Renewable natural gas facility developed
in Texas
Environmental Power Corporation announced that
its subsidiary Microgy, Inc. is developing its third large scale,
pipeline-quality renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility
in Texas. The facility, located in Dublin, will be owned and operated
by Microgy.
The Rio Leche facility will be Microgy’s
third planned facility to implement its standardized, large-scale
eight-digester design, and will closely resemble the company’s
Huckabay Ridge facility in construction in nearby Stephenville,
Texas. Like Huckabay Ridge, Rio Leche will be sited at a compost
yard and will process the waste from approximately 10,000 dairy
cattle, as well as other food industry waste. Once completed, Rio
Leche is expected to generate an estimated 650,000 MCF of pipeline-grade
RNG annually (enough to heat approximately 11,000 homes), which
will be cleaned, compressed, and delivered directly to a natural
gas pipeline.
Environmental Power has acquired the site for
the Rio Leche facility and has reached an agreement with Producers’
Compost, which operates the compost yard at the Huckabay facility,
to operate the compost yard at Rio Leche. The Rio Leche facility
is now entering the permitting stage.
Huckabay Ridge, the company’s first such
facility, is in construction and is scheduled to begin commissioning
this summer, with the facility expected to be fully operational
this fall. The Mission project, the company’s second large-scale
RNG facility, located in Hereford, Texas, has received its air permits,
clearing the way for commencement of construction activities.
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