Fortistar acquires two RNG facilities

White Plains, New York-based Fortistar LLC, in partnership with New York City-based Ares Capital Corporation, announced that it has acquired two landfill renewable natural gas (RNG) facilities—Greentree Landfill Gas and Imperial Landfill Gas—from EDF Renewables North America, San Diego. Located in Western Pennsylvania, the two facilities have the capacity to produce 1.5 million decatherms of RNG per year—enough to power 1,117 natural gas trucks and displace 12 million GGE of diesel fuel, the company says. Fueling trucks with Fortistar’s RNG will also help reduce 107,485 metric tons of CO₂ per year from being released into the atmosphere.

RNG extracted from landfills is carbon-neutral and chemically identical to natural gas, allowing it to be used as a transportation fuel in natural gas vehicles and trucks. The growth in America’s natural gas fueling infrastructure has paved the way for a commercially viable RNG industry, the company says.

“The acquisition of these two landfill gas projects is another milepost in our plan to sustainably expand and decarbonize America’s transportation fuel supply,” says Fortistar CEO Mark Comora. “We are closing the RNG supply loop as a unique vertically integrated company, extracting [gas] from landfills and moving it into renewable natural gas vehicles and trucks.”

“By converting organic waste into renewable natural gas for productive end-use, these RNG facilities will be beneficial to local communities, the transportation industry and the environment,” says Brian O'Connor, partner of Infrastructure and Power at Ares. “This transaction is consistent with the Ares Infrastructure and Power team’s strategy of targeting new, environmentally compliant assets and creating value for our investors through our hands-on operations expertise within the power generation, transmission and midstream sectors.”

For more than 25 years as a privately owned firm, Fortistar has built, invested in and managed a portfolio of successful clean energy generation projects in the U.S. and Canada. Fortistar says this acquisition is the next step in its Renewable Natural Gas development program that it announced a year ago.