GAS
The news: This week we reported that G4 Insights Inc. has successfully demonstrated in a field trial that forestry industry residues can be turned into renewable natural gas (RNG). Their RNG technology demonstration project has been supported by a federal-provincial-industry partnership with the common goal of clean energy distribution into homes, businesses and industry connected to the natural gas infrastructure system.
The federal-provincial-industry consortium includes Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), the Natural Gas Innovation Fund (NGIF), Alberta Innovates (AI), ATCO and FPInnovations, who have collectively invested a total of $2.8 million in grants and in-kind, for the testing and demonstration of G4 Insights’ PyroCatalytic Hydrogenation (PCH) technology.
Why significant and what’s next: Gas is on the advance — limited more by vehicle adoption than cost. But availability has been an issue — there are limits on the scale of farm and dairy wastes that have been hitherto the feedstocks of choice. For some time, we’ve been waiting for the forest industry to find a way into transport. Here’s evidence of a new option.
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