Anew Climate Expands Into German Biomethane Market
Anew Climate, LLC, a leading biomethane and carbon removals company, announces today an expansion of the company's European business by entering Germany's biomethane market. Leveraging the company's 20+ years of success in the North American biomethane and carbon removals markets, Anew will provide a full suite of comprehensive products and services to the transportation and industrial heat and power sectors. Anew's new office in Munich complements its existing presence in Budapest and Madrid.
New Plant Will Convert Landfill Gas to Renewable Energy, Boost Indian River’s Oslo Corridor
As the Oslo Road interchange at Interstate 95 nears completion, the county is looking at ways to improve transportation and inject life into the area. One development is a renewable natural-gas plant being built to provide fuel for clean-air vehicles and consumers.
Nopetro Renewables is spending $40 million to build the plant at 7625 Ninth St. SW., near the Indian River County landfill. It's expected to be completed in the spring.
Anaergia Signs $25 Million Biomethane Deal in Italy
Anaergia is partnering with Techbau to build five biomethane production plants across southern Italy in 2025.
Anaergia subsidiary, Anaergia S.r.l., will provide anaerobic digestion technology for biomethane production using agricultural and food processing waste. Techbau, for its part, will serve as general contractor in charge of engineering, procurement and construction.
Aemetis Biogas Receives $11 Million From Sale of IRA Investment Tax Credits
Aemetis, Inc., a renewable natural gas and renewable fuels company, announced today the receipt of $11 million, after transaction costs, from the sale of $13.5 million of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) investment tax credits generated by a solar electricity generation project at the Keyes ethanol plant and two dairy biogas digesters built as Aemetis Biogas projects. Aemetis has also entered into an agreement to sell the tax credits generated by the additional three dairy digesters that Aemetis commissioned in December 2024.
Vanguard Renewables Breaks Ground on Gas Facility
Vanguard Renewables, a portfolio company of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a part of BlackRock, held a groundbreaking ceremony for its newest renewable natural gas project at The Moyer Family’s Oakmulgee Dairy Farm in Amelia Court House, Virginia. The farm, owned by Larkin Moyer, a fourth-generation dairyman, along with his sons Brandon and Jeremy and is the oldest continuously operating family dairy in the Commonwealth.
Vanguard Renewables is a leading builder, owner and operator of organics-to-renewable natural gas facilities in the U.S.. The company is expanding across the U.S. and currently has seven operational facilities, three under construction, and plans to begin construction on multiple additional sites by the end of the year. The Farm Powered anaerobic digester at Oakmulgee Dairy Farm, will produce more than 259K MMBtu/year of renewable gas and divert over 105K tons of food and beverage waste from landfill or incineration yearly.
Naturgy Teams With Hispania Silva To Build at Least 20 Biomethane Plants
In Spain, Naturgy has signed a strategic alliance with Hispania Silva, a company specialising in waste recovery with extensive experience in the agricultural sector, for the construction of a minimum of 20 biomethane production plants, which could reach up to 30. The plants that form part of this alliance, which will be distributed throughout Spain and will be operational before 2030, will have the capacity to generate 2.5 TWh of biomethane per year, equivalent to the consumption of 500,000 homes. In addition, they will contribute to the decarbonization of our economy, with the reduction of 450,000 tonnes of CO2, equivalent to the planting of 49 million pine trees.
Nicor Gas Marks First RNG Interconnection in Illinois
Nicor Gas, one of four natural gas distribution companies of Southern Company Gas, opened its first-ever renewable natural gas (RNG) interconnection with Air Liquide’s largest RNG facility globally to convert biogas from a nearby landfill into energy.
“This interconnection is a significant step forward for Nicor Gas and Southern Company Gas on the path to a sustainable energy future for Illinois and facilitating economy-wide carbon reductions while fueling resiliency, energy security, and the growth of the clean energy economy,” said Wendell Dallas, president and CEO of Nicor Gas, during an official ribbon cutting ceremony for the event that was attended by company leaders, local and national elected officials, and community partners.
Valtom and Waga Energy Complete First RNG Injection Using a Hybrid Biogas Source
VALTOM and Waga Energy commissioned a renewable natural gas (RNG) production unit in Clermont-Ferrand (Central France), supplied both by biogas from the Puy-Long Landfill and the anaerobic digestion plant at the Vernéa waste management facility. It is the first unit of its kind in Europe.
On December 18th, 2024, in Clermont-Ferrand, VALTOM, a public authority in charge of waste management for the Clermont-Ferrand region in central France, and Waga Energy, a global expert in the production of Renewable Natural Gas from landfills, commissioned the first RNG production unit to be supplied by a hybrid biogas source.
Treasury Finalizes Guidance for IRA’s Tech Neutral, Clean Electricity Tax Credits
The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday finalized its guidance for the technology-neutral 45Y and 48E clean electricity tax credits introduced in the Inflation Reduction Act, a week after the credits went into effect and replaced their predecessors — the Section 45 production tax credit and the Section 48 investment tax credit.
“The final rules issued today provide important clarity and certainty around what clean electricity zero-emissions technologies qualify for the credits — including wind, solar, hydropower, marine and hydrokinetic, geothermal, nuclear, and certain waste energy recovery property,” Treasury said in a release.
US Hydrogen Guidance Makes Big Difference for Some Projects
The US Treasury Department has finalized long-awaited guidance that maintains tight guardrails for accessing lucrative clean hydrogen production tax credits, with some new flexibilities that lower the bar just enough to possibly secure and strengthen the commercial viability of certain projects.
Finalized guidance released last week for the "45V" tax credits of up to $3 per kilogram sets out eligibility and verification requirements requiring projects to prove that the energy they use to generate hydrogen is not only low carbon, but new, identifiable and local.