RNG NEWS
EverGen Infrastructure Awarded $10.5 Million in Funding from the Natural Resources Canada's Clean Fuels Fund
EverGen Infrastructure is pleased to announce that it has been awarded funding of $10.5 million from Natural Resources Canada’s Clean Fuels Fund to support the development of EverGen’s Renewable Natural Gas expansion at the Pacific Coast Renewables facility, subject to the execution of a contribution agreement.
“We are honored to be recognized and awarded funding by NRCan’s Clean Fuels Fund. As a leader in Canada’s domestic clean fuels industry, the confidence and support from the federal government is an important endorsement.” said Chase Edgelow, CEO of EverGen. “We are a Canadian-based platform focused on building, owning, and operating RNG infrastructure, and are actively consolidating Canada’s fragmented RNG industry to create a more sustainable future for all Canadians.”
Houston Metro Gets $40 Million in Federal Funding for Cleaner Bus Fleet
Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, which commonly goes by Metro, is receiving more than $40.4 million to buy 40 compressed natural gas-fueled buses, build a CNG fueling station and modernize a bus maintenance facility.
Turning Waste into Power in Montgomery County
Ride On buses will soon be powered by what you flush away in Montgomery County, Maryland.
The county and WSSC Water have reached a five-year agreement aimed at capturing methane gas during the wastewater treatment process and turning it into fuel called Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) that will then be used to power the county’s Ride On bus fleet.
Biomethane (RNG) Being Injected into Sydney Gas System
Renewable biomethane is being injected into Sydney’s gas distribution system following the completion of an upgrade to Sydney Water’s Malabar Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The eastern suburbs facility has seen gas distributor Jemena’s Malabar Biomethane Injection Plant producing biomethane from waste and added to its gas distribution network.
Viridi Partners with American Organic Energy on Waste-to-RNG Project
Viridi Energy has partnered with American Organic Energy to develop one of the largest food waste-to-renewable natural gas projects in the United States. The project is expected to convert 210,000 tons of waste per year – which is equivalent to the entire annual food waste of Dallas, Texas – into clean energy and agriculture products.
Located in Yaphank, New York, the AOE facility represents a historic step toward circularity in waste disposal, housing the first anaerobic digester to process food waste in the New York City metropolitan area. The project will divert food waste from landfills located up to 300 miles away and transform it into RNG, via anaerobic digestion, and into other renewable products, such as fertilizer. The project will generate emissions reductions equivalent to nearly 100,000 tons of CO2 per year and is projected to produce renewable fuels equivalent to 10 million gallons of gasoline annually.
Renewable Natural Gas From Corn Stover
When DuPont shut down its cellulosic ethanol plant in 2017 after years of effort and $225 million in investment, it looked like the process of converting corn stover to renewable energy was a failure.
Then the Germans took over.
In 2018, Verbio North America, a subsidiary of Verbio Vereinigte BioEnergie in Germany, bought the plant from DuPont and began its conversion. Verbio, though, wasn't looking at cellulosic ethanol, but saw an opportunity instead to convert corn stover to renewable natural gas (RNG).
TotalEnergies To Supply Certified Sustainable Biomethane to Saint-Gobain
TotalEnergies has signed a 100 GW biomethane purchase agreement with Saint-Gobain for a three-year period starting in 2024.
The biomethane will be produced by TotalEnergies at its BioBearn biomethane plant, which came on stream at the beginning of the year and whose production is certified sustainable by ISCC under the highest sustainability criteria of the European Union REDII Directive. TotalEnergies is one of the very first producers to obtain this certification in France.
By acquiring the Guarantees of Origin, and thanks to their sustainable certification, Saint-Gobain will be able to attest, within the framework of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, to the decarbonization of its energy consumption in France. This contract is also an example of a purely commercial sale, i.e., non-subsidized, of biomethane.
Dairy Technology in Ellington Converts Manure to Natural Gas
A fifth-generation dairy farm is the first in the state to invest in a methane digester that converts cow manure into natural gas.
“We’re just trying to make a difference in the ag world and trying to take the farm to the future – that’s really our goal,” said Seth Bahler, CEO of Oakridge Dairy Farm.
Vanguard Renewables Strikes Largest Open-Market RNG Deal Yet With AstraZeneca
Vanguard Renewables announced an agreement with AstraZeneca on Tuesday to supply RNG for the pharmaceutical company’s U.S. operations. AstraZeneca began purchasing renewable natural gas from Vanguard on June 1 for its Newark, Delaware, campus, and by 2026 could acquire 650,000 mmBtus of energy annually.
The business-to-business agreement on the voluntary market is Vanguard’s largest to date and will involve three of its farm-based anaerobic digesters. The company has been working to scale up its on-farm digestion capacity after it was acquired by BlackRock for roughly $700 million last year.
The 15-year agreement is one of the largest ever RNG purchases on the voluntary market in North America, said Sam Lehr, manager of sustainability and markets policy at the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas.
AstraZeneca To Decarbonize U.S. Footprint by Turning Cow Manure Into Renewable Natural Gas
In a first for the pharma sector, AstraZeneca is partnering with Vanguard Renewables to use farm-sourced renewable natural gas to power all U.S. drug-manufacturing sites by the end of 2026
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca will tap renewable natural gas made from cow manure and food waste to sharply reduce its carbon footprint at U.S. operations starting now and over the next few years, the company announced Tuesday.