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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.EPA Awards $200,000 to San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition in Colorado for Food Waste Project
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $200,000 to the San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition for a food waste processing project that will help divert food and other organic waste from landfills. The Valley Roots Food Hub, a program of the San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition, plans to install a high-efficiency anaerobic digestion system at its Mosca, Colorado campus to process food and organic waste and turn it into fuel.
“Keeping food waste out of landfills and converting it to fuel is a powerful tool for combatting the climate crisis. Projects like these can meet local needs and address global challenges,” said EPA Regional Administrator KC Becker. “This project will be innovative for the San Luis Valley and will provide opportunities for demonstration, education, and expansion into other parts of the region.”
Marvel Turns 3, Expands Biomethane Services to Canada and Europe
Marvel Power Group is celebrating its 3rd anniversary by expanding its brokerage services to Canada and Europe. In addition to covering new geographies, Marvel will also begin structuring deals for CO2, sustainable aviation fuel, carbon offsets and hydrogen.
In Q1 2022, Marvel closed its first term deal with a Canadian counterparty, successfully structuring a 10-year project offtake for carbon-negative green gas. Currently, Marvel holds a significant pipeline of demand from parties seeking renewable natural gas for U.S. transportation, Science-Based Targets achievement, Canadian Clean Fuels and European International Sustainability & Carbon Certification programs.
Trillium Expands Renewable Natural Gas Offerings With New Partnership
Trillium recently announced a partnership with Chautauqua Green Energy and CGE Ventures to expand its renewable natural gas offerings. The deal will convert gas from the Chautauqua County landfill, in Chautauqua, New York, to 100% RNG and be sold across Trillium’s network of owned and operated CNG stations.
The agreement will produce more than 5,000,000 DGE (diesel gallon equivalent) of RNG a year, providing a new source of low-carbon fuel to customers both in the northeast and across the country. RNG is a clean-burning alternative fuel that provides safe and reliable technology for drivers.
Is the Energy Transition, Net Zero Possible?
Skeptics have questioned whether hitting 2050 net-zero ambitions can be accomplished. However, some countries are giving others hope
Portugal and Brazil are two that come to mind when it comes to electricity generation for Miguel Stilwell d’Andrade, the CEO of EDP, a global utility company and energy producer that aims to be all green by 2030. About “65% of Portugal’s energy mix is already renewables: wind, solar and hydro,” d’Andrade said during a recent energy transition conference in New York City. “Clearly, it probably could reach about 80% by 2025,” he said noting that Iberia, in general, has a high percentage of renewables, “close to 50%.”
Ellington Dairy Farm Becomes First in Connecticut to Make Natural Gas from Cow Manure
A farm in Ellington, Connecticut, made history Thursday when it became the first in the state to install a methane digester that converts cow manure into natural gas.
This project at Oakridge Dairy Farm has been years in the making. The new machinery they're using, called a methane digester, takes cow manure and converts it into a renewable natural gas that will be put into a pipeline to help run cars and heat homes in Connecticut. It is expected to run between 800 to 900 cars for a year worth of gas production. About 70,000 gallons of manure per day go into the methane digester. The farm is expected to send the first shipment of natural gas in October.
Advanced Biofuels Canada Applauds Release of Final Clean Fuel Regulations
Advanced Biofuels Canada (ABFC) released its response to the Government of Canada’s publication of the final Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR).
ABFC President Ian Thomson stated, “the completion of the CFR strengthens climate action policies in Canada. By establishing a national credit market for clean fuels, the regulation will support investments in clean fuel production capacity and infrastructure and create stable, well-paying clean energy jobs. Consumers will have more clean fuel purchasing opportunities, including advanced biofuels, synthetic fuels, renewable natural gas, renewable electricity, and clean hydrogen. As we’ve witnessed in established clean fuel standard markets, enhanced competition between fuel marketers will relieve high prices at the pumps for gasoline and diesel fuels.”
With Methane a Climate Worry, North Carolina Landfill Captures Gas for Energy
The 550-acre Speedway Landfill is a mountain of decomposing food, plastic and other trash in Concord, North Carolina. It's right off U.S. 29 next to Charlotte Motor Speedway and rises more than 100 feet above the surrounding area. And it grows daily with deliveries by trucks from Mecklenburg, Cabarrus and surrounding counties.
"Every day we have hundreds of trucks run in here, whether it's Republic Services trucks, third-party trucks, city of Charlotte, and they run in to dispose of their waste," said Tim Ginn, who manages the landfill for its owner, Republic Services, the nation's second-largest trash hauler.
How the Dairy Industry is Fighting Climate Change
As National Dairy Month comes to a close, we want to honor the dairy farmers and cows that provide the milk that feeds the nation — and look at how dairy farming has evolved to reduce the industry’s climate impacts.
In 2021, Hoard's Dairyman reported that “95 percent of dairy farms, no matter the size are family owned, and 87 percent of all dairy cattle in the US call these family farms home.” These family farms are largely multi-generational operations and are some of the earliest adopters of regenerative agriculture practices that are key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and sustaining the land and natural resources for the future.
RNG: The Abundant Asset
Energy is the lifeblood of a healthy society, and a healthy society is one that is sustainable. More and more organizations are recognizing the need to create diversified energy portfolios that balance environmental, economic, and social needs while providing energy reliability and security.
With its low- to negative-carbon intensity score, easy deployment into existing infrastructure, and comparative cost against today’s soaring fossil fuel prices, renewable natural gas (RNG) is a vital part of this diverse energy mix. And guess what? It’s available now.
CHAR Provides Biocarbon and Green Hydrogen to RNG Update: New Funding for City of Saint-Félicien, Québec
CHAR Technologies Ltd. announced that the City of Saint-Félicien, Québec, has received $CDN 2.8 million in government funding to support their waste heat recovery system from the forest biomass cogeneration plant in Saint-Félicien.
The waste-heat recovery system is an important first step in a larger staged approach towards CHAR’s previously announced and proposed build, own, operate proprietary high temperature pyrolysis system. The project would produce both biocarbon & green hydrogen to renewable natural gas in Saint-Félicien, Québec.
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