RNG NEWS
Turning Waste Gas to Clean Energy: Brooklyn’s Newtown Creek Wastewater Plant Converts Harmful Methane to Renewable Natural Gas Fuel
One of the miraculous things the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) does to make life possible for the 8.8 million residents of this city is to process 1.3 billion gallons of sewage daily across its 14 wastewater plants. But they can do even more for New York by harnessing a byproduct of the wastewater treatment process and using it for renewable energy. This enables wastewater plants to fight climate change, divert waste from landfills, and improve air quality and respiratory health.
The Newtown Creek plant in Greenpoint, the city’s largest wastewater treatment plant, is already demonstrating how this works. Its iconic egg-shaped tanks, called anaerobic digesters, process sewage sludge and food waste and capture the methane biogases emitted as the waste decomposes. In the past, you would have also seen a flame atop a tall stack, where excess methane that wasn’t used to heat the plant was “flared,” i.e., lit on fire.
GFL Environmental and OPAL Fuels Complete Construction of Renewable Natural Gas Facility at Arbor Hills Landfill
GFL Environmental and OPAL Fuels today announced that they have completed construction of their new RNG production facility, Emerald RNG. The parties held a ribbon cutting ceremony earlier today to mark the occasion at GFL’s Arbor Hills landfill in Michigan, where the facility is located.
Patrick Dovigi, GFL’s founder and CEO, said, “The completion of construction of the largest of our landfill gas to RNG projects is an important step for GFL toward achieving our ambition for a low-carbon future. This RNG project advances our own sustainability goals by reducing GHG emissions from both our landfills and our fleet, as well as the goals of our customers, by avoiding emissions through the beneficial reuse of RNG to displace virgin fuel applications.”
OCI Global Fuels First Ever Green Methanol-Powered Container Vessel
OCI Global has announced it is fueling the first ever green methanol-powered container ship in a new partnership with A.P. Moller-Maersk. OCI will provide ISCC certified green biomethanol to power the maiden voyage of Maersk’s first dual-fueled container ship, in a pioneering step towards the decarbonization of global shipping.
The journey demonstrates OCI’s unique capacity to supply marine customers with end-to-end green methanol solutions in major global bunkering locations, and further supports green methanol as the leading choice today for decarbonizing the marine sector, which is responsible for 3% of global GHG emissions.
California Landfill is Turning Food Waste into Renewable Energy
Food waste is a huge issue for landfills and the environment, but one company in California is working to digest food waste into renewable natural gas.
Looking at satellite images, the biggest methane producers in the state of California are landfills, which is due to the sheer amount of food waste in the state’s landfills.
Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority and Anaergia, a renewable energy company, are teaming up to demonstrate how wastewater facilities that are already in place can be converted into resource recovery centers.
BIOFerm Selected As Project Partner for Jack Daniel RNG Facility
BIOFerm, a leader in the field of anaerobic digestion and gas upgrading, has been selected as the EPC partner for a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility near the Jack Daniel Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee in the US. 3 River Energy Partners is spearheading the project.
The project will convert spent stillage, a byproduct from the whiskey distillation process, into RNG and a nutrient-rich natural fertiliser.
Clean Energy in New Fueling Agreement with Customers Looking to Reduce Carbon Emissions with RNG
Clean Energy Fuels has announced a slew of new deals with several well-known consumer brands and some of the nation’s largest and most environmentally-conscious transit agencies.
Liberty Coca-Cola, one of the country’s largest bottlers and distributors of Coke and other brands and serving the Northeast U.S., has signed a fueling contract with Clean Energy to power trucks in New York and Philadelphia with renewable natural gas (RNG). These are its first trucks to operate on RNG, a sustainable fuel made from organic waste that significantly reduces carbon emissions by an average of 300% versus diesel.
“Liberty Coca-Cola strives to be the best corporate citizen we can be in the communities where we do business, and having a cleaner-operating and more sustainable fleet with RNG is a good way to that,” said Stanley Walker, distribution manager, Liberty Coca-Cola. “RNG reduces carbon emissions and improves air quality easily and cost-effectively.”
Opinion: Here’s How Food Waste Can Generate Clean Energy
Food waste is a growing problem in Canada and many other parts of the world — and it is only expected to get worse in the coming years. The world population is expected to grow to 9.7 billion by 2050, alongside global food demand.
Not only will this create large amounts of food and municipal organic waste, but there will also be increasing amounts of agricultural waste as the global demand of vegetables, fruits and grains increases. An estimated 60 per cent of food produced in Canada — over 35 million tonnes per year — ends up in landfills. However, Canadian cities have also run out of land to dispose this accumulating waste.
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.