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Greenlane (TSX:GRN) is a pioneer in the rapidly emerging renewable natural gas (RNG) industry. We work with waste producers, gas utilities, and project developers to turn low-value biogas into a valuable low-carbon and carbon-negative clean energy resource. As a leading global provider of biogas upgrading systems, we are helping to clean up two of the largest and most difficult-to-decarbonize sectors of the global energy system: the natural gas grid and the commercial transportation sector.

Greenlane is a pure play in the RNG space, offering multiple core biogas upgrading technologies, in use and proven in the industry today. Biogas upgrading sales are forecasted by industry to grow at a minimum 30% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next five years in North America and Europe. Our demonstrated leadership in biogas upgrading, scope and breadth of product offerings, and over 30 years of industry experience are fierce competitive advantages.

Today, we are a trusted partner globally and are ranked number one in installed capacity, having sold more than 135 biogas upgrading systems into 19 countries and counting. We’ve learned a lot along the way. First to market in 12 of the 19 countries where our systems have been sold, we’re also proud to have supplied the systems for many of the largest RNG production facilities in the world.

THE LATEST

Through the Greenlane Digest, our goal is to provide weekly updates and the latest articles on the RNG industry. Make sure you forward our newsletter to your contacts!

Washington state utility Puget Sound Energy (PSE) has announced the launch of a voluntary RNG program, a key part of its proposed pathway to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2045. Through RNG, renters, homeowners and businesses can replace a portion of their conventional natural gas usage with carbon neutral RNG. PSE’s RNG program will offer utility customers the option to replace an equal amount of their conventional natural gas use with renewable natural gas. For every block of RNG a customer purchases, they see a credit on their bill for an equivalent amount of conventional natural gas not used. Already, more than 1,200 PSE customers have enrolled in RNG since its launch in December of 2021. Supply of the RNG comes exclusively from a long-term contract with Klickitat Public Utility District. Methane from a Washington landfill is captured, processed into pipeline quality gas, and transported to PSE’s natural gas system.

Researchers from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM have now found a way to convert waste methane from biogas plants into additional methane, thus drastically increasing the methane yield from biogas plants. The process is up and running and the research team is currently scaling up the demonstration plant. Biogas plants break down biomass in the absence of oxygen to form biogas which, on average, comprises up to 60 percent methane and more than 40 percent CO₂. While the biogas is used to generate electricity and heat in combined heat and power units or can be upgraded to natural gas quality and fed into the natural gas network, the CO₂ has not been utilized to date. Researchers from Fraunhofer IMM are now working on technology to utilize the CO₂ by converting it into methane using green hydrogen.

Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, announced definitive agreements to supply fuel linked to RNG for a Walmart Inc. demonstration of Cummins Inc.’s new 15-liter natural gas engine for heavy-duty trucks. Walmart will field-test the finished trucks at its distribution center in Fontana, California, with Chevron supplying the trucks with CNG linked to RNG. Chevron has positioned itself to help major fleet operators like Walmart in their efforts to decarbonize their transportation operations through the use of CNG linked to RNG.

Ukraine has a real opportunity to completely abandon gas imports through developing its own production, including biogas. According to the CEO of Gas Transmission System Operator Ukraine of Ukraine LLC, Ukraine has a very large potential for biogas production – up to 8 billion cubic metres of biogas per year, an ambitious goal for the next 10 years.  Ukraine is committed to energy independence, which includes increasing its own natural gas and biogas production.

For the latest articles on the RNG sector, click on the links below!

Jun 3-10, 2022

Puget Sound Energy launches first of its kind RNG program with landfill gas production

Increasing methane yield from biogas plants

Chevron, Cummins team on RNG engine demonstration with Walmart

Ukraine could adopt biogas and abandon gas imports

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