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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Texas Hydrogen ‘Proto-Hub’ Leads the US in Technical Potential for DOE-Funded Regional Hubs: GTI
One Texas-based hydrogen project is poised to become a regional U.S. hydrogen hub just two years after the Energy Department-funded pilot started, Brian Weeks, senior director for hydrogen business development at the Gas Technology Institute, said at RE+ Texas.
The H2@Scale project, which has attracted additional corporate partnerships, is converting renewable natural gas to hydrogen and investigating applications that include carbon capture, fuel cell technology, hydrogen blending with natural gas, and hydrogen liquefaction to store excess wind energy.
Leyline Renewable Capital Investment Brings Landfill Gas Facilities to North Carolina
Leyline Renewable Capital, the leading provider of development stage capital for renewable energy projects, announced its role in funding the development of two facilities in North Carolina to convert landfill gas to renewable natural gas. The facilities, developed by Oregon-based Evensol LLC and currently in construction phase, will bring high-demand clean energy production to the state and enhance sustainability at existing landfills in the area.
Leyline's investment funded the initial development of the Foothills Renewables Project and the Upper Piedmont Renewables Project in Caldwell County and Person County, respectively. Both projects focus on capturing landfill gas, a natural byproduct of the decomposition of organic material in landfills, and converting it into renewable natural gas. The renewable natural gas produced, fully interchangeable with conventional natural gas, can then be used to power vehicles and generate electricity without the need for fracked fuel.
TC Energy and GreenGasUSA Announce Strategic Collaboration for Development of Renewable Natural Gas Transportation Hubs
TC Energy Corporation, a leading North American energy infrastructure company, and GreenGasUSA, an owner and operator of renewable natural gas (RNG) value chain critical assets, have announced a strategic collaboration to explore development of a network of natural gas transportation hubs, including RNG. These transportation hubs would provide centralized access to existing energy transportation infrastructure for renewable natural gas sources, such as farms, wastewater treatment facilities and landfills.
As part of this collaboration, GreenGasUSA will originate RNG, which is the product of the decomposition of organic matter, condition the gas to pipeline quality and transport it to the RNG hub. This is underpinned by firm transportation contracts with TC Energy for the transport of RNG. TC Energy will build, own and operate the RNG transportation hubs, developing critical steps towards the acceleration of methane capture projects and thus the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Wisconsin AD Facility Converted from Power Production to RNG
With the support of leadership from Dane County, Wisconsin, EnTech Solutions, a full-service clean energy solutions provider, has partnered with Northern Biogas, a fully-funded renewable natural gas (RNG) producer, to repurpose an anaerobic biodigester facility formerly producing electricity to now produce clean RNG using agricultural waste from four local dairy farms.
Digesters are an integral part of managing manure and organic waste from dairy farms. This facility incorporated advanced technology, including a nutrient concentration system that returns clean water to the region’s Yahara Watershed while also reducing phosphorus runoff to nearby streams and lakes. In 2021, over 27 million gallons of manure was processed by the biodigester, removing more than 57,000 pounds of phosphorus from the watershed.
Blue Ridge Landfill and Morrow Energy Turn Waste into Renewable Natural Gas in Fresno, Texas
The saying "one man's trash is another man's treasure" is especially true at Blue Ridge Landfill in Fresno, Texas. The 1700-acre facility is able to turn waste into renewable natural gas.
"We take what is perceived as a problem. And we come up with a solution for it," said environmental manager Raymond Whitlock. "Something that is benefitting the community around us directly right now."
British Columbia: Kelowna Landfill Helping Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Since 2005, the City of Kelowna, British Columbia, has captured gas emitted from the landfill to generate renewable natural gas. This 'RNG' is produced differently than natural gas as it is derived from biogas, which comes from the decomposition of organic waste, agricultural waste, and wastewater from treatment facilities.
Landfill operations manager Scott Hoekstra says they are partnered with FortisBC on the project. “The last numbers I heard from Fortis was that they can get enough landfill gas to heat about 690 homes in the city of Kelowna from what they actually pull out of our site, so that’s a fantastic way to reduce emissions,” he said.
Europe Rediscovers Biogas in Search for Energy Independence
The need to reduce the EU’s dependence on Russian gas has cast the spotlight on the gas package of legislation presented by the European Commission on 15 December, just two months before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Before the war, “the gas package would not have been a priority for the French EU Council presidency,” said Phuc-Vinh Nguyen, a researcher at the Jacques Delors Institute’s Energy Centre. EU countries are now looking at renewable gas and the Commission’s gas regulation and directive with renewed interest, he said.
Carbon Market Offers Opportunities
Dairy farmers who are participating in projects with anaerobic-digester facilities have opportunities to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions as well as benefit from carbon credits. And farmers who are considering participating in the carbon-credit market can benefit by understanding more about how their greenhouse-gas-emission footprints are measured.
They’re usually measured by three main accounting frameworks, said Patrick Wood, founder of Ag Methane Advisors of Montpelier, Vermont. Carbon markets exist for dairy farms in all three systems: Lifecycle accounting, Inventory accounting and Project accounting.
UGI Invests in Renewable Energy Producer Ag-Grid Energy
UGI Corporation announced that its subsidiary, UGI Energy Services, LLC, acquired a 33% equity interest in Ag-Grid Energy LLC, a renewable energy producer with projects in the United States. Ag-Grid currently develops and operates small scale renewable power projects that support local energy demands while lowering emissions.
Ag-Grid is currently engaged in the production of renewable power with four operational projects, in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and two under construction with a target completion date in December 2022. These six projects include the conversion of dairy waste and roughly 16 million gallons of food waste annually from nearby food manufacturers to renewable power.
True North Renewable Energy, The Weitz Company and DRANCO Announce Partnership
True North Renewable Energy, LLC (TNRE) announced a partnership with The Weitz Company and DRANCO, Inc. as the Engineering-Procurement-Construction Technology supplier for their organic waste to renewable energy development projects in the Western United States. Weitz-DRANCO has agreed to assist TNRE on an established basis to provide the necessary technology expertise required for TNRE’s state-of-the-art anaerobic digestion/advanced composting facilities.
TNRE develops, owns, and operates state-of-the-art organics-to-renewable energy facilities, including large scale, regional high-solids anaerobic digestion (AD) infrastructure. These facilities reuse and repurpose organic resources diverted from landfills to create beneficial, sustainable products, including biomethane and soil-amending compost.
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