RNG NEWS
Truck Drivers Like Helping the Environment with RNG Trucks
We captured feedback from drivers in the near-zero RNG truck demonstration project. The technology has come a long way since the first units deployed 10 years ago. Drivers give RNG trucks a big “thumbs up”. See what drivers have to say in the videos below. Enjoy!
Truck Drivers Like the Performance of RNG Trucks
Near-zero natural gas trucks are great for the environment, but can they hold up to the demanding business of port trucking? Watch what real port truck drivers have to say about the performance of today’s natural gas trucks.
By Clean Energy
U.S. Gain Expands Investment in Dairy Industry
With its corporate headquarters surrounded by dairy farms, U.S. Gain is personally familiar with the benefits the agricultural industry provides the local economy. Even so, U.S. Gain President Mike Koel never thought his business would be investing in these farms to produce alternative fuel. With partnerships in 12 dairy farms and growing, U.S. Gain is especially honored to see these farms profit from renewable natural gas (RNG) production.
RNG is an alternative fuel produced by capturing methane from agricultural waste, wastewater, landfills and food waste. Gas from these sources is cleaned and conditioned to meet pipeline standards, then dispensed through natural gas fueling stations and used as the only carbon-negative fuel.
By U.S. Newswire
Greenlane Secures New CDN$3.4 Million Biogas Upgrading Contract
Greenlane Renewables Inc. (“Greenlane” or the “Company”) (TSXV: GRN) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenlane Biogas North America Ltd., has secured a new CDN $3.4 million-dollar biogas upgrading contract. Greenlane will provide its water-wash technology solution for a municipal wastewater treatment facility in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada. Work will begin immediately. Final commissioning is expected to be completed mid next year. The facility will produce clean Renewable Natural Gas (“RNG”) for injection into the gas distribution network owned and operated by FortisBC, the local gas utility.
By Morningstar
Volkswagen Group Further Expand CNG Mobility
Volkswagen Group and its industry partners from the gas supply, network, and filling station operation sectors will showcase their products and services at the 3rd CNG Mobility Days in Berlin (25–26 June 2019), presenting an overview of the current situation and the future of CNG. Volkswagen Group brands will also be exhibiting their latest CNG models in the passenger car, truck and bus segments.
In parallel with the advancing electrification of its fleet, Volkswagen Group and its brands continue to rely on CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) as an alternative drive technology for decarbonising road transport, and the product range has been revised and expanded again with this in mind.
By Automotive World
Bright Biomethane Opens North America Office to Fuel Future RNG Growth
Bright Biomethane opened its first North American office in response to growing business and increasing demand for renewable natural gas (RNG) solutions in North America. Bright Biomethane North America is working on the first five projects, which are being realized in the Northeast of the Unites States.
By Bioenergy Insight
The Future of UPS' Alternative Fuel Use
Mike Casteel, director of fleet procurement for UPS, recently gave a keynote address on “the future of fuels” at the annual meeting of the Fuels Institute in Dallas, Texas. Afterwards, Fuels Institute Executive Director John Eichberger interviewed Casteel, who has more than 40 years of logistics, energy and automotive experience. Below is their candid chat about strategy, alternative vehicles and fuels and the economics of sustainability.
Eichberger: You have 10,000 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles worldwide. The best environmental program or strategy is meaningless if it’s not economically sustainable. Are there other motivations?
By Mike Casteel, UPS
Ameresco Explores the Benefits of Using RNG in Green Campus Microgrids
Michael Bakas, executive vice president, Ameresco, describes the benefits of green campus microgrids. Such projects help campuses reach sustainability markers, as well as economic goals when they are financed through energy performance contracts. In addition, campus microgrids can serve as learning labs that give graduating students a leg up in the job market. Elisa Wood, Microgrid Knowledge editor-in-chief, spoke with Bakas at Microgrid 2019 in San Diego.
More and more campuses — whether they serve healthcare, higher education or industry — are building microgrids.
By, Sarah Rubenoff, Microgrid Knowledge
SoCalGas Offers $100,000 in Grants to Help Cities Prepare for Climate Change Risks
Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced it will continue its grant program that helps California cities become more resilient in the face of climate change risks such as flooding, wildfires, extreme heat, drought, sea level rise, and other extreme weather events. The competitive grant program provides $50,000 to each of two municipalities in the utility's service territory and is designed to help cities and counties reduce the impact of climate change-related threats, which are expected to increase over the next decade. An advisory panel of planning and sustainability experts from Climate Resolve and the American Planning Association-California Chapter (APA-California) will select the winning applications from across Southern and Central California.
Amp Americas Sells its ampCNG Unit to Focus Entirely on Rapidly Growing Dairy RNG Business
Amp Americas’ Renewable Dairy Fuels Set to Break Ground on Two Dairy RNG Projects.
CHICAGO (June 20, 2019) –Amp Americastodayannounced that the sale of its 20 ampCNG fueling stations to American Natural Gas (ANG) for $41 million has closed. A pioneer in the renewable transportation fuel industry, Amp Americas will continue to own and operate its landmark Indiana biogas operations through its Renewable Dairy Fuels (RDF) business unit. The company will also continue to invest heavily in dairy RNG projects and plans to break ground on two additional dairy biogas operations later this year.
Amp Americas’ Renewable Dairy Fuels Set to Break Ground on Two Dairy RNG Projects.
CHICAGO (June 20, 2019) –Amp Americas today announced that the sale of its 20 ampCNG fueling stations to American Natural Gas (ANG) for $41 million has closed. A pioneer in the renewable transportation fuel industry, Amp Americas will continue to own and operate its landmark Indiana biogas operations through its Renewable Dairy Fuels (RDF) business unit. The company will also continue to invest heavily in dairy RNG projects and plans to break ground on two additional dairy biogas operations later this year.
“ANG shares in our vision of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and moving the alternative fuel industry forward. We are proud to be helping them further expand their network to over 60 CNG stations,” said Grant Zimmerman, CEO of AMP Americas. “This transaction gives us substantial runway for our next phase of growth and enables us to focus on our growing pipeline of dairy RNG projects.”
About Amp Americas
Amp Americas operates two business units: Renewable Dairy Fuels (RDF) and Amp Renew. RDF produces 100% renewable natural gas from dairy waste. RDF received the first dairy waste-to-vehicle fuel pathway certified by California's Air Resources Board (CARB). The company was also awarded a Carbon Intensity (CI) score of -254.94 gCO2e/MJ, the lowest ever issued by CARB. Amp Renew sources renewable gas from RDF and third party RNG developers to supply fuel to fleet customers. Visitwww.ampamericas.com.
CalBio & Dairy Farmers Partner with Chevron to Reduce Methane Emissions via Dairy Biomethane Fuel Projects
Chevron USA Inc. announced Tuesday it has partnered with a Visalia-based company to help fund up to 18 dairy "digesters" that would harvest methane from cow manure in Kern, Kings and Tulare counties.
The oil giant, under its deal with California Bioenergy LLC, also agreed to help find a market for the resulting biomethane, a renewable-energy greenhouse gas 84 times more potent at trapping heat than carbon dioxide.
By John Cox, Bakersfield