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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Airbus: First A380 Powered by 100% SAF Takes to the Skies
Airbus has performed a first A380 flight powered by 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Airbus’ A380 test aircraft MSN 1 took off from Blagnac Airport, Toulouse, France at 08h43 on March 25. The flight lasted about three hours, operating one Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine on 100 percent SAF.
Twenty-seven metric tons of unblended SAF were provided by TotalEnergies for this flight. The SAF produced in Normandy, close to Le Havre, France, was made from hydroprocessed esters and fatty aids (HEFA), free of aromatics and sulphur, and primarily consisting of used cooking oil, as well as other waste fats. A second flight, with the same aircraft, is scheduled to take place from Toulouse to Nice Airport, on the March 29 to test the use of SAF during take-off and landing.
How Food Waste is Contributing to Climate Change and What is Being Done to Help
The United States discards more food than any other country in the world, wasting an estimated 1.4 billion tons of food each year. To break it down, the average family of four wastes 612 pounds of food in one year.
All that wasted food is taking up more space in our nation’s landfills than anything else and producing methane emissions linked to climate change. One solution to minimize harm wrought to the climate by food waste is by investing in more food composition.
Editorial: Local Farm Working with Firm to Create Renewable Natural Gas
A Massena-based company is working with a dairy farm in North Lawrence on a concept that could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions while creating another revenue source for those in the agricultural industry.
Liberty Utilities wants to build a 2.5-mile gas line to Stauffer Farms to extract methane. Using an anaerobic digester, the methane would be converted into renewable natural gas.
Will Dairy Be a Solution for Greenhouse Gases?
While there is often pushback that ruminants are utilizing land that could otherwise be used for edible food production for humans, cattle deliver value. Consider this: For every 0.27 pound of human edible food that ruminants consume, they produce 1 pound of product.
Additionally, for every 100 pounds of human edible plant-based food that is produced, 37 pounds of by-products are generated, which can be fed to ruminants, reducing the quantity of by-products put into landfills.
Ontario Launches Forest Biomass Action Plan
The Ontario government finalized its Forest Biomass Action Plan, which promotes economic opportunities for using forest biomass in new diverse ways, including low-carbon consumer products and renewable energy. A draft action plan was released for public comment in May 2021.
“Innovative uses of forest biomass will create new sources of renewable and environmentally friendly products and ways of doing business,” said Greg Rickford, Minister of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry.
Green Impact Partners Provides an Update on its RNG Project in Iowa
Green Impact Partners (GIP) is pleased to announce the signing of definitive agreements for its partnership in a dairy renewable natural gas (RNG) project located in Iowa. The Iowa RNG Project has secured long-term feedstock agreements with two dairies located in close proximity, and is expected to generate approximately 800 MMBtu per day of RNG. GIP is working to advance the final engineering, design and capital budget, as well as securing material permits, approvals, and financing. The Iowa RNG Project is similar in scope to GIP's RNG project located in Weld County, Colorado.
Later this year GIP anticipates an expansion to the Iowa RNG Project to include two additional sites, which will nearly double the size of the project. The Company expects to provide a further project update in the second quarter of 2022, including final size, capital costs and construction timeline. Construction is anticipated to start in the second half of 2022 and RNG production commencing in late 2023.
U.S. Renewable-Gas Demand Seen Jumping in Push to Cut Emissions
U.S. demand for natural gas that can be produced from waste and other renewable sources could jump 45-fold over the next two decades as utilities seek to reduce their carbon emissions, according to BloombergNEF.
Consumption of renewable gas, which so far has been mostly used to replace diesel in truck and bus fleets, could reach as much as 3.15 trillion cubic feet per year by 2040 as it becomes a “key decarbonization tool” for gas utilities, BNEF analyst Jade Patterson said in a report. That would compare with about 70 billion cubic feet in 2021.
Is Trash a Form of Renewable Energy?
Our entire society runs on garbage, at least in a manner of speaking. Eons-old junk—coal and oil that began as ancient plants and dinosaur remains, among other dreck—has powered our electric grid since the beginning of the industrial age. Of the 3.8 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity the United States used in 2020, most came from fossil fuels. The problem is that this trash isn’t meant to keep lights on or charge up EVs; it’s supposed to stay deep beneath the surface, locking away the gases that now flood our atmosphere and cause disastrous warming.
The good news—and bad news—is that we’re making new batches of carbon-rich refuse all the time. In 2018, the average American generated an unsavory 4.9 pounds of waste every day. Could these fresh trash heaps help replace our dependence on dead dinos?
Southern Company Gas Identifies Pathways to Net Zero Maximizing GHG Reductions with Greatest Affordability
A new study analyzing Southern Company Gas details pathways for the company's four natural gas distribution companies to reach net-zero direct greenhouse gas emissions, including methane emissions, while using its existing safe and reliable infrastructure. The analysis demonstrates that Southern Company Gas expects to be able to fully support its parent Southern Company's goal to reach enterprise-wide, net-zero direct GHG emissions by 2050 in addition to providing benefits to its customers and communities.
Conducted by consulting firm ICF, the comprehensive study's data reveals that the Southern Company Gas operating companies, in addition to continuing to reduce their operational GHG emissions, also could offset direct methane emissions with renewable natural gas projects providing local supply and economic development opportunities in each state. For example, in partnership with agricultural interests, such as dairy farmers or food processors, on-site facilities can convert animal, food and agricultural waste into a useful fuel for our customers and avoid the release of methane emissions into the environment.
Hexagon Agility Receives New Order from REV LNG for Mobile Pipeline TITAN 53 Modules to Deliver Renewable Natural Gas
Hexagon Agility has received a new order for Mobile Pipeline TITAN 53 modules from REV LNG, a leading full-service mobile energy supply and project development company. The modules will be used to transport and deliver renewable natural gas (RNG).
This order represents an estimated value of USD 24.3 million (approx. NOK 211 million).
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