Innovators Making Renewable, Low-Carbon Vehicle Fuel a Reality

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Nov 14, 2014, 12:31 ET

NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Energy Vision, a national non-profit promoting clean, renewable, petroleum-free transportation fuels, presents its 2014 Leadership Awards in the renewable energy field in Manhattan on November 18 from 5:00 to 7:15pm in Manhattan's West Village.

Journalists and bloggers are invited to attend and to interview awardees, who are leading innovative projects to scale up Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) made from organic waste such as food, farm and yard waste and wastewater treatment products. For privacy reasons, we ask journalists and bloggers to respond to get the address, using the contact information below.

"Biogases" captured from organic wastes in landfills can be refined into RNG transportation fuel that emits 88% less greenhouse gas over its lifecycle than diesel or gasoline. RNG produced from wastes separately processed in oxygen-free anaerobic digester tanks can be net carbon-neutral, i.e., it can actually prevent more greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere than producing and burning it emits. RNG has the potential to power many of America's 10 million heavy trucks and buses. Converting 25% could cut GHG emissions over 89 million tons.

These expert sources on renewable fuels made from waste will be at the event and available for side interviews on request:

Kathryn Garcia, New York City Sanitation Commissioner will receive one of the Energy Vision Leadership awards. New York's Department of Sanitation (DSNY) is implementing mandatory commercial organic waste recycling plus voluntary residential organic waste recycling programs.

Richard M. DiGia, President/CEO, Aria Energy and Harrison Clay, President, Clean Energy Renewables will each receive Energy Vision Leadership awards for their joint project at the Seneca Meadows Landfill in Seneca Falls, the first New York State operation converting landfill biogas into vehicle fuel.

Mel Kurtz, President, quasar energy group, will receive an Energy Vision Leadership award. quasar is the largest U.S. operator of "complete mix" anaerobic digesters, and recently joined Chevrolet in announcing the "bi-fuel" Impala, the first production sedan which runs on compressed natural gas as well as gasoline, which will be commercially available in 2015.

Joanna D. Underwood, President, and Matt Tomich, Vice President, Energy Vision, a leading non-profit analyzing and promoting rapid transition in the U.S. to the clean, petroleum-free transportation fuels of the future.

Contact: Stephen Kent, [email protected], 914-589-5988

SOURCE Energy Vision