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Welcome - we are happy to present to you the biogaspartner newsletter, an information service of the German Energy Agency (dena). Our English newsletter will provide you with news about the world of biomethane. We will update you on recent market developments, legal framework conditions, technological innovations, new projects, events and much more in Germany and other countries with interesting biomethane activities.
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Biomethane reaches 90% share in Swedish vehicle gas |
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The proportion of biomethane in vehicle grade gas at Swedish refueling stations continues to increase. New figures from Statistics Sweden for the first half of 2018 show that the renewable share in vehicle gas is just over 90 percent. In addition, new car registrations for July suggests that the government's introduction of "bonus-malus" environmental rules for new vehicles may already have had a positive effect on natural gas vehicle (NGV) sales.
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Belgium’s First Biogas from Waste Upgrading Plant Begins Grid Injection of Biomethane |
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Dutch biogas upgrading specialist, Bright Biomethane, completed the installation of the first biomethane facility in Belgium to inject renewable gas into the grid.
According to the company, the installation at Energy Conversion Facility ‘IOK Afvalbeheer’ in Beerse successfully produced Belgium’s first sustainable biomethane and injected into grid of operator Eandis’s. The biomethane system uses membrane technology to upgrade the biogas to 91 Nm^3 biomethane per hour, equivalent to the annual natural gas consumption of 350 households.
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Organization transforms trash into fuel using Utah's first food waste digester |
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A renewable biomethane power plant built in Utah (USA) is expected to produce enough power to fuel a city the size of Bountiful, a town of nearly 45.000 citizens in the coming years.
The facility, built by Wasatch Resource Recovery, will be able to successfully capture renewable energy from food waste in order to produce natural gas quality.
Utilizing Anaerobic Digestion, Wasatch intends to divert food waste from landfills and convert it into usable natural gas fuel. Anaerobic digestion is a natural process in which microorganisms break down waste like animal manure, food scraps, and human sewage to create biogas and biosolids.
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Weltec to build UK biomethane plant |
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German biogas plant constructer Weltec Biopower announced that it has started to build a biomethane plant for UK-based Lanes Farm Energy in Pontefract, West Yorkshire. According to the release, the plan will deliver 7.3 million m³ of biomethane to the UK gas distribution network. This amount of eco-friendly natural gas equivalent is enough to supply an estimated 9,600 households with sustainable energy. In a separation process comprising several stages, the raw biogas will be refined efficiently without methane slip. In this way, 850 standard m³ of biomethane that is suitable for feed-in will be produced every hour from December 2019 on. The plant is expected to begin operations in late 2019.
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Aemetis launches construction of biomethane digesters |
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US-based biotechnology company Aemetis announced that it has initiated the construction process of its multi-dairy renewable biomethane digester cluster.
“The Aemetis Biogas project is an example of the public and private support created by California’s sincere commitment to stable long-term policies to improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Cap-and-Trade and the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. These programs also demonstrate California’s strong support for the state’s vital dairy industry. According to Aemetis, the two grants are in addition to the recently announced $30 million equity financing for the Aemetis biogas project, of which $8 million (€7.05 million) was funded in December 2018 to launch the initial phase of designing, engineering and constructing the project.
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Biogest develops highly efficient biomethane plants in Italy |
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Central and Southern Italy benefit from a large availability of agro-industrial residues and an extensive natural gas network. In addition to the existing natural gas grid, the current infrastructure also includes an extensive network of filling stations with compressed natural gas and liquid natural gas as well as a large fleet of gas-powered vehicles (CNG for cars and LNG for trucks). The system with its mixing technology has proven its worth during long-term operation and its possibility to operate with many different feedstocks like animal manures, straw and agroindustrial residues such as vegetable residues and olive pomace. The PowerRing technology draws on an extremely low proportion of the power it generates, because of the mixing technique, feeding system and overall design.
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New Data about Green Energy in Transport in the EU |
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Sweden is the leader in the use of green energy in transport with an estimated 40% renewable energy in the transport. For CNG vehicles, the proportion of biomethane even exceeded 90% in Sweden. Finland ranks second with a share of 20 percent renewable energy in transport (share of biomthane in CNG vehicles over 10 percent). Followed by Austria and France with 9% share of green energy in transport. The fifth position is Portugal with 7%. Sixth and seventh are Ireland and Bulgaria with about 6 percent share of energy use in transport from renewable sources. Bulgaria is in the top ten of the EU on the share of energy from renewable sources used in transport, according to data from Eurostat's analysis of environmental protection in the transport sector.In total, approx. 2 TWh of biomethane are used as fuel throughout Europe.
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VERBIO acquires cellulose ethanol plant from DuPont in Nevada/Iowa, USA |
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VERBIO North America Corporation, has signed a contract today with E.I. DuPont de Nemours and company to purchase a cellulose ethanol plant located in Nevada, Iowa, USA. In the first phase planned expansion, VERBIO will supplement the existing facility by constructing a straw bio-methane plant with a thermal output of approximately 20 megawatts. Additional investment costs, taking into account existing infrastructure and usable plant components, are expected to amount to approximately USD 25 to 35 million.This transaction allows VERBIO to enter the world's largest biofuel market using its unique straw bio-methane technology.
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Hitachi Zosen Inova BioMethan biogas upgrading plant to be build |
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Hitachi Zosen Inova BioMethan GmbH (HZI BioMethan) has been awarded the contract to build a biogas upgrading plant including the in-house gas scrubber and a desulphurisation and VOC filter system a spart of a biogas project in Aberdeen. The installation is part oft he city’s new energy center an will be the first to feature the company’s new membrane system. It is scheduled for commissioning at the end of 2019. In the future, the city’s food waste alongside crop fuels and waste products from agriculture will be processed at a wet fermentation facility. This will be linked to a system for upgrading the biogas to biomethane, a renewable fuel of natural gas quality that will be fed into the local gas supply grid.
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First commercial delivery of biomethane leaved Nurney by end of January |
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Green Generation, located in Nurney, Co. Kildare, has been commissioned to commercially produce biomethane by final of January 2019. The Gas Grid Injection Facility in Kildare (Irland) , awaits approval from the Commission for Regulation of Utilities Water and Energy (CRU) to commence commercial flow. The biomethane leaving Billy Costello’s Green Generation will be transported to Northern Ireland and injected to the gas grid from there.
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Biomethane platforms and projects of the German Energy Agency (dena) |
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dena, the German Energy Agency has been implementing various projects such as the EU project GreenGasGrids, the Biogas Partnership, the Biogas Register and the European Biomethane Conference to promote the development of the German and European biomethane markets since 2008.
This newsletter is a service of the platform biogaspartner, which is providing information on biomethane in Germany and Europe. If you are interested in the project, you can contact us by mail.
Your biogaspartner Team
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contact@biogaspartner.com
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