The natural gas industry continues to play a role in reducing our carbon footprint. There are various decarbonization strategies being used including carbon offsets, carbon capture and utilization of captured carbon. As more renewable electricity is added to the grid, additional gas fired back-up generators need to be added as well. In this section you will learn about various strategies to reduce our carbon footprint.
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Additional Decarbonization Strategies
/ Decarbonization Strategies
Decarbonization Strategies
/ Carbon Footprint & Climate Change
A carbon footprint is measured by the amount of emissions released by activities such as generating electricity, driving, farming, and manufacturing. The greenhouse gas “effect” is caused by the presence of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases collected in our atmosphere. The first step to reduce our carbon footprint is to understand what a carbon footprint is.
/ Decarbonization
Protecting our environment is more important now than ever. Gas utilities are on the forefront of providing environmentally responsible energy such as renewable natural gas and carbon neutral gas that’s produced from landfill waste, farms and wastewater facilities which is being used to fuel homes, businesses and even vehicles.
/ Balancing Variable Renewable Power
As more weather dependent renewable energy such as wind and solar is incorporated into the electric grid, utilities will need to balance the variable energy output of these renewables with on demand power generation sources that offer more reliability. Natural Gas power generation is a perfect compliment to renewable electricity to add reliability and balance supply and demand for electricity.
/ Carbon Offsets and RNG Certificates
Carbon offsets can help fund greenhouse gas reduction projects and serve as credits that balance carbon produced in another location. An RNG certificate is an instrument that gives the holder ownership of the greenhouse gas emission reduction that was generated by the capture of biomethane that is processed into renewable natural gas.
/ Carbon Capture & Utilization
Carbon Management offers solutions to capture and prevent carbon dioxide, CO2 emissions from being released into the atmosphere and use the captured carbon for industrial processes that require or can benefit from carbon dioxide.
