Bakken Energy, an innovative developer of affordable clean hydrogen supply, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with each of Cummins Inc. and Schneider National Carriers Inc., to work together on the design of the Heartland Hydrogen Hub to serve the needs of long-haul trucking.
The facility will produce 200,000 tons of biofuel per year. The bulk of the bio-LNG produced will be supplied to the LNG-powered vessels of Titan’s launching customer. For the remaining volumes, truck refueling stations and industrial customers are within scope. The project also involves BioValue and Linde Engineering.
According to the company’s CEO, this station is a significant step toward transitioning Vellore & Ranipet cities and surrounding areas into a gas-based ecosystem, fueling industry growth and prosperity in the region. The facility will cater to the piped natural gas requirements of domestic households, businesses, industries, and CNG for the transport sector.
The new facility will produce biomethane with agricultural waste from local farms and supply Vulcangas. The bio-LNG will be used to fuel the NGVs in GLS Italy’s fleet, which includes IVECO S-WAY LNG trucks. Biomethane is currently the only mature technology that provides a solution with no compromise on performance and refueling times compared to diesel.
The new facility, located in the Ñuble region, will have a capacity to process between 7,500 and 16,500 m3 of biogas per day. This will allow to reduce more than 19,000 tons of CO2 per year, 96% of fine particle emissions and 85% of nitrogen oxide and sulfur emissions in the heavy transport sector, compared to other fuels.
With its filling stations, Rolande makes an important contribution to the currently existing LNG network in the country, which currently includes 135 public stations (according to the German Energy Agency DENA). The company also acts as an important partner for transport companies that want to switch to CNG+, LNG or bio-LNG.
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and CalBio announced a joint investment in their second holding company to produce and market dairy biomethane as a renewable natural gas transportation fuel in California. At signing, the holding company, CalBioGas Hilmar LLC, secured initial funding from Chevron to build infrastructure for biomethane projects in Merced County.
The companies plan to build a bio-LNG liquefaction plant on the site of a biogas plant in the Nuremberg region. The biomethane will be made available to customers in the transport sector. About 700 tons of biofuel will be produced each year. This means that around 2,800 vehicles can be refueled in a few minutes with a 250 kilogram tank filling.
The initiative will transform surplus livestock manure and other waste on a large scale into biomethane, organic fertilizers and CO2 neutral of biological origin. It has been designed to optimize slurry management in Galicia, reduce energy dependence on the outside, facilitate compliance with new European standards and help decarbonize mobility.
This is the first of 19 filling stations part of an agreement between Clean Energy and Amazon; the remaining facilities should be operational by the end of the year, expanding Clean Energy’s network of 550 stations. By dispensing 700,000 gallons of bio-CNG annually instead of diesel, the station will reduce carbon emissions by 6,848 metric tons.
