NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- At its
15th annual awards event last night, the nonprofit
Energy Vision presented sustainability awards to Congressman
Paul Tonko of New York,
the City of Topeka, Generate Capital, and
Glenfiddich/William Grant &
Sons, for their achievements advancing renewable natural gas
(RNG) made from organic wastes.
The lowest-carbon fuel available, RNG is made by capturing
methane biogases emitted when organic wastes like food scraps or
agricultural manure decompose and refining them into RNG. RNG
involved no drilling or fracking, and has the lowest lifecycle
greenhouse gas emissions of any fuel available today. When food
wastes and manures are the feedstocks, RNG is net
carbon-negative over its lifecycle.
"We need to deploy and scale low and zero-emissions fuels," said
Congressman Paul Tonko.
"There are cost-effective solutions to reduce and avoid methane
emissions from farms, landfills and wastewater treatment
facilities. Capturing methane not only has climate benefits, it can
also be a new revenue stream. We should be looking to support
programs and enhance incentives that turn this waste into an
opportunity. The transportation sector will need a diverse set of
clean fuels."
Glenfiddich, the world's first spirits brand, powers its
truck fleet with RNG it makes in its whiskey waste-to fuel program.
"Taking our distilling waste products and turning them into RNG to
fuel our vehicles is having a hugely positive impact, reducing our
CO2 emissions by 95% -99% over diesel," said Kirsty Dagnan, site leader of the
Glenfiddich Distillery at Dufftown in Moray, Scotland. "It's very important for the
food and drinks industry to make sure we're sustainable, especially
with transport," said Paul
Basford, President and Managing Director of William Grant & Sons, Inc.
The City of Topeka has built an RNG production facility at its
largest wastewater treatment plant. "My hope is that other mid-size
cities are going to say 'Topeka did this, we also need to do the
right thing," said Topeka Director of Utilities Braxton Copley.
"Making RNG captures methane which would have otherwise gone
straight from organic wastes into the atmosphere, and displaces
fossil fuels in the process," said Bill
Caesar, president of the waste-to-value division of
Generate Capital, whose network of digesters processes 275,000 tons
of food waste a year."
The full version of this release is posted here.
Source: Energy Vision https://energy-vision.org/
Contact: Stephen
Kent, skent@kentcom.com 914-589-5988
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