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Somerset-based Wyke Farms, the UK’s largest independent cheese producer, has created the world’s first carbon-neutral branded cheddar. The cheese was made using 100% green energy, with electricity and gas sourced from Wyke Farms’ own self-generated solar power and from biogas generated from farm and dairy waste. The anaerobic digester saves 20 million kilos of CO2 every year and provides…
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Aemetis Biogas has completed an additional seven miles of underground pipeline to transport biogas from five new dairy digesters. The pipeline will transport the biogas to the centralised RNG upgrading facility at the Aemetis Keyes biofuels plant. Including the four miles of pipeline commissioned in late 2020, Aemetis has now installed more than 11 miles of pipeline and is on track to complete…
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A project in British Columbia has received funding to collect residual fibre from logging processes and generate bioenergy. LP Building Solutions received $665,000 (€468,000) in funding from the Forest Enhancement Society of BC (FESBC), to utilise nearly 17,500 m3 of residual fibre – equivalent to 430 logging truckloads – to generate power at its facility in Golden. Much of the fibre…
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CHAR Technologies will deploy, own and operate a high-temperature pyrolysis (HTP) system adjacent to a biomass plant in Quebec. The facility, on land reserved for CHAR by the City of Saint- Félicien, will produce approximately 5,000 tonnes per year of biocarbon and 250,000 GJ per year of RNG, for which the firm has received a letter of interest from the local natural gas utility. The…
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Anaergia has signed a follow-up contract with Carbon Cycle North Carolina (C2NC) to help the company generate renewable energy from food industry and agricultural by-products. Under the terms of this new agreement, the scope of Anaergia’s activities will be ‘significantly expanded’ at C2NC’s facility in the town of Warsaw, North Carolina, which converts agricultural waste into…
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Could energy crop pellets help solve the UK’s energy security issue? Domestic biomass energy supplier White Horse Energy outlines its latest project. As the world’s attention turns to the threat to our planet posed by climate change post-COP26, the energy sector is under intense scrutiny. Coal has long been the answer to the energy conundrum, but in the 21st century, it is no longer the…
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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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