RNG NEWS
How California Can Make Use of Renewable Natural Gas
After significant success in other sectors, California is getting serious about reducing greenhouse gas emissions from one of the hardest areas to decarbonize: heating in homes, businesses and industrial applications.
To ensure success, flexible policy making is required.
Californians are familiar with green technology. Solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars are common sights. But other areas of life remain untouched by the state’s push toward a clean economy.
By, Sam Wade, Cal Matters
SoCalGas Seeks to Offer Renewable Natural Gas to Customers
Utilities Commission seeking to offer renewable natural gas to its 21 million customers in Central and Southern California. Renewable natural gas is a fuel produced from waste and agriculture that can be used to heat homes and businesses, for cooking, and to fuel trucks and buses. The fuel assists in helping Californiareduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions because it is carbon-neutral or carbon-negative, meaning that it can take more GHG emissions out of the air than it emits as an energy source. Under the proposed program, millions of Californians would have the option to purchase a portion of their natural gas from renewable sources, just as many today can opt to purchase renewable electricity. The program is expected to create increased demand for renewable natural gas, which should help increase supply and lower its cost over time, similar to what has happened with renewable electricity created from wind and solar power. Photos of renewable natural gas projects in California are available here.
By, Pasadena Now
New Hexagon Division Focuses on Renewable Fuel Solutions
Honing in on the growing market opportunities in the renewable fuel space, Hexagon Composites has launched Hexagon Purus, a dedicated business division for the company’s group-wide hydrogen activities and compressed natural gas light-duty vehicle activities.
Through Hexagon Purus, the company will continue to develop solutions working closely with car, bus and truck manufacturers; fleet, rail and marine operators; gas distributors; and refueling station operators. The division will provide lightweight composite high-pressure tanks and systems for the storage and distribution of hydrogen, natural gas and biogas.
By, Betsy Lillian, NGT News
Capital Regional District Directors to Consider $63 million for Hartland Landfill RNG Project in B.C.
Up to $63 million in improvements to the Hartland Landfill will be up for consideration by Capital Regional District directors Wednesday. CRD staff are recommending spending about $23.7 million to build a facility to clean up and convert landfill gas into usable natural gas.
And, staff say, the region should proceed with an anaerobic digester system at a cost of between $25 million and $40 million to process food scraps into biogas.
By, Bill Cleverley, Times Colonist
Clean Energy Sustainability Goals Outline Road to 100% Renewable with a Zero-Carbon Fuel
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE) has set goals to offer Zero-Carbon1 Redeem™ renewable natural gas (RNG) at all of its fueling stations by 2025, summarized in its Corporate Sustainability Report unveiled today at the GreenBiz Conference.
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By transitioning exclusively to Redeem by 2025 and by achieving Zero-Carbon intensity, Clean Energy would outdistance other alternative fuels, including electric vehicles, which are not excepted to hit that mark until 2045.
By, Fox40
EPA may Weigh Ban on Banks' Role in Biofuel-Credit Review
The Trump administration is planning to propose an overhaul of the opaque market for trading biofuel compliance credits amid complaints of hoarding and wild price swings, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Environmental Protection Agency is set to lay out several options in coming weeks, including barring Wall Street banks and other outsiders from trading the credits, said the people, who asked for anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
By, Jennifer A Dlouhy & Mario Parker, Bloomberg
BlueSource, EcoEngineers, and BioFerm Partner Together for Dane County’s Landfill Biogas Project
Today, standing in front of Kwik Trip’s compressed natural gas (CNG) station in Verona, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced that Kwik Trip will be one of the primary dispensers of the renewable vehicle fuel generated by the County’s landfill biogas project when it reaches completion later this year. When finished, Dane County’s landfill biogas project will be able to turn trash and cow manure into renewable fuel and inject it into an interstate transmission pipeline so it can be bought and sold to power fleets of CNG vehicles. Through Kwik Trip’s partnership with Dane County, the company will be able to dispense renewable CNG fuel from the pipeline, sell it at the company’s growing list of CNG fueling stations, and power vehicles locally and across the Midwest.
“Our project at the landfill will be a win for clean air as well as Dane County taxpayers,” said County Executive Joe Parisi. “Dane County’s partnership with Kwik Trip will enable our region to reap the benefits of the renewable fuel generated at the landfill.”
By, County of Dane
Amp Americas Expands Fair Oaks Farms Dairy RNG Project to Increase Biogas Production
Renewable Dairy Fuels (RDF), a business unit of Amp Americas, has expanded the production of its biogas operation at Fair Oaks Farms by 30%.
The Indiana project was the first dairy biogas-to-transportation fuel project in the country, according to RDF. Now, it has the capacity to produce over 2.3 million gallons per year of 100%-renewable transportation fuel from dairy waste.
RDF’s Fair Oaks facility remains the second-largest dairy biogas-to-transportation fuel project in the country, bested only by RDF’s facility in Jasper County, Ind., which came online last year, the company says.
By, Betsy Lillian, NGT News
NC Utilities Commission Approves Catawba Biogas for RNG Pilot Program
The North Carolina Utilities Commission has approved the participation of Catawba Biogas LLC, a proposed poultry-waste biogas plant in Anson County, in a pilot program that will allow the facility to inject renewable natural gas (RNG) to pipelines operated by Piedmont Natural Gas, a subsidiary of Duke Energy Corp.
On Feb. 4, the N.C. Utilities Commission published an order approving Catawba for participation in the pilot program, subject to the company and Piedmont entering into a interconnect agreement approved by the commission.
By, Erin Voegele, Biomass Magazine
Republic Services Landfills: Yesterday’s Waste Leads to Tomorrow’s Energy
Republic Services’ landfills aren’t just collecting trash, they can also produce renewable energy. Today, we’re capturing landfill gas and converting it to electricity and fuel. We also are utilizing closed landfills to generate solar electricity. Through these efforts, we’re converting previously unused resources into power for homes, businesses and vehicles – including our own collection trucks.
Republic operates gas-to-energy projects at 68 of our landfills. We call these landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) projects. This process involves collecting methane, a byproduct of the normal decomposition of waste, from below the landfill surface and routing it to a series of engines. These engines convert the methane into electricity, which can be distributed to the local power grid.
By, 3BL Media