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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Greenlane Renewables Warrants to Commence Trading on TSXV Under the Symbol “GRN.WT”
Greenlane Renewables Inc. (“Greenlane” or the “Company”) (TSXV: GRN) today announced that the warrants issued in connection with the Company’s private placement, which closed May 30, 2019 and Qualifying Transaction which closed June 3, 2019, (the "Warrants") have been conditionally approved for listing on the TSX Venture Exchange (the “Exchange”). The Warrants are expected to commence trading on or about August 12, 2019 under the symbol GRN.WT, subject to the Company satisfying the remaining requirements of the Exchange.
By Business Wire
Middletown’s Free Food Waste Disposal Program Turn Food into Biogas to be Processed into RNG
Kim O’Rourke is encouraging residents to compost their food waste in an effort to meet the city’s goal of reducing and recycling 60 percent of its waste by 2024. The majority of the humus created from these scraps will be taken to Quantum BioPower in Southington.
The company turns the organic material into biogas, which can be used as a fuel to generate electricity, or further processed into renewable natural gas and transportation fuel.
“All municipalities are looking for additional ways to reduce their waste. This is one way we’re trying to educate the public that they can do something with their food waste other than putting it in the trash. This is a great option,” she said.
By Cassandra Day, Standford Advocate
Bioenergy DevCo Receives $106M Investment to Develop Anerobic Digestion Facilities
Bioenergy DevCo, a Columbia, MD-based global developer of anaerobic digestion facilities with more than 200 plants throughout the world that create renewable natural gas and healthy soil products, received its $106M first institutional investment from Newlight Partners LP.
The company intends to use to expand its operational presence in North America, working with municipalities and corporations to develop anaerobic digestion facilities that naturally transform organic waste into renewable natural gas and an organic soil amendment, reducing landfill waste and carbon emissions.
By Finsmes
Renewable Natural Gas Industry Leaders Send Letter to U.S. EPA Urging Importance of 2020 Cellulosic Volume that Accounts for All Available RNG
More than forty renewable natural gas (RNG) industry leaders sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler asking him to set the Renewable Fuel Standard’s (RFS) 2020 cellulosic biofuel requirement at a level of at least 650 million gallons to account for all RNG that will be produced and available next year.
The letter comes on the heels of comments from more than two dozen RNG stakeholders to EPA last week at the public hearing on the agency’s proposed RFS 2020 biofuel volumes. Consistent with those comments, the RNG industry letter impresses on EPA the importance of setting the 2020 cellulosic biofuel volume requirement at a level that incorporates all RNG produced and available next year, including new volumes from more than 30 production sites currently being built. The letter also underscores the common-sense notion that the cellulosic biofuel volume requirement should be adjusted upward to account for the impact of small refinery exemptions (SREs) granted by EPA.
By Waste Management
UCLA Study Encourages U.S. to Maximize Benefits from Use of Waste-Derived Fuels
The US could potentially produce enough energy by harnessing waste each year to power the states of Oregon and Washington, according to recent analysis from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Energy by UCLA industrial ecologist and energy economist Deepak Rajagopal and urban planning doctoral candidate Bo Liu, also show that the energy from waste would reduce the equivalent of 37 million cars’ worth of carbon from the environment.
“The benefit of using waste is that we are generating waste anyway,” said Liu. “It is a leftover resource that we have not conventionally thought about.”
By Biofuels International
Clean Energy Supplying RNG to Power Fleets Across Multiple Sectors
The demand for clean, cost-effective renewable natural gas (RNG) as a transportation fuel continues to rise. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE) announced it has inked contracts to provide its Redeem™ renewable natural gas (RNG) to power fleets across multiple sectors that include transit, trucking, airports, solid waste and service vehicles.
Redeem became commercially available in 2013 and is derived from capturing biogenic methane that is naturally created by the decomposition of dairy, landfill, and wastewater treatment plant waste. As a vehicle fuel, Redeem enables at least 70 percent reduction in carbon emissions when displacing diesel or gasoline.
By Business Wire
Smithfield Completes First RNG Line in Missouri
As part of its “manure-to-energy” project, Smithfield Foods Inc. announced on Aug. 5 that it connected a low-pressure natural gas transmission line from a company hog farm to the Milan, Missouri, natural gas pipeline.
Smithfield said that the renewable natural gas produced at the hog farm goes directly into the city’s natural gas distribution system prior to delivery.
“We are proud that Smithfield calls Milan home and grateful for the company’s positive impact on our community, providing residents with more than 1,100 jobs,” said Mayor Andy Herington of the city of Milan. “Smithfield’s leadership in producing renewable energy in innovative ways further strengthens our community and provides us with more flexibility to meet the energy needs of our residents and businesses.”
By Ryan McCarthy, Meat + Poultry
Natural Gas Truck Sales Surge Even as Electric Trucks Get the Hype
While electric trucks get most of the hype for the future of trucking, cleaner-burning natural gas-powered Class 8 heavy-duty trucks sales are rising.
Fewer smog-forming nitrogen oxide emissions make natural gas trucks about 19 times cleaner than diesel models.
U.S. and Canadian Class 8 natural gas truck retail sales surged 43 percent in the first five months of the year. They fell 18 percent in the same period in 2018, according to Alternative Fuels Quarterly, released by ACT Research.
By Alan Adler, Freight Waves
Align RNG is Slated for Development in Sampson County
Two big-name behemoths based in Virginia have teamed as part of a multi-state project by which hog waste is converted into renewable energy that can heat homes and power local industries. The new venture is slated for development in Sampson County, and will be the topic of discussion at upcoming meetings.
In November 2018, it was announced that Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods Inc.were joining forces as part of what they called "a first of its kind" project called Align Renewable Natural Gas (RNG).
By Market Screener
Air Liquide RNG Production Plant Celebrates First Birthday
This time last year Air Liquide officially opened its first, large-scale biomethane production plant in the US.
A year on, and the plant located in Walnut, Mississippi, receives 350,000 metric tonnes of waste yearly, allowing it to inject biomethane into the network to heat 4,500 homes.
The biomethane plant purifies household waste gas provided by the landfill and converts it into a renewable gas that is reintroduced back into the energy grid to provide renewable energy for surrounding communities.
By Molly Burgess, Gas World
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