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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Starwood Energy Group Partners With BerQ RNG To Develop And Acquire Renewable Natural Gas Projects
Starwood Energy Group Global, LLC ("Starwood Energy") announced today that it has entered into an investment partnership with BerQ RNG Inc. ("BerQ"), a premier developer of renewable natural gas ("RNG") projects in the United States and Canada.
The new platform will develop and acquire RNG projects in all stages, ranging from early development to operating projects. The platform is majority owned by Starwood Energy and will operate under the name "BerQ RNG".
Increased Fleet Investment in Near-Zero Emission Natural Gas Trucks Providing Cost-Effective Clean Air Solutions Now
The California Natural Gas Vehicle Partnership (CNGVP) announced during an ACT Expo press conference that real-world fleets are increasingly turning to near-zero emissions (NZE) natural gas vehicles (NGVs) and carbon-negative renewable natural gas (RNG) to make true sustainability progress. NZE NGVs are available now delivering critical and cost-effective emissions reductions throughout California, where heavy-duty diesel trucks are the state’s largest single combined source of smog-forming NOx (oxides of nitrogen) and toxic diesel particulate matter (DPM), and one of the largest, and growing sources of climate-altering greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions.
PowerSecure Microgrids Are Renewable Fuel-Ready
PowerSecure, a leading energy innovation and solutions provider and a subsidiary of Southern Company, is committed to enabling energy users and producers to achieve energy security while also reaching their sustainability goals. Today, the company announced its PowerBlock generation solutions are fully compatible with renewable diesel and renewable natural gas (RNG).
DTE Opens Three Mile Road Station in Michigan as Part of $3.5 Billion Infrastructure Effort
DTE Energy officially opened the Three Mile Road Station in Walker, Mich., establishing a new hub for a multi-billion dollar plan to install new pipe and upgrade meters throughout the western and northern reaches of the state.
“The opening of this facility is part of our multi-year, statewide Gas Renewal Program in which we’re investing $3.5 billion to replace cast-iron and steel pipe with safer, more reliable and environmentally friendly materials,” Matt Paul, president and COO at DTE Gas, said. “The Three Mile Station will help us work more efficiently and collaboratively throughout greater Michigan as we move forward in completing this important work.”
CHAR Facility To Produce Renewable Natural Gas With NGIF Support
CHAR Technologies Ltd. (“CHAR”) is pleased to announce the upgrading of CHAR’s operational high temperature pyrolysis facility to produce approximately 20,000 GJ/yr of renewable natural gas (“RNG”). The approval of a $300,000 grant from NGIF (Natural Gas Innovation Fund) Industry Grants, a division of NGIF Capital Corporation, will support the upgrades. The grant funding will be partially disbursed at the commencement of each of three milestones (detailed engineering design, fabrication and commissioning, and validation). CHAR anticipates project commissioning to commence in March 2022.
CleanBay Renewables to Sell bp RNG Derived From Poultry Litter
bp and CleanBay Renewables announced a 15-year agreement where bp will purchase renewable natural gas (RNG) processed from poultry litter—a mixture of manure, feathers and bedding—and sell it as fuel for the US transportation sector.
CleanBay manages this process by mixing poultry litter with water in a closed system known as an anaerobic digester. One of the end products is biogas, which includes methane. The biogas can be processed into RNG and used to fuel vehicles.
City of Tallahassee Explores Using Renewable Natural Gas
The City of Tallahassee has both an electric utility and a natural gas utility. The city’s electric utility is comprised of both natural gas and solar generation and provides service to over 100,000 residential and commercial customers.
The city’s natural gas utility provides natural gas service to over 34,000 residential and commercial customers. The City of Tallahassee is committed to using renewable energy, and therefore is actively exploring adding Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) to its energy mix.
Chevron, Brightmark Expand Partnership on Dairy Biomethane Fuel Projects
Brightmark LLC and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. announced the second expansion of their previously announced joint venture, Brightmark RNG Holdings LLC, to own projects across the United States to produce and market dairy biomethane, a renewable natural gas (RNG).
Brightmark RNG Holdings LLC’s subsidiaries currently own RNG projects in New York, Michigan, Florida, South Dakota and Arizona. Additional equity investments by each company in the joint venture will fund construction of infrastructure and commercial operation of 10 dairy biomethane projects, including new sites in Iowa and Wisconsin and additional sites in Michigan and South Dakota. Chevron will purchase RNG produced from these projects and market the volumes for use in vehicles operating on compressed natural gas.
From Cornwall UK, Turning Farmyard Waste Into Pioneering Clean Energy
Future breakthroughs in renewable energy won’t save the environment – the UK must act now using existing technologies. That was the stark message from the UK’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, speaking ahead of the international G7 conference in Cornwall earlier this year. If that is the case, and there is no reason to doubt him, the UK faces a massive challenge in locating and scaling up existing sustainable technologies to meet the country’s climate goals by 2050.
Luckily there are already some great projects underway. One example is Bennamann, a pioneering cleantech company in the farming county of Cornwall that collects fugitive methane and turns it into “better-than-zero-carbon” fuel. Bennamann captures the biogas – gases from organic matter – from farms and processes, converting it into green fuel that’s collected from farms and aggregated with fuel from other sites and sold into the energy market.
Can Hydrogen Regulations Benefit Transport and Utilities?
Industrial-gas producer Air Liquide is no stranger to the hydrogen industry. But participation in utility ratemaking cases — that's a new experience.
Utility interest in hydrogen presents a significant opportunity for the resource and has filled the inbox of Dave Edwards, director and advocate for hydrogen energy at Air Liquide, in recent years. But for hydrogen to reach its full potential, Edwards said, multiple barriers must still be overcome, including the need for a regulatory framework that is as adaptable as the commodity itself.
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