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Mitsui & Co. Ltd. has taken a 33% stake in Cim Group’s growing renewable natural gas (RNG) company as it bets on soaring demand for low-carbon gas for LNG and alternative fuels. The Japanese industrial giant disclosed it made the investment in Atlanta-based Terreva Renewables LLC as a part of Cim’s ongoing investment plan for…

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…

Some North American renewable natural gas (RNG) operators are expecting a more favorable market for selling environmental credits after federal biofuel volume requirements were updated. Three of the largest domestic RNG operators said in their second quarter results that revamped rules issued in June by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may help them improve…

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…

Piedmont Natural Gas has launched the GreenEdge program, which allows customers to purchase a blend of renewable natural gas (RNG) environmental attributes and carbon offsets to reduce emissions. “The main goal of the GreenEdge program is to offer a simple, low-cost and flexible option for customers who want to reduce the carbon footprint associated with…

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…

Renewable natural gas (RNG) producer and distributor Opal Fuels Inc. is advancing production projects as “more and more fleets switch over and demand continues to build for RNG as transportation fuel,” co-CEO Adam Comora said during the first quarter update.  Opal, the second-largest U.S. RNG fuel station operator, according to company estimates, is building up…