Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia to be Supplied With Natural Gas Certified by MiQ

Washington Gasoline indicators deal to supply fuel with impartial certification for decrease methane depth related to manufacturing. 

The deal represents a discount in manufacturing section emissions that’s equal to taking roughly 6,000 vehicles off the highway inside 12 months.

WASHINGTON and LONDON, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Washington Gasoline at this time introduced the following step in its dedication to scale back greenhouse fuel emissions. The corporate entered into transactions with Chesapeake Vitality Company and Ascent Sources to provide its prospects within the Nationwide Capital Area (NCR) with pure fuel that’s independently licensed by MiQ. MiQ points a certificates for every 1MMBtu of pure fuel that represents the place and when the fuel was produced and the methane depth of manufacturing. Manufacturing represents a big portion of pure fuel worth chain emissions, and these could be averted utilizing current know-how.

“We’re very happy to extend our procurement of licensed pure fuel as we work to decrease the emissions related to the important vitality we ship to our prospects day-after-day,” stated Blue Jenkins, president of Washington Gasoline.      

Washington Gasoline will present prospects with fuel that has been independently audited and verified as much less methane-intensive utilizing MiQ’s certification customary. This customary supplies producers, resembling Chesapeake Vitality Company and Ascent Sources, with a clear A-F grading scale utilizing third-party auditors and superior know-how suppliers. Each Chesapeake and Ascent’s manufacturing amenities have been awarded the highest ‘A’ grades for minimizing methane emissions, decreasing them to an depth lower than 0.05% – and beneath the manufacturing sector common.

Washington Gasoline’ industry-leading settlement is estimated to scale back CO2 equal emissions by roughly 28,000 metric tons when in comparison with the Environmental Safety Company – decided {industry} common pure fuel. In line with the EPA GHG equivalencies calculator, this discount is the equal of taking roughly 6,000 gas-powered passenger autos off the highway for one yr.

“With the acquisition of a major batch of MiQ licensed fuel, Washington Gasoline is main the cost amongst U.S. and world utilities, and we consider this can encourage others to affix the initiative of pushing methane abatement amongst the oil and fuel suppliers,” stated Georges Tijbosch, CEO, MiQ.

“Washington Gasoline is dedicated to ushering in revolutionary vitality choices for our prospects together with utilizing gasoline sources to help decarbonization. Buying fuel from Chesapeake and Ascent that has been licensed for decrease methane depth by MiQ represents one other tangible motion in our dedication to scale back GHG emissions and tackle local weather change,” stated Melissa Adams, chief company social duty officer for Washington Gasoline.      

The settlement went into impact on Nov. 1, 2022 and will likely be in place by way of the 2022-2023 winter heating season. 

About Washington Gasoline
Washington Gasoline, an entirely owned subsidiary of AltaGas Ltd [TSX:ALA], is a regulated pure fuel utility that gives secure, dependable pure fuel service to greater than 1.2 million prospects within the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. The corporate has been offering vitality to residential, industrial and industrial prospects for nearly 175 years. Be taught extra at www.washingtongas.com. Comply with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Fb.

About MiQ
MiQ is an impartial not-for-profit established by RMI (previously the Rocky Mountain Institute) and world sustainability consultancy SYSTEMIQ to facilitate a fast discount in methane emissions from the oil and fuel sector.

MiQ is the quickest rising and a globally acknowledged methane emissions certification customary. Certification permits world society to credibly differentiate fuel primarily based on its methane emissions efficiency, offering a market mechanism that incentivizes methane discount. MiQ’s imaginative and prescient is to create a market the place licensed pure fuel could be traded like different historic commodities, in the end creating incentives to drive down methane emissions throughout the board.

About Certification      
MiQ Certificates mirror the emissions affect of every batch of fuel, how a lot methane was leaked throughout manufacturing, how efficient the corporate’s methane emissions administration processes and procedures are, and the way strong their methane detection know-how is. Collectively, they supply the data wanted to drive market enhancements.

MiQ Certification helps fuel patrons higher perceive what they’re shopping for and the affect it’s having on the planet.

SOURCE MiQ; Washington Gasoline