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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Brightmark Energy Partners with Larson Family Farms on Florida RNG Project
Brightmark Energy, a San Francisco-based waste and energy development company, announced today that it has partnered with four dairy farms in central Florida to build and operate three anaerobic digesters that will convert a total of 230,000 tons of dairy manure per year from 9,900 cows into renewable natural gas. Brightmark will develop, own, and operate the project.
The project includes the construction of new anaerobic digesters at four Larson family dairy farms in Okeechobee County, including two farms owned by Larson Dairy, Inc. and two farms owned by JM Larson, Inc. After the project is complete, the digesters are anticipated to generate about 171,000 MMBtu of renewable natural gas each year. The gas will be delivered into the local interstate gas pipeline system.
Clean Fuel Groups Pushing for Carbon Credit System
A broad coalition including environmentalists as well as biofuel, electric vehicle and other alternative transportation companies, are urging the Cuomo Administration to adopt a Low Carbon Fuel Credit that would help them, but would require traditional fuel firms such as diesel or gasoline suppliers to purchase carbon credits going forward.
Similar in some ways to a carbon tax, the Credit aims to incentivize the faster adoption of electric vehicles and clean fuels. That would be an important move in light of the state’s large transportation sector and the push to reduce greenhouse gases.
By Rick Karlin, Times Union
How to Fuel Reduction in Transportation Emissions
Last year the state Legislature passed one of the most ambitious pieces of climate legislation in the nation, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. We set aspirational goals: reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 85 percent; achieve carbon neutrality by 2050; and move to 100 percent clean power by 2040.
This is our generation's moonshot. Now, how do we build the rocket that will get us to our goal?
By Carrie Woerner, Times Union
Southern California Gas Company Announces Expansion of California RNG Facility
Calgren Dairy Fuels and Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced that four additional Central Valley dairies have started sending methane produced from cow manure to Calgren's biogas operation in Pixley, where it is processed into high-quality, renewable natural gas (RNG) and injected into SoCalGas' system.
The Calgren facility now collects methane- a potent greenhouse gas that would otherwise escape to the atmosphere and contribute to climate change-from more than 66,000 cows at 10 area dairy farms. The additional dairies are projected to nearly double the amount of RNG produced at the facility, further reducing greenhouse gas emissions and displacing more traditional natural gas. Calgren partnered with Maas Energy Works to develop these four new dairy digesters as well as the previous six dairy digesters that have been operating since 2018.
By Market Screener
Tartu’s Urban Buses Now Fueled with RNG
According to the Tartu officials, it is one of the few medium-sized towns in Europe where its entire public transportation system has been converted to operate on renewable fuel.
The deputy mayor of Tartu, Raimond Tamm, said in a statement that the town’s goal is to reduce the environmental impact resulting from transportation.
The biomethane is supplied by the Estonian energy company, Alexela, whose chairman of the management board, Aivo Adamson, said there was no “better alternative to biomethane in the transport sector today”.
By Sten Hankewitz, Estonia World
DVO Inc. Announces Commissioning of Indiana RNG Project
DVO Inc. recently announced the commissioning of its newest Two-Stage Linear Vortex digester at Prairies Edge Dairy Farms in Fair Oaks, Indiana, replacing the prominent dairy’s outdated CSTR/complete-mix digester and combining its biogas with that generated by the original DVO digester installed in 2008.
“Given the same inputs, our newest DVO digester produces more biogas than our old [upright tanks/complete-mix] digester ever made on a good day, by at least 25 percent,” says Carl Ramsey, Prairies Edge operations manager
By Biomass Magazine
JetBlue First Major US Airline Going Carbon-Neutral in 2020
Earlier this month, JetBlue announced that it will begin offsetting carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) from jet fuel for all domestic JetBlue flights starting in July 2020, making it the first major U.S. airline to take this step towards reducing its contribution to global warming.
JetBlue also announced plans to start flying with sustainable aviation fuel in mid-2020 on flights from San Francisco International Airport.
By Good News Network
38,000 Indiana Dairy Cows Are Making Renewable Gas
DVO, Inc. recently announced the commissioning of their newest "Two-Stage Linear Vortex™" digester at Prairies Edge Dairy Farms in Fair Oaks, Indiana, replacing the prominent dairy's outdated CSTR/complete-mix digester and combining its biogas with that generated by the original DVO digester installed in 2008.
"Given the same inputs, our newest DVO digester produces more biogas than our old [upright tanks/complete-mix] digester ever made on a good day, by at least 25%," says Carl Ramsey, Prairies Edge Operations Manager
By Weny News
New Technique Could Accelerate Waste-to-methane Production at University of Alberta
University of Alberta engineers have found a way to turn waste fat, oil and grease into a steady supply of renewable energy.
In a recent study, environmental engineering master's student Bappi Chowdhury and his colleagues found that adding conductive materials to the waste products could potentially turn them into a reliable feedstock, allowing for a production rate of up to 70 percent more biomethane—a renewable energy source—from a mixture of fat, oil and grease and ordinary food waste in an anaerobic digester.
By PHYS ORG
Gov. Inslee Pitches Clean-fuel Standard at SeaTac Airport
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday called for passage of a low-carbon fuel standard at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, saying the policy would spur innovation and increase access to biofuels for airlines.
Aviation fuels are exempt from the proposed statewide policy, but fuel suppliers to airlines could opt in to the program and earn credits, and possibly money from the program.
“It’s the best way to get biofuels into the airline industry,” Inslee said, adding that it would incentivize the port to scale up biofuel infrastructure.
By Evan Bush, Seattle Times
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