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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.Maersk and CMA CGM Partner to Accelerate Shipping Decarbonization
Container shippers A.P. Moller-Maersk and CMA CGM are partnering to accelerate the energy transition in shipping, working together to develop the use of alternative greener fuels, they said Tuesday.
The Danish and French companies have both set a net-zero emissions target for their shipping business and have begun implementing decarbonization plans, with Maersk ordering vessels that can be operated on bio/e-methanol while CMA CGM has been ordering LNG-propelled vessels, that can also be operated on bio/e-methane.
Alternatives May Drive Methanol Market Growth
The growth of sustainable alternatives to traditional methanol production sources likely will shape the market over the next several years, industry leaders said this week at the Argus Methanol Forum.
Driven by low-carbon policies and regulations, the transportation sector — especially the marine fuels industry — could be a source of heightened demand.
"The aim is to be net zero by 2050 but [those solutions are] expensive today and one of the main challenges to build e-methanol or bio-methanol plants is a huge queue for these pieces of equipment that aren't available," Anita Gajadhar, executive director for Swiss-based methanol producer Proman, said.
SJI, OPAL Fuels Enter Renewable Natural Gas Joint Venture
South Jersey Industries (SJI) and OPAL Fuels have entered into a 50/50 joint venture to develop, construct, own and operate RNG facilities. The first facility (the “Atlantic RNG facility”) will be at the Atlantic County Utilities Authority (ACUA) solid waste landfill in Egg Harbor Township.
“This project is consistent with our comprehensive clean energy plan, Leading the Way,” said Mike Renna, president & CEO, South Jersey Industries. “Its implementation underscores our current progress and renewed vision to achieve Scope 1 and 2 carbon-neutral operations by 2040 and lead our employees, customers, and communities to a better today and tomorrow. This and future projects with OPAL Fuels will permit us to accelerate achieving these goals.”
FortisBC Announces Largest RNG Project to Date
FortisBC Energy Inc. and the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, are working together on the construction of a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at the city’s landfill in Delta, British Columbia.
The project is an example of how FortisBC, Surrey, British Columbia, says it works with municipalities to develop more local renewable and low-carbon gases to help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to provide safe, affordable and reliable energy solutions for British Columbia families and businesses.
Evensol Announces Commissioning of North Carolina Landfill Gas-to-RNG Projects
Evensol, 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, North Carolina, and the Upper Piedmont Renewables Project in Person County, North Carolina, 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.
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.
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