RNG NEWS
First Anaerobic Digester to Turn Manure into Biogas in CA
By John Davis, Domestic Fuel.
California gets its first anaerobic digester that will turn manure from a dairy farm into biogas. Wisconsin-based DVO, Inc. announced it has nearly completed work on the anaerobic digester scheduled to open at Calgren Renewable Fuels on September 30, 2014 in Pixley, Calif.
The DVO anaerobic digester, built by Andgar of Ferndale, Washington, is designed to hold approximately 1,400,000 gallons of manure and organic waste. Each day, the digester will receive 55,000 gallons of solid and liquid waste from Four J Farm Dairy, a nearby dairy farm with approximately 2,000 head of cattle.
Why Hawaii Wants Liquefied Natural Gas From the Mainland
By Denver Nicks, TIME.
The Aloha state needs to say goodbye to its reliance on petrol and coal, but isn't quite ready to say hello to renewables.
The Hawaiian archipelago is among the most isolated places on earth—it’s farther away from a major landmass than any other island chain on the planet. Lacking substantial indigenous fossil fuel resources, any nuclear power sector, or a robust renewables sector, the state is forced to import almost all of the energy it consumes in the form of petroleum and coal, which are easier to transport than other fossil fuels.
Court Upholds Federal Rule That Will Ease Transition from Fossil Fuels to Clean Energy
By ENEWSPF.
Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday upheld the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) landmark Order No. 1000, which breaks down longstanding barriers to modernizing the grid and hastening a shift away from dirty fossil fuels to clean energy.
Order 1000, which was finalized in July 2011, creates common-sense requirements for transparent, inter-regional planning—both to enable more efficient, cost-effective investment in transmission upgrades and to help ensure that the necessary infrastructure is in place to meet state clean energy mandates (for instance, renewable portfolio standards) and other important public policies.
NYC to Convert Food Waste Into Renewable Natural Gas
By Boruch Shubert, Jewish Political News & Updates.
As revealed by Capital New York, New York City will expand a pilot program this fall that takes unconsumed food from the waste stream and converts it into pipeline-quality natural gas. If it turns out to be successful, the Department of Environmental Protection hopes the unique program will generate valuable information to the renewable energy industry while also stimulating a significant reduction in the city’s carbon output.
According to city officials, the process of converting the waste will reduce truck traffic, landfill pollution and reliance on traditional fossil fuels for energy. ”We’re looking at avoiding approximately 90,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide which is equivalent to 19,000 vehicles being taken off the road,” projected Anthony Fiore, director of the D.E.P.’s Office of Energy.
Landfill gas could be transformed into hydrogen fuel
By Hydrogen Fuel News.
According to a research report that is part of the 248th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, researchers have developed a catalyst that could eventually convert landfill gas into hydrogen fuel, a clean and efficient form of power, which could result in the production of fuel cell energy that would provide green electricity for homes, hospitals, and offices.
Why automakers will build more hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
By Jerry Hirsch, The Los Angeles Times
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles could soon gain ground on electric cars in the race to develop zero-emission cars, according to a new report.
The auto industry is seeing a convergence of factors that make fuel cell cars more viable, according to the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis.
City eyes biogas to fuel vehicles
By Joe Pinchot, The Herald
When Hermitage city officials were forced to upgrade the water pollution control plant, they decided to do it in a way that would save the city money along with benefiting the environment.
The saving money part was to come from cooking sludge and waste food to create a biogas that could be burned to generate electricity.
But, city officials are learning that, with the installation of new equipment, at a comparatively modest expense, they can save much more money.
Construction underway on Missouri anaerobic digestion project
By Roeslein Alternative Energy LLC
Construction is underway in Northern Missouri on an innovative $80 million renewable energy project, developed and constructed by Roeslein Alternative Energy LLC in collaboration with Murphy-Brown of Missouri LLC, the livestock production subsidiary of Smithfield Foods Inc.
Crews are installing impermeable covers on 88 existing lagoons to harvest biogas, also called renewable natural gas (RNG), from MBM hog finishing farms using best in class anaerobic digestion technology developed and installed by RAE. The project is the largest of its kind, utilizing manure from one of the biggest concentrations of finishing hogs in the Midwest to create several hundred million cubic feet of RNG annually for regional distribution.
Loebsack receives top award for leadership on renewable fuels
By Osceola Sentinel Tribune
Congressman Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, announced he has been awarded the 2014 Fueling Growth award from Growth Energy.
This award honors leaders who have fought to increase the use of ethanol biofuels and renewable fuels. Loebsack has been leading the fight in Congress to expand the use of biofuels and pushing back against the proposed 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) obligations announced last year.
Methane from Quebec Landfill to Help Heat Vermont
By Free Press Staff, Burlington Free Press.
Biogas, derived from waste products, was introduced to the distribution system of Vermont Gas on Aug. 1, the company announced Thursday.
It’s the same compound, methane, as the standard product that is piped to Vermont from gas fields in Alberta, but it’s coming from another part of Canada. The new infusion of biogas, which the company calls renewable natural gas, originates in a landfill in Quebec, and is enough to heat 350 average homes. Vermont Gas has about 50,000 customers, about 88 percent of them residential.