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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Loci Controls, Inc. Expands Market Penetration with Addition of Three New Projects in Q2
Peter Quigley, chairman and CEO of Loci Controls, Inc. announced today that the company has added three new RNG projects in Q2, resulting in significantly expanded market share: one with Dane County, operated by BIOFerm in Madison, Wisconsin, and two in Texas, including one with Mas Energy on the Arlington, TX landfill. Gaining rapid adoption, Loci’s technology is now installed at 9 out of the 64 operational landfill RNG to pipeline projects in the United States. “Delivering value to Mas Energy and Dane County, by using technology to maximize their employees’ productivity and to improve the operating and financial performance of their landfill gas to pipeline operations, is central to Loci’s strategy for growth,” said Quigley. “Since our first RNG operation in 2017, the Loci team has worked tirelessly to deliver on our promise of increased gas collection, reduced operating costs and optimized gas quality.”
By Loci Controls
Onboard Dynamics Announces Instant Refueling for CNG Fleets
Onboard Dynamics announces the launch of their new GoFill™ refueling system. It is an instant and nimble drying and dispensing unit for refueling compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles. The new product eliminates infrastructure barriers for fleet operators who immediately need an easy CNG station setup to refuel their commercial trucks.
The first unit rolled out in Oregon, as part of the NW Natural’s free truck loan program. The GoFill will be providing natural gas for refueling CNG into a Hyliion low-emission Class 8 truck for long and heavy hauls. The program provides fleet operators a short-term, no-cost demo period to experience the vehicle. The on-site, easy station set-up makes fueling convenient during the demo period.
By Onboard Dynamics
RNG Connected to UK Gas Network for First Time-National Grid
Britain's National Grid said on Thursday that biomethane has been connected to the transmission system for the first time, as part of efforts to decarbonise the gas network.
The renewable gas biomethane has been produced by Biocow Ltd's Murrow anaerobic digestion plant in Cambridgeshire from cattle manure and straw.
By Energy World
Green Era Renewable Energy & BP to Build Urban Farm
A large-scale urban farming campus that promises to bring jobs, fresh food and renewable energy to Chicago’s South Side is getting a financial boost from the state.
Green Era Renewable Energy and Urban Farming Campus will receive $2 million from the state through Rebuild Illinois — a program giving grants for infrastructure development in distressed areas.
That money, along with a $1 million loan from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, allowed Green Era to secure the final bit of funding needed to develop the $32 million project on the 9-acre land that is a brownfield site.
By Chicago Sun Times
Anheuser-Busch Transitioning Dedicated Fleet to RNG as Part of Ongoing Leadership in Sustainable Logistics
As part of its ongoing commitment to sustainable logistics and reducing carbon emissions, Anheuser-Busch announced today that it is transitioning more than 180 trucks – representing approximately 30% of its dedicated fleet – to Renewable Natural Gas (RNG).
In 2014 and 2015, Anheuser-Busch converted 160 diesel-fueled trucks in Houston and St. Louis to fleets powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) engines. As the next step to achieve its 2025 sustainability goal of reducing carbon emissions across its value chain by 25% by 2025, the brewer will be expanding this fleet and investing in technology to transition to cleaner-burning renewable natural gas.
By Agility Fuel Solutions
Black Hills Utilities Seeing Decarbonization Pressure in Some Service Areas
While acknowledging uncertainty for the rest of the year, Rapid City, SD-based Black Hills Corp. executives reported lighter impacts from Covid-19 in the eight-state utility service territories.
The corporate-wide $2.7 billion, five-year capital expenditure program is moving along, and growth in customers and gross margins for the natural gas and electric utilities have continued in the midst of operational changes prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, CEO Linn Evans said during a 2Q2020 earnings conference call on Tuesday.
Black Hills utilities are eyeing growth in renewable natural gas (RNG) and the renewable-generated electricity program, he said.
By Rich Nemec, Natural Gas Intelligence
NW Natural’s Customer Base Expanding Despite Pandemic, with RNG Opportunities Eyed
Portland, OR-based NW Natural executives on Friday talked up prospects in the renewable natural gas (RNG) sector and the growth in the customer base, which has come despite depressed demand from Covid-19.
CEO David Anderson during the second quarter conference call said construction and conversions have led to adding more than 13,000 customers during the past 12 months, equating to an annual growth rate of 1.7%.
“While we can’t predict the full economic effect of the pandemic, we continue to see mitigating factors for our resilient business model,” Anderson said.
By Rich Nemec, Natural Gas Intellect
California Incentives Spur Dairy Manure Methane Digester Developments
State incentives designed to help California’s dairy industry reduce methane emissions have led to a spike in the number of manure digester developments underway on California dairies.
According to a new report from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange, the wave of digester developments on California dairy farms has spurred interest in the technology nationwide.
California has legislated a 40% reduction in manure methane emissions by 2030 from its largest source: 1.4 million dairy cows.
One of the means of achieving that goal has been on-farm dairy manure methane digesters. Digesters not only help reduce dairy manure methane emissions, they capture renewable natural gas.
By The Cattle Site
Alberta Lethbridge Bio-waste Facility to Produce RNG
The Lethbridge facility had been generating electricity from manure, dead stock and food processing waste
The green biodigesting domes on the east side of Lethbridge have been producing electricity from biological waste materials since 2013. Now they are poised to produce renewable natural gas instead.
Lethbridge Biogas is planning a $7 million expansion that will allow it to produce natural gas that will enter ATCO’s natural gas grid and be supplied to FortisBC under a long-term agreement.
By Glacier Farm Media
Archaea Energy and Rumpke Break Ground on Landfill Gas-to-Energy Facility
Rumpke Waste & Recycling is partnering with Archaea Energy to turn Southern Indiana’s trash into a renewable energy source.
The two companies recently broke ground on a landfill-gas-to-energy plant at Rumpke’s Medora Landfill. Rumpke and Archaea expect to complete construction and open the new plant by the end of 2021. Ultimately, the new facility will convert gases produced from decomposing garbage into useable natural gas piped to natural gas customers via local pipelines.
By Waste 360
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