NEW – BC: Good news for renewable propane

The province has amended the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Regulation (GGRR), under sections 18 and 35(n) of the Clean Energy Act, to increase the production and use of renewable gas as well as green and waste hydrogen in British Columbia to boost jobs and economic opportunities while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Renewable propane falls into this category.

Changes to the GGRR will enable utilities to expand renewable gases, and green and waste hydrogen they can acquire and make available to their customers. These changes include:

• increasing the amount of renewable gas utilities can acquire and supply from 5 % to 15 % of their total annual supply of natural gas;
• broadening the methods by which utilities can obtain hydrogen and renewable gases to include producing it or upgrading it themselves for injection into the pipeline, paying a third party to produce it or upgrade it for pipeline injection, or purchasing hydrogen, synthesis gas or lignin to displace the use of natural gas at customers’ facilities;
• allowing the current price cap of $30 per gigajoule that utilities can pay to acquire any of these fuels to increase with inflation; and
• enabling utilities to acquire and supply green and waste hydrogen, synthesis gas and lignin.

The changes to the GGRR represent one of the CleanBC objectives, which commits to a 15 % renewable gas content in the natural gas system by 2030.  

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