GAIN Clean Fuel, in partnership with Ameresco, Inc., a leading independent provider of comprehensive energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions, and Waste Management, Inc., the largest environmental solutions provider in North America, is bringing to the market renewable natural gas (generated from the landfill) for use within the transportation sector. Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as an alternative to diesel has become the fuel of choice for many based on significant financial and environmental benefits.
Traditionally, landfill gas is flared onsite, but current technologies allow for the harnessing of this gas and its conversion into a cleaner renewable transportation fuel. “RNG is one of the few alternative fuels that creates air quality improvements during the fuel production process and also when used in actual transportation,” says Bryan Nudelbacher, director of business development for GAIN Clean Fuel. “This truly positions companies using RNG for sustainability success.”
In a well-to-wheel heavy-duty trucking comparison to diesel, RNG produced from landfill gas can provide a reduction in greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide and particulate matter emissions by 85 percent, 75 percent and 98 percent respectively. Well-to-wheel comparisons consider the lifecycle emissions impact of a product—from production through usage and disposal—providing users a realistic comparison verses simply comparing tailpipe emissions.
Through vertical integration, flexible business management and strategic risk-taking, GAIN Clean Fuel has recently expanded availability of its RNG offering through the now operational RNG plant at Woodland Meadows Recycling and Disposal Facility in Van Buren Township, Michigan. Woodland Meadows is a regional facility that provides safe and convenient disposal services for communities, businesses and industries serving the Detroit Metro and surrounding areas. With several other landfill, dairy farm, and wastewater treatment facility projects in the works, the company is dedicated to expanding availability of RNG.
“We are committed to working closely with various producers throughout the process by obtaining gas rights, ensuring compliance, investing in clean-up equipment and project financing to dispense the highest quality RNG to the most forward-thinking organizations,” says Koel. “Furthermore, we’re focused on expanding our station network to maximize accessibility to RNG, and are excited about the partnerships to come.”
Source: Adapted from a GAIN Clean Fuel press release
