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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Opinion: The Truth About Trash as an Important Source of Energy
If you live in Spokane, Washington, you know about its waste-to-energy facility, which burns up to 800 tons of solid waste a day and can generate 22 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 13,000 homes. It is part of Spokane’s overall system that encourages recycling and waste reduction along with generating power.
But what about the landfills spewing greenhouse gases from rotting trash? Earlier this year, Washington state lawmakers approved legislation requiring large garbage dumps to capture methane gas, thereby preventing its escape into the atmosphere. It says owners of landfills with 450,000 tons or more of waste — or landfills that generate methane equivalent to three million British thermal units of heat per hour — have to install and operate gas collection and control systems.
RNG Growth Across the US
As the energy sector looks for any opportunity to decarbonize its operations, renewable natural gas (RNG) becomes an increasingly attractive option for gas consumers looking for a product with net negative emissions.
Major RNG producers across the U.S. have noted the continual growth of the gas, and many don’t expect that growth to end in the near future.
Clean Energy Fuels to Open RNG Station in Ohio for Amazon, Local Fleets
Newport Beach, California-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. will formally open a new renewable gas (RNG) station in Ohio to serve Amazon freight trucks and provide access to local fleets.
Clean Energy Fuels said in a statement its Groveport station is the first station of its kind in the country, built exclusively for Amazon and other heavy-duty truck fleets to fuel with RNG. Other similar stations are under construction around the country.
Sapphire Gas Solutions Chooses BAUER Compressors and Host Bio-Energy Systems to Bring Turnkey, End-To-End Biogas Upgrading Solutions to Market
Sapphire Gas Solutions' recent acquisition of CLEANCOR (based in California), has catalyzed new capabilities through inherited technical expertise and strategic supplier partnerships like BAUER Compressors Inc and HoSt Energy.
Partnering with top technology providers in the industry allows Sapphire to provide end-to-end biogas solutions from generating biogas in a digester to moving the gas to its final location via Sapphire's extensive virtual pipeline capabilities.
Anew Selected as LCFS Partner for U.S. Navy, Port of San Diego Initiative
Anew Climate, LLC has been selected as the exclusive California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) service provider to the Port of San Diego in its groundbreaking partnership with the U.S. Navy.
The joint Port/Navy initiative, announced at Cesar Chavez Park Pier in San Diego with Navy and Port officials and other state and local partners, will support electrification project development around San Diego Bay. Funding for these projects will be partially sourced from the generation and sale of LCFS credits as facilitated by Anew and will lead to both local air quality benefits and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
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.
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