Partnership for Electric Pathways

Renewable fuels are fundamental to decarbonizing transportation, and electricity is becoming the fuel of the future. PEP represents a new partnership between the transportation, energy, and agricultural industries designed to expand America's renewable fuel supply. We aim to simultaneously accelerate the deployment of electric vehicles and reduce emissions from the electricity that powers them using existing, available resources and organic wastes. The gases emitted at existing solid waste, wastewater, agricultural, and other organics processing facilities, including methane, can be captured and used to produce renewable electricity for EVs. Our mission is to ensure the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalizes its “Electric Pathways” framework proposal as part of its Renewable Fuel Standard Program (RFS) as soon as possible, allowing for the generation of electric-RINs (eRINs) for renewable electricity that is used to power electric vehicles. The RFS Electric Pathways connect the four “Ws”: reducing emissions from waste gases, particularly methane (Waste); generating more renewable electricity (Watts); deploying more EVs (Wheels); and supporting hundreds of thousands of new, high paying construction and operations jobs in communities across the country (Workforce).