Full Title: Can Your Wastewater Plant Do More?- A Primer for Officials and Communities on the Economic and Climate Benefits of Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Production
Author(s): Michael S. Lerner
Publisher(s): Energy Vision
Publication Date: October 3, 2024
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Description (excerpt):
We need all hands on deck to mitigate climate change. Every country, every industry, every subsector – we all have a proactive role to play in cutting greenhouse gas emissions quickly. Methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas, is the top near-term target. Cutting methane emissions soon – at least 30% by 2030, as envisioned by the Global Methane Pledge – is the most effective way of slowing global warming in the coming decades.
Water Resource Recovery Facilities (“wastewater plants”) can play an important role here. More and more, the most economic option is to upgrade this biogas into renewable natural gas (RNG) – a sustainable fuel that displaces the need for fossil fuels and thereby avoids the typically high methane emissions from their production (from drilling/fracking and storage).
Energy Vision’s primer, Can Your Wastewater Plant Do More?, was developed to be an invaluable guide for officials and communities on the potential economic and climate benefits of energy recovery at your local wastewater plant. It poses six main questions for wastewater plants, all of which lead to how suitable RNG production is there and what the main advantages and big-picture costs are.