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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.HoSt Group Enters US Market With Three Dairy Biogas Projects
The HoSt Group kicked off business in the US with three new biogas projects at dairy farms in upstate New York and in Ohio, to be realized in close cooperation with SJI Renewable Energy Ventures and Rev LNG. With these biogas projects, HoSt North America will have a strong footprint in the United States and will pursue expansion opportunities in the fast-growing biogas market.
The New York projects each produce 300 SCFM of biogas and the Ohio project approximately 475 SCFM of biogas, together equivalent to having 3,000 American family cars drive on bio-CNG for a year. The treated renewable natural gas on all three sites is delivered as compressed bio-CNG to tanker trucks that will transport the gas to a gas injection site. The renewable gas is destined for the California market under the Low Carbon Fuels Standard programme where it will be used as a renewable transport fuel. The projects contribute to the worldwide transition towards the production and use of renewable energy and renewable transport fuels.
2G Energy and Prodeval to Market Electrical Self-Consumption Solution on Global Biogas Upgrading Market
Co-generation and Biogas upgrading systems are the highlight of the energy transition. Because biogas upgrading to Biomethane equipment do need an electrical supply connection, the partnership between 2G Energy and PRODEVAL, naturally took place to acquit this self-consumption solution, allowing it to provide half of the operator’s unit power supply or entirely. Our solution shall reduce, at the same time, Biomethane carbon intensity and increase energetic resilience of our customers’ units.
The commercialization of the 2G modules, connected to one another and managed simultaneously, will be able to meet a strong demand from the sector in terms of environmental challenges and network stability during periods of high energy need. The goal of producing greener energy using a Biogas engine, aims to provide economic sustainability and guarantee safeties throughout the life of the unit.
VERBIO's Iowa RNG Facility a 'Game Changer' for US Biofuels Industry
At ceremonies held at its renewable natural gas (RNG) facility in Nevada, Iowa, Claus Sauter, VERBIO AG's Founder and CEO, stated, “This plant is a game changer. With the right biofuels policies in place, we believe Iowa and the U.S. have immense potential and we are committed to working with those of you in this audience and others to create conditions where we can grow and everyone benefits.”
The VERBIO Nevada Biorefinery began producing RNG on an industrial scale in December 2021. The facility is on track to achieve full scale production of 7 million ethanol gallons equivalent (EGE) of RNG annually by mid-summer 2022. In early 2023, the site will begin operating as a biorefinery, producing 19 million EGE of RNG and 60 million gallons of corn-based ethanol, annually. The integration of RNG and ethanol production, unique to VERBIO, incorporates advanced operational technology to build on the company's successful experiences in Europe.
Fayetteville, NC, Public Works Commission and Bloom Energy to Transform Waste into Clean Electricity
The Fayetteville, North Carolina, Public Works Commission (PWC) and Bloom Energy announced plans to install and operate 1.5 megawatts of solid oxide fuel cells. Creating renewable energy from multiple biogas streams in the region, the new project will reduce emissions and advance the Fayetteville community’s efforts to meet North Carolina’s clean energy standards.
Bloom Energy’s fuel cells combine ambient air with fuel, such as biogas, to create electricity without combustion. Generating power from multiple biogas streams, the fuel cell installation – to be located adjacent to PWC’s P.O. Hoffer Water Treatment Facility – will be one of the first of its kind to blend multiple waste gas sources to produce clean, carbon-neutral electricity. The project will use biogas captured from PWC’s Cross Creak Water Reclamation facility, an adjacent landfill, and methane gases captured from local and neighboring swine farms.
Republic Services and Archaea Energy Launch Joint Venture to Develop 39 New Renewable Natural Gas Projects Across U.S.
Republic Services, Inc. and Archaea Energy, Inc. announced a joint venture to develop 39 RNG projects across the country. The partnership, the country's largest RNG portfolio build-out to date, will convert landfill gas into pipeline-quality RNG that can be used for a variety of applications to displace gas from fossil fuels. The initiative is expected to generate substantial progress towards Republic's long-term sustainability goal to beneficially reuse 50% more biogas by 2030.
