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Scandinavian Biogas will invest SEK 300 million (€28.6 million) in expanding its bio-LNG plant in Gladö Kvarn on Södertörn, south of Stockholm. The expanded plant, expected to be complete in the second half of 2023, will become the largest of its kind in northern Europe, producing 220 GWh of bio-LNG annually. The former largest plant is Norwegian Skogn, which is also owned by Scandinavian…
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Texas-based Harvest Midstream has formed a partnership with NOVUS Wood Group to convert wood waste into RNG. The newly formed company, MaderaGas, will develop a greenfield facility near Houston to produce RNG on a commercial scale. As currently planned, the MaderaGas plant will be comprised of 5 production trains, each of which will process 100,000 tons of wood waste annually into 1 billion…
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Clean Energy Fuels Corp (Clean Energy) has signed an agreement to build a methane capture digester at a dairy in Idaho, the company will announce as part of its five-year outlook. The firm will share the direction and specific activities it is taking to grow its RNG business in a webcast today (26 January). As part of the presentation, Clean Energy will discuss plans to build a digester at…
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Valmet will supply an automation system to a biomass-fired heating plant in Oriketo, Finland. With a full heat production capacity of 40 MW, the Oriketo bioheat plant is one of the largest of its kind in the country. The Valmet DNA Automation System will replace the existing system that has reached the end of its lifecycle. It will also provide a remote-control connection to the central…
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Dutch brewery Grolsch will produce biomethane using Host’s technology. Host will offtake the biogas from Grolsch’s wastewater treatment plant and install a biogas upgrading system that will produce over 1 million Nm3 of biomethane annually - equivalent to the gas needs of approximately 700 households. By the end of the year, more than two-thirds of Grolsch’s heat demand will be met by…
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Ingeteam has been awarded a biomass plant operation and maintenance (O&M) contract by Greenalia. The Basque company will maintain the Curtis plant in the Galician region of Teixeiro in A Coruña. This new contract doubles the power that Ingeteam maintains in biomass, reaching a total of 102 MW. In 2018, Greenalia Biomass Power Curtis-Teixeiro S.L.U signed off on a €125 million loan to…
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DHL Supply Chain has added 13 Volvo FH LNG tractor units to its fleet, as part of its ‘GoGreen’ plan. The new additions, which can be fuelled with bio-LNG, join DHL’s growing fleet of gas trucks. The tractor units are equipped with Globetrotter cabs and specified with 155-kilogram LNG tanks for a maximum range of 1,000 kilometres. The new vehicles will deliver up to an 80% reduction in…
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The Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia (CGCC) has partnered with the Biogas Technology and Information Center (BTIC) to promote the investment of commercial biogas technologies. The BTIC was jointly established by the Royal University of Agriculture and the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). The CGCC is a state-owned enterprise, operated under the technical and financial…
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Joensuu Biocoal Oy, a company created by Taaleri, will build a torrefied biomass production facility in Joensuu, Finland with Savon Voima Oyj. The plant will be built on the site of municipal energy company Savon Voima Oyj's Iiksenvaara combined heat and power (CHP) plant. Savon Voima and Joensuu Biocoal have also established a joint biomass procurement company, Eastern Finland Biomassa Oy,…
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Anaergia’s subsidiary, SoCal Biomethane, has commissioned operations at the Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority (VVWRA) in California. The facility in Victorville is the first wastewater treatment plant in California to inject RNG made from wastewater solids and food waste into a utility pipeline. SoCal Biomethane upgraded VVWRA’s existing wastewater treatment plant,…
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“In the wake of COP26, it would be deeply disappointing if the debate in 28 years’ time is more about why we failed than how we succeeded,” writes Colin Ley. The emergence of the Omicron variant in late November last year, followed by a rapid surge in infections, has raised serious doubts over the speed of Europe’s economic recovery over the next 12-18 months. Having enjoyed a 5.8%…
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Marguerite II, a European infrastructure fund, has acquired a majority stake in Keon to grow its biogas portfolio. As part of the transaction, Marguerite II will fund Keon’s investment plan to grow its portfolio in biomethane projects in France and abroad as well as supporting its strategy to become a major integrated renewable gas producer. The Keon group comprises three entities: Naskeo…
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Brightmark RNG has announced plans to construct an anaerobic digestion (AD) project at Vlot Calf Ranch in Chowchilla, California. The Vlot AD project will capture, clean and convert methane from manure that would otherwise escape into the atmosphere on the ranch and dairy farm into RNG. When used in the transportation sector, RNG from dairy operations has a negative carbon intensity on a…
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The Government of India has taken ‘proactive steps’ to reduce the harmful impact of crop stubble burning while boosting the country’s biomass power sector. On 14 January, the Union Power Secretary chaired the second meeting of the Sustainable Agrarian Mission on the use of Agro Residue in Thermal Power Plants (SAMARTH), where he reviewed the status of biomass co-firing and the progress…
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