Our esteemed panel discusses the benefits of leveraging real-time methane data to optimize pipeline replacement projects and capital expense decisions.

Milano (Italia), Santa Clara (California-USA) — 2 March 2022 - Italgas strengthened its partnership with Picarro Inc. through the acquisition of a minority share of the US company, a leading technology start-up in the field of sensors applied to the monitoring of gas distribution networks, as well as in technologies designed for those sectors requiring extremely sensitive measurements, such as environmental measurements of the concentration of Hazardous Air Pollutants and the electronics industry for the detection of impurities in semiconductor foundries.

Picarro Natural Gas Big Data and Efficiency Nick Stavropoulos, Executive VP Gas Operations at PG&E discusses Picarro and the importance of leveraging big data to transform.

Jeff Goetzman, Manager, Texas Technical Field Operations at CenterPoint Energy, shares his experience using Picarro

Sue Fleck, VP of Gas Pipeline Safety and Compliance National Grid discusses Picarro's Natural Gas Asset Management Solution.

Enjoy the content from the 2022 North American Picarro Community Conference, held in Santa Clara, CA, in an easy-to-digest PDF format.

Natural gas stoves in >40 million U.S. residences release methane (CH4)--a potent greenhouse gas--through post-meter leaks and incomplete combustion. We quantified methane released in 53 homes during all phases of stove use: steady-state-off (appliance not in use), steady-state-on (during combustion), and transitory periods of ignition and extinguishment. We estimated that natural gas stoves emit 0.8−1.3% of the gas they use as unburned methane and that total U.S. stove emissions are 28.1 [95% confidence interval: 18.5, 41.2] Gg CH4 year−1.