RNG NEWS
NOVA Infrastructure and Nopetro Energy Announce New Renewables Platform
NOVA Infrastructure today announced that it has partnered with Nopetro Energy to create a renewable energy platform focused on renewable natural gas and biofuels called Nopetro Renewables. As part of the transaction, Nopetro Renewables will construct one of Florida’s first landfill-gas-to-RNG facilities in Vero Beach, Florida.
“NOVA’s new RNG-focused partnership with Nopetro Energy capitalizes on the strong, increasing trend towards decarbonization of the natural gas value chain and benefits from Nopetro’s strong track record of commercializing renewable energy projects,” said Chris Beall, founder and managing partner of NOVA Infrastructure.
“Our new platform, Nopetro Renewables, seeks to build and operate renewable energy infrastructure, starting with a shovel-ready landfill-gas-to-RNG project in Vero Beach. Our joint venture will generate significant ESG benefits to all stakeholders, as both compressed natural gas (CNG) and RNG assets play a key role in reducing carbon emissions and facilitating the energy transition.”
Wall Street’s Next Big Play is Garbage
Efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and to reuse materials are making it more profitable to mine landfills for energy and sift through refuse for the hot commodities of the green economy, such as detergent bottles and cardboard boxes.
WM and Republic are building plants to isolate methane from the fumes emitted by rotting garbage and pipe it into the natural-gas grid to be burned in power plants, furnaces and kitchens. They are also equipping recycling facilities with the latest in automation to better sort and process materials for the consumer-goods companies that are under pressure to keep their packaging out of landfills and the ocean.
Waga Energy Commissions its First RNG Facility in Canada in Partnership with Énercycle and Énergir
Waga Energy and Énercycle have completed commissioning of the WAGABOX® facility installed at the Saint-Étienne-des-Grés landfill (Quebec, Canada), beginning on-site renewable natural gas (RNG) production. The WAGABOX® is a prefabricated proprietary technology developed, owned, and operated by Waga Energy. Every year, the facility will inject up to 130 GWh (approx. 445,000 MMBtu) of RNG equivalent to 12.4 million cubic meters yearly into Énergir's grid, enough renewable natural gas to heat approximately 8,000 homes. This project will help to meet the sustainability goals set by the Quebec government in its "Plan for a Green Economy.”
Climate Jobs Efforts are Already Paying Off
This year, the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO and its affiliated unions made the creation of quality climate jobs one of the top priorities in the WSLC’s 2023 legislative agenda. As Washington state continues to lead the nation on clean-energy policies, our state’s labor movement wants to make sure the Legislature embraces the concept that jobs in this sector should be good-paying union jobs.
Those legislative efforts were successful on multiple fronts, and less than a month after Gov. Jay Inslee signed some climate jobs bills into law, they are already paying dividends. Dutch company SkyNRG announced last week that — largely due to two labor-backed bills that just passed — it has chosen Washington state to locate a new $800 million plant to produce sustainable aviation fuel.
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.