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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Biz Advocate: New SoCal Clean Gas Program Is “Amazing Opportunity”
Timothy Simon, CEO of the California African American Chamber of Commerce, says a new clean energy program in Southern California is an “awesome opportunity” for Black businesses.
Simon, who is an attorney and former Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission, says he looks forward to more Black entrepreneurs and companies participating in the emerging green economy.
Mid-Michigan Trash Now Used to Make Natural Gas
The huge methane torches that burned over the Granger landfill are doused, and not because of Tuesday’s rain. The company is using the dump as a source of energy to heat our homes.
Granger’s has been converting landfill gas to electricity since the 1980s, but now it is used to make renewable natural gas. Granger partnered with energy producer EDL and Consumers Energy for the project. EDL takes all the chemicals out of the gases from the landfill and puts the natural gas into Consumers Energy’s pipeline.
Boeing Banks on Less Disruptive Plan to Clean up Aviation
As flying electric taxis and hydrogen fuel take center stage at the Singapore Airshow, Boeing Co.’s plan to clean up aviation is far less revolutionary.
Rather than banking on new technology and different propulsion systems, the Chicago-based company is pushing a solution that will limit disruption to its mainstay plane-making business: Run the aircraft on sustainable aviation fuel.
California’s Green-Energy Subsidies Spur a Gold Rush in Cow Manure
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. , a major distributor of natural gas made from waste, found a way to boost its earnings by millions of dollars, virtually overnight.
All it had to do was switch the main biofuel it supplies to power cars and trucks in California—currently a type of natural gas produced with methane emissions from garbage—to a chemically identical gas produced from the manure of cows.
Amazon Places Massive Order for Gas-Fuel Trucks
Online retail giant Amazon is reported to have ordered about 700 Class 6 and Class 8 gas-fuel trucks to help reduce the environmental impact of its logistics operations.
Engines for the trucks will be supplied by Cummins. The vehicles will also use fuel systems delivered by Vancouver-based Westport Fuel Systems (WFS). An announcement covering the dissolution of a former joint-venture between the companies was announced on 7 February, where Cummins would become sole business owner.
Upcycling Waste into Valuable Products
With the world’s population already growing rapidly to over 8 billion, the world faces two important challenges in the near future: waste restoration and global warming.
My research group at Florida Institute of Technology applies the fundamentals of chemical engineering to the concept of recovering energy and value-added products from unwanted moist and dry waste. This is a mutually beneficial situation for the community, industry and environment.
A Way Out of the EU Gas Price Crisis with Biomethane
Today, the natural gas price stands at €80, compared to €18 a year ago. Prices for next winter are expected to remain at a similarly high level, according to current estimations. While governments are struggling to reduce the impact of soaring energy prices on citizens’ energy bills, they have a solution within reach: scaling up the production of sustainable biomethane.
The rapid scale up of biomethane across Europe could provide at least 34 bcm of renewable gas by 2030 if underpinned by a supportive legislative framework. This represents approximately 10% of total EU gas demand by 2030. According to the EBA, if the growth trend continues, by 2050 the biomethane industry could cover 30-40% of the EU gas demand.
U.S. Is Exporting Every Molecule of LNG Possible
Tankers were docked or loading at all seven U.S. liquefied natural gas export terminals for the first time Saturday, marking a small piece of industry history and setting up record flows to the plants amid high prices and tensions in Europe.
The Greek-flagged tanker Yiannis is docked at Venture Global LNG’s Calcasieu Pass plant in Louisiana, which remains under construction but has been given permission by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to send out cargoes during the export terminal’s startup process. The Saturday afternoon arrival of LNGships Manhattan at Kinder Morgan’s Elba Island LNG plant in Georgia, marked loadings at the other six U.S. LNG export terminals.
Although the tankers are expected to be docked at the same time for less than a day, demand from their loadings helped set a record 13.3 billion cubic feet of natural gas flows to U.S. LNG export terminals on Saturday.
SoCalGas Proposes Nation's Largest Green Hydrogen Infrastructure System
Southern California Gas Co. will seek to develop the nation's largest green hydrogen infrastructure system, a key part of a plan to establish a green hydrogen hub in the Los Angeles area.
The proposed Angeles Link would deliver volumes of green hydrogen equal to nearly 25% of the natural gas currently distributed by SoCalGas, the nation's largest gas utility by customer count. The Sempra subsidiary said the project could significantly reduce demand for natural gas, diesel and other fossil fuels across the Los Angeles Basin.
Net Zero Energy? Here's a Plant That Took Things Even Farther
When the state of Massachusetts prohibited the landfilling of organic material, the Greater Lawrence Sanitary District made plans to use food waste to boost biogas production from its anaerobic digesters.
The plan has worked so well that the wastewater treatment plant is a net producer of electricity. The district, in North Andover, added a fourth digester, installed a combined heat and power system, and built capacity to accept processed food waste for co-digestion. The project won an Energy Management Achievement award in 2020 from the New England Water Environment Association.
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