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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.WM's Renewable Energy Investments Expected to Power Over 1 Million Homes By 2026
Rounding out Earth Month, WM plans to invest $825 million in its renewable energy footprint from 2022-2025 by expanding its renewable natural gas (RNG) infrastructure. With the benefit of such investments, WM's network of RNG plants, landfill gas-to-electricity plants and other beneficial use projects are estimated to enable the company to provide enough renewable energy to supply the equivalent of 1 million homes across North America and help WM fuel its entire natural gas fleet with RNG by 2026. WM's accelerated RNG investment positions WM to outpace its original goal of fueling 50 percent of its natural gas fleet by 2025.
Today, WM is the leader in beneficial reuse of landfill gas, with a growing network of RNG plants and the most landfill gas-to-electricity plants in North America. Landfill gas is captured and turned into renewable electricity and fuel at 144 of the landfills WM owns or operates. WM services – including landfill gas and recycling – avoid more than three times more greenhouse gas emissions than its operations generate. The company creates five times more renewable electricity from its landfills than is used in its operations.
Greenlane Renewables Signs $11 Million Contract For New System Sales
Greenlane Renewables Inc. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenlane Biogas North America Ltd., has been awarded a CAD$11.4 million (US$8.9 million) contract with a single customer for the supply of its pressure swing adsorption ("PSA") biogas upgrading systems for new food waste-to-renewable natural gas ("RNG") projects across three US states. The customer name has not been disclosed at this time. Order fulfillment is expected to commence immediately.
"According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply. It is a big problem today that needs solving," said Brad Douville, President and CEO of Greenlane. "We are excited to be part of the solution by supporting an organization's drive to improve the environment through a cost effective decarbonization solution that transforms food waste into RNG."
World Energy Secures Permits; Will Completely Convert Southern California Refinery to Create North America’s Largest SAF Hub
In a sweet SAF switcheroo, huge news arrived from California-based World Energy, a carbon-net-zero solutions provider, that it secured the critical permits required to completely convert and increase output by 700 percent at its Southern California renewable fuels production facility, the world’s first and North America’s only commercial-scale Sustainable Aviation Fuel production site.
World Energy is teaming up with Air Products, the world’s largest hydrogen producer, and Honeywell, an innovator in SAF technology, to build the most technologically advanced production and distribution hub ever constructed – in a $2 billion project that will yield 340-million-gallons of annual capacity and collaboration to advance green hydrogen too.
Russia Doesn’t Know It, but It Just Made a Strong Case for Local Energy
The worldwide headlines are that Russia is cutting natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria unless they pay in rubles, making energy, in essence, a weapon of war. European leaders describe Russia’s move as blackmail to undercut their support of Ukraine.
Russia’s actions make real the longtime worry that European countries are too reliant on Russia for energy to heat their homes and run their businesses. It also underscores the value of microgrids, solar, energy storage and other forms of local energy — energy that is under the control of a local community, government, business or even household.
Duke Energy Announces Investment in Two New Renewable Natural Gas Projects in North Carolina
Duke Energy announced its investment in two projects to convert landfill gas from two North Carolina landfills into renewable natural gas (RNG). Each project is projected to produce roughly 500,000 dekatherms (Dth) of renewable natural gas each year. The combined 1 million Dth is equivalent to the average annual natural gas usage of nearly 17,000 residential customers in North Carolina.
Both landfill projects are being developed by Evensol LLC, which develops and acquires renewable fuels-based assets in the biomass, biogas and biofuels sectors. Energyneering Solutions LLC, which specializes in the design, construction and operation of biogas utilization projects, will build and operate the facilities.
Hexagon Agility Announces Additional Orders from UPS
As previously disclosed, Hexagon Agility, a business of Hexagon Composites, signed a master services agreement in October 2019 with UPS, the world’s premier package delivery company and a leading provider of global supply chain management solutions, to supply compressed natural gas (CNG) and renewable natural gas (RNG) fuel systems for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
Under this agreement, Hexagon Agility has received USD 21.9 million (approx. NOK 204 million) in new orders in 2022 for delivery of heavy-duty and yard-hauler products. This is in addition to USD 3.7 million (approx. NOK 34 million) of previously announced orders from 2021 expected to be completed in 2022. UPS has also committed under the agreement to purchase USD 32.1 million (approx. NOK 299 million) of medium-duty step van fuel systems.
RNG Benefits for Fleet Vehicles
Renewable natural gas (RNG) has many potential applications and is being used in lieu of fossil fuels and other energy sources. One area where RNG is showing tremendous potential and benefits is with fleet vehicles. Amazon, United Parcel Service and Federal Express are among the many companies using RNG to better serve the public, and one company based out of Indianapolis is taking advantage of this.
Kinetrex started in 2013 as a subsidiary of Citizens Energy Group with two small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in Indianapolis. They converted the terminals from utility to merchant facilities and made major investments so they could fuel trucks and sell LNG to several markets including transportation. In the past couple years, Kinetrex, which was acquired by Kinder Morgan in 2021, has put a greater emphasis on helping customers use RNG for vehicle fuel.
Duke Energy Renewable Energy Growth Soars by 20% in 2021
Duke Energy had its best year ever for adding renewable energy as the company posted a 20% jump in wind and solar power in 2021.
This information, along with large amounts of other data and insights, was detailed in Duke Energy's comprehensive ESG Report (formerly Sustainability Report), the company's 16th annual disclosure on environment, social and governance (ESG) topics.
Shell Details Strategy to Net Zero in New Report
Shell has published its first Energy Transition Progress Report to help investors and wider society gain a better understanding of their energy transition strategy. Shell is the world’s largest mobility retailer, with more than 46,000 service stations operating in more than 80 markets. As detailed in the study, their strategy to decarbonise their portfolio is to offer more low-carbon alternatives such as biofuels, hydrogen and charging for electric vehicles.
In 2021, Shell operated almost 90,000 electric vehicle charge points, up from around 60,000 in the previous year. They aim to increase that to more than 500,000 by 2025, and to 2.5 million by 2030. The global energy company is also expanding their network of hydrogen refuelling stations. By the end of 2021, there were around 50 hydrogen refuelling stations at Shell-branded outlets in Europe and North America where drivers can fill up their vehicles with hydrogen.
Aemetis Set to Launch Phase 2 Biogas Production by Completing Dairy Biogas Digester and Successfully Testing 7-mile Biogas Pipeline Connecting the Next 5 Digester Sites
Aemetis, Inc., a renewable natural gas (RNG) and renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products, announced that its Aemetis Biogas subsidiary is ready to launch Phase 2 biogas production by completing construction of its 3rd dairy digester and successfully testing the 7-mile biogas pipeline section to be used by the next 5 dairy digesters in Phase 2 of the Aemetis Biogas Central Dairy Project.
Testing was recently completed for the $12 million dairy biogas-to-RNG upgrading and compression facility which is co-located at the Aemetis Advanced Fuels Keyes ethanol plant near Modesto, California and adjacent to the utility natural gas pipeline. The PG&E utility gas pipeline interconnection unit has been constructed and is now being tested by PG&E. The conversion of biogas to RNG and the injection of RNG into the PG&E pipeline is expected in early May 2022, once PG&E has completed testing.
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