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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Commentary: Renewable Natural Gas and the Need for Clean Domestic Energy
The importance of energy independence has been a topic of discussion for decades. Unfortunately, the conversation has too often been placed on the backburner as other issues divert our attention. The current geopolitical situation has once again put the need for domestic energy sources back in the forefront, however, and we must face this issue and act now.
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. and the rest of the world are witnessing firsthand the need to reduce reliance on other nations for energy. Investing in our own domestic sources is essential to making our economy and country more secure. And as we steer our focus toward domestic resources, we must also do so through a sustainable lens.
3Degrees' Creative Project Financing and Transportation Market Expertise Enable the Repower of Washington State Digester Project
3Degrees, a firm that helps organizations achieve renewable energy and decarbonization goals, announced the recent completion of a critical investment to repower a manure digester project at Edaleen Dairy, a family-operated farm in Lynden, Washington.
3Degrees worked with Regenis, a dairy digester operator committed to both planetary protection and family farmer livelihood, and Edaleen Dairy to co-finance a new engine and generator to keep the digester power project online and avoid potent methane emissions.
Metro Vancouver’s Lulu Island Sewage Heat Recovery Project Receives Federal Funding
A new project at Metro Vancouver’s Lulu Island Wastewater Treatment Plant will recover heat from treated sewage for use in plant operations, while increasing renewable natural gas production and helping to support regional climate action goals.
This clean energy initiative is possible thanks to support from the federal and provincial governments through the second intake of the CleanBC Communities Fund, under the green infrastructure stream of the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program.
Archaea Signs 5-Year Renewable Natural Gas Agreement with UGI Utilities, Inc.
Archaea Energy Inc. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Archaea Energy Marketing LLC has entered into a medium-term RNG purchase and sale agreement with UGI Utilities, Inc., a Pennsylvania-based natural gas and electric utility.
Under the agreement, which was recently signed and received the necessary regulatory approvals, UGI Utilities will purchase 331,785 MMBtu of RNG generated by Archaea annually from its Assai RNG facility for a fixed fee for a period of 5 years. Deliveries under the agreement commenced on July 1, 2022.
Vanguard Renewables CEO on $700M Sale to BlackRock, Digester Expansion and Landfill Competition
Vanguard Renewables was already the largest anaerobic digester operator in the U.S. market. News of its sale to a fund managed by BlackRock Real Assets is seen as a way to drastically expand that position to upward of 150 sites.
The deal, valued at $700 million according to sources, will lead to BlackRock investing an estimated $2 billion in growing Vanguard’s portfolio of sites. Since it was founded in 2014, the Massachusetts-based company has built six Northeast digesters that codigest food and farm waste through its Vanguard Organics division. This new capital is expected to fund the expansion of 60 to 70 new digesters in that division across the country. Vanguard is also partnered with Dominion Energy to develop, construct and operate manure-based digesters.
Opinion: Climate and Industrial Innovation - Thermal Energy Solutions Needed
Republican and Democratic policymakers have long supported polices to generate electricity with clean energy and to power our cars and trucks with alternative fuels, including electricity. Lawmakers prioritized these sectors for good reason; they are the largest sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and investing in them stimulates our economy and creates the jobs of the future.
But now it’s time for Congress to take on the long-overlooked and third largest source of energy-related GHG emissions: the heat needed for running industrial processes. Tackling these emissions is essential to effective action on climate change and presents tremendous economic opportunities for the United States.
Biogas Has Potential to Play a Role as Canada Transitions from Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy
Chris Perry tried for years to make a go of producing methane from farm waste to generate baseload electricity for his family’s big potato-growing operation near Lethbridge, Alberta. Any excess power was sent to the provincial grid.
Standing beside his two cylindrical anaerobic digester units on a recent cloudless afternoon, the air hot and pungent, Mr. Perry explained how his attempt at building a do-it-yourself circular economy with his brother, Harold, looked ideal on paper: Rather than sending a stew of decomposing potatoes and other waste to the landfill, the fourth-generation farmer captured the methane as a fuel.
Anaergia Brings its Resource Recovery Solutions to Visionary New Wastewater Treatment Plant in California
Anaergia Inc. announced that its solutions that turn waste into renewable energy are now integrated in a new state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant in Highland, California. The new facility, owned and operated by East Valley Water District and known as the Sterling Natural Resources Center (SNRC), held a ribbon cutting ceremony this past Saturday.
Unlike any other plant in the world, the SNRC will not only recycle water to replenish local groundwater, it will also convert both wastewater solids and food waste into renewable energy and organic fertilizer, and serve as a community center for education and local events. All wastewater and food waste entering the plant will be converted into resources, and the facility will supply electricity to the grid in excess of its needs. Most wastewater plants, by contrast, require significant energy to run and produce waste that must be disposed of in landfills.
OPAL Fuels Converts Harmful Methane into Renewable Natural Gas
Opal Fuels co-CEOs Adam Comora and Jon Maurer explain how they transform methane from landfills and cows to fuel for heavy duty trucks on Fox Business’ “The Claman Countdown.”
Gevo Closes on Purchase of South Dakota Land; Plans Fall Ground-Breaking for First Renewable Energy Plant
Gevo Inc has announced the closing on its purchase of approximately 245 acres of land near Lake Preston, South Dakota, for the company’s first commercial-scale sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility, Net-Zero 1.
“We are working to bring sustainable agriculture into the solution to capture carbon and catalyze the build-out of wind, renewable hydrogen, and biogas, combined with new paradigms for managing energy,” said Gevo CEO Dr Patrick Gruber.
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