Republic Services, Inc. announced yesterday a deal to recover methane from its North Shelby Landfill in Millington, Tennessee. Clean Energy Renewable Fuels will build the processing plant and inject the gas into the US natural gas network. In its first year of operation it is expected to produce 4 million diesel gallon equivalents of renewable natural gas fuel. That will increase to 5.7 million in ten years. Production is expected to start in 2013.
This is the second such deal Clean Energy Renewable Fuels has made. A facility at Republic's Sauk Trails Landfill in Canton, Michigan, is expected to come on line in September 2012.
When it is used as a vehicle fuel, natural gas derived from landfill biomethane generates 88% less greenhouse gases than diesel or gasoline.
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