Biogas

Renewable natural gas (RNG) and biofuels producer Aemetis Inc. has closed the sale of $53 million in investment tax credits created through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as a part of its first wave of projects expected to be accelerated by the legislative program. The California-based company disclosed that it wrapped up at the end…

FuelCell Energy Inc., a global leader in sustainable energy technologies, 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). The Tri-gen system at Toyota’s Port of Long Beach facility in California is the…

U.S. natural gas utilities are using innovation and technology to improve their portfolios, adding more renewable natural gas (RNG) and alternative fuels while reducing coal, executives said during the recent second quarter conference calls.  Some utility executives noted that higher costs affected their recovery from last year’s high natural gas prices, but they are steadily…

North America could see an increase in renewable natural gas (RNG) production by 2050, as government incentives and new production capacities are added, according to a recent analysis by Wood Mackenize researchers  “RNG has become more popular as it can have five times lower carbon intensity than natural gas projects and helps reduce emissions considerably…

Click here to listen to the latest episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow, in which NGI Price & Markets Editor Leticia Gonzales talks to RNG Coalition’s Dana Adams, legislative policy manager, about how natural gas is shaping energy transition policies across the country and beyond. Adams discusses how renewable natural gas development, carbon capture and…

Oregon regulators have voted not to acknowledge NW Natural’s long-term plan to meet the state’s energy and environmental policy goals with renewable natural gas (RNG).  Portland, OR-based NW Natural’s integrated resource plan (IRP), which is updated every two years, looks out to 2040 to determine resource adequacy. Over the next few decades, the plan largely…

The renewable natural gas (RNG) pricing and regulatory landscape may still be filled with mystery, as displayed in the first quarter, but utilities and producers have continued to push for the biofuel’s growth, insisting it would play an active role in energy for years to come.  In March, 116 million gasoline gallon equivalents (GGE) of…

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (CLNE) is continuing to advance renewable natural gas (RNG) supply with a “robust” pipeline of more than 20 production projects progressing, CEO Andrew Littlefair said during the first quarter update.  CLNE has nine projects under construction with dairy farmers, with an additional four in the engineering stages and two about to…

“We are working on the first biogas project connected to the natural gas network in Mexico, with the objective to inject green gasses into the distribution network,” Eva Ribera, Vice President of Business Development & Implementation at Engie México, told NGI’s Mexico GPI. “We think that biogas is currently an opportunity in Mexico and we…