Anew Climate
Anew Climate (Anew) helps organizations progress their net zero or sustainability journeys, no matter the starting point, and enables them to maximize the benefits of participating in environmental markets. A durational industry leader within environmental commodities, Anew offers a portfolio of decarbonization solutions including renewable natural gas, carbon credits, EV credits, emission credits, and RECs, along with advisory and project development expertise. Its clients include participants in both compliance and voluntary markets, large corporations across industries, and municipalities and universities. Anew maintains offices across the United States, Canada, and Europe; including Vancouver, with primary corporate offices in Houston.
Among its offerings, Anew is a full-service biogas partner, handling everything from low-carbon fuel program registrations, carbon intensity modelling, regulatory and compliance activities, RNG marketing, and credit generation and sales. Anew is currently the largest independent RNG marketer in North America managing the offtake of over 20% of the RNG used in US transportation markets from many of North America’s most innovative and iconic RNG projects. These include wastewater and food waste projects such as Anaergia’s SoCal Biomethane anaerobic digestion facility in Victor Valley, California; landfills such as Morrow Energy’s Blue Ridge project; and a large network of agricultural RNG projects.
In June 2022, Anew announced its acquisition of BrightSide Solutions, a move designed to further the company’s reach in low carbon fuels credit markets. Brightside provides LCF credit generation, aggregation, and monetization services to its BC-based clients and, with Anew’s investment, is expanding its offering and reach to include customers seeking participation in Canada’s Clean Fuel Regulations.
Andy Brosnan, Chief Operating Officer of BrightSide Solutions, shares that, “We help RNG producers identify the highest value market for their renewable gas and attributes. BrightSide provides the full suite of compliance and marketing services including pathway and carbon intensity applications, gas marketing services, and LCF credit generation and sales.”
BrightSide’s outlook for the biogas and RNG sector in Canada is optimistic, but Andy cautions that for the Canadian biogas industry to meet its full potential, “BC’s Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation must allow RNG delivered by displacement to generate credits under the BC LCFS. In its nascent stage of growth, the Canadian RNG industry needs these market-based instruments to optimize project economics, enable project bankability, and encourage maximum participation in low carbon fuel markets.”
Anew was formed in 2022 from the combination of Element Markets and Bluesource, two leaders in environmental commodities and low carbon fuels with over 30 years of combined, complementary experience. Their company mission is to make the highest and best use of their expertise and influence to enable the greatest positive impact on climate. Anew, through its predecessor companies, has been a member of the Canadian Biogas Association (CBA) for many years. They find value in CBA’s membership benefits that include opportunities to collaborate with like-minded people, access to insightful CBA resources that build understanding and awareness of RNG’s potential in Canadian markets, and industry advocacy.
