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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.California Looks To Cut One of Its Most Effective Climate Tools
The California Air Resources Board is reopening its rulemaking on the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, sparking new debate over the role of dairy digesters in combating climate change. Environmental justice advocates have pushed the board to drop its credits for digesters, calling the incentives a subsidy for industrial farms that allow them to grow larger and pollute disadvantaged communities.
At the cost of more than $500,000 a year, CARB has made permanent its Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (EJAC). Led by prominent environmental interest groups, the committee last week handed CARB a list of requests for the LCFS proceedings. It hopes to rapidly phase out crop-based feedstocks like ethanol. Yet the issue that gained the most debate during an EJAC workshop was a request to eliminate methane credits for digesters next year, along with any other potential pathways for dairy and livestock producers to gain credits…
Michael Boccadoro, who leads industry efforts on methane as the executive director of Dairy Cares, cautioned that the role of biomethane from cows in LCFS is “a tiny, tiny, tiny slice of the supply mix in California,” though it is a huge part of the state’s effort to cut methane emissions.
FuelCell, Toyota Team at California Port To Reduce Emissions, Create RNG, Renewables
FuelCell Energy is partnering with Toyota Motor North America Inc. on a triple generation system, aka “Tri-gen,” to produce renewable electricity, renewable hydrogen, and directed biogas, better known as renewable natural gas (RNG).
AstraZeneca Advances UK Clean Heat And Energy Efficiencies With Biomethane
Powering AstraZeneca's transition to zero, the Company has agreed a 15-year partnership with Future Biogas to establish the UK's first unsubsidized industrial-scale supply of biomethane gas, and is investing in major energy efficiencies in its operations, totaling a commitment of GBP 100 million.
Energy from the biomethane facility will supply AstraZeneca's sites in Macclesfield, Cambridge, Luton and Speke with 100 gigawatt hours (GWh) per year, equivalent to the heat demands of over 8,000 homes. Once operational in early 2025, the partnership will reduce emissions by an estimated 20,000 tonnes CO2 equivalent (CO2e), adding renewable energy capacity to the national gas grid.
OCI Global Doubles Capacity As Shipping Industry Seeks Green Methanol
OCI Global, the world's biggest producer of green methanol, plans to double the production capacity at its Texas facility to 400,000 metric tons per year, the company said in a statement on Thursday.
The Dutch green fuel-maker grows its capacity in response to a huge demand for green methanol from carbon emission-high industries like shipping, an industry responsible for around 3% of global emissions each year.
Ukraine’s Push Into Green Energy Starts With 5,600 Tons of Cow Dung
Each year the plant is expected to use up to 5,600 metric tons of grass-rich cow dung, 2,400 tons of sunflower-oil sludge and 1,000 tons of pig slurry, among other farm waste.
Aemetis Completes Expansion of India Biodiesel Plant One Year Ahead of Schedule
California-based Aemetis, a renewable natural gas and renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products, announced that its Universal Biofuels subsidiary has completed an expansion of its India biodiesel plant annual production capacity to 60 million gallons more than one year ahead of schedule, supplying the expanding demand for biodiesel by India government-owned Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs).
The Kakinada Plant also distills the crude glycerin byproduct from the biodiesel refining process into refined glycerin.
Biden, Modi, Other Leaders Launch the Global Biofuels Alliance in Clean Energy Effort
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a new biofuels initiative at the G-20 summit in New Delhi, India on Saturday, signaling a push for more green energy globally.
India will lead the Global Biofuels Alliance alongside the U.S. and Brazil, a move which is aimed to accelerate the shift to net zero emission targets by promoting plant and animal waste biofuels.
EVENSOL & Project Partners Commission North Carolina’s First Two Landfill-to-Gas RNG Production Facilities
EVENSOL LLC, a renewable energy project developer focusing on biogas and methane mitigation, announces that it has developed two renewable natural gas (RNG) facilities in North Carolina that are now operational. The Foothills Renewables Project in Caldwell County, NC, and the Upper Piedmont Renewables Project in Person County, NC, convert landfill gas from Republic Services’ Landfills into RNG. They make a meaningful positive environmental impact, taking a natural byproduct of waste and converting it into renewable fuel.
EVENSOL, based in Sisters, OR, and its partners invested in excess of $110 million in the combined projects. Charlotte, NC-based Duke Energy is an equity investor in the two projects. Funding also included nearly $73 million in loans.
BioEnergy Devco Gets DNREC OK for Chicken Waste to Gas Plant
Bioenergy Devco the North American division of BTS Bioenergy, received permitting approval to construct its organics recycling facility at its Bioenergy Innovation Center near Seaford, Delaware.
The center would process chicken waste in the Delmarva Region.
The expanded Bioenergy Innovation Center in Seaford will use anaerobic digestion to turn organic food waste into renewable natural gas and a soil amendment that will be composted onsite to be used in agriculture, horticulture projects and community gardens and more.
New Technology Coming to Scott County Landfill in Iowa
New technology from French-based company, WAGA Energy, will be installed at the Scott Area landfill just outside of Davenport to convert raw methane from waste into grid-compliant natural gas.
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