The purpose of the webinar is to explain what the planned changes will mean to business and industry.
On 21 May 2013, the EPA proposed amendments to its Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program, which it says could greatly expand the possible pathways for the biogas industry to develop its capabilities and business opportunities.
The Renewable Fuel Standard requires gasoline and diesel refiners, blenders and importers to purchase and use renewable fuel credits (RIN), representing volumes of renewable fuel, to offset the annual production of petroleum-based transportation fuel.
The EPA proposal would significantly increase the number of RINs generated on biogas and potentially the value of those credits.
Presently, the EPA allows the generation of advanced bio-fuel RINs on biogas produced at landfills, wastewater treatment plants and manure digesters used as a transportation fuel provided that the biogas is used as a gas rather than being converted to electricity and then used as a transportation fuel.
Under the proposal, biogas from landfills would qualify as a cellulosic bio-fuel. Cellulosic RINs meet three of the RFS tiered-mandates: cellulosic, advanced and total renewable fuel.
Biogas derived from waste treatment plants and waste digesters would continue to be classified as an advanced bio-fuel, under the new rule language.
The EPA also proposed that the “producer” of renewable fuel, and the entity that generates the RINs, would be the company that compresses or liquefies the gas into CNG or LNG.
Further, the proposal allows RIN generation on electricity from biogas, provided that electricity is used as a transportation fuel.
Speakers include Paul Argyropoulos a Senior Policy Advisor in EPA's Office of Transportation & Air Quality; Angela Dickens, an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality, Transportation and Climate Division; and Kerry Kelly, Director of Federal Public Affairs, Waste Management.
An interactive Q&A period will follow the presentations.
Members of the American Biogas Council can attend the webinar for free. The price for nonmembers is $89.
Those with questions can email Josh Lieberman at jlieberman@ttcorp.com.
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