Renewable Natural Gas
Renewable Natural Gas1 (RNG) is a lower carbon energy2 and can support B.C.’s climate action goals and provides an option for our customers to lower overall emissions. For more than a decade we’ve worked with farms, landfills, green energy companies and municipalities to make and acquire natural gas designated as RNG.
What is RNG?
Did you know RNG is not a fossil fuel? It’s a lower carbon energy for homes and businesses—learn more about RNG and how we make it.
Compare the cost of RNG
You can choose to designate more of your natural gas use as RNG for as little as $3 extra a month for an average household. See how overall emissions can be lowered depending on your RNG blend.
Choose your RNG blend
Your monthly gas bill automatically has a portion of your natural gas use designated as RNG, known as designated RNG blend. You can choose to designate up to 100 per cent of your natural gas use as RNG through the voluntary RNG program.
Current RNG suppliers
We couldn’t offer the RNG program without our dedicated suppliers. Check out the farms, landfills and municipalities that are helping us put waste to work, creating sustainable energy.
Meet our Renewable Natural Gas suppliers
1Renewable Natural Gas (also called “RNG”) is produced from biogas at dedicated RNG production facilities. Biogas is derived from decomposing organic waste at landfills or agricultural and other organic waste such as wastewater from treatment facilities. The biogas is captured, upgraded and processed to create RNG that is added to existing energy infrastructure. This means we’re unable to direct RNG to a specific customer. However, because RNG displaces conventional natural gas, the more RNG that is added to the gas system, the less conventional natural gas is used.
2FortisBC uses the term lower carbon energy to refer collectively to electricity and the lower carbon gases or fuels that the utility can produce, use and/or acquire under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Clean Energy) Regulation (“Regulation”). The Regulation identifies different sources of electricity and gas that are prescribed based on their feedstock and production processes. FortisBC’s lower carbon energy portfolio includes Renewable Natural Gas (also called “RNG”) and electricity. Other gases and fuels may be added to the portfolio over time. FortisBC’s lower carbon energy portfolio is lower carbon when compared to conventional natural gas.
