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Report Highlights European Biogas Potential
HRS Heat Exchangers welcomes a recent Statistical Report by the European Biogas Association (EBA) which shows that by 2050, as much as 40% of Europe’s total gas consumption could come from sustainable biomethane. We also welcome the focus that the report gives to the importance of creating sustainable uses and markets for digestate, without which such ambitions will not be realised. The ...
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The European Biogas Association launched a Company Advisory Council
One day after the General Assembly the European Biogas Association (EBA) launched aCompany Advisory Council on 12th January 2011 in Nuremberg. Over 30 internationalbiogas companies attended the inaugural meeting to discuss the future biogas development in Europe. EU Renewable Energy targets 2020 will not be reached withoutbiogas contribution to the energy mix. But a number of stimulating measures ...
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More research needed to tap Africa`s biogas potential
Lack of local research is preventing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa producing energy from waste, according to a report. The region has abundant raw materials for producing biogas. Waste and polluted water from industry — including slaughterhouse remnants, animal dung and sewage — can be converted into carbon dioxide and methane through anaerobic digestion. The biogas can be used ...
By SciDev.Net
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Construction Start For Biogas Plant With EnviThan Gas Upgrading System in China
EnviTec Biogas Technology impresses in Far East Lohne, 15 January 2014 – The Middle Kingdom invests in “made in Germany” biogas technology: With the contract conclusion between the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) and EnviTec Biogas AG, the biogas all-rounder based in Lower Saxony is setting foot on Chinese soil. The state-owned company CSIC, which employs about ...
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Ghana `must embrace biogas`
Ghana's policymakers should embrace abundant and clean biogas as a source of energy, to curb its reliance on dwindling wood resources for fuel, say researchers. The country has huge potential for producing biogas, including the technical expertise to construct almost 280,000 biogas plants, but it faces many obstacles in achieving this, according to a study published in the May issue of Renewable ...
By SciDev.Net
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WBA launches the fact sheet: Biogas - An important renewable energy source
The World Bioenergy Association would like to present its fifth publication ‘Biogas – an important renewable energy source’, as part of a series of documents intended to be utilized by the media and industry as verifiable, easily referenced source of information addressing global biogas usage and potential. The fact sheet discusses current and potential Biogas supply for a ...
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Construction start for biogas plant with EnviThan gas upgrading system in China
The Middle Kingdom invests in “made in Germany” biogas technology: With the contract conclusion between the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) and EnviTec Biogas AG, the biogas all-rounder based in Lower Saxony is setting foot on Chinese soil. The state-owned company CSIC, which employs about 300,000 people, is investing in an EnviFarm Classic biogas plant with EnviThan ...
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100 Companies Now Growing the U.S. Biogas Industry
Washington, D.C. – Illustrating it is the voice of the biogas and anaerobic digestion industry, the American Biogas Council (ABC) welcomed its 100th member this week. The American Biogas Council is the first and only trade association in the U.S. representing organizations dedicated to maximizing the production and use of biogas from organic waste. Municipalities, digester designers, multi- ...
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EnviTec Biogas Posts Strong Result in Difficult Industry Environment
Turnaround in profits in H1 2014 Sales revenues EUR 75.3 million; EBIT EUR 5.3 million; first-half profit EUR 3.8 million Guidance for 2014 confirmed Lohne, September 30, 2014 – “We are pleased about a strong first half-year 2014”, says Jörg Fischer, Chief Financial Officer of EnviTec Biogas AG. “Despite a difficult market environment, we managed to turn around ...
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Canada Ready to Unleash Power of Biogas
The news that Canada saw a 50% increase in operational biogas capacity over the last decade is great news for both the economy and the environment, as is the strong outlook for future development contained in the latest report from the Canadian Biogas Association (CBA). The news was contained in the Canadian 2020 Biogas Market Report¹, published in October 2021. In it the CBA revealed that ...
