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Finance acquisition strategies for renewable gas projects

Olivier Guerrini, Vice President, Gas, Renewables & Power Biogas Division for Total focuses on:

• What is needed from a global perspective for the biogas and renewable natural gas industries to scale up and increase competitivity
• All you need to know about public-private partnerships to balance the use of innovative technologies, sharing of project costs and risk allocation for project success
• How public funds can be used to leverage private financing and long term fixed priced contracts

Tackling finance issues for biogas-RNG projects

The thought leaders who joined the discussion:

• Tim Olson, Senior Policy Advisor – California Energy Commission
• John Dannan, Vice President - Generate Capital
• Jon Ellis, Vice President, Alternative Energy Finance - Crestmark Bank
• Richard Nordin, Managing Director - Plasma Development
• Mark Riedy, Partner - Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

Key takeaways:

• How public funds can be used to leverage private financing and long-term, fixed priced contracts
• How sizeable a grant needs to be to attract private investment
• What other factors are significant and what is their impact on the finance your project
• What is required to form innovative public-private partnerships that would balance the use of innovative technologies, sharing of project costs and risk allocation for your project’s success
• What is the tipping fee needed for a project to be financeabl

Exploring oil price crash effects on biogas and renewable natural gas [RNG] demand

Speaker:

• Harrison Clay, Vice President Strategic Development, Global Environmental Products, BP

Decarbonization strategies - the corporate perspective

Speakers included:

• Amit Gudka, Co-founder, Bulb
• Vaughan Linsday, CEO, ClimateCare

RNG as the Leading Transportation Fuel in North America - Exploring Challenges and Opportunities

Speakers included:

• Andy Dvoracek, VP, AMP Americas
• Harrison Clay, Vice President Strategic Development, Global Environmental Products, BP
• Thomas Lawson, President, California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition
• Neil Black, President, California Bioenergy
• Johannes Escudero, CEO & Executive Director, Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas

Monetize RNG production for vehicle fuel

Speakers included:

• Nick Lumpkin, Strategic Originator - Environmental Products, BP
• Andy Dvoracek, VP Business Development, AMP Americas
• Mike Koel, President, U.S. GAIN
• Ryan Gach, Manager of Biogas Marketing, Waste Management Renewable Energy

Whitepaper - How can data improve the competitiveness of biogas?

Key topics covered in this paper:

• Does biogas need data applications?
• Mapping the need by technology and market
• Where to apply data and smart technologies?
• The biogas plant of the future
• Outlook and conclusions

Whitepaper - Aiding decarbonization goals: leadership in a time of change

Key topics covered in this paper:

• The immediate outlook for RNG
• Attitudes to waste disposal and low-carbon fuels
• RNG in transportation
• Outlook and conclusions

Whitepaper - Benefiting from the growing market for RNG in transport

Key topics covered in this paper:

• The focus is on California
• Drivers for RNG nationwide
• The impact of agricultural RNG
• Getting gas to customers

Q&A article on challenges and opportunities in the production and utilization of biogas and RNG

Key topics covered in this paper:

• The future outlook for biogas and biomethane
• How biogas and RNG can help achieve our climate goals
• The role that biogas and RNG play in our energy needs
• Sustainability issues in biogas applications and how they can be fixed
• Organizations that drive today’s market and why
• The socio-economic challenges and barriers in production and utilization of biogas and RNG
• The benefits of biogas and RNG in transport