Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced it has broken ground on a renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility at South Fork Dairy in Dimmitt, Texas in the US.
Home to a 16,000-cow herd, the facility will produce RNG, a clean transportation fuel that is made from organic waste and receives a negative carbon-intensity score.
The construction of the digesters and processing plant is forecasted to cost approximately $85 million (€78.3 million) and is expected to be completed in 2025.
The South Fork Dairy facility is set to be one of the biggest RNG production developments in the country with an anticipated 2.6 million gallons of RNG to be produced annually once completed.
All the RNG fuel produced at the site will make its way into Clean Energy’s nationwide network of stations.
“We are excited to begin construction on the South Fork Texas project. Building anaerobic digesters at a large dairy like South Fork will help the dairy owner, Frank Brand, and his team collect and monetise sizeable amounts of manure waste while also benefiting from the environmental credits an RNG facility brings,” said Clay Corbus senior vice president of renewables at Clean Energy.
“The project not only helps us convert our waste into a clean, useable sustainable fuel, but it also helps us with managing manure which for a dairy of our size is quite a feat. We do this while simultaneously reducing our environmental footprint – it’s a direction I hope many other dairies will look to pursuing,” said Frank Brand, owner of South Fork Dairy.
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