High five for pump and mixer maker shortlisted for ADBA awards

Pump and mixer manufacturer Landia has been shortlisted for five industry awards by ADBA, the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association. Landia’s GasMix digester mixing system...

Scottish street lighting programme in the spotlight

A Scottish LED street lighting replacement programme, forecast to deliver electricity and maintenance cost savings of £1.2bn over the next 20 years whilst saving...

Brisk AD set up

WARWICKSHIRE based AD plant manufacturer Weltec Biopower has reported the placement of orders for two new agricultural biogas plant projects in England and Northern...

Waste gasification plant starts 2nd phase

Aerospace and security firm Lockheed Martin is to proceed with the second phase of the development and construction of a 5MW waste-to-energy plant in...

Sainsbury’s stores run on energy from supermarket food waste

IN partnership with UK food waste recycler ReFood, a number of Sainsbury’s supermarkets across the country are now powered by green gas. Produced entirely...

Losses as Teeside gasification scrapped

PLANS to build a couple of ground-breaking plasma gasification energy-from-waste plants in Teeside have been scrapped, seemingly because of challenges with the technology. The announcement...

Energy consultancy to deliver hydrogen demo project on Orkney

Edinburgh based Systeng Consulting has announced its appointment as part of a project management team that will deploy a renewable-based integrated energy system in...

Whey to go: Engine replacement boosts efficiency for dairy waste AD system

FACED with an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant not operating effectively, Dr Stephen Temple – a Norfolk-based dairy farmer and co-owner of Mrs Temple’s Cheeses...

Norfolk AD plant gets grid-ready with propane enrichment system

A new anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Norfolk is generating grid-ready biogas to heat 4,500 homes, with propane enrichment supplied by Flogas – a...

Firm highlights priorities for pumps in the AD sector

T-T Pumps will be appearing at the AD & Biogas show in July, showcasing what the firm says is a growing range of cost-effective...

Additive boosts AD performance and stability

OMEX Environmental is introducing a new powder additive for the anaerobic digestion and biogas market, Nutromex® Biopack. Nutromex® Biopack is described as "a unique...

Time-lapse footage shows windmill construction at RSPB headquarters

Ecotricity has released a time-lapse video and documentary to mark the completion of a 100m windmill at the RSPB’s headquarters near Sandy in Bedfordshire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJYj1f3XEFI The...

Video explains new waste treatment facility on Malta

A video is available providing an overview of the plant concept underlying the €50 million mechanical and biological treatment plant and bulky waste facility...

Building a world class AD industry

Charlotte Morton, chief executive of the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) offers a few thoughts on the UK AD sector ahead of the...

Better the dEUvil you know?

Dr Kerry Ashford, Chief Executive of the National Energy Foundation, offers a few thoughts on the EU referendum and its implications for energy and...

Innovation cuts H2S levels in biogas produced by AD

VEOLIA says it has achieved improvements with the amount of power that can be derived from the anaerobic digestion (AD) of sludge, employing a...

UK to adopt 200MW of energy storage assets to stabilise the grid

Due to the increasing share of renewables in Britain’s generation mix, National Grid will contract 200MW of energy storage assets to stabilise the grid...

New efficiency record for large-area PV solar cell technology

Trina Solar, a global supplier of photovoltaic (PV) modules, solutions and services, announced in late April that its State Key Laboratory of PV Science...

Ground-level climate at peatland wind farm is affected by wind turbine operation, though effects...

The microclimates created by the action of wind farms is unlikely to affect the ability of peatland to capture carbon, suggest scientists in a...

New surveying service helps pinpoint faulty solar cells

Push Energy and Buzzflyer have joined forces to form Above Surveying, an aerial thermographic inspection service company specialising in solar PV. Above Surveying...