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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Consumers Energy Sets 2050 Net-Zero Natural Gas Emissions Goal
Consumers Energy says it will achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from the company's natural gas production and delivery system, including customers and suppliers, by 2050.
The commitment doesn't stop carbon emissions, but it means the Jackson-based utility and its parent, CMS Corp., will take measures to eliminate the impact of released compounds traced to burning natural gas by customers for heating, cooking and backup generators. The effort by the state's largest energy provider also will seek to alleviate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions by natural-gas suppliers who produce and transport the gas to Consumers Energy's system.
Nevada Hydrogen Factory will Convert Gas from Garbage into Fuel
The French industrial gas giant Air Liquide SA is opening a factory near Las Vegas this month that will convert methane from landfills into hydrogen to power emission-free cars and trucks.
The $250 million facility will have capacity to produce up to 30 tons of liquid hydrogen per day, enough for about 40,000 fuel-cell vehicles, Mike Graff, an Air Liquide executive vice president, said in an interview.
Dramatic Expansion Potential for RNG at Waste Facilities Seen by RNG Coalition CEO as Climate Efforts Intensify
The push toward creating renewable natural gas from waste has seen exponential growth in recent years. Based on recent investment trends, and projections that domestic RNG production could reach as much as 30 times current production over the coming years, it appears this sector is only just getting started.
The Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas, founded in 2011, represents the interests of companies investing in RNG systems throughout North America. Its membership includes large waste and recycling companies — many of which have significantly ramped up plans for new RNG facilities at their landfills within the past year or so — as well as the industry's largest anaerobic digestion operators and others in the space.
Local Wastewater Plant First in Oregon to Generate Gas for NW Natural System
The Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission held a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday, March 30, to celebrate their new renewable natural gas facilities.
The facilities have been up and running for five months at Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission's regional wastewater treatment plant on River Avenue in Eugene.
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.
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