Republic, Ameresco companion on California RNG; plus information from Imaginative and prescient RNG and Vanguard

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Republic Providers and Ameresco celebrated the opening of California’s largest landfill-gas-to-RNG plant on the Keller Canyon Landfill in Pittsburg, California, on Oct. 2. The renewable pure gasoline plant builds on the businesses’ current partnership on the website. 

Ameresco, based in 2000, has been on a development journey constructed round natural development fairly than acquisitions. The corporate first started treating biogas at wastewater remedy crops in 2001 earlier than increasing each the feedstocks the corporate will course of and the merchandise it will probably produce, together with RNG. In the present day, greater than 90% of the services it processes gasoline from are landfills. 

The Republic Providers undertaking is Ameresco’s first landfill-gas-to-RNG undertaking in California, and provides to a landfill-gas-to-electricity website that Ameresco beforehand constructed on the landfill. The latter website will present energy to the RNG refining plant, which may course of as much as 4,500 normal cubic ft per minute. The plant will feed the gasoline into Pacific Fuel & Electrical Co.’s pure gasoline grid. 

“This progressive undertaking exhibits the facility of long-term partnerships, resembling our virtually 22-year collaboration with Republic Providers,” Mike Bakas, government vice chairman of Ameresco, stated in an announcement.

Republic reported continued progress in its RNG undertaking growth throughout the third quarter of this 12 months in its most up-to-date earnings launch. It stated two landfill-gas-to-RNG services have been accomplished within the quarter, with 4 extra anticipated to be accomplished by the top of the 12 months.

Imaginative and prescient RNG opens Waste Connections RNG facility

Pennsylvania-based Imaginative and prescient RNG introduced its first landfill-gas-to-RNG facility for Waste Connections on-line forward of schedule, the businesses introduced Oct. 30.

The ability, positioned on the Laurel Ridge Landfill, is anticipated to course of 2,250 normal cubic ft per minute of landfill gasoline. That’s equal to roughly 450,000 mmBtus of RNG manufacturing yearly, which the companions stated will likely be injected into Delta Fuel’s pipeline community.

Waste Connections executives have beforehand stated development at different services is operating not on time, partly resulting from utility interconnection delays.

RNG developer secures financing for WIN Waste tasks

Elsewhere, Maryland local weather options investor HASI is offering Imaginative and prescient RNG with a $207 million financing bundle to assemble landfill-gas-to-RNG tasks at WIN Waste Improvements’ two Ohio landfills, the companions introduced this month.

WIN Waste’s Ohio landfills are positioned in New Lexington and Seneca County. The funding from HASI was introduced a few month after the Ohio EPA accepted an growth of the Seneca County Landfill, previously referred to as Sunny Farms Landfill. Whereas that growth has proved controversial resulting from odor and different considerations, WIN Waste has invested thousands and thousands in upgrading its gasoline assortment and management system on the facility, together with putting in an interim gasoline remedy system.

The Imaginative and prescient RNG tasks are anticipated to supply 2 million mmBtus of RNG yearly at buildout and progressively improve to double manufacturing inside 11 years, based on a launch. The monetary bundle from HASI features a $130 million development mortgage and a $77 million funding tax credit score bridge mortgage.

This isn’t HASI’s first foray into the world of waste. The agency beforehand invested $30 million in Bioenergy Devco to help its organics recycling development technique. 

Vanguard Renewables breaks floor at Virginia dairy farm

Vanguard broke floor on an anaerobic digestion facility designed to codigest meals waste and dairy cow manure on the Oakmulgee Dairy Farm in Amelia Courtroom Home, Virginia, on Oct. 23. The ability is a part of Vanguard’s partnership with TotalEnergies and can provide gas for its feedstock settlement with AstraZeneca.

The undertaking is anticipated to obtain about 105,000 tons of “inedible and unsalable meals and beverage waste” yearly, per an announcement from Vanguard CEO Neil Smith. After codigesting that feedstock with the manure, the system is anticipated to supply greater than 259,000 mmBtus of RNG yearly, per a launch.