Renewable Natural Gas
Renewable Natural Gas1 (RNG) is a lower carbon2 energy and can help B.C. reach its 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 or biomethane) is produced in a different manner than conventional natural gas. It is derived from biogas, which is produced from decomposing organic waste from landfills, agricultural waste and wastewater
from treatment facilities. The biogas is captured and cleaned to create RNG. When RNG is added to North America’s natural gas system, it mixes with conventional natural gas. This means we’re unable to direct RNG to a specific customer.
But the more RNG is added to the gas system, the less conventional natural gas is needed, thereby reducing the use of fossil fuels and overall greenhouse gas emissions.
2When compared to the lifecycle carbon intensity of conventional natural gas. The burner tip emission factor of FortisBC's current Renewable Natural Gas (also called RNG or biomethane) portfolio is 0.27 grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per megajoule of energy (gCO2e/MJ). FortisBC's current RNG portfolio lifecycle emissions for stationary combustion are -22 gCO2e/MJ. This is below B.C.'s lifecycle carbon intensity threshold of 30.8 gCO2e/MJ as set out in the 2024 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Regulation amendments.
