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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Trillium Partners with Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District to Provide Clean Energy
Trillium recently announced a new partnership with the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (MTD) in Illinois. MTD turned to Houston-based Trillium to design, build, operate and maintain a fueling station for hydrogen fuel cell buses. The green hydrogen is produced on-site via electrolysis.
MTD's new zero-emission buses are the first of its kind to run on hydrogen, powered entirely by 5,500 solar panels.
Brightmark RNG Delivers First Gas at Lawnhurst, NY Site
Brightmark RNG has delivered the first gas at its Lawnhurst site in Western New York.
Lawnhurst Farm is one of three farm partners in Western New York involved in the Helios Project. When all three digesters are online, they are expected to produce almost 187,000 MMBtu per year – enough to drive approximately 3,000 18-wheeler trucks from San Francisco to New York City.
CHAR Advances New Biomass-to-RNG Project
CHAR Technologies has commenced surveying and geotechnical testing at the proposed site of its woody biomass-to-RNG project in Ontario. The high-temperature pyrolysis project near Kirkland Lake will potentially produce 500,000 gigajoules per year of RNG.
Cresta Among Partners for Largescale RNG Project in San Joaquin Valley
San Joaquin Renewables announced that it reached an agreement with Cresta Fund Management and Silverpeak Energy Partners to invest up to $165 million to develop and construct a biomass to renewable natural gas project near McFarland, California.
The project will take orchard residuals and shells from San Joaquin Valley farms and convert them into RNG that will be sold as transportation fuel. It will also sequester carbon dioxide in an EPA Class VI sequestration well located on the project site.
Why We Must Turn Food Waste Into Renewable Fuel
As the fight against climate change becomes more urgent, focus has increased on methane emissions, with U.S. climate envoy John Kerry tweeting that cutting methane is “the single most effective strategy we have to reduce global warming in the near term” to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius. Why? Because methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Reducing these emissions now can have a much-needed, fast-acting effect.
To most people, the obvious source of methane emissions is oil and gas production. But another part of the problem is right under our noses: our garbage.
Clean Fuels and Electrification Both Needed to Meet CA Climate Goals
Solar panels, windmills and electric vehicles might be the most visible signs of our changing energy landscape, but clean fuels such as hydrogen and renewable natural gas also will play a significant role in transforming our nation’s energy system. California can accelerate a more equitable and affordable energy transition by adopting several important policy changes to accelerate the deployment of fuels that produce fewer greenhouse-gas emissions.
Cayuga RNG Announces Third RNG Project in Upstate New York
Cayuga RNG’s third project will be constructed at El-Vi Farms, located on the border of Wayne and Ontario counties in upstate New York. The project will include the construction of a manure digester and gas upgrading equipment.
Their Spruce Haven, Allen Farms, and El-Vi Farms projects represent nearly $50 million of investment in renewable energy projects. Cayuga RNG is actively pursuing several other projects in the region.
Waste Management Eyes Pennsylvania, Elsewhere for Landfill Gas Plants
Waste Management, one of the nation’s leading waste collection and disposal companies, is looking to build a new renewable natural gas facility somewhere in Pennsylvania as it further builds up its landfill-gas capability.
Waste Management has invested tens of millions into the technology for landfill gas energy plants. In the Pittsburgh region in particular, where Waste Management has compressed natural gas vehicles that it runs on routes as well as owning landfills, it has renewable natural gas operations in the Pittsburgh region that are operated by Montauk Energy.
Biogas Plant Makes Fuel, Money for Arizona County
Pima County has started turning methane gas from a sewage treatment plant into home heating fuel, and money.
At the Tres Rios Water Reclamation Facility, the county's main treatment plant near Ina Road and I-10, the county used to burn the gas to generate electricity for the plant. Changing regulations made that system uneconomical, so the county built a $10 million plant to clean up the methane, and sell it to Southwest Gas.
Vision RNG and Meridian Waste Partner on RNG Projects
Vision RNG has announced a partnership with Meridian Waste Acquisitions LLC to complete projects at multiple Meridian Waste-owned landfills across Missouri and Virginia, that will capture landfill gases for conversion into sustainable renewable natural gas for end users.
Construction is already underway on the gas collection and control systems at the sites, and both companies anticipate these projects to be flowing clean, renewable gas by late 2022 or early 2023.
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