Anew Climate Expands Access Across Canada and U.S. Low Carbon Fuels Markets
Anew Canada Low Carbon Fuels
Offering turnkey participation in Canada's Clean Fuel Programs
Decarbonizing Canada's transportation sector
Founded in 2017 as BrightSide and acquired by Anew Climate in 2023, we are now known as Anew Canada Low Carbon Fuels (LCF). We will continue to help Canadian businesses and institutions generate revenue from Provincial and Federal Low Carbon Fuel programs. Our services include the creation, aggregation, and monetization of low carbon fuel credits from renewable and conventional compressed and liquified natural gas, electric vehicle (EV) charging, biodiesel, clean hydrogen, and other low carbon fuels.
LCFS Program Services
Turnkey compliance and credit management services that unlock environmental value and enable you to focus on your core business.
RNG Supply
In-house lifecycle analysis modeling, creative RNG supply contracts, and gas and credit marketing services that optimize your RNG project value.
EV Aggregation
Creative contract structures and credit aggregation that generate value for municipalities, businesses, and network operators.
Biodiesel Marketing
Helping small-scale producers find offtake agreements and create credits from the production or import of biodiesel.
Initiative Agreements
Assistance with Initiative Agreement applications for BC-based fleets and fuel suppliers seeking capital for low carbon fuel initiatives.
Anew advantage
Anew operates in every low carbon fuel market in North America. Our team's in-house expertise is built upon decades of environmental, regulatory, and technical experience. We employ our unparalleled, cross-border network across the entire low carbon fuels value chain to maximize the value of our client's environmental assets and help them meet emission reduction goals.
Available project types
RNG
LNG and renewable-LNG
CNG and renewable-CNG
Clean hydrogen
Low carbon electricity
Biodiesel and renewable diesel
Our track record
40,000+
CFR credits to-date
35,000+
GJs/day under management
60+
North American RNG Projects
Fraser Valley Biogas, BC
Project Site Visits
Our operations team conducted a site visit at Fraser Valley Biogas in February 2024 to ensure CFR compliance and optimization of credit value. Fraser Valley Biogas has been digesting manure and off-farm organics since 2011 and was the first agricultural digester to produce renewable natural gas in Canada. The site is owned and operated by EverGen Infrastructure Corp.
Dicklands Biogas, BC
Project Site Visits
Dicklands’ state-of-the-art biogas plant co-digests dairy manure, chicken manure and food waste to produce renewable natural gas, organic fertilizer pellets, and clean water. With a deep understanding of environmental markets, low carbon fuel regulations, and life cycle carbon intensity modeling, we work side-by-side with RNG producers to identify improvements in facility operations that will ensure compliance and unlock value.
Consolidated Biofuels, BC
Project Site Visits
Consolidated Biofuels is British Columbia's first biodiesel manufacturer. They pioneered the conversion of used cooking oil into a low carbon fuel that displaces the use of conventional diesel in transportation fleets. Anew is collaborating with Consolidated Biofuels to model the carbon intensity of its biodiesel production and to create and monetize Low Carbon Fuel credits under the BC LCFS and CFR programs. We are also helping to identify and contract offtake agreements with prospective buyers interested in lowering their emissions.
Faromor CNG, ON
Project Site Visits
In March 2024, some of the Anew team visited Stanton Farms to review their operations and outline a plan for credit generation under the CFR. Stanton Farms is well-established in the RNG space, being the first active agriculture-based RNG facility operating in Ontario. Their dairy-manure fed biodigesters were first installed in 2007 as producers of renewable electricity, but their operations have expanded to include a gas upgrading facility that supplies renewable natural gas into the local pipeline.
Program highlights
Anew is a trusted partner to low carbon fuel suppliers and consumers, helping clients comply with LCF regulations and act on opportunities to create and monetize LCF credits at peak values. Clients range from start-ups to market leaders who generate LCF credits from a variety of low-carbon fuels.
Partnerships with RNG producers
Simplify CFR participation and rest at ease knowing your RNG project is compliant. As a Registered Creator in the CFR’s Credit and Tracking System (CATS), Anew provides comprehensive compliance and gas marketing services to Canadian RNG producers via Section 21 Agreements. Our compensation structure ensures 100% alignment with our customers – we are not paid until you are.
EV charging
In 2023, Anew added new EV charging customers in Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia, including public and private charging, on-road, and off-road vehicles, heavy and light-duty EVs, Level 2 and Level 3 chargers, as well as shore power.
