Clean Energy Begins Producing Renewable Natural Gas at Latest Project
January 11 2024 - 6:30AM
Business Wire
Digester at Drumgoon Dairy in South Dakota
Completed in December and Began Injecting Ultra-Low Carbon RNG into
Pipeline Soon After
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE) announced that it has
completed a new renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility at
Drumgoon Dairy in Lake Norden, S.D. The 6,500-cow dairy farm is
expected to supply 1.66 million gallons of negative
carbon-intensity RNG annually to the transportation market when at
full capacity.
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Clean Energy Digester at Drumgoon Dairy
in South Dakota (Photo: Business Wire)
Construction of the $38 million RNG digester project was
completed in early-December 2023 and injection into the interstate
natural gas pipeline system of the RNG began within weeks. The RNG
produced at Drumgoon will be virtually stored until all pathways
for federal and state environmental credits are approved, and a
carbon-intensity score is assigned to the RNG, expected in the
first half of 2024.
“Completion of the RNG project at Drumgoon Dairy, along with
several others that are right behind it, is already making a
contribution to controlling harmful greenhouse gas emissions,” said
Clay Corbus, senior vice president of renewables at Clean Energy.
“Being a multi-generational operation, Drumgoon’s owners are always
thinking about the future, whether it’s bringing in the latest
technology to better track and monitor their cows, or transforming
their herd to antibiotic-free. Adding a RNG digester that captures
the methane produced by Drumgoon’s cows and turning it into a clean
fuel is the ultimate recycling project.”
The Drumgoon Dairy RNG project was financed through Clean
Energy’s joint venture with bp, developed with Dynamic Renewables,
and is one of several RNG projects the three companies have
partnered to build at dairies in the Midwest. All the RNG produced
at Drumgoon will be available at Clean Energy’s fueling
infrastructure. Clean Energy sales of RNG into the transportation
market for the first nine months of 2023 grew 17% over the same
period of 2022, and with customers such as UPS, Republic Services,
LA Metro, Knight Swift, Amazon and others, the demand of the
ultra-clean fuel is expected to continue to expand.
Agriculture accounts for nearly 10 percent of U.S. greenhouse
gas (GHG) emissions and the transportation sector accounts for
another 28%, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Capturing methane from farm waste lowers these emissions. RNG,
produced by that captured methane and used as a transportation
fuel, significantly lowers GHG emissions on a lifecycle basis when
compared to diesel. This allows RNG to be one of the only fuels to
receive a negative carbon-intensity score based on the reduction of
emissions at the source and at the vehicle.
About Clean Energy
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. is the country’s largest provider of
the cleanest fuel for the transportation market. Our mission is to
decarbonize transportation through the development and delivery of
renewable natural gas (RNG), a sustainable fuel derived from
organic waste. Clean Energy allows thousands of vehicles, from
airport shuttles to city buses to waste and heavy-duty trucks, to
reduce their amount of climate-harming greenhouse gas. We operate a
vast network of fueling stations across the U.S. and Canada. Visit
www.cleanenergyfuels.com and follow @ce_renewables on X.
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