LNG

Cedigaz, the French international natural gas body, said the biogas industry, which can deliver gas made from waste as liquefied natural gas, as pipeline gas or as fuel for filling stations, experienced growth of 23 percent in 2022.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp., the largest provider of renewable natural gas (RNG) made from waste for the trucking market, has opened a huge filling station that will provide 1.4 million gallons of RNG annually for online retailer Amazon and other truck fleets in the greater Chicago area.

“The addition of the Romeoville station to our fuelling network represents another step in the pathway for Amazon to realize significant carbon reduction for its transportation fleets,” said Chad Lindholm, senior vice president of Clean Energy.

“Trucks that operate on diesel are incredibly harmful to the air we breathe. Renewable natural gas is a viable solution that provides immediate benefits and as such this station will mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions in the Chicago area,” added Lindholm.

Clean Energy is already investing in the production of RNG with two European partners, TotalEnergies of France and BP of the UK, at dairies throughout the Midwest.

“The RNG produced at these dairies and others around the country will flow into the Romeoville station and Clean Energy’s nationwide fuelling infrastructure,” said the company, based in Newport Beach, California.

Acreage

Clean Energy said that the Romeoville station spans 8.2 acres and includes multiple public access fast-fill dispensers for easy in-and-out fuelling of RNG.

It has time-fill posts for up to 152 trucks, allowing for cost-effective fuelling and the most advanced technology transmitting real-time data to customers. It also has 153 parking places for personal vehicles.

“This multi-million-dollar station gives the thousands of heavy-duty trucking fleets that operate throughout the busy Chicago area the ability to fuel with a clean, renewable and sustainable fuel,” said Romeoville Mayor John Noak.

“We’re pleased that fleets that operate in Romeoville will now have the option to use RNG fuel,” he added.

Located at 300 Southcreek Parkway, the Romeoville station is part of an agreement between Clean Energy and Amazon for Clean Energy to build 19 stations nationwide.

The station initially will fuel more than 100 Amazon trucks and is designed with sufficient fuelling capacity to accommodate several hundred more trucks. 

Shell Petroleum NV, a subsidiary of Shell plc, has agreed to pay $2 billion to acquire Europe’s largest renewable natural gas (RNG) company, Nature Energy Biogas.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp., the California-based producer and marketer of liquefied natural gas made from waste, said it was continuing to increase its customer base and has new production plans.