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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Renovare EIS looks to fill renewable gap
By Scott Longley, Professional Adviser.
Renovare Fuels is hoping to raise £1.76m from investors to fund its push to provide patent-pending technology to landfill operators that can convert landfill gas into diesel and gasoline. The technology allows for the displacement of large volumes of CO2 and, as a result, will be eligible for Kyoto Protocol Standard Greenhouse Gas Credits.
The company has advanced assurance from HMRC that it is an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) qualifying investment. The technology can convert gas to commercial-grade liquid fuel profitably, without the need for government subsidies. It also meets government criteria for processing new waste and turning it into a valuable commodity via anaerobic digestion.
SLC mayor wants city running on clean energy by 2032
By Ben Winslow, KSTU.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Mayor Jackie Biskupski made an ambitious announcement on Tuesday, a plan to put all city buildings, street lights and even the Salt Lake International Airport on clean energy by 2032.
At a news conference Tuesday, the mayor said she wanted 50-percent of municipal operations powered by renewable energy by 2020. To accomplish it, Biskupski announced the city would be buying into Rocky Mountain Power's new "Subscriber Solar" program.
"Salt Lake City has committed to purchasing three megawatts of clean solar power through the new solar subscription program," she said. "This commitment is the equivalent of 9,000 solar panels."
States with RPS laws are doubling down, while those without take little interest. Maryland could help explain why.
By Herman K. Trabish, Utility Dive.
curious trend is emerging when it comes to renewable energy mandates: Many states that have them are doubling down, while those that don’t are showing little interest at all.
Since 2009, only Vermont has enacted a new renewable portfolio standard (RPS), yet five states with an RPS on the books strengthened them in the last two years alone.
The discrepancy has more to it than a simple increase in political polarization. While that’s apparent across the nation, the debate behind Maryland’s recent decision to strengthen its renewable energy standards shows there’s more to the recent trend than ideology alone.
San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco pledge to go with 100% renewable energy
By Lucas Mearian, Computerworld.
Last year, San Diego's city council voted to commit the city to using 100% renewable energy by 2035.
Last week, San Diego reiterated its pledge to renewable energy and other sustainable strategies, such as eliminating half of all greenhouse gas production, in a Climate Action Plan memorandum.
While the city's plan is still in its nascent stages, San Diego's news sparked articles by a dozen or so publications because it is the largest city to commit to an all-renewable power grid.
Corporate, Public Sectors Supporting RNG & Other Alternative Transportation Fuels
By Richard Nemec,
Corporate and government sector policymakers are gravitating toward increased use of alternative transportation fuels, including natural gas and renewable natural gas (RNG). The CEO of the nation's largest gas utility said that in the years ahead all of the alternatives from electric vehicles (EV) to fuel cell technology will be needed.
Those were the highlights of the final day of the four-day Alternative Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Long Beach, CA. A heightened role for RNG in the natural gas vehicle (NGV) sector was promoted during the event, as was a "Sustainable Freight Transportation Initiative" that was released by a group of California agencies as a blueprint for the state to transition to zero- and near-zero-emission technologies for moving goods.
Here's who's joining Tesla and Fred Meyer in Oregon's Clean Fuels Program
By James Cronin, Portland Business Journal.
The state's Clean Fuels Program has kicked off with some big commitments.
Last week, Fred Meyer signed onto the Department of Environmental Quality's program, purchasing 500,000 gallons of renewable compressed natural gas derived from organic waste that will generate credits for the statewide program that aims to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles.
While the supermarket chain owns 31 trucks that run on liquified natural gas — a cleaner-burning fuel than diesel — Tesla Motors is the headliner for Oregon's program. The electric vehicle company signed on to generate Clean Fuels credits from 697,000 kilowatt-hours worth of electric vehicle charging at Tesla-owned charging stations.
Landfill owner to provide free landfill gas to MMSD for 25 years
By Don Behm, the Journal Sentinel.
Advanced Disposal Services will provide the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District with up to $14.5 million worth of free landfill gas over 25 years from the Emerald Park Landfill in Muskego, under terms of a revised contract negotiated to settle district claims against the company.
Advanced Disposal, owner of Emerald Park, has not delivered even the minimum annual amount of landfill gas required under the original contract, providing only 29% of the contract minimum flow in 2015 and less than one-third in 2014, records show.
"They have not been able to meet the production schedule," MMSD Executive Director Kevin Shafer said.
New York state schedules series of hearings on clean energy
By WBNG News.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) The New York State Department of Public Service is hosting a series of public hearings on a new clean energy proposal.
Officials will provide information and take public comment on the state's proposed Clean Energy Standard. The program mandates that 50 percent of all electricity consumed in New York by 2030 come from clean and renewable energy sources.
Greeley is home to North America's largest renewable energy "stomach"
By Kathleen Duff, Greeley Tribune.
Motorists passing by the series of six domed-top tanks and various outbuildings tucked between two dairy farms near LaSalle might dismiss the development as yet another of rural Weld County’s many oil facilities.
But what those drivers don’t see is an innovative addition to Weld County’s rapidly growing portfolio of renewable energy enterprises.
Resting on that flat piece of rural land is the Heartland Biogas Project, the largest anaerobic digester in North America. There, food waste and dairy cow manure are converted into renewable natural gas that supplies power to more than 35,000 households.
French Team to Challenge with Biomethane at Le Mans 2017
Via NGV Global News.
The renowned Le Mans 24-hour race for 2017 will have a new entry in the experimental category, in the form of a liquefied biomethane powered hybrid vehicle from France’s Welter Racing (WR), based in Thorigny sur Marne, Île-de-France.
This project, led by the WR team whose first participation in the 24 Hours of Le Mans began in 1976, aims to use biomethane from waste disposal to deliver a zero-CO2-impact race and demonstrate this form of renewable energy is worthy of inclusion at the highest level of motor racing.
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