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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Vermont 'Digester' Harvests Renewable Gas, Like Cow Manure and Food Waste, for Cooking
A well of natural gas is surfacing next to a dairy barn in Addison County — with not a drill rig in sight.
Digestion, on the other hand, is in full swing.
Without odor or fanfare, methane wrung from the manure of 900 cows and organic waste from regional cheese, beer, coffee and ice cream plants will enter the Vermont Gas Systems pipelines by mid-spring, the utility says.
Renewable Natural Gas is Crucial to Diversify our Clean Energy Sources
weather events can expose weaknesses in our energy infrastructure. But until we’re willing to make bold moves on how we approach energy, these incidents likely won’t change. From wildfires in California, or hurricanes on the East Coast, we know that climate change will continue to test our country’s ability to provide reliable power during emergency weather conditions.
While we can’t predict where and when the next major weather event will strike, we can develop and maintain a diverse portfolio of energy sources to keep local homes, businesses and mission-critical facilities powered when one source of energy is cut-off or damaged.
The majority of consumers want clean energy options. They also want reliability. One of the prevalent narratives by environmental groups is that electrification is the only path towards zero carbon emissions.
Bp, Aria Energy Announce Dairy RNG Project in California
Bp and Aria Energy will capture methane from waste at three California dairy farms and process it into renewable natural gas (RNG) via a new project.
Digesters will be installed at three dairy farms in California’s Central Valley, producing biogas from farm waste rather than allowing it to decompose and release methane into the atmosphere. The biogas will then be converted to RNG for use as a transport fuel.
Renewable Natural Gas Produced by Anaergia from Diverted Landfill Waste Now Flowing through SoCalGas System
Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) and Anaergia, Inc. (Anaergia) announced today that renewable natural gas (RNG) produced from household waste is now flowing into SoCalGas' pipeline system from the Rialto Bioenergy Facility (Facility). The Facility is located in San Bernardino County, California, and owned by Rialto Bioenergy Facility, LLC, an Anaergia company. A new one-mile pipeline connects the Facility to an existing SoCalGas pipeline. This is the fifth project in which carbon-negative RNG has been injected directly into SoCalGas' system. Images and video of the project can be found here.
Using Anaergia's advanced anaerobic digestion technology and proprietary systems, the Facility will produce up to 985,000 MMBTU/year of RNG each year using up to 300,000 tons of waste from local landfills and biosolids from regional wastewater treatment plants. Creating this carbon-negative fuel from waste will reduce landfilling and decrease greenhouse gas emissions by up to 220,000 metric tons per year—an amount equal to removing 47,500 passenger cars from the road.
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).
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