Ripe Time To Harvest RNG
These days, news about renewable energy is everywhere. Solar power programs pop up all over social media, and wind farms dot the landscape from coast to coast.
Another quieter source of renewable energy is that coming from solid waste landfills and agricultural gas with a high concentration of methane beneficially upgraded as renewable natural gas (RNG). Within the waste industry, RNG projects have become “the flavor of the month from a headline standpoint,” says Michael E. Hoffman, managing director at St. Louis-based Stifel Financial Corp.
However, landfills are not new to managing landfill gas generated by waste. They’ve been doing so for almost 30 years to prevent it from entering the atmosphere by flare or conversion technology.