Archaea Energy will develop, engineer, construct and operate the RNG facilities, which will be located at Republic Services' landfills in 19 states. Construction is slated to begin on projects in late 2022, with completion and commissioning of the projects planned through 2027. When fully operational, the 39 projects are expected to generate more than 12.5 million MMBtu of RNG annually. The joint venture has signed a gas sale agreement with Republic to provide for the long-term ability to process landfill gas and sell RNG and related environmental attributes.
Comerica Launches New Dedicated Renewable Energy Solutions Group
Comerica Bank announced the expansion of its Environmental Services Department (ESD) with the introduction of a new group dedicated to growing and supporting Comerica's renewable energy business. Matt Breight, Senior Vice President and ESD Group Manager, has been appointed to lead Renewable Energy Solutions. He reports to Joe Ursuy, Senior Vice President, Director of Environmental Services.
Since the department's origination in 2006, Comerica's ESD has seen significant achievements in the renewable energy space. In recent years, its historical experience in financing landfill gas and biomass has naturally evolved into financing independent renewable energy generators for other forms of renewables, including those involved in the solar, wind and anaerobic digestion industries.
Opinion: To Decarbonize Connecticut by 2040, Try Renewable Natural Gas
As the clock ticks another year closer to 2040, by which point Connecticut state policymakers want to see carbon-neutral energy, they should consider that sometimes the best way to tackle is a new problem is with the toolbox you already have.
Decarbonization can be done with proven, existing technologies that we know work by incrementally infusing natural gas with non-carbon fuel sources, namely, green hydrogen and renewable natural gas, or RNG. Rather than focusing only on solar and wind, Connecticut policymakers should adopt an all-of-the-above approach, because improving, rather than eliminating, natural gas can lower costs and assure investors while playing a key role in a holistic decarbonized framework.
Rockpoint Gas Storage Canada Partners with Plug, Certarus and FortisBC in Hydrogen Storage Transaction
A partnership of leading energy companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding to produce, transport, and burn hydrogen in a small-scale pilot project at the Suffield natural gas storage facility in Alberta, Canada ("Suffield"). It is anticipated that in fall 2022, green hydrogen will be trucked to Alberta and delivered to its destination.
The aim of the project is to demonstrate and analyze the entire value chain of hydrogen from producer to storage to end user. Hydrogen produced by Plug from renewable sources will be transported by Certarus Ltd., a provider of mobile low carbon energy solutions, to Suffield. Rockpoint Gas Storage will take delivery of the hydrogen and will consume it in its above surface processes as the existing regulatory regime does not yet allow hydrogen blending in a subsurface storage facility. FortisBC, a gas and electric utility, will act as the purchaser of the green hydrogen and FortisBC's gas storage account with AECO (Alberta Energy Company) will be credited for the renewable hydrogen used to displace natural gas.
FortisBC Continues to Enable Greenhouse Gas Reductions for Customers
FortisBC's annual review of its climate action performance has shown that it helped its customers avoid approximately 578,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) in 2021 - the equivalent annual emissions of about 177,000 gasoline-powered automobiles.
FortisBC achieved these reductions by increasing the amount of renewable and low carbon gases energy in its system, helping its customers use less energy, and leveraging the gas system to lower emissions in the transportation sector. These actions form the basis of FortisBC's approach to achieve sustainable greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions, its Clean Growth Pathway to 2050.
Renewable Natural Gas Accounted for 64% of On-Road NGV Fuel Use in 2021
The trade associations Natural Gas Vehicles for America (NGVAmerica) and Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) announced that 64% of all on-road fuel used in natural gas vehicles in the US in calendar year 2021 was renewable natural gas (RNG).
California Air Resources Board data confirms that the annual average carbon intensity (CI) value of California’s bio-CNG vehicle fuel portfolio in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program was carbon negative and below zero at -44.41 gCO2e/MJ for calendar year 2021. RNG use as a transportation fuel grew 13% over 2020 volumes, up 234% from 2017 levels.
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