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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Love’s Travel Stops and Trillium Collaborate with Cummins to Enhance Low and Zero Carbon Fuel and Powertrain Solutions
The Love’s Family of Companies, and Cummins Inc. recently agreed to work together to help customers use alternative fuel and zero emission technologies. Trillium, a leading provider of renewable and alternative fueling solutions, will take the driver’s seat at Love’s in the development and deployment of strategies to support this initiative.
“Together Trillium and Love’s provide customers a variety of fueling options across the country. This new relationship will make it easier for customers wanting to make the switch to zero- and near-zero emission vehicles,” said Ryan Erickson, vice president of Trillium. “With Trillium’s clean fueling options and Cummins’ powertrain expertise, we’re convinced together we can help our customers meet their ESG goals.”
Decarbonization Drives Pick Up in Low-Carbon, Renewable Fuels Activity
Activity is heating up in the low-carbon fuels space as the decarbonization movement drives strategic investments with sustainability and profitability in mind. Traditional energy companies are envisioning how their companies will look in a decarbonized economy and seizing opportunities.
Unlike traditional fossil fuels such as gasoline and diesel, renewable and low-carbon fuels—which include forms of natural gas; biogas produced by the breakdown of animal waste and food; renewable natural gas, the byproduct of decomposed organic matter; ethanol and hydrogen among others—release less CO2 when burned. Their use could move the world closer toward hitting net-zero goals and lowering emissions in hard-to-decarbonize sectors.
Calgren Dairy Fuels Presented with California Dairy Sustainability Award
The California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB) has announced the winner of its 2nd California Dairy Sustainability Award – Calgren Dairy Fuels, LLC. – in recognition of its partnership with Maas Energy Works, Inc. to create a 22-mile dairy digester pipeline cluster to efficiently collect dairy biogas from California dairy farm partners and upgrade and inject it into a utility pipeline owned by Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas).
The Calgren project was the first in California to upgrade dairy biogas for utility pipeline injection and the largest collective dairy biogas operation in the U.S. Fifteen California family dairy farms are participating in the first phase of the project, which makes compressed natural gas available as fuel for heavy duty trucks, replacing diesel – effectively removing 150,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) greenhouse gases from the environment and displacing more than 23 million gallons of fossil fuel-based transportation fuel annually.
Archaea Energy Pursues Acquisition of NextGen Power Holdings
Archaea Energy Inc., Houston, announced that its subsidiary, Archaea Infrastructure LLC, has entered into a definitive purchase and sale agreement with Riverview Investment Holdings to purchase Virginia-based NextGen Power Holdings LLC. The acquisition—which includes NextGen Power Holding’s subsidiary Ingenco—is valuated at roughly $215 million, subject to customary adjustments at closing. The transaction is expected to close on or after July 1.
According to a release, the purchase will act as a “significant addition to Archaea’s backlog of attractive RNG (renewable natural gas) development opportunities via the acquisition of existing electricity generation assets.” Archaea will gain Ingenco’s asset platform of 14 operating landfill gas to electric (LFGTE) plants at sites that had combined gas flows into the facilities of 7 million MMBtu (metric million British Thermal Unit) in 2021.
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.
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