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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Food Tank Joins the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance
Food Tank, a globally recognized NGO dedicated to eradicating hunger, poverty, and obesity, has joined the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance (FPSA). The Farm Powered Strategic Alliance, founded in 2020 by Vanguard Renewables, Unilever, Starbucks, and Dairy Farmers of America, aims to avoid or eliminate food waste first and repurpose what can’t be eliminated into renewable energy via farm-based anaerobic digesters.
Food Tank is the first NGO and non-food producer to join the Alliance. Its mission to promote a more sustainable food system that provides access to healthy food is consistent with the FPSA goal to reduce and repurpose food waste.
'Renewable Natural Gas' Boom Coming, Advocates Say, as Companies Turn Waste into Fuel
Chase Edgelow is on a mission to acquire vast quantities of garbage.
His company, Vancouver-based EverGen Infrastructure Corp., was founded just two years ago and has already snapped up two organic waste processing facilities in B.C. (the Net Zero Waste compost facility in Abbotsford, and the Sea to Sky Soils facility near Pemberton.) It also has plans to pursue similar acquisitions in Alberta and Quebec at some point in the future.
City, DTE Partner with The Rapid to Fuel Vehicles with Natural Gas
The Grand Rapids City Commission approved an agreement between the City and the Interurban Transit Partnership (The Rapid) for the purchase of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). Under the agreement, the City will fill its CNG fleet of vehicles at The Rapid’s recently completed CNG bus fueling facility.
The fuel being dispensed from this location represents a three-way partnership between The Rapid, City and DTE Energy (DTE). The City will pump pipeline grade Renewable Natural Gas (RNG), in the form of CNG, from the Environmental Services Department’s biodigester into DTE’s pipeline, which will transport the RNG to The Rapid’s fueling facility.
Bluesource & Element Markets are Combining to Form a Global Decarbonization Platform Backed by TPG Rise
Bluesource, LLC, the largest carbon credit developer in North America, and Element Markets, LLC, a leading renewable natural gas marketing and environmental commodities company, today announced that they are merging to form a combined entity under majority ownership by TPG Rise, a global impact investing platform managed by alternative asset firm TPG.
TPG Rise’s investment comes through a significant new commitment from TPG Rise Climate and additional investment from The Rise Fund following its acquisition of Element Markets in January 2021. NGP ETP, the energy transition investment platform of NGP Energy Capital Management, joined TPG Rise in the transaction.
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.
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