Belgium
Foundation stone laid for major biogas facility in Flanders
Wednesday, 19 October 2011 REM This week saw the laying of the foundation stone of what will be the largest biogas plant in the province of Limburg in the Flanders region of Belgium. The Tongeren Oost industrial estate is the home ...
Scotland
Biogas will be used to produce “green” Scotch whisky
Thursday, 06 October 2011 REM GE has announced an agreement with Scottish distilling giant William Grant & Sons (Grant’s) to supply a combined heat and power solution with an ecomagination-qualified Jenbacher J620 gas engine...
Hungary
"Cutting-edge" meat-powered biogas plant opens
Wednesday, 05 October 2011 Toby Price The German firm, r.e Bioenergie GmbH, has officially opened Hungary's most cutting-edge biogas plant in Szarvas in the south east of the country. The waste recycling plant with a peak power of around ...
Germany
BSR developing biogas plant to fuel garbage truck fleet
Thursday, 25 August 2011 REM Having gained consent from Berlin’s Senate Department for Health, Environment and Consumer Protection in July, the German waste collection service provider, BSR Ruhleben, has commenced construct...
Germany
E.ON working to feed biogas into natural gas networks
Monday, 22 August 2011 REM Across northern Germany, E.ON is launching projects to feed biogas into the natural gas networks. By the end of this year, E.ON Hanse plans to inject about 1,700 cubic metres of biogas per hour into i...
60 percent of biogas plants have safety flaws. What's the solution?
Thursday, 07 July 2011 REM Johannes Steiglechner, Head of Combustion Systems and Heat Engineering at TÜV SÜD Industrie Service GmbH in Munich (Germany) looks at the safety hazards for workers and the general public as...
Tanzania
Project launched to produce biogas from human waste
Monday, 27 June 2011 Toby Price The Technische Universität Berlin (Germany) and the NGOs Engineers Without Borders and Mavuno Project are conducting a project to produce crop fertilizer and biogas from human urine and excrement...
UK
Biogas plants will need over five million tonnes of feedstock
Friday, 03 June 2011A new study from Enagri has revealed that a combination of announced and operational biogas plants across the UK could need at least 5.5 million tonnes of feedstock by the end of 2013.
UK
Crop farming vital to anaerobic digestion, says NNFCC report
Tuesday, 17 May 2011 A new report entitled “Farm-Scale Anaerobic Digestion Plant Efficiency, NNFCC 11-015” by the UK’s National Centre for Biorenewable Energy, Fuels and Materials, reveals that using cro...
US
Biogas CHP cogeneration on the up
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 “Cogeneration is the environmentally-friendly, economically-sensible way to produce power, simultaneously saving significant amounts of money and also dramatically reducing total greenhouse gas ...