Brightmark breaks ground on three US RNG projects
Waste-to-gas company Brightmark said June 30 it had started work on three renewable natural gas (RNG) projects in Michigan that will rely on animal waste as a feedstock.
“Michigan has been a great partner and we are excited to further expand our RNG footprint here and break ground on these lifecycle carbon negative projects,” Brightmark CEO Bob Powell said.
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Situated in rural parts of western and southern Michigan, the three projects will combine to use digestors to help process dairy cow manure into RNG. All three will feed processed gas into regional pipeline networks.
Brightmark in February joined forces with Chevron, announcing plans to inject equity into a joint venture that would build and operate five dairy biomethane projects in Michigan and Arizona.
The joint venture, Brightmark RNG Holdings, already owns renewable gas projects in west New York, west Michigan, central Florida and South Dakota.
Chevron will buy the biomethane from the new projects for use as fuel for vehicles operating on compressed natural gas.
“Chevron is seeking to advance the energy transition by leveraging our existing capabilities across the full RNG value chain – marketing, sales, distribution, brands and infrastructure – to maximize margin capture and help industries and consumers that use our products build a lower carbon future,” Andy Walz, the president of Chevron’s fuel and lubricants division in the US, said June 30.