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Turning Our Waste Into Fuel: On the Path to Sustainability

Turning Our Waste Into Fuel: On the Path to Sustainability. Joanna D. Underwood, President, Energy Vision 2012 GLICC Advancing the Choice Conference October 5, 2012. OIL: Not a Fuel for the 21 st Century Threatens Health, Environment and National Security.

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Turning Our Waste Into Fuel: On the Path to Sustainability

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  1. Turning Our Waste Into Fuel: On the Path to Sustainability Joanna D. Underwood, President, Energy Vision 2012 GLICC Advancing the Choice Conference October 5, 2012

  2. OIL: Not a Fuel for the 21st CenturyThreatens Health, Environment and National Security • Health: Emissions of Soot, NOx and other Toxics pose significant health risks – respiratory, cardiovascular and more! (Diesel Fumes are now labeled a “known-carcinogen” by the World Health Organization) • Climate Change: 27% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the U.S. • National Security: 46% of our oil comes from OPEC countries

  3. 25 Domestic Production Imports 20 Total 15 Million Barrels/ Day 10 6.0 5 5.0 0 4.0 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 3.0 Million Barrels/ Day 2.0 Production 1.0 Consumption 0.0 1988 1980 1982 1984 1986 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 OIL: Supply and Demand USA • Dwindling Resources: 3 Countries (1/3 of all people on earth) vie for Imports CHINA Source: EIA INDIA

  4. The World Population Crunch… … 202,000 more people per day

  5. The Clean Fuels Revolution Has StartedThe 10 Million Trucks and Buses • 4% of all roadvehicles consuming 23% of road fuel!

  6. Trucks & Buses Shifting To NaturalGas: Cleaner, Quieter & Cheaper Fuel Fleets, Communities & Drivers Love Them

  7. WHAT’S NEXT? RENEWABLE NATURAL GAS • Fossil Gas and RNG are chemically similar (CH4) • Use the same infrastructure (pipelines, compressors, refueling stations) & engine technology so can be blended • They can power the same vehicles! • The major difference: RNG is “sustainable” 1) Renewable- made from waste – NO DRILLING, 2) virtually free of soot emissions, and 3) close to zero carbon footprint

  8. Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) How’s it made? From Organic Wastes The Pathway from Organic Waste to RNG

  9. RNG: Vast Feedstocks: Urban & Rural • Landfills 1,750 • Wastewater Treatment Plants 17,500 • Dairies 8,000 and Farms • Commercial Food Waste • Residential Food & Yard Wastes

  10. RNG: The Closest to Zero Carbon Footprint TODAY Derived from C.A. Resources Board LCFS, 2009.

  11. RNG Vehicle Fuel: What’s Happening? • Europe – Hundreds of Projects (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain…) • U.S. – Only 9 Operational Projects: 6 Landfill, 1 Dairy, 1 Stand-Alone Digester & 1 WWTP • The Technology to produce RNG Vehicle Fuel is Commercial: whether refined from landfill gas or in anaerobic digesters.

  12. Fair Oaks Dairy (IN) • Manure from 11,500 cows produces fuel (> 1.5 Million gallons/years) to power 42 long-haul milk delivery trucks hauling 300,000 gallons of milk per day!

  13. Altamont Landfill (CA) • Largest Facility to convert landfill gas to liquefied natural gas (LNG) to fuel close to 400 WM refuse trucks, reducing carbon emissions by 30,000 tons per year

  14. Janesville Wastewater Plant (WI) • The City of Janesville is upgrading digester gas to fuel 10-15 municipal light-duty CNG vehicles at an on-site refueling station

  15. City of Surrey (British Columbia) • 2nd Largest City in BC (470,000 residents) • Introduced closed-loop waste management plan: 1)Mandated Natural Gas Trucks 2)Collection of Source-Separated Organics 3)Build Anaerobic Digester 4)Produce RNG Vehicle Fuel for the refuse fleet. • By 2014: Wastestream cut by 75% (23% recycling; 51%; separated organics

  16. Project Economics: Many Site Specific Factors • Extracting as from Landfill wastes? • Organic wastes available to process in digesters? • Need to transport the organics? • Technology needed to refine the collected biogases? • Finding the Fleets to purchase the fuel? • Getting the fuel to the fleets? • Type of refueling station built? • Availability of economic incentives? Private capital?

  17. NY STATE: RIPE FOR “RNG”Clean Fuel – Less Waste • FOURTH LARGEST DAIRY HERD IN THE U.S. • $3 BILLION /yr FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY • 27 LARGE LANDFILLS • 600 SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS • Communities can be the game changers: • Mandate use of “natural gas” trucks • Inventory rural, residential, and local business wastes • Assess costs and savings of conversion to fuel • Potential to become fuel producers/sellers • Support federal and state economic incentives

  18. For more……. Energy Vision 138 East 13 St, NY,NY 10003 212 228-0225 Underwood@energy-vision.org www.energy-vision.org Twitter: @Energy_Vision

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