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National grid calls for anaerobic digestion boost
The National Grid has forecast that the development of anaerobic digestion infrastructure and biogas production has the potential to be a significant source of fuel for the UK. Biodegradable waste streams, such as food and wood waste could be turned into biogas and injected into the gas distribution system, according to a new study by the National Grid and analysts Ernst and Young. In the study ...
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GTI to Exhibit at World�s Largest Biomass Conference
Geomembrane Technologies Inc. (GTI) is excited to be exhibiting at the International Biomass Conference & Expo. The event will take place April 10-12, 2017, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. GTI invites all attendees to visit us at booth 623. The International Biomass Conference & Expo is the largest biomass conference in the world. Organized by BBI International and produced by Biomass ...
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IFAT CHINA + EPTEE + CWS 2010: Wide-ranging applications for biogas – significant potential for expansion
The production of biogas, in particular in small, decentralized systems, has been common in China for decades. Last year around one in ten families in the rural regions of China cooked with biogas. The majority of this environmentally-friendly fuel was produced on a very small scale in the 18 million independently operating domestic plants. A further 1.4 million households were supplied with ...
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Association of Alternative Fuel and Energy Market Participants of Ukraine Joined the Global 100% Renewables
Association of alternative fuel and energy market participants of Ukraine (APEU), which is the largest Ukrainian organization in the field of renewable energy, has become a participant of the global initiative called Global 100% Renewables, which aims to create worldwide infrastructure capable of supporting global energy consumption by 100% from renewable sources. According to the APEU president ...
By IBCentre
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EnviTec Biogas posts strong result in difficult industry environment
Turnaround in profits in H1 2014 Sales revenues EUR 75.3 million; EBIT EUR 5.3 million; first-half profit EUR 3.8 million Guidance for 2014 confirmed “We are pleased about a strong first half-year 2014”, says Jörg Fischer, Chief Financial Officer of EnviTec Biogas AG. “Despite a difficult market environment, we managed to turn around profits at all levels and are ...
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RFA: Biogas may have more potential than UCO as an alternative fuel
Biofuel made from used cooking oil remains a “niche” product but biogas could have much more scope, says an industry expert. Revealed in the Renewable Fuels Agency report Year One of the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation for 2008/09, just over 12 per cent of the biofuel supplied to fuel manufacturers in the UK is made from wastes and by-products, such as used cooking oil (UCO), tallow – animal ...
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Indiana primed to be a renewable energy hub for America
Wind power, biomass, and other sources of renewable energy will bring significant job creation, economic investment and new tax revenues to Indiana’s struggling rural communities, according to a new report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). “Facing an unprecedented set of economic challenges, Indiana stands at a new crossroads and is poised for healthy growth if it ...
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First African grid-connected biogas-powered electricity plant comes online in Kenya
Africa’s first biogas-powered electricity producer to sell surplus electricity to a national grid has come online at a Kenyan commercial farm. The Gorge Farm Energy Park, located in the market town of Naivasha, produces 2MW of electricity and heat to cultivate 1,740 acres of vegetables and flowers, with enough surplus power to feed 5,000-6,000 rural homes. The farm, roughly 76km away ...
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Half Britain’s homes could be heated by renewable gas, says National Grid
Up to half the country’s domestic gas heating could be met by turning waste into biogas, according to a new report from National Grid. Biogas could give the UK a new reliable source of green energy as the North Sea gas reserves run down. The report looks at how all the biodegradable waste streams such as sewage, food and wood could be turned into biogas and injected into the gas distribution ...
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WELTEC builds Biogas Plants in Greece
Using the Energy Decentral within the framework of the Eurotier trade fair in Hanover, Germany, as a communication platform, the German biogas plant manufacturer WELTEC BIOPOWER is happy to welcome large numbers of visitors from abroad. No wonder: Meanwhile, the company boasts references in 25 countries. Commenting on the company‘s presence at the exhibition in Hanover, Jens Albartus, ...
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