Cross border RNG
Anew is engaging with U.S. based RNG suppliers seeking participation in Canada’s LCF markets and is helping Canadian suppliers access U.S. RNG markets. As the largest independent marketer of RNG in North America managing over 35,000 GJs/day from over 60 RNG projects, Anew's establishment in Canada opens doors to cross-border opportunities, reducing emissions from transportation and advancing the energy transition.
Low carbon hydrogen and other fuels
Anew has created credits from dispensing low carbon hydrogen as a transportation fuel, such as with Hydra Energy. We continue to advance discussions with clean hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel producers to collaborate with our market leading RNG platform to create value and positive climate impact, and continue to work with multiple small-scale Canadian biofuel producers and importers to create and sell credits.
British Columbia LCFS Initiative Agreements
Anew is actively working with existing and prospective customers on program applications in anticipation of BC’s Ministry of Energy Mines and Low Carbon Innovation’s 2024 Call for Initiative Agreement Proposals. The company assisted its customers with six applications in the 2020 Call for Proposals resulting in approximately $80M of capital awarded.
Our history
Founded in 2017 as BrightSide Solutions, the company focused on helping clients navigate British Columbia's low carbon fuel program. Following the acquisition of BrightSide by Anew Climate LLC, we advanced our leadership position in the market enabling customer participation in Canada's Clean Fuel Regulations, expanded our renewable natural gas project portfolio, and increased credit creation from the supply of low carbon electricity, biodiesel, and clean hydrogen. The company rebranded as Anew Canada Low Carbon Fuels in 2024.
Common questions
There are two main markets in Canada brought about via the federal and British Columbia compliance schemes: the Clean Fuels Regulation (CFR) and the British Columbia Low Carbon Fuel Standard (BC LCFS). The CFR applies to all fuel produced or imported into Canada while the BC LCFS applies only to fuels produced in, or imported into, BC.
The main goals of the BC LCFS and CFR are to gradually reduce reliance on non-renewable fuels, encourage investment in clean fuel alternatives, and reduce the fuel sector's overall emissions intensity. This can be achieved through the implementation of more stringent carbon reduction requirements for all fuel producers and importers each year. The BC LCFS aims to achieve a 23% reduction in the average carbon intensity of fuels in BC from 2010 emissions levels by 2030. In addition, there is a minimum renewable content requirement of 5% for gasoline and 4% for diesel. The CFR aims to reduce the carbon intensity of fuels imported into and produced in Canada by 14 gCO2e /MJ below 2016 levels by 2030. In addition, it requires a minimum volume of at least 5% low CI fuel content for gasoline and 2% for diesel.
The goals of both programs are aligned in that the overall aim is to achieve a reduction in the carbon intensity of fuels. However, the requirements, means of reporting, and quantification methodologies used to calculate carbon intensity (CI) differ between the two programs. It is therefore important to understand the intricacies of both programs to ensure compliance and maximize opportunity. For entities producing or importing fuel into BC there is an opportunity to generate credits under both systems. Since both compliance obligations exist simultaneously and independently, the credits are stackable, and revenues may be realized through the sale of respective credits under both programs.
Under the CFR, there are three distinct pathways for generating compliance credits:Compliance Category 1: Reducing the life cycle emissions of fossil fuels through the implementation of emission-reduction projects.Compliance Category 2: Producing or importing low CI fuels (fuels that have a CI value that is 90% or less than the credit reference CI value); e.g. biofuels, synthetic fuels such as those made using Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology.Compliance Category 3: End-use fuel switching; e.g. electricity, CNG supplied to vehicles.Under the BC LCFS program, alternatives to the base fuel are eligible if the base fuel would most likely be used if the alternative were not made available, and includes fuels such as electricity, CNG, and biodiesel.
There are no limits to the number of credits that a participant can generate under the BC LCFS or the CFR. However, under the CFR, there are some limitations on a primary supplier’s use of credits toward meeting their yearly compliance obligation. For example, a primary supplier may only use gaseous class credits to meet up to 10% of its obligation annually.
Anew has a sizable portfolio of RNG with highly-desirable, low CI scores. A carbon intensity (CI) score is assigned following the analysis of greenhouse gas emissions for the entire pathway of a renewable fuel’s lifecycle, from feedstock collection through to conversion, upgrading, transportation and distribution into the energy pipeline. A low or an increasingly negative CI score indicates the renewable fuel achieves a greater avoidance of harmful emissions as compared with the reference fuel being replaced.
