Clean Energy Fuels breaks ground for Texas RNG facility
Clean Energy Fuels said November 18 it had broken ground on a renewable natural gas facility in Texas, the first product of a joint venture with French major TotalEnergies.
The partners broke ground for a renewable natural gas (RNG) digester at a dairy farm in rural Texas about 125km southwest of Amarillo.
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Clean Energy Fuels estimates the facility will be able to produce around 1.1mn gallons (4,163 m3) annually of methane sourced from the manure of some 7,500 dairy cows.
This is the second such announcement with an energy major in as many weeks for California-based Clean Energy Fuels. A joint venture announcement with UK’s BP on November 11 said the two were committed to work on the production of RNG using manure sourced from dairy farms in Iowa and South Dakota.
Clean Energy Fuels and BP said they can expect to produce more than 25,000 m3 of RNG annually from the waste from more than 30,000 cows on the state's dairy farms.
The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates the agricultural sector accounts for about 10% of total US greenhouse gas emissions.