In South Dakota, Environment & Energy Leader reports that MBL Bioenergy entered into definitive agreements to develop several clusters of dairy farm digester projects to produce renewable natural gas from multiple farms in South Dakota. The clusters are expected to produce 650 million cubic feet of RNG annually when complete by the end of 2024. […]
A double doozy came in the news with Chevron expanding their JV partnership with Brightmark on their dairy biomethane renewable natural gas work together, and then bp and Clean Bay Renewables’ new 15-year agreement where bp will buy RNG processed from poultry litter and sell it as fuel for the U.S. transportation sector. In today’s […]
In Washington, D.C., NGVAmerica, the national organization representing the natural gas in transportation industry, pledged that by 2030, 80 percent of natural gas vehicle on-road motor fuel in the United States will be derived from renewable sources like RNG, rising to 100 percent by 2050. Last year, renewable natural gas (RNG) collected at local landfills, […]
In Canada, Greenlane Renewables’ wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenlane Biogas North America Ltd., signed a total of CAN$12.8 million (US$10.2 million) in contracts for renewable natural gas projects in the United States. One of the contracts involves the supply by Greenlane of its membrane separation biogas upgrading system for a project owned by an international energy company. […]
In Texas, Ameresco, Inc. achieved commercial operations at its landfill gas to renewable natural gas plant at Republic Services’ McCarty Road Landfill in Houston, Texas. This facility has a gross nameplate in excess of 1.1 million Dekatherms per year and is capable of processing 4,500 scfm of raw landfill gas. After breaking ground on the […]
In Texas, Kinder Morgan, Inc. agreed to acquire Indianapolis-based Kinetrex Energy from an affiliate of Parallel49 Equity for $310 million. Kinetrex has a 50% interest in the largest RNG facility in Indiana as well as signed commercial agreements to begin construction on three additional landfill-based RNG facilities. Once operational next year, total annual RNG production […]
In California, Aemetis, Inc., a renewable natural gas and renewable fuels company focused on below-zero carbon intensity products, hired regulatory expert Mehagan Hopkins to join the company as Manager of Carbon Capture and Sequestration Regulatory and Compliance. During nearly a decade at Chevron, she built teams to manage sustainability and environmental stewardship programs. At Aemetis, […]
In Washington, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a new technology that generates hydrogen from conventional natural gas, or renewable natural gas made from biomass, that could be the next big thing to advance California’s Hydrogen Highway, fuel cell vehicles and trucks and to create other valuable products. Tiny […]
In Canada, Greenlane Renewables reported a third consecutive record revenue quarter with growth of over 300% in Q1 2021 over the same period last year and second consecutive quarter of positive Adjusted EBITDA. Their record revenue of about $10 million (CAN$12.2 million) was an increase of 317% over the $2.3 million (CAN$2.9 million) reported in […]
In Canada, Greenlane Renewables signed approximately $6.2 million in new biogas upgrading system supply contracts and will supply the first renewable natural gas project in Colombia, it’s 19th country, plus a new system in Spain. The first contract is for the supply of its pressure swing adsorption biogas upgrading system to a municipality in Colombia. […]
