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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Gas South Partners with Element Markets to Offer FlexRNG
Gas South, one of the leading natural gas marketers in the Southeast, announced an agreement with Element Markets to offer a new, first-to-market sustainable energy product, FlexRNG.
FlexRNG is a blend of renewable natural gas (RNG), natural gas derived from organic waste material, and certified carbon offsets generated by a range of projects that reduce carbon emissions. The initial product is composed of 5% RNG and 95% carbon offsets, offering industrial users a cost-effective method to harness RNG and demonstrate their environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards.
Northern Ireland's Livestock Slurry Could Have Potential to Meet Up to 80% of Its Gas Requirements
They’ve been getting a lot of rap in recent times for their emissions output, but slurry and litter from Northern Ireland’s 1.7 million cattle, 2 million sheep, 716,800 pigs, and 24.5 million poultry could help to lower the region’s carbon footprint.
The wide-scale anaerobic digestion and secondary processing of the North’s livestock slurry could have the potential to meet up to 80% of the region’s gas fuel needs, while also significantly lowering its carbon footprint, a new scientific study has found.
Larger Engine Displacements, Renewable Fuel Increase Promise of Natural Gas Trucks
Supporters of natural gas vehicles continue to point at their fuel of choice as a natural option in the drive to reduce unwanted emissions.
Electric grids still need to be updated to support battery-electric vehicles. But renewable natural gas (RNG) can be produced from waste — delivering a negative carbon intensity score that betters renewable diesel, biodiesel, and electric power alike, said Hexagon Agility senior commercial executive Eric Bippus, during a panel discussion at ACT (Advanced Clean Transportation) Expo in Long Beach, California.
Green Impact Partners Highlights Growing Momentum for Its Flagship Project - the Future Energy Park in Calgary
Green Impact Partners Inc. is moving forward with the development of the Future Energy Park – an innovative clean energy project connecting Alberta's agriculture and energy sectors. Located within the City of Calgary, Future Energy Park is a proposed net CO2 negative biofuels facility using non-food grade wheat to produce renewable natural gas ("RNG"), and ethanol.
Future Energy Park represents a nearly $1.0 Billion investment in Alberta and the City of Calgary. Once operational, the facility is expected to produce approximately 3.5 million MMBtu per year of RNG, over 300 million litres of ethanol annually, approximately 235,000 tonnes of cattle feed annually, and create carbon credits.
Green Rock Energy Partners Announces Partnership with Renewable Power and Renewable Natural Gas Producer Bio Town Biogas
Green Rock Energy Partners LLC, a sustainable infrastructure focused private equity firm which invests in renewable energy companies and projects, acquired a stake in Bio Town Biogas LLC, a producer of renewable power that is expanding into renewable natural gas, in partnership with Bio Town Ag and lenders. Green Rock’s announcement of the partial acquisition, which closed in Q3 2021, is the firm’s first investment announcement.
Bio Town sources food waste, dairy manure, beef manure, and other agriculture waste to produce renewable electricity, renewable heat, and renewable natural gas. The project, located in Reynolds, Indiana, is expected to produce more than 42 million kilowatt-hours of renewable power per year, while also producing more than three million gallons of renewable fuel per year. Northern Indiana Public Service Company will provide the renewable power offtake, while United Energy Trading and others will provide the renewable natural gas offtake.
U.S. Gain Secures Dairy RNG Offtake with EnTech Solutions
U.S. Gain recently announced a new offtake agreement with EnTech Solutions at their agricultural biodigester near Madison, Wisconsin. This project is a partnership between EnTech Solutions, Northern Biogas and four local Dane County dairy farms where agricultural waste is processed in digester tanks to produce renewable natural gas (RNG) which will be used as an alternative fuel in the California transportation market.
The digester facility had previously produced electricity but has been repurposed to produce RNG that can be easily injected into the natural gas pipeline and distributed throughout the nation. In this case, U.S. Gain is sending RNG from Madison to their fleet customers in California where transportation-related emission reductions are a priority.
British Columbia Files LCFS Overhaul
British Columbia is proposing low-carbon fuel requirements for marine and aviation fuel and expanding the activities that can generate credits under new legislation updating the province's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).
The Canadian province's government filed legislation that would replace the original 14-year-old enabling legislation for the program, broadening the scope of both credit and deficit generation as well as who may participate in the program.
Digesters Help Dairies Reap Benefits of Reducing Emissions
Digesters are regaining popularity in the dairy industry as a way to reduce methane emissions and sell carbon credits. While the U.S. dairy industry has committed to carbon neutrality by 2050, there is a shorter deadline to meet the 2030 goal of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
“In terms of animal agriculture, one of the largest focuses is on methane emissions,” said Patrick Wood, founder and general manager of Ag Methane Advisors. One of the tools to reduce those emissions is anaerobic digesters, and the number of on-farm digesters in the U.S. is approaching 400. Project failures in the early 2000s made farmers afraid to use them, he said. But that’s changed, and a lot of farms now want to install them.
What Makes an Electric Truck ‘Electric’?
The headline can seem like a silly question, but consider the Hyliion Hypertruck ERX–it’s an electric powertrain truck where batteries are being charged and they power the Meritor 14Xe e-axle. But it has a range of 1,000 miles. The catch? The batteries are charged by an on-board natural gas generator and the truck is fueled up with compressed natural gas.
And this is where the sustainability conversation becomes complicated. Sustainability means more than eliminating tail pipe emissions. Thomas Healy, founder and CEO of Hyliion, answers the natural gas emissions question with: If you’re using renewable natural gas, you could actually have a net-negative carbon score operating the Hypertruck ERX. Healy talked about electric powertrain development, the role of hybrids in sustainable equipment strategies, and where he sees the Hypertruck ERX fitting into the market.
Taking the Waste Out of Wastewater
Flushing the toilet. It’s something we all do several times a day. We take showers, wash our hands, do the dishes, and the laundry. We probably don’t think much about where the water and the stuff in it goes after we’re done. It’s out of sight and out of mind.
But not to Dr. Sherri Cook, who teaches environmental engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Thinking about what goes down the drain is her job and her passion. Cook sees what we’re putting in the wastewater system as valuable treasure that shouldn’t go to waste. She says the three resources recovered are nutrients, energy, and of course, water. There’s carbon in our waste that we can turn into methane or renewable natural gas for energy.
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