BiogasWorld Weekly Vol 16

By | 2017-08-10

Policy updates in the UK on feed-in tariffs, RHI, RTFO

August 3, 2017 – New feed-in tariff for small and medium-size biogas plants selling electricity to the grid, and cuts for larger plants. The election of the new government has led to a delay in the implementation of the RHI; good news, on the other hand, for the RTFO.

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GoBiGas: the Swedish project to transform forest residues into biomethane

August 3, 2017 – GoBiGas (Gothenburg Biomass Gasification) is the largest pan-European demo project for transforming forest residues into biomethane. Its aim? To demonstrate that this process leads to a more sustainable economy, a reduction in production costs and increased efficiency.

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 Cancelled Petronas LNG project casts shadow over Canada’s biggest shale play

August 7, 2017 – Petronas’decision to cancel its Pacific NorthWest LNG project is a blow to the growth outlook for Canada’s largest shale play, eliminating a potentially huge source of future gas demand. Gas from the Montney shale play in western Canada would have supplied the C$36 billion ($28.7 billion) project in northern British Columbia. The project, majority-owned by Malaysia’s Petronas, would then have shipped 12 megatonnes per year of liquefied natural gas to Asia. Instead, state-owned Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) subsidiary Progress Energy will keep developing and selling gas from its vast Montney position into a North American market where prices have been languishing at historically low levels.

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Solution approved for Indonesia’s $200 million food waste problem

August 8, 2017 – Greenbelt Resources Corporation has received “Eco Friendly Technology” registration for its ECOsystem process. Greenbelt claims that the certification gives the company a greenlight to offer its waste-to-energy process as a solution available to address Indonesia’s food waste challenge. Indonesia is the world’s second biggest ‘food waster’ after Saudi Arabia. The certification (Registration #026/TRL/Reg1/K4K) was officially signed by the Indonesian Secretary General to the Ministry of Environment and Forestry Bambang Henfroyono, head of the agency that awards Ecolabel status to green technologies.

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Biogas switch aids forest recovery, claims new study

August 8, 2017 – Recently released research shows that a shift to biogas in southern India helped revive some of the region’s forests. Published in July’s edition of the journal Global Ecology and Conservation, the new study describes how forests in south India that had become degraded due to excessive fuelwood extraction recovered after villagers living nearby switched to biogas for their cooking fuel needs.

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Global biogas power plants market illuminated by new report

August 9, 2017 – Biogas Power Plants Market , is recently added report, is a comprehensive analysis of the Biogas Power Plants Market. It offers useful market insights such as the market share, size and growth. The current trends, growth opportunities and challenges in the Loyalty   are highlighted in the report. Factors that influence market growth are listed in the presented study along with factors that impede market growth for the forecast period 2017-2022. The prospects of the upcoming projects and technological advancements have been highlighted in the market study. The scope and feasibility of the emerging industry applications is evaluated in the market study.

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