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The call to cut the carbon from natural gas and oil, versus eliminating fossil fuels from the energy mix, is gaining supporters, as top energy executives in Houston this week pushed for stakeholders to acknowledge that global demand is growing, while a renewables-only future is unattainable in the near term. In the unofficial energy capital…

Challenges to add renewables to the mix of power supply add to issues that will keep natural gas generation growing and an important part of the energy stack in 2024. “Coal and natural gas remain important to the U.S. electric grid, even as variable renewable resources such as solar and wind grow,” U.S. Energy Information…

Natural gas utility Spire Inc. is developing a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility in Kansas City, MO, the first in the area, via a venture with the city’s water utility.  KC Water selected Spire to develop the facility at the Blue River Wastewater Treatment Plant. The upgrade, expected to be completed in 2025, could produce…

As policies incentivizing clean energy continue to mount, renewable natural gas (RNG) is poised for more growth, the scale of which could depend on the outcome of state and federal legislation.  The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) launched investments into alternative fuels, including RNG, in part because of the expansion of investment tax credits…

Enbridge Inc. further expanded its presence in the Lower 48 by acquiring a string of renewable natural gas (RNG) facilities. The Calgary-based company said that, as part of ongoing efforts to build a U.S. RNG manufacturing and transportation business, it purchased seven operating landfill gas-to-RNG facilities from Morrow Renewables. The portfolio, valued at $1.2 billion,…

A renewable natural gas (RNG) plant in Indiana, able to process 3,200 cubic feet/minute of landfill gas, has begun operations, according to BP plc-led Archaea Energy. The RNG facility in Medora, sited by a landfill owned by Rumpke Waste and Recycling, is the first to come online since last December, when BP completed its takeover…

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…

North American utility customers are less likely to pay into carbon offset programs using renewable natural gas (RNG) or differentiated gas when prices are high, according to several industry executives.  Many U.S. natural gas utilities have programs that allow customers to choose whether to pay an added fee for carbon offsets, including for RNG and…

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…