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A first for the U.S.: company feeds biomethane into natural gas pipeline
www.checkbiotech.org, January 23, 2008
"Bioenergy company Environmental Power Corporation today announced that
its Huckabay Ridge facility in Stephenville, Texas, has achieved
full-capacity production levels of pipeline-quality biomethane and has
now moved into full-scale commercial operation.
In Europe, upgraded biogas is already being fed into the natural gas
grid routinely and on a growing scale, but for the U.S. this is a first.
The facility in Texas generates methane-rich biogas from the anaerobic
digestion of manure from 10,000 cows, and other agricultural waste,
conditions the biogas to natural gas standards and distributes what it
calls 'Renewable Natural Gas' via a commercial pipeline. Huckabay Ridge
is expected to produce approximately 635,000 MMBtus (625,000Gj) of RNG
per year - the equivalent of over 4.6 million gallons (17.4 million
liters) of heating oil.
The Huckabay Ridge biogas complex consists of eight anaerobic digesters
that extract methane-rich biogas from waste to produce energy that is
cost-effective, clean, reliable and domestic - and it also helps farms
and businesses responsibly manage the wastes they generate.
In order to generate RNG, the biogas must be purified. This is done by
Environmental Power’s subsidiary, Microgy, and is a branded, renewable,
pipeline quality methane product."
http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=16753
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