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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Xebec Enters California Dairy RNG Market with Maas Energy Works
Xebec Adsorption Inc. (TSXV: XBC) (“Xebec”), a global provider of clean energy solutions announced today that it signed a letter of intent on December 4th, 2019, with Maas Energy Works (“MEW”) for five Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) systems. Four of these systems will use Xebec’s innovative small-scale containerized Biostream™ upgrading solution.
The Biostream units are fully containerized and automated systems with a 62 to 280 SCFM (100 to 450 NCMH) capacity to convert biogas into 98+% pure biomethane, with 99+% methane recovery. The system is flexible and reliable with a 40 to 100% turn-down. One of the system options includes an integrated CNG Fuel Dispenser.
By Global Newswire
Iogen & Equilibrium Opens RNG Facility at Threemile Canyon Farms in Oregon
Iogen Corporation would like to congratulate Threemile Canyon Farms and Equilibrium for the successful opening and operation of Oregon's only dairy manure renewable natural gas production facility - one of the largest in the US. The facility, located near Boardman Oregon, uses the manure from 33,000 dairy cows to feed an anaerobic digester system followed by a biogas clean-up system that injects renewable natural gas (“RNG”) into the natural gas grid. The RNG is used as a transportation fuel to eliminate about 130,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, which equates to removing 28,000 cars from the road. The $55 million project began injecting RNG into the grid in July of 2019 and the RNG is currently being used as transportation fuel in California.
By Iogen Corporation
U.S. Gain Partners with Brightmark Energy on Dairy RNG Sites
U.S. Gain, a leader in development, procurement and distribution of renewable natural gas (RNG) reaches an agreement to purchase dairy-based RNG from Brightmark Energy.
Earlier this year, Brightmark Energy announced its investment in Madison, Wisconsin, Yakima County, Washington and Byron, New York dairy farms. Together, these farms will produce enough RNG to fuel greenhouse gas emission savings equivalent to removing 6,981 passenger vehicles from U.S. roadways for one year.
By CSR Wire
Larry Kudlow Hatching New Plan to Boost Biofuel Mandates
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow is developing a new plan to bolster biofuel-blending requirements after ethanol allies in politically important farm states complained the current proposal doesn’t do enough to compensate for waivers exempting some small refineries from the mandates.
Kudlow’s involvement was described by five people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named discussing the administration’s private deliberations. The effort comes after biofuel producers, corn farmers and Midwest politicians blasted the Environmental Protection Agency’s current approach as inadequate, saying it flouted the terms of an Oct. 1 agreement to raise biofuel-blending requirements enough to fully offset refinery exemptions.
By Bloomberg
Renewable Natural Gas is Cost Effective and Benefits the Environment
Indiana harbors a secret related to the future of heavy-duty trucking and municipal fleets: It leads the country in the development of the alternative-fuel-vehicle industry. While electric vehicles tend to consume the vast amount of press coverage, natural gas and renewable natural gas, or RNG, provide by far the most effective environmental, financial and operational solution to meet the transportation needs of carriers and municipal fleets.
RNG-powered buses and trucks cost up to 50% less than fully electric options, making them a much cheaper option, even when accounting for fuel costs. Unlike electric, these vehicles are available today and are operating in some of the United States’ largest cities. When compared to electric, RNG buses and trucks more than double the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. In some cases, RNG trucks and buses are actually carbon-negative. Electric buses still use electricity from a grid largely dependent on fossil fuels, especially so in Indiana.
By Kinetrex Energy
U.S. Gain Expands Anaerobic Digester Network at Two Wisconsin Dairy Farms to Produce RNG
U.S. Gain®, a leader in development, procurement and distribution of renewable natural gas (RNG) announces the purchase of anerobic digesters at two Wisconsin dairy farms, S&S Jerseyland Dairy LLC and Dallmann East River Dairy LLC, to expedite RNG development for the transportation and energy markets.
U.S. Gain is currently coordinating installation of biogas clean-up equipment at both dairy farms to strip the impurities from the biogas, so it can be injected into the natural gas pipeline system. Next, U.S. Gain will pursue RNG certification through both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) so they can distribute through private natural gas fueling stations, their own GAIN Clean Fuel® network and other non-transportation outlets.
By CSR Newswire
Washington County Pursues Landfill Expansion
King County, Washington, is running out of local options to manage its waste.
The most populous county in the state recently bought itself some time by convincing partner cities to expand its Cedar Hills Regional Landfill again, but that will only solve the area’s waste problem for another two decades. After that, the landfill is out of space, unless the county can somehow convince rancorous neighboring residents to remove height restrictions or allow expansion into buffer zones. For the time being, local officials are exploring other alternatives, with landfill critics arguing that waste-to-energy is the best option.
By Waste Dive
Philadelphia Reports 50% Diversion Rate, Ongoing Zero Waste Progress
Amid a challenging year of disruptions and negative headlines, Philadelphia reports the city is still working to achieve its "zero waste" goals by 2035 and reshape the way residents think about consumption.
According to a new progress report from Philadelphia's Zero Waste and Litter Cabinet, the city has checked off every initiative set forth in its initial 2017 roadmap. Highlights include cutting illegal dumping volumes nearly in half, ramping up litter mitigation strategies, expanding public space recycling, improving data collection, growing community engagement through "zero waste" events and laying the early groundwork for organics recycling.
By Cole Rosengren, Waste Dive
Climate change: Natural gas pipelines will have purpose when natural gas is gone
A recent movement to ban natural gas in new homes is picking up speed in places like California to potentially help address climate change. But the policy is not a panacea and in fact, will have significant unintended consequences that won’t reduce emissions and yet still hurt consumers and grid reliability.
While all-electric homes may make a difference, they only significantly combat climate change if renewables alone are used to generate electricity. The time of day we use energy also matters. Home heating, hot water and cooking can be electrified, but people tend to use them when there is no renewable energy on the grid. This mismatch could lead to even greater use of natural gas and coal plants to produce the required electricity, while increasing costs and inconveniences for consumers.
By Jack Brouwer, USA Today
The Environmental Benefits of Renewable Fuel
Renewable natural gas (RNG) is becoming more recognized for its environmental benefits, as seen by some growth in investments on the private side and by policymakers. A couple of stakeholders were recently recognized by nonprofit environmental group Energy Vision for their support of RNG.
They include a St. Louis-based developer who is helping a major food manufacturer address environmental issues tied to its hog production operations, while capturing methane and converting it to RNG. Another applauded supporter is a New York state legislator who was instrumental in passing the most ambitious climate goals of any U.S. state, including net zero emissions by 2050; plans to get there include accelerating anaerobic digestion (AD) projects to generate RNG. Also in the spotlight is a large New York City beverage distributor that’s converted nearly half its fleet to compressed natural gas (CNG) engines, with plans to go further.
By Arlene Karidis, Waste 360
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