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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Republic Services Ahead of Schedule to Reach Emissions Reduction Targets, Says New Report
Republic Services, Inc. has released its 2021 Sustainability Report, which highlights the company's efforts supporting decarbonization and circularity and outlines continued progress toward 2030 sustainability goals.
Achievements include a 9 percent reduction in operational greenhouse gas emissions over the 2017 baseline year, ahead of pace to reach the company's interim target of a 10 percent reduction by 2025, and the development of an integrated plastics recycling facility.
Biogas: Wisconsin Utilities Partner With Farmers to Replace Fossil Gas
Wisconsin’s largest utility company has received approval to replace some of its natural gas supply with renewable methane from local farms, which could present new opportunities for the burgeoning alternative fuel industry.
The Public Service Commission voted unanimously to approve WEC Energy Group’s $75 million pilot program intended to help its utilities meet their gas supply needs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, providing farmers with a new revenue stream and reducing the risk of groundwater contamination.
Chevron: Future Of Energy Is Low Carbon
Chevron Corporation believes the future of energy is lower carbon, and the company works to provide the energy that enables human progress around the world. Chevron is focused on leveraging its capabilities, assets and customer relationships to deliver energy solutions to a growing world.
The company’s approach to achieving this is twofold: Working to lower the carbon intensity of its own assets and operations and creating new businesses dedicated to lower carbon solutions.
Opinion: The Case for Renewable Gas in a Clean Energy Future, Not Just Electricity
The provincial government’s CleanBC Roadmap sets ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets including a cap on natural gas utilities. Reducing emissions has always been top of mind for us at FortisBC, both through an ever-increasing focus on energy efficiency and since 2011, introducing North America’s first Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) program.
Renewable and low carbon gases are an important cornerstone of a low carbon economy and help abate emissions across the whole value chain. Their use is essential if we are to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in multiple sectors, including buildings, industry, and transportation.
Lawrence, Kansas, Black Hills Energy Customers May Soon Have Access to Voluntary RNG Program
Nearly everyone at this point understands how a wind turbine or a solar panel can help make the electricity used in your home more environmentally friendly. But how the heck does a landfill, or even a dairy farm, make the natural gas used in your home greener?
Lawrence, Kansas, residents appear on the verge of finding out. Lawrence is a part of a proposed pilot project announced by Black Hills Energy, the largest natural gas provider in the city. The company is seeking approval from state utility regulators that would allow people to voluntarily pay an extra amount on their monthly natural gas bills to help fund something called “renewable natural gas.”
ArcLight Clean Transition Corp. II Shareholders Approve Previously Announced Business Combination with OPAL Fuels
ArcLight announced that shareholders approved the previously proposed business combination with OPAL Fuels LLC, a vertically integrated producer and distributor of renewable natural gas.
The formal results of the vote will be included in a Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed by ArcLight with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The business combination is expected to close upon satisfaction of all closing conditions. The combined entity will be renamed OPAL Fuels Inc.
Anaergia to Build One of Japan’s Largest Cow Manure to Renewable Energy Facilities
Anaergia Inc. announced plans to construct a biogas plant in Kasaoka, Okayama for Toyo Energy Solution Co., Ltd. The facility will produce renewable electricity using biogas made by anaerobically digesting cow manure from Okayama Prefecture farms.
The plant will prevent about 13,500 tonnes of CO2e in emissions from the manure and from fossil fuels that would have been used to generate the power, the equivalent of taking about 2,900 cars off the road for a year (calculated based on a 20-year Global Warming Potential).
Green Impact Partners Provides Update on Three RNG Projects
Green Impact Partners provided an update on three of its advanced renewable natural gas (RNG) projects.
“With the upcoming commissioning of our GreenGas Colorado facility, the expansion of our Iowa and Future Energy Park projects, and over $2 billion of projects in our growing pipeline, our team has ensured that GIP is on track to achieve key milestones in 2022 and beyond,” said Jesse Douglas, CEO.
Novilla RNG Announces Start of Construction at Trillium Hill Farm in Wisconsin
Three Petals RNG, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Novilla Investment Holdings, LLC, announced the beginning of construction of its first dairy renewable natural gas project at Trillium Hill Farm. The start of construction comes only two months after executing a manure rights contract and eight months after the execution of a letter of intent with the dairy. This project represents the first of several under development by Novilla RNG to begin construction.
The fully funded project, located in Berlin, WI, will use dairy manure from Trillium Hill to generate an estimated 375,000 gallons of gasoline equivalent of ultra-low carbon RNG per year. The Company anticipates the fuel produced at its Trillium Hill site will be used in compressed natural gas vehicles and contribute to the decarbonization of the transportation sector.
Dominion Energy Expands Programs to Reduce Customers’ Energy Use, Bills and Environmental Impact
Dominion Energy is expanding energy efficiency and conservation programs designed to help customers reduce their energy use. These voluntary programs range from weatherization assistance for low-income customers to incentives for builders to incorporate energy efficiency in new homes.
Dominion Energy is also preparing a new voluntary program that would help customers reduce their carbon footprint and support renewable natural gas projects. GreenTherm is planned to launch in mid-summer with North Carolina Utilities Commission approval. Additionally, the company is pioneering the use of zero-carbon hydrogen and carbon-beneficial renewable natural gas in North Carolina to reduce emissions.
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