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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Dallas’ Alternative Fuel Trucker GreenPath Logistics Orders 50 Electric/Natural Gas ‘Hypertrucks’
GreenPath Logistics is a 100% alternative-fuel trucking company based in Dallas, with customers including Amazon, UPS, and the United States Postal Service. Now it’s ordered 50 Hypertruck ERX units from Texas-based Hyliion Holdings to help electrify its fleet.
The Hypertruck ERX is an electric powertrain for Class 8 commercial trucks that’s recharged by an onboard natural gas generator. By using the 700+ commercial natural gas vehicle filling stations across North America, the Hypertruck enables long range and quick refueling, Hyliion says. When fueled with renewable natural gas, it can provide net-negative carbon emissions to commercial fleets.
One Gas Identifies 175 Bcf of Renewable Natural Gas Resources, Lines Up Projects
One Gas Inc. is expanding its plans for renewable natural gas projects after a study identified 175 Bcf of potential renewable gas feedstock across the company's three-state gas utility footprint.
One Gas has 22 projects for renewable natural gas, or RNG, moving through the negotiation, design, and advanced evaluation stages, executives said during a Feb. 24 earnings conference call. As of November 2021, One Gas had nine RNG projects underway. Many of the projects originated from the company's partnership with Vanguard Renewables LLC to develop or expand RNG facilities.
How Much Could RNG Cut Methane Emissions From Organic Waste?
In the fall of 2021, the U.S. and 110 other countries committed to reduce methane emissions 30% by 2030, which some believe could be a call to action for the solid waste management industry, as about 30% of U.S. emissions come from decomposing organic waste.
Proponents of renewable natural gas (RNG), derived from organics, believe this fuel can play a role in quickly addressing and mitigating these emissions.
2021 Brings More Renewable Natural Gas into SoCalGas Pipelines
Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced that 14 billion cubic feet of renewable natural gas (RNG) produced from organic waste was distributed via SoCalGas' pipeline system in 2021, the equivalent to removing 166,896 cars off the road annually. This is 2 billion cubic feet more than 12 billion cubic feet distributed by SoCalGas in 2020.
As part of SoCalGas' goal of achieving net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in its operations and delivery of energy by 2045, the utility plans to deliver 20% RNG to core customers by end of 2030 and continues to make significant progress towards reaching its goal.
Compressed Natural Gas Fueling Station Opens to Public
The first public CNG (compressed natural gas) fueling station in the city is open.
City officials joined WM (formerly Waste Management) and SoCal Gas officials and other dignitaries, on Wednesday, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Antelope Valley Recycling and Disposal Facility, at the Palmdale Landfill.
Behind the Wheel of the Hyliion Hybrid Electric Truck
Hyliion Holdings hosted me for a quick visit to its Austin, Texas, headquarters for a ride and drive of its Hypertruck ERX. The Peterbilt Model 579-based natural gas and battery-powered hybrid Class 8 truck is trying to find a place in the transformation from diesel to electric trucks.
If first impressions count, the ERX has a good chance.
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.
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