of reaching net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2021 and hopes that the installation of a new biomass boiler will help to reduce the plant’s emissions by 20,000 tonnes per year. Danone’s Nutricia plant is... [Read More]

Waste management companies Viridor, Suez and ETM have been granted 10-year contracts by the West of England Partnership to treat the region’s residual and bulky waste. Under the new contracts, which will begin in March 2020, Viridor and Suez will handle 120,000 tonnes and 50,000 tonnes of kerbside black bag residual waste, respectively. ETM will take 45,500 tonnes... [Read More]

A San Francisco-based waste and energy development company has announced that it has purchased a dairy biogas plant. Brightmark Energy purchased the anaerobic digester from Clean Fuel Partners near Madison, Wisconsin, which will convert 90,000 gallons of dairy waste per day from three local farms into biogas and other useful products. Clean Fuel Partners will continue... [Read More]