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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Rethinking Tennessee’s Energy Future with RNG
There’s been much talk about the Green New Deal, a proposal that has generated a lot of debate about solutions to climate change, environmental protection and more. In response to this idea, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander proposed an audacious response that would help deliver American energy independence and put us on a trajectory to lead a new energy revolution at home and abroad. Alexander compared this monumental opportunity to a new Manhattan Project of sorts: a moonshot-like moment that would give America a chance to once again take a giant leap forward.
For the past five years, we at White Harvest Energy have been working to help make Tennessee’s energy sector work more efficiently for our customers and the communities we serve. To do this, we have been working with utilities and clients across the state to help them better understand their energy generation technology and what they can be doing to improve efficiency, stability and safety. We then work with them to install modular combined heat and power systems, which help more efficiently power, heat and cool buildings.
By Ben Edgar, Tennessean
Canada and California Team Up to Tackle Vehicle Climate Pollution
Reducing transport pollution will help Canadians save money, clean our air, and help fight climate change. The auto sector is changing quickly, with electric and autonomous vehicles and other advanced technologies creating huge new opportunities for automakers, parts manufacturers, software developers, and Canada's mining sector. As demand for cleaner and more efficient vehicles grows, investing in innovation is essential to ensure that Canadian automakers remain competitive and that we continue attracting the jobs of the future.
Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, signed a new cooperation agreement to advance clean transportation.
By Newswire
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.
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