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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Opinion: New York Proposal Would Hammer State's Homeowners and Workers
A draft proposal in New York State to cut greenhouse emissions would be a job-killing disaster that also will zap residents and homeowners with sky-high energy costs.
The proposal, drafted by the state’s Climate Action Council, recommends dozens upon dozens of regulations. One of these calls for homeowners and business owners to convert, at significant expense, from gas to electric for heating, cooking and other energy needs. If the recommendations become regulations, the jobs of thousands of blue-collar workers providing natural gas to millions of residents and businesses in the metropolitan region would be wiped out. Homeowners will incrementally have to retrofit their homes for electricity and electric appliances to replace gas service, which will easily cost more than $20,000.
Opinion: It’s Not Too Late to Slow Climate Change if We Recycle Organic Waste
It’s easy to be discouraged by dire government reports showing how little time we have to reverse the effects of climate change. But in San Diego County, every single person can make a difference by reducing and recycling organic waste: food scraps and yard trimmings.
When organic materials break down in the landfill, they create methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more damaging than carbon dioxide. By reducing how much food we waste, donating edible food, and properly recycling the rest, we can make a major difference in mitigating climate change. Organic material can be recycled through composting or anaerobic digestion into a nutrient-rich soil amendment or into renewable natural gas which both prevent emissions and are environmentally beneficial.
How UK Town Entirely Powered by Local Organic Matter Could Have Answers to Energy Crisis
A town in Devon, South West England, is having all of its gas needs met by a local plant that turns chicken manure and crops into energy, with a local MP saying it could hold answers to the energy crisis. The factory deals in biogas, a form of renewable energy created by processing organic materials, such as farm waste, crops and animal manure, in the absence of oxygen.
Ixoca Energy said their Devon plant was pumping enough gas into the local grid to fuel all of the 2,000 homes in South Molton. It comes amid an energy crisis driven by international gas prices and the war in Ukraine which has been sending bills soaring. In a bid to address this, the UK government vowed to boost domestic energy production – in both renewables and fossil fuels – to help the country become more energy independent.
Charleston’s Mercedes-Benz Plant is Site of South Carolina’s First Renewable Natural Gas Project
The Mercedes-Benz Vans Charleston Plant recently celebrated being the site of the state’s first renewable natural gas (RNG) project. The plant uses RNG “for various processes like maintaining building temperature and humidity levels as well as in the operation of its Paint Shop.”
MBV Charleston sources local RNG by converting methane produced at the McCall Farms commercial vegetable cannery in Effingham. In addition to being the first RNG project in South Carolina, the Charleston plant is the first MBV plant to use RNG.
Renewable Natural Gas Plant to Be Built at Twin Oaks Landfill in Grimes County, Texas
The Twin Oaks Landfill in Grimes County, Texas, will soon be home to a renewable natural gas plant.
The Brazos Valley Solid Waste Management Agency announced an agreement with Midland based Morrow Energy to capture natural gas within the landfill, and distribute it on the energy market as renewable power.
North America’s Biggest Landfill Operator in Push to Turn More Trash Into Fuel
Waste Management Inc., the biggest landfill operator in North America, is tapping a growing thirst for fuel made from trash.
The Houston-based company said Thursday that it would invest $825 million over the next four years to turn methane from garbage dumps into biomethane, a natural-gas substitute. Waste Management, or WM, said the funds will bring 17 new projects online across the U.S. and Canada by 2026, adding to the 16 it currently runs.
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.
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