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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Dominion Energy & Vanguard Renewables Form Partnership to Develop Nationwide Network of Dairy Waste-to-Energy Projects
Dominion Energy and Vanguard Renewables announced today a more than $200 million, nationwide strategic partnership to convert methane from U.S. dairy farms into clean, renewable natural gas (RNG) that can heat homes, power businesses and fuel vehicles. Multiple projects are under development in Georgia, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah with additional projects planned nationwide. Under the strategic partnership, Dominion Energy will own the projects and market the RNG, and Vanguard Renewables’ subsidiary Clean Energy Investment USA dba Vanguard Renewables Ag will design, develop and operate the projects.
“Through our strategic partnership with Vanguard Renewables and our strategic alliance with Dairy Farmers of America, we’re rapidly accelerating the development of these transformational projects and for the first time on a nationwide scale,” said Diane Leopold, Dominion Energy’s Co-Chief Operating Officer. “The environmental, consumer and agricultural benefits of these projects are truly groundbreaking,” Leopold continued. “We’re substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. dairy farms, delivering new sources of clean energy to U.S. consumers and providing a new source of long-term revenue for family farmers across the country.”
By Business Wire
RNG Powers Pot Hole Repairs
Contractor Cormac is trialing road maintenance machinery powered with manure from Cornish cows.
The equipment, fueled by biomethane, is carrying out road repairs for Cornwall County Council.
Cormac, an arm's length management organization wholly owned by the local authority, is working with local clean energy company Bennamann on the pilot, which has involved converting one of its road surfacing machines to run on the alternative fuel source.
By Neil Gerrard, Construction Manager
Candent Engineer John Leads the Way with RNG Van Trial
A NORTHWICH engineer has become the first gas man with a gas-powered van.
Cadent's John McGuire is the first to road test an Iveco fuelled by 100 per cent renewable gas – thought to be an industry-first trial.
John, who repairs and maintains Cadent's extensive underground network of mains pipes, fills up his 4.2-tonne van with compressed natural gas near Crewe railway station.
Research shows an 84 per cent drop in carbon emissions in HGVs run on CNG biomethane – gas made from the nation's waste – rather than diesel.
By Ned Bristow, Northwich Guardian
Vanguard Renewables Helping Turn Food Waste from Thanksgiving into Renewable Energy in Massachusetts
According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, about 204 million pounds of turkey meat will be thrown away this Thanksgiving. That’s an estimated $293 million worth. As we continue our look at innovative solutions to food waste across the country, NPR’s Allison Aubrey visits a state that is keeping its food waste out of landfills by sending it to farms to turn it into electricity.
Judy Woodruff:
In the final episode of our special series this week on food waste, we look at some innovative solutions being developed to deal with the growing problem of spoiled and surplus food in this country.
Special correspondent Allison Aubrey visited a state where dairy farmers are using it to power their farms and more.
By Allison Aubrey, PBS News Hour
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
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