Johannes Escudero - Founder, CEO & Executive Director at the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas
In this episode we get the chance to talk with Johannes Escudero. He is the Founder, CEO & Executive Director - Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas, a North American Association dedicated to advocate for sustainable development, deployment and utilization of renewable natural gas, this promising fuel, more encouraged now than ever.
The potential for renewable Biomethane is huge, 28,000 feedstock sources remain with a huge potential of still capture its methane. We are talking about 2,000 landfills, 8,000 large farms, and more than 17,000 wastewater treatment facilities where best case scenario there is a system in place capturing some of the Biogas, and maybe generating some power for its own operation, but worst case scenario it’s being flared or maybe even vented.
Over the course of this enlightening conversation with Johannes, it was demonstrated that Renewable Natural gas is facing technical impediments and several cost barriers, but we can clearly see at this moment, that RNG is an amazing and sustainable solution, and hundreds of projects continuously producing this fuel are the proof that it works.
This is what we discussed on the podcast:
- How were the beginnings at the State Assembly for Johannes (1:50)
- About the first renewable natural gas project in the United States (7:15)
- How the Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) programs impacted the ecosystem (9:20)
- What’s the potential for Renewable Natural Gas projects on LandFills, Farms and Sewage (17:10)
- How to deal efficiently with consensus on an association (21:24)
- What are some efforts that the coalition have advocated for (26:30)
- What is Renewable Natural Gas (30:30)
- How RNG is driving Natural Gas Vehicle adoption (35:30)
- Why Renewable Natural Gas injection was banned from California since 1988 46:06
Resources:
A great website aggregating RNG Content - RenewableNaturalGas.info