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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Dominion Energy Launches New Program to Help Reduce Customers Carbon Footprint
Dominion Energy's residential and commercial natural gas customers in North Carolina can now sign up for GreenTherm, a new and affordable way customers can reduce their carbon footprint and support renewable natural gas projects.
The voluntary program will allow customers to offset carbon emissions from natural gas use in their home by supporting projects, including several in North Carolina, that reduce emissions.
Researchers Envision an Extreme Circular Economy
In my upcoming book, “Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure,” I describe how the misunderstood byproduct of our daily living is a vastly undervalued natural resource.
Waste has power: as medicine, fertilizer, biomethane gas and reclaimed water, among other proven applications. But that’s just scratching the surface of our excremental potential; its biological, chemical and physical attributes have inspired even more wide-ranging and forward-looking brainstorming about what else we can create from our waste.
UGI Announces Investment in a New Renewable Natural Gas Project in Upstate New York
UGI Corporation announced that Cayuga RNG has entered into an agreement to develop its fourth project to produce renewable natural gas in upstate New York. Cayuga RNG is a joint venture of UGI Energy Services, LLC, a subsidiary of UGI, and Global Common Ventures, LLC.
Cayuga RNG’s fourth project will be constructed at Bergen Farms and Glenview Dairy, both located in Schuyler County in upstate New York. The project will include the construction of a manure digester and gas upgrading equipment at each location. Once completed in the second half of calendar year 2024, the project is expected to produce approximately 150 million cubic feet of RNG annually that will be delivered to a local natural gas pipeline serving the regional distribution system. UGIES’ subsidiary, GHI Energy, will be the exclusive marketer for Cayuga RNG.
Farmers Have ‘Obvious Solution’ to Energy Crisis
With the energy crisis showing no sign of easing and is likely only to worsen in the coming years and decades, questions are being asked as to why the government is ignoring a possible miracle solution right here on our own doorstep.
As recently reported by the Herald, local glass manufacturing giant Encirc is currently on a mission to transform its operations into the greenest in the industry, and as part of that drive the factory is hoping to employ the use of biomethane.
Montauk Renewables, Inc. Announces Second Apex RNG Facility in Ohio
Montauk Renewables, Inc. announced the planned construction of a second renewable natural gas (RNG) processing facility at its Apex landfill gas project in Amsterdam, Ohio.
The planned project is being driven by projections in biogas feedstock availability from the host landfill over the next 12 to 18 months. The company is targeting an approximate 40% increase in RNG processing capacity with the addition of the second facility. It is expected to add up to 2,100 MMBtu per day production capacity and expand the infrastructure for the conversion of LFG to RNG. The project is expected to be completed in 2024, based on currently forecasted biogas feedstock volumes that are anticipated to be available from the host landfill at the time of commissioning.
Evonik and Shell Reduce Heavy Duty Transport CO2e Emissions with Bio-LNG
Evonik and Shell are making inroads into defossilizing heavy duty road transport with Bio-LNG. Shell is supplying 100 tons of Bio-LNG made from agricultural waste to Evonik. It is equivalent to the average fuel consumption of three trucks in a year. Evonik passes on this volume of Bio-LNG from Shell to selected logistics partners.
With this initiative, both companies want to promote the use of biomethane in heavy-duty transport as a fuel alternative that emits significantly less emissions and is already available today. Bio-LNG can reduce CO2e emissions by approximately 86 percent compared to diesel and thus contribute to reaching the EU’s 2030 climate targets.
How Biomethane Can Play an Integral Role in Leading to Carbon Neutrality
The Paris Agreement was a milestone on the world’s climate change stage: it held the promise of active steps towards carbon neutrality. Following its 5th anniversary in December 2020, countries responsible for approximately 70% of the global economy and emitting over 65% of greenhouse gases agreed to aim for net-zero emissions by 2050.
Achieving this goal would require more than just opting for a mix of renewable energy choices, and unconventional options such as Biomethane could be the carbon-neutral answer to our prayers.
Cultivating a New Generation of Renewable Energy Down on the Farm
Greenhouse gas emissions arising from agriculture have been the subject of increasingly heated debate in recent years. But relatively little attention has been paid to on-farm energy consumption and the potential for farm-based renewable energy generation.
And that potential is very significant. The Irish Teagasc Marginal Abatement Cost Curve has established that the cultivation of biofuel and bioenergy crops, along with the adoption of anaerobic digestion and biomethane and other on-farm energy savings, has the potential to account for a reduction of 1.37 million tonnes of CO2 per annum between now and 2030.
Cummins is Finding More than One Way to Decarbonize Fleets
The road to fleet decarbonization is complicated. While traditional fossil fuels have powered the trucking industry for generations, thousands of engineers at Cummins are working to reduce emissions from internal combustion engines and new zero-emission technologies for future fleets.
That future is getting closer as federal and local regulators target 2027 for heavy-duty truck and engine reduced emission standards. Between now and the middle of the century, the Tier 1 commercial vehicle supplier is developing more than one way to power a truck as part of Cummins' Destination Zero strategy. That strategy includes spending more than $1 billion per year on research and developing future power technologies on the way to net-zero emissions by 2050.
Clean Energy Continues to Decarbonize Transportation with New Fuel Contracts and Renewable Natural Gas Development
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced new supply deals for renewable natural gas (RNG), as it forges ahead with development projects to meet the growing demand for the sustainable fuel made from organic waste.
“As fleet operators of large vehicles look at the entire alternative fuel landscape, RNG continues to rise to the top as they consider carbon reduction, ease in fueling, reliability and cost,” Chad Lindholm, Clean Energy's senior vice president for sales. “We continue to add new customers across all transportation sectors as they realize the benefits of RNG fueling.”
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