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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.TotalEnergies Acquires Stake in Ductor
TotalEnergies has acquired a 20% stake in Ductor, a Finland-based start-up that has developed innovative technology to process high-nitrogen organic waste, such as poultry manure, which is often difficult to use for biomethane production.
By allowing the treatment of new types of inputs, this technology is helping to accelerate the development of the biogas value chain, thus contributing to the energy transition. It will also allow TotalEnergies to take advantage of new market opportunities.
Trillium Energy Solutions To Fuel Werner Enterprises Field Trials for New Cummins 15-Liter Natural Gas Engine
Trilium Energy Solutions, a member of the Love’s Family of Companies, will supply Werner Enterprises with renewable natural gas (RNG) to fuel the 15-liter Cummins natural gas engine as part of field trials of the new Cummins X15N engine in North America. As the exclusive RNG fueling supplier for Werner during trials to validate commercial production of the engine, Trillium will fuel Werner’s Peterbilt Model 579 field trial truck powered by the Cummins X15N natural gas engine with RNG from its Omaha, Nebraska and Rockford, Illinois stations.
“Working with partners like Trillium to test the X15N while utilizing RNG gives Werner valuable real-world data that helps us validate these engines prior to a wider adoption into our fleet,” said Chad Dittberner, senior vice president of dedicated services for Werner Enterprises. “Trillium has been helpful in this process, and we look forward to expanding adoption of these clean fuels and advanced technologies in our fleet.”
Gov. Inslee Celebrates Expansion of Pasco Process Water Reuse Facility
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee was in Pasco Friday afternoon to highlight the expansion of the city’s Process Water Reuse Facility.
This session the state legislature appropriated $5 million in the 2023-25 capital budget collected through the Climate Commitment Act’s cap-and-trade auctions to help fund expansion of the agricultural industrial wastewater treatment site that for more than 25 years has pretreated, treated and disposed of approximately one billion gallons of wastewater on more than 1,800 acres of farmland.
'Trash Gas' Gets a Daily Price as Popularity Grows
Demand for natural gas captured at landfills, sewage-treatment plants and manure lagoons is rising. Now, buyers will be able to see how much more the so-called renewable natural gas—or "trash gas"— is trading above its fossil fuel equivalent.
Energy information firm Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, has started publishing the daily prices paid in spot-market trades for renewable natural gas, which is considered more environmentally friendly.
'Up to 1,000 Gallons per Day': Roseville to Covert Wastewater Into Methane To Power Waste Collection Fleet
The City of Roseville has a new way to power its vehicles: they're using wastewater and turning it into fuel.
Believe it or not, what goes down, will soon power up part of Roseville.
"We're really excited about this because we've been planning since 2016," said Devin Whittington, assistant utility director for the city.
Whittington said it's called the Energy Recovery Project. Essentially, they're taking wastewater, converting it into methane, and putting it into a form that can fuel their waste collection fleet.
Renewable Natural Gas Seen as Pathway to Low-Carbon Hydrogen
Using renewable natural gas (RNG) as a feedstock offers hydrogen producers a shortcut to claiming the full federal tax credit created by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to incentivize hydrogen production.
That translates into a tax credit of $3/kg of clean hydrogen produced, or 2.6 cents/kWh of power generated using that clean hydrogen as fuel.
RNG is made from landfill gas or from biogas produced by anaerobic digesters that process municipal sewage or animal manure. Indistinguishable from fossil-based natural gas, RNG is also now more valuable as a fuel itself because the IRA expanded the federal production tax credit (PTC) to include biogas projects that begin construction before 2025. Previously, the PTC applied to only wind and solar projects.
Consortium To Develop International Standard for Biogas and Biomethane
A new international consortium formed of global renewable energy certification leader Evident, M-RETS (USA), and Instituto Totum (Brazil) have finalised a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop new internationally accredited codes for biogas and biomethane, under the I-REC Standard.
The goal of the new I-REC(G) Product Code is to develop a standardised tracking system that is fact-based and versatile, a global standard with local implementation. This code would serve as the basis for a certification scheme for producing biogas and biomethane.
CHAR Technologies Signs MOU With First Nations Co-Op LNFMI for Waste to Energy Facility
CHAR Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding with the First Nations co-operative Lake Nipigon Forest Management Inc. to jointly develop, build, own and operate a waste to energy facility in the Lake Nipigon Region of Northern Ontario. In particular, the plant will process wood waste and residues to RNG and biocarbon.
LNFMI is a forest management co-operative comprising four local First Nation Communities that hold the Sustainable Forest License (SFL) on the Lake Nipigon Forest. They are Animbiigoo Zaagi igan Anishinaabek; Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek; Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek; and, Red Rock Indian Band.
LNFMI oversees an annual harvest operation from the Lake Nipigon Forest, which supplies wood fiber across Northern Ontario. The Lake Nipigon Forest begins at the Nipigon township and extends east to Geraldton on Hwy 11 and Pays Plat on Hwy 17.
Opal Fuels Sees Heavy-Duty Trucking Bulking RNG Demand
Renewable natural gas (RNG) producer and distributor Opal Fuels Inc. is advancing production projects as “more and more fleets switch over and demand continues to build for RNG as transportation fuel,” co-CEO Adam Comora said during a first quarter update.
‘The World Needs To Embrace a Suite of Solutions’: Divert on Tackling Food Waste and Climate Change
With so many issues facing the world today, it’s a rare and exciting thing to find a solution to multiple problems at the same time. One such solution came at the hands of Divert CEO Ryan Begin, who founded the company in 2007 to tackle the twin issues of food waste and the urgent need for clean energy.
Divert takes a holistic overview of the food waste crisis, and they’re involved at every stage. Firstly, they prevent waste by developing technologies to keep food fresher for longer, and work with food retailers to rescue unsold edible food and donate it to food banks. Any waste that can’t be prevented is converted to clean power at one of Divert’s facilities, through a process called anaerobic digestion.
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