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Detroit-based multi-utility DTE Energy Co. could expand its renewable natural gas program nationwide and sees few limits on its bid to add more renewable power projects, according to President and CEO Jerry Norcia.
DTE's investments in renewable natural gas, or RNG — a fossil fuel alternative processed from methane waste — form one of the company's key pathways to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its electric and gas utilities by 2050. Like many of its peers, the company chiefly sells RNG into California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard market. It recently established a program to allow DTE Gas Co. customers in Michigan to pay $4 to $16 per month to offset 25% to 100% of the average home's emissions from gas use, partly through RNG purchases.
DTE has invested in renewable natural gas facilities such as the Pagels Ponderosa dairy farm biogas processing plant.Source: DTE Energy
"I do see that expanding across the country," Norcia told analysts on...