Dairy and Livestock Subgroup #2: Fostering Markets for Digester Projects
The Dairy and Livestock Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Working Group (Working Group) formed three subgroups—Subgroup #1: Fostering Markets for Non-Digester Projects; Subgroup #2: Fostering Markets for Digester Projects; and Subgroup #3: Research Needs, Including Enteric Fermentation. Each subgroup was tasked with developing policy recommendations in their specific areas. To fulfill this goal, each subgroup held public meetings that included participation from dairy industry representatives, environmental justice advocates, public utilities, academia, and other interested stakeholders. The subgroups provided final recommendations from all subgroups to the Working Group in November 2018.
Subgroup #2 was tasked with developing a roadmap to significantly expand the number of dairy and livestock digester projects in California and Subgroup #3 was tasked with prioritizing dairy and livestock research projects and improving knowledge of GHG and other pollutant emissions from California dairies and livestock facilities. The roadmap was to identify both commercially ready and emerging technologies and approaches for converting manure and digestate into energy and other value-added products. The subgroup sought to identify and suggest solutions to potential impacts, benefits, and barriers to scaling up digester projects. Stakeholders were brought together to consider funding sources and infrastructure, procurement, and environmental policies that can achieve a sustainable model. The subgroup met at 11 public meetings in 2017–2018 and finalized the Subgroup #2 final recommendations to the Working Group in October 2018. One of the deliverables from the subgroup #2 process was a dairy digester emissions matrix which outlines the potential GHG and criteria pollution emissions that might result from different uses of dairy biogas.
Subgroup #2 Mission Statement
Establish a roadmap, attentive to the Senate Bill 1383 dates of July 1, 2020 and January 1, 2024, to significantly expand the number of livestock digester projects in California that support the State's climate and air quality goals. The roadmap will identify both commercially ready and emerging technologies and approaches for converting manure and digestate into energy and other value added products. This will be accomplished by assembling a comprehensive overview and discussion of dairy digester projects, including identification of potential impacts, benefits, and barriers to scaling up digester projects. Through the process, the subgroup will bring State agencies and stakeholders together to identify and recommend the necessary infrastructure, and procurement and environmental policies, as well as funding sources, to achieve a sustainable model for the dairy and livestock industry.
Subgroup #2 Members
Member | Affiliation |
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Michael Boccadoro (co-chair) | West Coast Advisors |
Jim Lucas (co-chair) | Southern California Gas Company |
Ryan Schuchard (co-chair) | CALSTART |
Kevin Abernathy | Milk Producer's Council |
Fariya Ali | Pacific Gas and Electric |
Neil Black | California Bioenergy |
Rebecca Boudreaux | Oberon Fuels |
Peter Drasher | Black Bear Assets |
Genevieve Gale | Central Valley Air Quality Coalition |
Brian Gannon | BioGas Energy |
Cliff Gladstein | Gladstein, Neandross & Associates |
Kevin Hamilton | Central California Asthma Collaborative |
Bonnie Holmes-Gen | American Lung Association |
Kristen Kleiman | Climate Trust |
Steve Larsen | Ruan |
Thomas Lawson | California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition |
Daryl Maas | Maas Energy |
Lynne McBride | California Dairy Campaign |
Graham Noyes | Low Carbon Fuels Coalition |
Lorelei Oviatt | Kern County (Planning and Development Department) |
John Shears | Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies |
Chris Shimoda | California Trucking Association |
Moses Stites | Fresno County Rural Transit Agency |
Grant Zimmerman | ampCNG |
Bill Zobel | Trillium CNG |