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CenterPoint Energy Inc. wants to introduce a pilot programme in Minnesota offering customers access to a renewable form of natural gas recovered from dairy farms and landfills.
It’s the first such programme in the Midwest, mirroring the push by utilities to offer electricity powered by wind or solar.
Methane produced by everything from manure to rotting garbage is the second-largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide, and environmentalists have long been looking for ways to reduce its emissions.
Under a plan filed Thursday with the state, CenterPoint will let customers enroll in a voluntary, budget-based program to buy the fuel — processed to be chemically identical to natural gas — starting in Spring 2019.
The hook: It’ll cost about 7 times more than the traditional version.