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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.TotalEnergies Increases SAF Production at Grandpuits Biorefinery
TotalEnergies is ramping up production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at its biorefinery in Grandpuits, France ahead of the Paris Air Show.
Total is more than doubling annual SAF production capacity at the site to 285,000 tonnes/year compared to the initial capacity announced in 2020.
Total entered into an agreement with organic feedstock specialist SARIA last year to develop SAF production at the Grandpuits biorefinery.
Anaergia Signs Contract to Build State-of-the-Art Food Waste and Wastewater Sludge Co-Digestion Facility at Monterey One Water in California
Anaergia today announced it will provide technologies that will enable Monterey One Water, the wastewater utility of northern Monterey County, California, to make renewable energy from food waste as well as wastewater.
The project will significantly expand anaerobic digestion capacity at Monterey One Water’s Regional Treatment Plant (RTP) in Marina, California, and provide organic waste receiving and pre-processing equipment. This will allow the utility to receive and co-digest food waste in existing digesters currently used to process wastewater biosolids. When anaerobically digested, the waste produces renewable biogas, which is then used to generate electricity and heat at the Monterey One plant.
Joint Venture To Add 5 RNG Dairy Farm Projects in West MI
Five anaerobic digestion dairy farm projects are coming to West Michigan thanks to a collaboration between two Californian companies.
The Castor Project, announced in Greenville Wednesday, will expand the state’s renewable natural gas (RNG) production, according to Brightmark.
RNG is made when animal waste is converted into renewable sources of fuel. The newly announced projects are made possible from a partnership between Brightmark Fund Holdings and Chevron USA.
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.
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