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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Natural Gas Companies Have Their Own Plans to Go Low-Carbon
Darren Arnold lights the burners on a natural gas stove at a testing facility near Portland, Ore. He's using a new, lower-carbon gas mixture for NW Natural, a gas utility that serves 770,000 customers across the region.
"For a cooktop burner, we're looking for a nice blue flame, nice little peaks on the tips of the flame," he says. "So everything looks really good. We'll also check the oven."
Though it's burning a different fuel mixture, it still works like a regular gas stove. That's a key part of his company's plan to lower its carbon output, with an eventual goal of being a carbon-neutral gas system by 2050.
Clean Energy Fuels Opens RNG Station in California
Clean Energy Fuels has opened an RNG fuelling station in Whittier, California.
The station is owned by the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD) and Clean Energy designed, constructed, and will operate it. The firm will provide RNG to fuel heavy-duty trucks and other medium-duty vehicles in the region, including LACSD’s vehicles.
Chad Lindholm, vice-president of Clean Energy, said: “This new, state-of-the-art station increases access to RNG for heavy-duty Class-8 trucks, allowing more vehicles to take advantage of the cleanest fuel available today.
BTS Biogas, Bioenergy Devco Join Forces on US AD Projects
Italian firm BTS Biogas is expanding into the US, launching newly-formed subsidiary BTS North America (BTS NA).
BTS NA will serve as the official technology provider to Bioenergy Devco (BDC). Together, the companies will facilitate the finance, design, engineering, construction, and operation of sustainable, resilient anaerobic digestion (AD) projects across the US.
Brightmark, Chevron U.S.A Expand RNG Joint Venture
Brightmark and Chevron U.S.A have expanded their previously announced joint venture, Brightmark RNG Holdings, to own projects across the US to produce and market dairy biomethane (RNG).
Brightmark RNG Holdings’ subsidiaries currently own RNG projects in Western New York, Western Michigan, Central Florida, and South Dakota.
Greenlane Biogas Signs Two RNG Contracts in US, Brazil
Greenlane Renewables’ wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenlane Biogas North America, has signed two RNG contracts for $2.8 million (€2.3 million).
The first contract involves a project in the mid-western US for upgrading biogas to RNG from dairy operations. The Brazilian contract win marks the fifth contract for Greenlane for the supply of biogas upgrading equipment in the country. Greenlane noted that for ‘competitive reasons’, further contract details have not yet been disclosed.
NGVAmerica Report Highlights Benefits of RNG in Transport
NGVAmerica has released its Fuel a Greener Future report, outlining the significant benefits of RNG-fuelled fleets.
RNG-fuelled medium and heavy-duty vehicles are commercially available, proven, and affordable, the organisation said. Depending on the feedstock, they can be carbon-free or carbon-negative.
UGI Utilities Signs First Agreement to Bring Significant Renewable Natural Gas Supplies into its System
UGI Utilities, Inc. (“UGI Utilities”), a subsidiary of UGI Corporation (NYSE: UGI), announced that the company has signed an agreement with Archaea Energy, LLC (“Archaea”) of Canonsburg, PA to accept delivery of renewable natural gas (“RNG") from the Keystone Landfill located in Dunmore, PA into its distribution system. This is the first RNG supply interconnect agreement UGI Utilities has signed to-date.
The RNG supply will be injected into UGI Utilities’ high-pressure natural gas pipeline serving its distribution system located in Lackawanna County, PA. The landfill gas, a byproduct of naturally decomposing materials in the landfill, will be processed and conditioned to meet UGI Utilities’ gas quality requirements. The project is scheduled to become operational in September 2021.
Clearing up the Facts About Renewable Natural Gas
Two years ago, Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods joined forces in a transformational initiative to reduce emissions from hog farms across our region. Our solution has the dual benefit of combating climate change and providing economic opportunities for family farmers.
Together, our companies are investing $500 million to capture methane emissions from hog farms and turn it into clean energy for local homes and businesses. It’s called renewable natural gas, or RNG. This single technology reduces emissions from farms, provides clean energy for consumers and generates income for family farmers.
The best part is, it reduces significantly more greenhouse gas emissions from farms than are released when consumers use the gas to heat their homes and businesses. That is a significant improvement for the environment.
Clean Energy Signs Multi-Year Contract with LA Metro for More Than 47 Million Gallons of Renewable Natural Gas
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced that the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has signed a new agreement for an estimated 47.5 million gallons of its renewable natural gas (RNG) to fuel the nation’s largest transit bus fleet.
This agreement will mark the completion of Metro’s 5-year goal to transition its diesel fleet to cleaner, low-carbon fuel, with 2,400 buses now running on RNG—the first renewable and commercially available vehicle fuel made entirely from organic waste.
“Metro is committed to ensuring a seamless path towards a carbon neutral future,” said Metro’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Cris Liban. “Our use of RNG alongside our ultra-low NOx engines on our existing CNG fleet provides the most cost-effective, equitable, and clean air strategy as we continue to transition to a 100% zero-emissions bus fleet by 2030 and a net zero-emissions agency by 2050.”
Chevron May Not Be an Oil-First Company in 2040, CEO Says
Chevron has built a $170 billion fossil fuels empire that has made the 141-year-old company synonymous with the oil-and-gas industry.
But the climate crisis is forcing oil companies large and small to rethink their once-reliable business models.
While US oil companies have been far more reluctant than their European rivals to shift away from their cash cows, even Chevron CEO Michael Wirth concedes his company may look different in 2040.
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