In California, marking a first for Pacific Gas and Electric Company, renewable natural gas from Maas Energy’s facilities in Merced began flowing into PG&E’s gas transmission system through a “mid-market” third-party pipeline. This project effectively diverts methane that would have been released into the atmosphere from dairies in Merced County and converts it to RNG, […]
In Canada, Greenlane Renewables, through its wholly owned subsidiary Greenlane Biogas North America Ltd., signed two new biogas upgrading system supply contracts valued in total at $5.6 million (CAD$7.1 million) for separate renewable natural gas projects in the United States and Brazil. Order fulfillment by Greenlane for both projects will commence immediately. Greenlane has been […]
In Canada, Greenlane Renewables Inc. entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Airdep S.R.L., a provider of biogas desulfurization and air deodorization products based in Vicenza, Italy. The acquisition of Airdep will bring in-house an effective and proven technology to remove hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from biogas for integration with Greenlane’s portfolio of biogas upgrading systems […]
In Texas, Clean Energy Fuels Corp. broke ground on a renewable natural gas digester at Del Rio Dairy in Friona, TX, its first in a joint venture with TotalEnergies to produce the ultra-clean transportation fuel which will be negative carbon intensive. All the RNG fuel produced at Del Rio Dairy will make its way into […]
In Texas, Enchanted Rock’s customers now have the option to choose Renewable Natural Gas to achieve net-zero or negative carbon emissions. With this announcement, Enchanted Rock will now reduce carbon intensity of backup power by 100%. RNG results from the capture and delivery of methane emissions from decomposing waste at landfills, agricultural waste, and water […]
In California, Yosemite Clean Energy secured the site for developing their first carbon-negative green hydrogen and renewable natural gas production plant in Oroville, California, with groundbreaking scheduled for Q2 of 2022. Yosemite’s biofuels production facilities will utilize proven Austrian-based gasification technology, successfully commercialized and deployed by Christian Aichernig of Repotec, to produce commercial scale carbon-negative […]
In California, San Joaquin Renewables reached an agreement with Cresta Fund Management and Silverpeak Energy Partners to invest up to $165 million to develop and construct a biomass to renewable natural gas project near McFarland, California. Frontline BioEnergy, a leading provider of waste and biomass gasification solutions, is developing the project, which will take orchard […]
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, […]
