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BiogasWorld Weekly Vol 36
2018 Canadian Biogas Industry Awards
The Canadian Biogas Association (CBA) is launching the Canadian Biogas Industry Awards to recognize accomplishments of organizations and individuals in the biogas sector. The first annual Canadian Biogas Industry Awards will be held on March 22nd at the Value of Biogas East in Gatineau, QC, which coincides with the CBA celebrating a decade of growing the biogas sector in Canada. The Awards will showcase successful Canadian biogas projects and individual efforts providing well deserved recognition while demonstrating that biogas technology and its benefits are proven and reliable in many applications across the country.
Read more on Canadian Biogas Association’s website
EBRD in €25 million loan for biogas plant at Ukraine’s MHP
December 27, 2017 – FINTECC grant will help poultry producer launch new technologies, improve energy management. The EBRD provided a senior loan of € 25 million to PJSC “Myronivsky Hliboproduct” (MHP), a London Stock Exchange listed Ukrainian producer of poultry meat, grain and fodder. The loan will be used to construct and put into operation a 10 MW biogas plant in the town of Ladyzhyn, Vinnytsia region. The biogas plant will utilise chicken manure and other agricultural residues from MHP’s poultry and grain operations.
Zootechnical nitrogen and digestate: the limits imposed by regulations
December 28, 2017 – The Plan for the Agronomic Use of Digestate (P.U.A) was devised to regulate the presence of zootechnical nitrogen in digestate, with the aim of safeguarding underground and surface waters from pollution caused, first and foremost, by the nitrates present in waste water. What limits are imposed by the P.U.A.? There are several factors to consider: the type of area in which the terrain is located (vulnerable to nitrates or not), the type of digestate (whether of zootechnical origin not) and the farm’s land surface availability. Find all the details in this interview with Guido Bezzi of the CIB.
See the video on Biogas Channel
The United Kingdom and biomethane: financial and environmental analysis
January 2, 2017 – What are the financial and environmental tradeoffs associated with the production of biomethane? Nottingam University has for some time carried out studies on the options for using biomethane in order to maximise its use in the United Kingdom. Alexander Lamond from the Faculty of Engineering discusses the findings, explaining the objectives and results of an interesting study on the topic.
See the video on Biogas Channel
Brazil establishes national biofuels policy
January 2, 2017 – Brazilian President Michel Temer has approved legislation creating RenovaBio, a new national biofuels policy. The law was published in the official federal gazette of Brazil on Dec. 26. The Brazilian Senate approved the bill on Dec. 12. RenovaBio aims to increase the use of all biofuels, including ethanol, biodiesel and biomethane, in Brazil with the aim of increasing energy security and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
New report examines the biogas market shows boosted growth rate in forecast to 2023
January 2, 2017 – The report further highlights the development trends in the global Biogas market. Factors such as new project investments, the feasibility of new projects, import, export, supply, and sale price are also analyzed in the report. The consumption value and consumption volume of the market is analyzed on the basis of application, type, and region.
6 waste industry trends to watch in 2018
January 2, 2017 – Each day, waste industry workers perform vital functions that keep cities clean and communities healthy. Most of those functions remain fundamentally the same year-to-year: collect material, sort it, recover value and dispose of the rest. And yet, there are shifts each year that change how the industry operates. Composting, glass recycling and the increasing use of compressed natural gas (CNG) helped shape 2016. In 2017, the conversations that moved the industry ranged from China’s ongoing policy changes to how the big companies in the industry responded to natural disasters.
UK bioenergy production up during the third quarter
January 3, 2017 – The U.K. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy released updated energy statistics in late December, reporting that the share of low carbon electricity accounted for a record high of 54.4 percent during the third quarter of 2017, up from 50.2 percent during the same period of 2016. The increase is primarily attributed to increased renewables generation. The report notes that energy production from bioenergy and waste reached 2.2 million metric tons of oil equivalent during the third quarter, up 24.4 percent when compared to the same three-month period of 2016.
New biomass boiler to save community $29,000 a year
January 3, 2017 – A new woodchip fuelled biomass boiler is to be installed in the District of Clearwater, British Columbia, Canada, according to the Clearwater Times. The new biomass boiler will be installed in the North Thompson Sportsplex, and could supply heat to nearby buildings. According to the Clearwater Times, the new wood chip fuelled system will be similar to one already installed at a nearby community centre, which has delivered a 69% saving for the District in its first year of operation.
Read more on Bioenergy Insight
Scottish waterworks on the way to self-sufficiency
January 3, 2017 – The facility uses anaerobic digestion as an alternate source of energy, running independent of the National Grid multiple times in 2017. Veolia, the global resource management company is now helping Scottish Water to achieve the target of energy self-sufficiency at its Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) the largest treatment works in the east of Scotland. Veolia has increased the site’s ability to generate its own energy, from 55% in 2015 to around 85% in 2017, by boosting the renewable energy derived from a combination anaerobic digestion of sludge and biogas fired combined heat and power (CHP) plants.
Read more on Bioenergy Insight
Commentary: 2018 is the year for protecting the planet – with or without the U.S.
January 3, 2017 – This will be a big year for the Paris climate agreement. The broad outlines of the deal were figured out in 2015, but the specific rules governing what it requires countries to do will have to be written by the end of 2018. In spite of Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the accord, the deal appears surprisingly strong. In the final months of 2017, Nicaragua and Syria, the last two holdouts of the more than 190 nations that met in Paris, signed on.