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Deloitte calls for more RNG production from public utilities

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Jim Thomson, vice chair & US power, utilities and renewables leader at Deloitte delves into the organisation’s recent report A ripe time for municipal gas and waste renewable natural gas partnerships
Deloitte recently released a new report that highlights how renewable natural gas (RNG) can revolutionise the landscape for public gas utilities.
Over a year ago, Deloitte collaborated with the Center for Energy Workforce Development, American Gas Association, and American Public Gas Association on this report, which looks at the implications of decarbonization on gas utilities and their workforce.
“We identified three value-creating strategies that utilities could deploy over the next decades. The first and immediately deployable one is to renew supply by ramping up renewable natural gas,” said Thomson.
“During a panel discussion we delved into the unique opportunities for municipal utilities given that most landfills and wastewater treatment plants are municipally owned, providing opportunities for RNG to support local energy security and resiliency, municipal decarbonisation targets and local air quality. Yet we noted that few...

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