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Stay up to date with the latest stories, insights, and announcements.USDA Awards REAP, FPEP Funds to Biogas, Bioenergy Projects
The USDA on Jan. 22 announced it is investing $207 million in 682 renewable energy and domestic fertilizer projects through the Rural Energy for American Program and Fertilizer Production Expansion Program. Nearly 30 of the funded projects focus on biogas and bioenergy.
The awards include $157 million in REAP grants and loan guarantees that were awarded to 675 projects in 42 states and $50 million in FPEP investments that will be shared by seven projects in seven states. The projects selected for funding include various anaerobic digestion projects to produce renewable natural gas (RNG), along with projects focused on biogas-fueled combined-heat-and-power (CHP), anaerobic digestion for fertilizer production, and poultry litter.
Verbio Plans Expansion After Facility Annexation Into Nevada, Iowa
Seventy-four acres south of Verbio's renewable natural gas facility at 59219 Lincoln Highway in the town of Nevada, Iowa, will soon have access to several vital city resources, including water, electricity, and emergency services.
Verbio, located outside of Nevada, is the first industrial-scale renewable natural gas facility in North America using agricultural residues as its feedstock, according to the company's website.
Enbridge, FortisBC Eye Using BC Gas Pipes for Hydrogen
Enbridge Inc. and FortisBC Energy Inc. are funding a study aiming to examine how hydrogen can be delivered safely and reliably using the existing gas pipeline infrastructure of British Columbia.
Targeting to help develop a low carbon energy economy in the province, the study will look at the percentage of hydrogen that can be transported safely through gas pipeline infrastructure, such as Enbridge's Westcoast natural gas transmission system, as well as FortisBC's gas transmission and distribution systems. The study also has contributions from the British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation, Enbridge said in a news release Wednesday.
Will California Reach its Pending Organics Diversion Goals?
California still has a way to go to reach goals outlined under SB 1383, confers Dylan Chase, RNG Coalition public relations manager.
"That said, progress is rarely a straight line. Several of our members have planned digester projects in California that the state is hopefully doing everything in its power to support. We cannot let doubt constrain our reach," Chase says.
Court Approves Vermont Gas Contract for Out-of-State LFG
A January 12 court decision will allow Vermont Gas Systems to enter into a 14.5-year contract to purchase methane produced at the Seneca Meadows Landfill in upstate New York.
According to Vermont Gas, New York’s largest gas utility, the contract will help it reduce carbon emissions from the gas it sells by increasing its use of renewable natural gas (RNG).
Cowboy Clean Fuels Announces Funding To Support Commercialization of Technology and Build Out of Initial Project in Wyoming
Cowboy Clean Fuels, am energy technology company formed to simultaneously, permanently sequester carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere and produce carbon-negative, renewable natural gas from readily available agricultural byproducts, announced that it has been awarded approximately $7.8 million from the Wyoming Energy Authority through the Energy Matching Funds program.
In addition, CCF's lead investor, Machan Investments, committed an additional $7.8 million in equity capital to match and enable the WEA funding. The WEA funds and the investor funds from Machan, totaling approximately $15.6 million, will support the commercialization of CCF's technology and the build-out of its first commercial project in Wyoming, the Triangle Unit Renewable Energy and Carbon Capture and Storage project. After receiving a Class V Underground Injection Control permit from the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality in late 2023, the TRECCS project is permitted and ready to sequester CO2 and produce RNG at commercial volumes.
American Dairy RNG Industry Moves Forward With DVO
As the American dairy industry continues to take steps toward a sustainable future, DVO anaerobic digester technology is playing an increasingly important role for biogas developers.
"Communities understand that modern digesters help make farmers even better environmental stewards of the land," says Steve Dvorak, president and founder of DVO, Inc.
RNG Coalition: Climate Challenge Calls For Diverse Solutions
Whether in boardroom earnings calls, keynote speeches or media editorials, these days I see the same question repeated everywhere: Is the U.S. heading in the right direction on climate policy?
Answers to that question vary, but one thing is certain: Concern over how communities, corporate leaders and elected officials are handling climate change has never been more apparent. Most U.S. adults (54%) describe climate change as a “major threat” to our country’s well-being, up from around 44% a decade ago, according to a 2023 survey from Pew Research Center. Some 61% of Americans say that climate change is directly affecting their community.
RNG Coalition Contributes to IEA's 2023 Renewables Report
RNG Coalition was among contributors to the International Energy Agency's (IEA) recently published "Renewables 2023" analysis of global growth trends in renewable energy markets.
The report, the latest in an annual series of publications featuring IEA growth projections for various clean energy sectors, includes a so-called special section on biogas and biomethane, marking a first for the series. IEA forecast U.S. biogas and RNG volumes to grow 2.1-fold over the next five years, with the new RFS Set Rule, LCFS incentives and projects currently under development cited as catalysts.
Fellow contributors to the report included Archer Daniels Midland, BP, the European Commission, the Global Wind Energy Council, Iberdrola, the International Air Transport Association, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Neste, and Orsted, among others.
Clean Energy Begins Producing Renewable Natural Gas at Latest Project
Clean Energy Fuels announced that it has completed a new renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility at Drumgoon Dairy in Lake Norden, South Dakota. The 6,500-cow dairy farm is expected to supply 1.66 million gallons of negative carbon-intensity RNG annually to the transportation market when at full capacity.
Construction of the $38 million RNG digester project was completed in early-December 2023 and injection into the interstate natural gas pipeline system of the RNG began within weeks. The RNG produced at Drumgoon will be virtually stored until all pathways for federal and state environmental credits are approved, and a carbon-intensity score is assigned to the RNG, expected in the first half of 2024.
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