October 18, 2022. At an awards reception in Manhattan last week the NGO Energy Vision, which researches and promotes clean energy and circular economy solutions, presented Leadership Awards to the following organizations:
- The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), along with its partners National Grid and Waste Management, which together developed an anaerobic digester project at the Newtown Creek wastewater treatment plant in Brooklyn.
- Green Era, which is developing the first urban farming campus using inedible food wastes to generate RNG and high-quality compost in a historically polluted and underserved neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side; and
- Nature Energy, a global leader in RNG production. It collects organic wastes from businesses and agriculture to produce RNG and soil nutrients. Based in Denmark, the company is expanding its operations to new projects in Europe, the US, and Canada.
RNG is the lowest-carbon fuel available. Its production prevents methane emissions and its use displaces fossil natural gas and high-carbon diesel.
“Energy Vision began focusing public attention on the organic waste-to-fuel strategy in 2009. Today, over 250 plants in the US are producing RNG fuel, 90,000 trucks and buses are running on it, and the industry has created 10,000 jobs. This is astonishing growth, which has only just begun,” said Energy Vision President Matt Tomich.