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BiogasWorld Weekly Vol 22
BiogasDoneRight: Arianna Nordera’s adventure
September 15, 2017 – The Nordera company breeds cattle, trout and pigs while also practising BiogasDoneRight, in other words the production of biogas by exclusively re-using waste products to produce electricity and heat.
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Biomethane perfectly positioned to meet new renewable fuel targets – ADBA
September 15, 2017 – The UK’s trade body for anaerobic digestion (AD) has welcomed the Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) response to its consultation on the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO), declaring biomethane to be ‘perfectly positioned’ to meet increased targets for renewable fuels. DfT’s reforms will obligate fuel suppliers to provide 9.75% of all fuels from renewable sources by 2020, a doubling of the current 4.75% obligation that will then rise to 12.4% of all fuels by 2032, helping to align the RTFO with the Government’s Carbon Budgets. Biomethane produced through the recycling of organic wastes and energy crops is one such fuel derived from renewable sources that can help fuel suppliers to meet this new higher target, particularly for heavier vehicles for which electrification is impractical or expensive.
Biomass trade bodies call for UK government to adopt whole system cost approach to drive low-carbon economy
September 15, 2017 – The UK government should use a whole system cost analysis to evaluate the costs of different energy projects, taking into account intermittency and system integration costs, according to trade associations Biomass UK and the US Industrial Pellet Association (USIPA). The trade bodies have submitted a white paper entitled ‘Bigger picture, lower cost’ to Professor Dieter Helm, who has been commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to undertake an independent review of costs of energy in the power sector.
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Canadian biogas facility to utilise animal carcasses
September 18, 2017 – Lethbridge Biogas in Alberta, Canada is increasing its waste division stream by taking advantage of thermal hydrolysis technology from PlanET Biogas Solutions. For the last four years the 2.8 MW biogas plant in Lethbridge, Alberta has produced enough electrical energy to power 2,800 homes while diverting 120,000 tonnes of organic waste from landfill each year. The facility is the largest farm-based anaerobic digester/co-generation facility in Canada. It has the capacity to produce up to 4.2 MW of electricity in the future if new generating units are added.
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Gattoni, CIB: “Biogas and biomethane are key to the Italian National Energy Strategy”
September 18, 2017 – More bioenergies for Italy, to produce renewable energy and decarbonize agriculture, making it more sustainable and competitive. Piero Gattoni, President of CIB (Consorzio Italiano Biogas), stresses the importance of attributing a key role to biogas and biomethane in the National Energy Strategy to meet this goal.
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CEC approves grants for forest biomass, biogas projects
September 19, 2017 – A forest biomass-to-power project and two biogas projects were recently approved for grants by the California Energy Commission, via its Electric Program Investment Charge program. The Fall River Resource Conservation District’s 2.8-MW Burney-Hat Creek Bioenergy Project is a proposed, modular biomass energy plant in Shasta County that will utilize material from CalFire-designated high-hazard zones. Via a gasification technology, will produce electricity, heat and biochar.
EIA: Densified biomass production reaches 570,000 tons in June
September 19, 2017 – The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released the September edition of its Monthly Densified Biomass Fuel Report, reporting that data gathered from respondents indicate they purchased a combined 1.06 million tons of feedstock in June, produced 570,000 tons of densified biomass fuel, and sold 430,000 tons of densified biomass fuel. According to the EIA, 88 operating manufacturers provided data for the monthly report. These manufacturers had a total production capacity of 11.92 million tons per year and collectively have an equivalent of 1,936 full-time employees
Dairy farm biogas project gets $15 million grant
September 19, 2017 – BC Organics, developer of a bioenergy system that will produce renewable gas from dairy farm manure and other waste, has received a conditional $15 million (€12.5 million) Focus on Energy grant from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC). The Brown County, Wisconsin based project will reduce the need to landspread raw manure, protect sensitive groundwater and surface waters in north eastern Wisconsin, and provide economic benefits to participating farms, according to a statement from PSC.
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Oklahoma pork waste to biogas plant can power 5,300 homes
September 20, 2017 – Operations have started at a new biogas upgrading plant (BUP) in Guymon, Oklahoma. Operated by High Plains Bioenergy, a subsidiary of Seaboard Foods, the new plant produces pipeline quality renewable natural gas, which is collected from the biogas collected from the wastewater treatment system at the nearby Seaboard Foods pork processing plant. Previously, Seaboard Foods recovered raw biogas from three anaerobic wastewater lagoons at the pork processing plant. However, this raw biogas was only suitable to heat the boilers at the processing. The new BUP increases the quality of the biogas through a pressure swing absorption process to produce pipeline quality renewable natural gas.
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Whey disposal in dairies: could biogas be a solution?
September 21, 2017 – Various methods are used to dispose of whey in Italy: it can be used in pig feed, in the matrix for biogas plants, or simply sent to landfill. What is the best solution that a cheese-producing company can use for this disposal? Giuseppe Lembo, of the Università della Tuscia – ENEA, has examined the actual case of a company in Rome that currently pays transport costs for disposal and has performed a cost-benefit analysis on the installation of a biogas plant.