Renewable Natural Gas

Opal Fuels LLC, with a growing portfolio of nationwide renewable natural gas (RNG) and landfill projects, is going public in a combination with an affiliate of energy infrastructure giant ArcLight Capital Partners LLC.  The definitive agreement announced Thursday would launch Opal, a Fortistar portfolio company, on Nasdaq under the ticker “OPL.” Co-CEOs Adam Comora and…

Archaea Energy Inc., which produces renewable natural gas (RNG) from organic wastes at landfills and farms, plans to supply RNG to NW Natural subsidiary Northwest Natural Gas Co. under a 21-year agreement. “This agreement, our first with a U.S. utility, is a testament to the strength of our commercial offerings and highlights our ability to…

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has approved SCS Global Services as an independent verifier for the state’s Clean Fuels Program (CFP), which encourages the use of alternative fuels, including renewable natural gas (RNG). “We are excited to expand our low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) verification services into Oregon and help our clients access…

BP plc is extending a renewable natural gas (RNG) venture with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. to finance and develop more projects on dairy farms in Iowa and South Dakota. The dairy farms, with more than 30,000 cows combined, have the potential to convert methane produced from waste into more than 7 million gallons/year of RNG.…

Canada-based Xebec Adsorption, Inc. aims to expand production capacity 500% in North America for its renewable natural gas (RNG) and hydrogen technologies. By closing on its acquisition of Colorado-based UEC Compression, Xebec said last week it has established a “cost-effective and timely pathway” toward reaching the five-fold increase in output.   UEC, based in the Denver…

Chesapeake Utilities Corp. has completed construction of its Noble Road Landfill renewable natural gas (RNG) pipeline project in Ohio and is projected to flow gas by the end of the year. The 33.1-mile pipeline is designed to transport RNG generated from the Noble Road landfill in Shiloh, OH, to subsidiary Aspire Energy’s pipeline system. The…

North American natural gas buyers are ready to embrace low-carbon options for their customers, but executives said they are wary about the dearth of regulatory mandates, which could determine which direction to take. Reducing the carbon footprint is a worthy goal, said DTE Gas Co.’s Eric Schiffer, principal marketing specialist for the DTE Energy Co.…

BP plc subsidiaries are set to expand their renewable natural gas (RNG) resources in a deal with a Gevo Inc. Iowa facility now under construction BP Canada Energy Marketing Corp. and BP Products North America Inc. would buy the RNG, produced from dairy farm cow manure, from Gevo NW Iowa RNG LLC. Earlier this month…

Electrification alone will be insufficient to decarbonize the energy sector, said speakers at the LDC Gas Forums Northeast event in late July. Enbridge Inc.’s Steve Elliott, director of business development, told the Boston conference that about 80% of the world’s energy is currently consumed as a molecule, with the remaining 20% consumed as an electron.…