Chevron brings biomethane to the California’s vehicle fuels market

Chevron brings biomethane to the California’s vehicle fuels market

California Bioenergy LLC (CalBio), Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and local dairy farmers announced their joint venture, CalBioGas LLC, successfully achieved first renewable natural gas production from dairy farms in Kern County. The milestone underpins the partners’ commitment to provide affordable, reliable, and ever-cleaner energy to California consumers. With other recent Chevron announcements – such as the Adopt-a-Port initiative with Clean Energy Fuels – this milestone further demonstrates the company’s action areas to increase renewables in support of its business and invest in lower-carbon technologies.

CalBio, dairy farmers and Chevron are providing funding for digester projects across three geographic clusters in Kern, Tulare and Kings counties. As they are completed, these projects will mitigate the dairies’ methane emissions and reduce greenhouse emissions from livestock. The projects are designed to send dairy biogas to a centralized processing facility where it will be upgraded to renewable natural gas and injected into local utility SoCalGas’ pipeline. It is then marketed as an alternative fuel for heavy-duty trucks and buses.

“This is an exciting milestone that speaks to the capabilities and can-do attitude of our partners – CalBio and dairy farmers – to bring this renewable natural gas to the California vehicle fuels market,” said Andy Walz, president, Chevron Americas Products. “Chevron is increasing renewable natural gas in support of our business and is making targeted investments and establishing partnerships, as we evaluate many emerging sources of energy and the role they will play in our portfolio. And as a proud California company, we are pleased that local communities in the state will benefit from this investment.”

“The project is the result of efforts of a remarkable range of stakeholders, including the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utility Commission. CalBio also is honored to be supported by a group of California’s dairy farmers, Farm Credit West and Chevron, California’s largest energy company,” said N. Ross Buckenham, CalBio’s CEO. “These projects bring so many win-wins – they help create local jobs, improve local air quality by producing renewable natural gas for use in low-NOx emission fleets, and reduce dairy methane emissions.”

https://www.ngvjournal.com/s1-news/c1-markets/chevrons-joint-venture-brings-biomethane-to-the-california-vehicle-fuels-market/

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