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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Evonik Celebrates 500th Reference Plant for Biogas Upgrading Using SEPURAN® Green Membranes
Schörfling/Austria. In the Walloon region of Belgium, the 500th reference plant for biogas upgrading using SEPURAN® Green membranes from Evonik is under construction. The specialty chemicals company is celebrating another milestone in its young history as a technology provider for membrane-based gas separation. Since the product was launched in 2011, Evonik has worked with selected partners to develop its membrane technology into a new quality standard in biogas upgrading. The Group is thus making an important contribution in the decentralized supply of biomethane as a climate-friendly energy source.
Cows, and Farmers, are Part of the Solution to Climate Change
Cows are often assigned disproportionate climate change blame, but recent weeks in Washington bring hope that political leaders may begin to embrace livestock’s potential game-changing solutions to climate challenges.
When President Biden issued his Jan. 27 executive order on tackling the climate crisis, he said his administration sees farmers “making American agriculture first in the world to achieve net-zero emissions and gaining new sources of income in the process.”
During his first hearing as House Agriculture Committee chairman, Rep. David Scott noted that many farmers are “already adopting production practices that not only improve productivity but store carbon and reduce emissions in the atmosphere … and there is tremendous opportunity to do more.”
Chevron Expands Joint Venture to Produce Dairy Biomethane
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and Brightmark LLC are expanding on their joint venture, Brightmark RNG Holdings LLC, to boost its efforts around renewable natural gas (RNG).
The partnership owns projects across the United States to produce and market dairy biomethane, an RNG. The companies announced the initiative in October.
Brightmark RNG Holdings LLC’s subsidiaries currently own RNG projects in western New York, western Michigan, central Florida and South Dakota.
Certarus, Hexagon Composites Sign CNG, RNG Systems Agreement
Hexagon Composites's subsidiaries have signed a multi-year agreement with Certarus for the supply of distribution models for compressed natural gas (CNG) and renewable natural gas (RNG) fuel storage systems for Certarus’s heavy-duty truck fleet.
Under the agreement with Certarus, which specialises in clean energy solutions, Hexagon Agility received an initial order for Mobile Pipeline® modules and CNG/RNG fuel storage systems, with a total order value of $18.5 million (€15.4 million).
2021 Outlook – “Utilities are Anxious to Add RNG to their Pipelines”
The US has built its historic strength in large part from the efforts of our remarkable farming community. I am privileged to work with farmers every day, and I see their commitment to feeding the US and to being the best stewards of the land that they harvest. We at Vanguard Renewables have spent the last eight years trying to build a new model for how the US can work with farmers to heal and replenish the earth. As lofty as those goals sound, it really comes down to proving to the corporate world that by taking some very simple and executable steps, unusable food waste can be converted to renewable energy and low-carbon fertiliser.
Food Scraps to RNG Pathway in California’s LCFS
While renewable natural gas (RNG) produced from dairy and swine manure has received a lot of attention due to the ultra-negative carbon intensities (CIs) possible, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently sent a strong signal to the marketplace that RNG produced from food scraps is also very important. The signal came a couple of months ago when CARB certified the first, and to date, only food scraps-to-RNG pathway under the current version of CA-GREET 3.0, the California-centric version of Argonne National Laboratories’ GREET model. CA-GREET 3.0 is used to calculate CIs for the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).
Amp Americas Brings Minnesota RNG Project Online
Amp Americas, a pioneer in the renewable transportation fuel industry, on March 10 announced that its fourth biogas facility producing renewable natural gas (RNG) from dairy waste is now operational and has begun delivering RNG into the Alliance natural gas pipeline to be used as transportation fuel. Located in Morris, Minnesota near the state’s western border, the new plant is Amp Americas’ largest dairy RNG project to date and the state’s first on-farm biogas-to-vehicle fuel facility. With this project, Amp Americas has now developed dairy RNG production on 12 dairies with over 66,000 cows.
For New York State, RNG is a No-Carbon No-Brainer
As the advisory committees that comprise the New York State Climate Action Council consider public comments and deliberate on the Empire State’s clean energy future, a lesser-known product called renewable natural gas should be on the minds of decision-makers, right next to wind and solar power.
Renewable natural gas is a resource available today that doesn’t just provide an alternative to fossil fuels, it repurposes food waste, combats harmful methane and carbon emissions, creates clean jobs and offers new economic opportunities for farms and struggling rural communities.
Letter: National Grid's Commitment to a Sustainable Future Laudable
Coalition for Renewable National Gas Member National Grid is right to acknowledge renewable natural gas (RNG) as an important asset in the fight against climate change and as an indispensable resource in Massachusetts’ march toward decarbonization.
Climate change does not have a one-size fits all solution and as the needs of our present and future environmental policy evolves, decision-makers should consider every available solution, especially RNG which captures harmful methane emissions and turns them into a clean, renewable source of fuel and energy. Indeed, RNG is an effective alternative resource that can replace fossil fuels in a variety of applications spanning the transportation, residential, commercial, and industrial sectors.
Opinion: Don't Waste Opportunity for Bipartisan Action on Emissions
Every day, over 42,000 members of the Smithfield Foods Family here in the U.S. come to work with a simple mission in mind: “Good food. Responsibly.®” We’re proud to deliver some of the nation’s favorite brands to dinner tables across the country, but more importantly, we’re passionate about doing it the right way. Part of our effort is constantly innovating how we do business so that we can better respond to a changing climate.
Smithfield was the first major protein company to set the ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25% across our U.S. supply chain by 2025. Because we were well on our way to meeting that goal, in 2020 we set our sights even higher with the goal of becoming carbon negative in all our U.S. company-owned operations by 2030. We are set to accomplish these goals by using all the resources at our disposal, including those here in Utah.
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