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Commercial features continue to emerge in Canada to acquire renewable herbal fuel (RNG), biodiesel and hydrogen, as supplier markets for low-carbon products.
A 600 million Canadian dollar ($480 million) commitment to expand biodiesel in British Columbia (B. C. ) through Parkland Corp. inspired Prime Minister John Horgan to call the province a “clean energy powerhouse. “
Parkland, a Calgary-based convenience and gas retailer, set a tentative date of 2026 to increase biodiesel production to 6,500 bpd at its refinery in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby.
BEFORE CHRIST. Energy Minister Bruce Ralston awarded the allocation to the provincial low-carbon fuel standard, a 10-year regulation that sets greenhouse fuel relief targets and rewards suppliers who meet them.
Parkland said it won nearly 400 million Canadian dollars ($320 million) in emissions relief credits in British Columbia with biodiesel testing. This would be enough to cover 40% of the prices of the planned project.
“Renewable fuels play a critical role in Canada’s climate ambitions by enabling consumers to reduce their carbon footprint through their existing vehicles,” said Parkland President Bob Espey.
RNG is also moving on a commercial scale in British Columbia.
After 11 years of commercialization and provincial regulatory adjustments, distributor RNG FortisBC has set expansion targets as part of an annual review of the functionality of climate action.
In the last two years, the BC Public Utilities Commission has approved RNG source agreements with 25 agricultural and municipal waste disposal sites, as well as methane extraction sites. Annual RNG sales are expected to reach 3. 7bn cubic feet through the end of this year. , according to FortisBC.
By 2025, FortisBC’s Clean Growth Path aims to sixfold increase the source of RNG to approximately 22. 8 billion cubic feet consistent with the year, or about 11% of sales. The acceleration of the fuel substitution crusade aims to succeed or exceed 15% from 2030.
The program “supports effective and feasible climate actions that lead to true carbon reduction,” said Jennifer Robertson, FortisBC’s chief sustainability officer. To date, “our continued good fortune shows that it works. “
Other Trials of Canadian RNGs are expanding.
Waste processor StormFisher Environmental and contractor Modern Niagara Group have started a crusade to sell RNG from an Ontario plant in London owned by San Francisco-based Generate Capital.
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“In 2022 alone, we are committed to reducing the carbon footprint of our buildings in Ontario by 30 per cent,” said Chris Hill, MANAGING DIRECTOR of Modern Niagara.
“This partnership will allow us to offer our customers an effective greenhouse fuel relief solution,” Hill said.
The agreement supplies RNG extracted from more than 100,000 t/year of waste processed through the London plant.
Hydrogen, the latest addition to the list of low-carbon fuels, is also striving to become a candidate for business development.
Rockpoint Gas Storage, Certarus Ltd. , Plug Power Inc. and FortisBC are participating in a hydrogen pilot assignment at a commercial in southeastern Alberta. The test is expected to be published this fall.
Rockpoint agreed to verify Plug Power’s hydrogen production as fuel in the floor surface machines for the Suffield garage facility at its AECO herbal fuel center. Certarus would make the deliveries and FortisBC would be the procurement agent.
“To advance the energy transition, we want to take ambitious steps to produce, transport, purchase and use hydrogen for commercialization,” said Rockpoint Vice President Sheri Doell.
The further Canadian progression of petrochemical and fuel lines of choice is at the level of plan-making in commercial enterprises.
Among them is Calgary-Ltd. de Inter Pipeline, which is partnering in a feasibility study with Itochu Corp. from Japan and Petronas Energy Canada Ltd. de Malaysia. They are two plants in Alberta that would produce methanol and ammonia globally with a smaller carbon footprint.
The products would be made with herbal fuel rather than electrical power from dams, wind turbines or carbon-free solar panels. Emissions would be stored underground through carbon storage and capture facilities, the corporations said.
A provisional supply schedule for production starting in 2027.
“These services would be at the forefront of diversifying Canada’s abundant source of raw resources into value-added energy transition products to supply developing global markets with low- or no-carbon fuels and energy products,” said Brian Baker, president of Inter Pipeline. . .
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