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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Where is RNG Moving Forward & What Will This Mean for the Industry & States? (Part 1)
This three-part series explores developments in RNG and what these developments will likely mean for whom. Part one delves into activities in specific states—from a New York bill to promote decarbonization in the transportation sector, to developments in Oregon and Colorado and early work in Minnesota and Hawaii. Part two explores RNG pricing and market trends in both the transportation fuel and utilities markets. And part three reports on financing mechanisms to support RNG infrastructure.
Serious interest in renewable natural gas (RNG) is spreading beyond California, with Oregon, Colorado, Hawaii, and Minnesota all at least considering it. Meanwhile in New York, a low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) bill to promote decarbonization in the transportation sector was presented (but did not pass) in 2019; a vocal environmental advocacy organization is still pushing for its adoption. In this article, leaders in the RNG space discuss what is happening in which regions and share projections on what activity may be around the bend.
By Waste 360
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Clean Energy Launches Online Tool to Calculate Costs of Switching from Diesel to Natural Gas Vehicles
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE) today launched an online Cost Calculator that makes it quick and easy to estimate the cost of transitioning an individual vehicle or entire fleet from diesel fuel to natural gas, including the estimated carbon emissions reduction.
“There’s a false assumption that natural gas vehicles are more costly because they meet such high environmental standards, but that’s simply not the case,” said Chad Lindholm. “Our natural gas vehicle Cost Calculator demonstrates the economic value of running a fleet on natural gas, and we believe users want to learn how sustainable and cost effective it can be to run a clean fleet.”
By Business Wire
Brightmark Debuts New Brand Identity and Growth Plan
Brightmark Energy, the global waste solutions leader, today announced that it has dropped the word “Energy” from its name and will be known as simply “Brightmark” to better reflect the company’s mission and focus. The new name signifies the company’s global growth trajectory in support of its mission to build a world without waste, as well as the outputs Brightmark produces other than energy, including clean water, wax, and the materials used to produce new plastics. Advanced plastics recycling, or plastics renewal, and renewable natural gas via anaerobic digestion will remain at the core of Brightmark’s waste solutions.
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the company is also announcing ambitious new goals that demonstrate its deep commitment to putting its environmental values at the center of all it does. In the next five years, Brightmark aims to:
Divert 8.4 million metric tons of plastic from landfills and the natural environment
Offset the release of 22 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
By Oil & Gas 360
Wisconsin Biogas Producer First to Sign up for RNG Tracking System
A Wisconsin company is the first to sign up for a new renewable natural gas tracking system that could help monetize the environmental benefits of methane captured from dairy farms, landfills, and other sources.
U.S. Gain will verify its renewable gas production through Midwest Renewable Energy Tracking System (M-RETS), which will produce “thermal certificates” that can be sold to other customers as carbon offsets.
By Energy News
Fremont Digester Turns Food Waste into Energy
Under new ownership and with an infusion of $3.5 million in improvements, the Fremont Regional Digester in Fremont is again running, turning commercial food waste into energy and producing digestate, a fertilizer being used by area farmers.
The digester was built in 2013, but faulty engineering led to nonstop odor complaints from neighbors. It went into bankruptcy and was bought in 2017 by Generate Capital. It went online in 2018 and has been ramping up production ever since, now operating at about 80% capacity.
By Farm Progress
RNG Coalition: RNG On-road Fuel Use Continues to Grow
Natural Gas Vehicles for America (NGVAmerica) and Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) today announced that 39 percent of all on-road fuel used in natural gas vehicles in calendar year 2019 was renewable natural gas (RNG).
Captured above ground from organic material in agricultural, wastewater, landfill or food waste, RNG produces carbon-neutral and even carbon-negative results when fueling on-road vehicles like short- and long-haul trucks, transit buses, and refuse and recycling collection vehicles. RNG fuel has the lowest EER-adjusted carbon intensity of any on-road motor fuel, as low as -400.1
By Biomass Magazine
Dane County Adopts First Community-wide Climate Action Plan
Dane County is working to fight climate change with the first community-wide climate action plan: the “2020 Dane County Climate Action Plan – Today’s Opportunity for a Better Tomorrow.”
The plan, which was announced Monday in a release, sets goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030 in the county and puts the county on a path to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
By Madison Magazine
Blockchain Renewable Energy Certificates
A Minneapolis clean energy nonprofit recently agreed to partner with an Australian company to enhance the process of buying and selling renewable energy credits through blockchain technology.
Midwest Renewable Energy Tracking System (M-RETS) announced that the Australian technology company Power Ledger will build the blockchain application to manage the sales of renewable energy credits (RECs) and thermal energy credits created by renewable natural gas.
A third partner, San Francisco-based Clearway Energy Group, develops and operates clean energy projects, including several in Minnesota and Iowa.
By Renewable Energy World
IGEM Welcomes Gas Goes Green Program for UK networks
The launch of a major new programme to support the gas industry’s transition to net zero in the UK has been welcomed by the Institution of Gas Engineers & Managers (IGEM).
Gas Goes Green, spearheaded by Energy Networks Association (ENA), builds on the recent successes of UK gas network operators to remove fossil-based natural gas from the system, driving the move towards zero and low carbon sources, such as hydrogen and biomethane.
The eventual conversion of the UK’s gas networks to green sources will be critical to the country’s climate change efforts, as gas provides four fifths of total energy demand at peak times.
By H2 View
Port of Seattle to Halve Emissions by 2030
In a statement, the Port of Seattle Commission agreed the plan at its meeting on April 14 2020.
Additionally, it said the plan stems from authorization for a 10-year supply contract with U.S. Gain for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG), a low-carbon natural gas alternative produced most often from landfill waste.
RNG produces no new carbon emissions because it replaces fossil fuels and recycles existing carbon in the atmosphere.
By Port Technology
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