In New York, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) issued a request for proposals to purchase ultra-low-carbon renewable natural gas (RNG) to fuel some 800 New York City buses currently running on compressed natural gas (CNG). It represents the first step any heavy-duty vehicle fleet in New York City has taken towards adopting RNG. “This fuel […]
In India, Punjab’s Minister of Power and Renewable Energy says he is working to promote the use of rice straw for bio-CNG and ethanol production in the state in an attempt to significantly reduce or eliminate burning of the 20 million tons of straw produced every year. About a quarter of it is used, but the […]
In Nebraska, the City of Lincoln is looking to scrub the methane produced at its wastewater treatment plant and then compress it for use in as many as half of the city’s 88 public buses in the next couple of years. Currently the city has 13 CNG buses and plans to buy another seven this […]
Methanol is gaining momentum as a low-carbon fuels target, as Enerkem starts producing in Edmonton. Why methanol, why now? Here, we look at the technology and market rationale for this rising trend. As we reported earlier this week, Enerkem has initiated methanol production at its Edmonton waste-to-fuels facility, and has raised an additional $115M in financing. […]
51 percent? Could renewable natural gas get that big? The rationale behind the Eureka!, and some Caveats for all you Emptors. A few years back we lived in the era of the National Energy Solution Summed Up in One Word: it was gasoline, then diesel, then ethanol, or biodiesel. Then there was the Two-Word Era: the craze […]
In a remarkable presentation at the Infocast Methane Bioengineering Summit in San Diego this week (and earlier at the Advanced Bioeconomy Feedstocks Conference in New Orleans, in June), Farmatic CEO Michael Schuppenhauer said that the US could replace up to 51% of its fossil transportation fuel through biogas, and that from crop residues and waste […]
In Louisiana, St. Landry Solid Waste Disposal District will invest $2.8 million to triple the size of its methane capture system that produces natural gas for vehicles while opening a filling station in Opelousas that will allow consumers easier access to the fuel. The station should be open by October. The biogas, which is supplied […]
In Florida, Florida’s natural gas vehicle incentive program produced 1,820 jobs and $68 million in wages since its inception, reports the Florida Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition. Prior to the legislation, there were 18 Compressed Natural Gas (“CNG”) stations in Florida; there are now 61 active CNG fueling stations with an additional 29 planned. A report […]
In Ohio, Quasar Energy Group has collaborated with Clean Fuels Ohio to take their produced natural gas and turn it into compressed natural gas (CNG), a form of motor vehicle fuel. Quasar has expanded their capacity to make the equivalent of 25,000 galleons of fuel a day from these waste materials. Their recent collaboration with Clean […]
In Kansas, High Plains Bioenergy produces biodiesel from used cooking oil, in large part from pig fat renderings from the nearby Seaboard Foods pig processing plant, but its trucks don’t run on biodiesel. Instead they run on CNG. The company’s 4 million market hogs that are transported annually to the processing facility will also go […]
