RNG NEWS
Garbage to Gas: Landfill Methane To Be Converted From Greenhouse Gas To Fuel
A $30 million project in St. Joseph County plans to convert landfill gas to renewable natural gas. The facility is already being built at the Prairie View Landfill in Wyatt.
The process involves removing C02 and nitrogen emitted by the landfill. The remaining gas will be sent off though pipes and sold. A project to capture methane at the Prairie View Landfill and use it to power vehicles is underway. The renewable natural gas facility built at the landfill is owned by Kinder Morgan.
Toyota North America on Path to 100% Renewable Energy Through DTE
Toyota Motor North America and DTE Energy announced Toyota’s enrollment in MIGreenPower, DTE’s voluntary renewable energy program.
Toyota’s participation puts all of Toyota Motor North America’s research and development operations in Michigan on a path to attribute 100% of their electricity use to renewable energy projects starting in 2026. This includes the company’s research and development headquarters in Ann Arbor along with six other facilities across Washtenaw County.
The clean energy commitment covers a 20-year period and will have the environmental benefit equal to avoiding 29,000 metric tons of CO2 or the greenhouse gas emissions from more than 6,200 gasoline-powered passenger cars driven for a year.
Carper Joins Cardin in Tour of Bioenergy Devco Plant
Sen. Tom Carper, chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat and senior member of the committee, toured Bioenergy Devco’s Bioenergy Center in Jessup, MD, on April 4.
The facility uses anaerobic digestion to recycle up to 110,000 tons of organics annually, producing renewable natural gas for energy, and sustainable soil amendment for agricultural and other land uses.
Q&A With Divert CEO Ryan Begin: Preventing Food Waste With Tech and Sustainable Infrastructure
The bruised banana. The blemished apple. The brown bit at the bottom of that Iceberg lettuce.
U.S. grocers generate 16 billion pounds of food waste annually, and the U.S. as a whole sends 119 million pounds of food waste to landfills each year. Even though technology has been shifting the way retailers manage inventory, consumer behavior continues to perpetuate the issue.
Waste360 recently connected with Ryan Begin, CEO and founder of Divert, which has been using advanced technology to improve food recovery and create supply chain efficiencies since 2007.
Indiana Gears up to Turn Manure into Renewable Energy
There’s not much to see in this remote corner of southern Decatur County. Dairy cows outnumber people. Farmland sweeps wide in every direction.
But this area, on the outskirts of Greensburg, could be the next center of Indiana’s growing biogas industry, turning manure into renewable natural gas.
Cummins To Invest More Than $1 Billion In U.S. Plants, Including Busti Facility
The Jamestown Engine Plant isn’t the only plant receiving major investment from Cummins Inc.
Early this morning, Cummins announced in advance of a visit by President Joe Biden to its Fridley, Minn., plant that the company is investing more than $1 billion across its U.S. engine manufacturing network in Indiana, North Carolina and the Jamestown Engine Plant in Busti. The announcement includes Cummins’ plans to invest $452 million, as has already been reported by The Post-Journal, in its Jamestown Engine Plant to upgrade its 998,000 square-foot facility in Western New York to produce the industry’s first fuel-agnostic internal combustion engine platform that leverages a range of lower carbon fuel types. The X15N is part of the new fuel-agnostic 15-liter engine platform produced at JEP.
NC State Researchers Take Aim at Textile Waste
From fast fashion to discarded linens, textile waste is piling up.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. sends more than 11 million tons of textile waste to landfills each year.
NC State researchers are hoping to change that, however, by making it easier to recycle fabrics.
First Waga Energy Cryogenic Distillation Module Sold to Air Liquide Passes Acceptance Testing
Air Liquide certified its first Waga Energy cryogenic distillation module after acceptance testing was completed in January. Waga Energy supplied the module for Air Liquide’s RNG plant at the Mallard Ridge landfill in Delavan, Wisconsin.
Waga Energy’s patented cryogenic distillation module separates the methane from the air gases nitrogen and oxygen in landfill gas. At the Mallard Ridge RNG plant, the module is implemented with an Air Liquide membrane filtration system. The plant, now up and running, is already producing RNG—a renewable alternative to fossil-based natural gas—from the landfill gas produced on site and injecting it directly into the local gas grid.
From Cow to Car: Developing Fuel From Manure
In Arizona, a dairy farm is turning cow manure into renewable natural gas. We walk you through it so you don't have to smell it.
Indiana Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch Visits BioTown Biogas
Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch visited BioTown Biogas in Reynolds to learn about one of the world’s largest on-farm biodigesters for renewable energy production.
BioTown Biogas activated a new digester and processing facility. The company sources food waste, manure and other agricultural waste to produce renewable natural gas and electric power.