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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Renewable Natural Gas, Battery Storage to Play Key Roles in Low-Emissions Future
The ability to store intermittent renewable energy from wind and solar and capturing methane emissions from common waste streams to displace natural gas usage are two technologies poised to play a bigger role in a lower carbon future.
While they play separate roles and are at different stages of adoption, energy storage and biogas — also known as renewable natural gas — are poised for growth under increasingly aggressive state and federal climate policies. They also both face similar barriers to more widespread deployment, notably cost and supportive policies.
Southern California Gas Company Sets Bold Net Zero Emissions Pledge
SoCalGas, the largest gas utility in the U.S., today announced the company's bold commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in its operations and delivery of energy by 2045.
This commitment makes SoCalGas the largest gas distribution utility in North America to set a net zero target including scopes 1, 2, and 3 GHG emissions, which would eliminate not only its own direct emissions, but also those generated by customers' energy delivered by SoCalGas' energy infrastructure.
SoCalGas' commitment aligns with the Paris Climate Agreement's recommendations and reflects the company's focus on supporting California with a resilient gas grid through the energy transition to support a carbon neutral economy.
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).
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