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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Governor Discusses Food Waste Management with Industry Leaders
When it comes to waste, be it recycling or trash, Berlin’s Jean Koziol is just happy it’s gone.
“I don’t know where it goes. They just take it and it’s gone. It’s great,” she said.
Formerly, Hartford’s MIRA trash plant was an answer, but according to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, last year’s closure has led to an estimated 860,000 tons of waste per year being shipped out of state.
Op-Ed | We Need to Fix Energy Problems Without Harming New Yorkers in the Process
It’s clear that we live in a highly polarized society but dig a little deeper and you’ll find that there are some points where many of us agree.
For starters, climate change is an issue that affects every single person, family, community, and company. I don’t believe you will find many who oppose that view.
North American Clean Fuels Markets Are Doubling in 2023 and Demand Dynamics will Impact California’s LCFS Market
Washington Clean Fuels Standard (CFS) has gone live and Canada Clean Fuels Regulation (CFR) is coming up. This will impact California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) volume and prices as biofuel developers look at the trade-off for supplying Washington and Canada.
With these two new markets going live in 2023, fuel for over 70 million vehicles will be covered by a clean fuels standard. This is literally doubling the market for clean fuels and alternate pathways overnight. Alternate fuel providers will have more alternatives and it remains to be seen how this will play out. Specifically, Renewable Diesel (RD) is likely to face a shortage. In California, we are expecting a continued rapid uptake of renewable diesel in the coming years with demand reaching around 3.15 billion gallons per year in 2030.
Wärtsilä to Provide UK Waste Company with National Grid-Supporting Biogas Solution
Technology group Wärtsilä has announced it will supply a biogas upgrading solution to Transwaste, a British waste management and environmental services company.
The plant, near Hull in the North of England, will produce biogas from municipal waste and will inject up to 6 million m3 of biomethane into the national gas grid each year.
Ukraine Plans to Build 10 Biomethane Plants in Two Years
With the support of the European Investment Bank, Ukraine plans to build 5 biomethane plants by the end of the year, as well as five more next year, which will bring Ukraine closer to replacing natural gas imports.
Oleksandr Haidu, head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy, announced this at a meeting with representatives of Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy, Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Economy, State Customs Service, GTS operators and associations, Ukrinform reports with reference to the parliament's website.
Anaergia Continues Expansion of Biomethane Production in Europe with Commissioning of New Facility in Northern Italy
Anaergia Inc. announced it has commissioned a new biomethane facility in northern Italy, expanding its extensive waste-to-biomethane platform in Europe.
The plant, Ambiente & Risorse, is owned by Anaergia and has the capacity to anaerobically digest 40,000 metric tons of landfill-diverted food scraps, converting it to 3,900,000 cubic meters of renewable natural gas (biomethane) for injection into the region’s natural gas pipelines. In addition, the plant captures carbon dioxide created in the anaerobic digestion process.
The biogenic carbon dioxide is liquified and combined with the digestate that remains after the anaerobic digestion process to create up to 9,000 tons per year of calcium carbonate fertilizer. The plant also has a separate soil remediation unit that can bioremediate up to 30,000 metric tons of contaminated soil annually.
Greenlane Renewables Announces $7.2 Million System Sale
Greenlane Renewables Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $7.2 million (US$5.4 million) contract through Synthica St Bernard, LLC for a food waste to pipeline RNG project in Ohio, United States. Greenlane will supply an integrated sulfur removal and water wash system for upgrading biogas generated from food waste streams into pipeline-spec renewable natural gas (“RNG”) for direct injection into the local natural gas pipeline network.
The project will process approximately 190,000 annual tons of organic waste from nearby food and beverage manufacturers. The project is expected to generate approximately 250,000 MMBtus (million Btus) of pipeline-quality RNG each year that will be injected into a local natural gas pipeline on the regional distribution system. Greenlane’s order fulfillment is expected to commence immediately.
Richland Landfill and Potato Waste will Soon Generate Natural Gas for Washington State Homes
Agricultural biogas from Lamb Weston’s Richland plant and raw gas from the Richland Horn Rapids landfill will no longer go to waste.
Instead, it will be converted into renewable natural gas to be distributed by Cascade Natural Gas as soon as the end of this year.
The project is expected to produce the amount of natural gas used by about 4,173 Washington homes each year, according to the city and companies.
Marathon Petroleum Corp. Announces Acquisition of a 49.9% Interest in Emerging RNG Producer
Marathon Petroleum Corp. today announced the acquisition of a 49.9% interest in LF Bioenergy, an emerging producer of renewable natural gas (RNG) in the United States, from Cresta Fund Management for $50 million. The agreement includes the potential for up to an additional $50 millionbased on the achievement of predetermined earn-out targets.
LF Bioenergy has been focused on developing and growing a portfolio of dairy farm-based, low carbon intensity RNG projects. Current projects are under various stages of development, with the first facility nearing completion and expected to be in service in the first half of 2023. LF Bioenergy's management and origination teams continue to expand the portfolio with additional sanctioned projects while progressing their existing pipeline of opportunities toward final investment decisions. As specific project milestones are achieved, MPC is expected to fund its share of capital expenditures, building out this portfolio to produce over 6,500 MMBtu per day by the end of 2026.
Seventh Generation Entrepreneurs Fighting Climate Change with Robots and a Giant Mechanical Stomach
Working in the start-up community for a while, I have become irritated with all the psychopathic man-children founders sporting carefully cultivated “brilliant entrepreneur” personas (Exhibits A, B, and C: Sam Bankman-Fried, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk).
How refreshing I found it to speak with Denise Barstow Manz, the engaging scion of a family of brilliant entrepreneurs who have been operating a successful dairy farm in western Massachusetts for seven generations.
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