Utilities
Who We Serve
Federal and State incentives currently steer renewable natural gas toward the transportation sector, creating a barrier for utilities hoping to promote it. These incentives offer double the climate benefit by replacing fossil fuels with renewable natural gas and by reducing methane emission — which is 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas over 100 years — in the atmosphere.
HOW IT WORKS
Renewable natural gas is an effective way to decarbonize existing natural gas pipelines and to deliver carbon-neutral energy to municipalities, corporations, colleges and the transportation sector. Currently, transportation is absorbing the bulk of available renewable natural gas because of government incentives directed toward this sector; however, as the renewable natural gas industry grows, and as competition for low carbon transportation fuel increases, the renewable natural gas market will expand, increasing supply and potential benefit to utilities.
SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS
Utilities can cut carbon emissions now by updating transportation and operations equipment. A study by Navigant found that replacing 16% of California’s natural gas supply with renewable natural gas today would have an impact on greenhouse gas reduction equal to converting all buildings in the state of California to electric-only energy by 2030 – with methods that are three times more cost effective than an electric pathway.