Fourth-Generation California Dairy Family Powers RNG Pipeline Cluster
Five dairies run by the Fernandes family in Tulare County have installed covered lagoon digesters and manure separation upgrades, funded in part by more than $5.3 million in California Department of Food and Agriculture grants. All five operations feed into the Calgren Dairy Fuels pipeline cluster, California’s first full-scale dairy biogas network, converting captured methane into renewable natural gas for injection into the SoCalGas system or use as heavy-duty truck fuel.
Over the next decade, the family’s digesters are projected to cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than 550,000 metric tons of CO2 while supporting roughly 140 local jobs in the Central Valley.