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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.DriveClean Initiative Launches, Advocates for National Clean Fuel Standard
A diverse group of clean fuel stakeholders, including several biofuel producers, on September 19 launched the DriveClean initiative, which is urging lawmakers to create a market-based technology-neutral national Clean Fuel Standard during the 118th Congress that convenes in January.
As part of its advocacy efforts, the CleanDrive initiative has unveiled a website, DriveClean.us. The group has published a statement of principles aimed at lawmakers. Among these principles is a call to create a national CFS that complements existing state programs. The group is urging lawmakers to ensure a future national CFS is technology and fuel neutral by using a life-cycle emissions performance-based approach that will promote innovation and investment across all potential clean fuel types, including electricity, hydrogen, biofuels and others.
Dominion Energy Utah CarbonRight Program Enrolls 1,000th Participant
Dominion Energy Utah's CarbonRight program has reached an important milestone, enrolling its 1,000th customer in less than six months since program inception. CarbonRight has the potential to deliver exciting environmental benefits: every 1,000 participants represent carbon offsets equivalent to removing around 900 cars from the road or planting 7,000 new trees.
CarbonRight participation is voluntary and available to all Dominion Energy Utah and Idaho customers. For just $5 a month, a typical residential customer can offset their entire carbon footprint from their natural gas usage. The program cost to customers covers offset purchase and program administration costs - Dominion Energy does not profit from the program.
New Farm to Produce Renewable Natural Gas with Galileo’s Technology
Galileo Technologies designed, installed, and commissioned one of its innovative Microbox-Bio stations for integrated production of compressed renewable natural gas. The installation was performed at the Liberty Dairy Farm project in Wisconsin, United States.
“Farm-based RNG projects offer dairy farmers the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as provide a valuable source of additional revenues. Liberty strives to work closely with dairies in the planning phase to ensure the project development and operation can be integrated into the existing farm operations with minimal impact,” said Tom West, Director of Business Development at Liberty.
Novilla RNG Announces Start of Construction of Renewable Natural Gas Project at Maple Row Dairy
Red Leaf RNG, LLC, a subsidiary of Novilla Investment Holdings, LLC, announced the beginning of construction of its first dairy renewable natural gas project in Michigan at Maple Row Dairy.
The partnership project with Maple Row Dairy in Saranac, Michigan will use biogas from the dairy’s anaerobic digester to generate low carbon intensity RNG. Novilla RNG anticipates the fuel produced at Maple Row Dairy will be used in compressed natural gas vehicles and contribute to the decarbonization of the transportation sector.
$1 Billion Plant that Will Produce Jet Fuel, Have Zero Carbon Emissions Breaks Ground Near Lake Preston, South Dakota
A new Gevo facility has broken ground in Lake Preston, South Dakota, and it's the largest economic investment in the state's history, according to a news release from Governor Kristi Noem's office.
Governor Noem is still healing from back surgery, and was unable to attend the ground breaking, so First Gentleman Bryon Noem addressed the Governor's excitement for the project. “The life this is going to breath into Lake Preston and the surrounding communities is going to be huge. It’s astronomical," said Noem.
Vision RNG Breaks Ground at Meridian Waste Site in Missouri
Vision RNG, LLC announced that it has broken ground for construction of the Renewable Natural Gas project located on the Meridian Waste Eagle Ridge Landfill located in Bowling Green, Missouri. The project will use 1,500 cfm of Landfill Gas (LFG) and construction is scheduled to be completed in Q1 of 2023.
The project will produce 375,000 MMBtu of RNG annually that will be injected into a nearby interstate natural gas pipeline and used by various customers across the U.S. for transportation fuel and other sustainability purposes.
USDA Invests Up to $2.8 Billion in 70 Climate-Smart Projects
The USDA on Sept. 14 announced it is investing up to $2.8 billion in 70 selected projects under the first pool of the agency’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Communities funding opportunity. Projects selected from the second funding pool will be announced later this year.
The USDA launched the program in February, announcing that the new program will finance pilot projects that create market opportunities for U.S. agricultural and forestry products that use climate-smart practices and include innovative, cost-effective ways to measure and verify greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits.
SoCalGas and Landi Renzo USA Convert 200 Additional Field Service Trucks to Run on Renewable Natural Gas
Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) announced an additional multi-million-dollar collaboration with Landi Renzo USA for 200 new Ford F-250 service pickup trucks to join the utilities fleet. The trucks will be converted to run on renewable natural gas (RNG). The service trucks will be outfitted with the latest Landi Renzo Eco Ready equipment, a California Air Resource Board certified ultra-low emissions vehicle system.
Last year, SoCalGas partnered with Landi Renzo USA to convert 200 service trucks to be added to the fleet. With the conversion of an additional 200 new RNG trucks this year through the continued partnership, SoCalGas' fleet is expected to reduce an additional 2,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e), resulting in approximately 44 percent of SoCalGas' service vehicles will run on clean fuels.
Gevo NW Iowa RNG Project Achieves Important EPA Milestone Ahead of Schedule
Gevo, Inc. announced that its Northwest Iowa Renewable Natural Gas project, Gevo NW Iowa RNG, LLC, was granted registration approval by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), allowing Gevo RNG to participate in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.
Gevo previously estimated that approval for RFS Renewable Identification Numbers (RINS) through RFS and carbon credits through California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program would happen in late 2022 or early 2023.
Opinion: How Microgrids Help Data Centers Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change
In order to mitigate climate change, significant steps to reduce carbon emissions must be taken very quickly. In an ideal scenario, we would produce all of our power through renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power. But technology has yet to reach the point where renewables alone can sufficiently meet our high energy demands.
While emission-free energy is our common goal, we can’t afford to wait to implement the perfect solution when lower-emitting alternatives, such as natural gas and renewable natural gas, can buy time and make an immediate impact. Natural gas can serve as an integral part of the energy transition until renewable energy technology, coupled with energy storage at scale, develops to be dispatchable 24/7 and is cost-effective. Letting perfect be the enemy of good will only hold us back in the fight against climate change.
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