Clean Energy’s Latest RNG Production Facility at Minnesota Dairy Begins Injecting Into Pipeline
August 05 2024 - 6:30AM
Business Wire
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE) announced that it has
completed its latest renewable natural gas (RNG) production
facility at Ash Grove Dairy in Lake Benton, MN. Now producing
pipeline quality RNG and injecting it into the interstate natural
gas pipeline grid, the facility is projected to supply up to
480,000 gasoline gallon equivalent (GGEs) of negative
carbon-intensity RNG annually when at full capacity and will
provide Clean Energy’s stations with clean-burning fuel for its
commercial transportation fleet customers.
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Clean Energy’s RNG production facility at
Ash Grove Dairy, Lake Benton, MN. (Photo: Business Wire)
Located on a 55-acre site, Ash Grove Dairy is a
multigenerational dairy farm home to more than 2,000 milking cows
which produce milk, cheese, yoghurt and now clean RNG. The
freestanding one-digester facility will process up to 60,000
gallons of manure each day, capture its harmful methane and prevent
it from entering the atmosphere. This biogas will be converted into
an estimated 165 MMBtus of RNG every day.
The project, financed through one of Clean Energy’s production
joint ventures and developed by Dynamic Renewables, totaled $22
million and has now passed necessary gas testing and is officially
producing ready-to-use RNG. Clean Energy is in the process of
filing the applications to generate federal and state environmental
credits.
“Ash Grove is our fifth renewable natural gas facility to come
online in the last nine months,” said Clay Corbus, senior vice
president at Clean Energy. “It’s always rewarding to see our
efforts come to fruition when we begin injecting. With the growing
demand for RNG, and interest really starting to take off as fleets
realize how effective and immediate they can fuel cleanly, the RNG
produced at Ash Grove will directly help with reducing carbon
emissions across the country.”
Agriculture accounts for nearly 10 percent of U.S. 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 by
capturing methane 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 as well as RNG production facilities at
dairy farms. Visit www.cleanenergyfuels.com and follow
@ce_renewables on X and LinkedIn.
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meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section
21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that involve risks,
uncertainties and assumptions, including without limitation
statements about amounts and timing of natural gas expected to be
produced or consumed; characteristics and performance of natural
gas engines and trucks; the environmental and other benefits of
Clean Energy’s fuels; the timing and scope of construction,
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