June 4, 2024. The Transport Project (TTP) and Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) – with partner California Renewable Transportation Alliance –announced that California fleets fueled with Bio-CNG achieved carbon-negativity in their transportation operations last calendar year for the fourth straight year.
Renewable natural gas (RNG) accounted for 97% of all on-road fuel used in natural gas vehicles in California in 2023. According to data from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) the annual average carbon intensity score of Bio-CNG in that mix was -126.42 gCO2e/MJ.
In fact, Bio-CNG holds the lowest average carbon intensity of any clean fuel option on California’s roadways today and is the only fuel producing a negative carbon intensity fleet outcome in the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Program, which includes ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel, Bio-CNG, Bio-LNG, electricity, alternative jet fuel, and hydrogen.
Even more, while RNG made up just 5.1% of all on-road alternative fuels dispensed by volume, it generated 19.2% of all carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emission reductions of on-road alternative fuels reported under the California LCFS in 2023.
Captured above ground from organic material in agricultural, wastewater, landfill, or food waste, RNG can produce carbon-negative results when fueling on-road vehicles like short- and long-haul trucks, transit buses, and refuse and recycling collection vehicles.
TTP and RNG Coalition report that in 2023 a total of 209.9 million gallons (DGE) of natural gas were used as motor fuel in the state. Of that, 203.10 million gallons (DGE) were from renewable sources.
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