Viridi Energy signs RNG agreement

Viridi Energy, a Wilmington, Delaware-based renewable natural gas (RNG) platform, has signed a 20-year offtake agreement with Energir LP, a Quebec-based diversified energy business.

Under the agreement, which begins next year, Viridi will deliver 650,000 gigajoules of pipeline-quality RNG annually to Energir from its waste-to-energy (WTE) facilities in Brunswick, Maine; Marathon County, Wisconsin; and Bethlehem, New Hampshire. This RNG, which will account for about 50 percent of the total volume produced at the respective sites, will create enough energy to heat more than 10,000 homes for a year.

“Vividi Energy is proud to announce our new 20-year agreement with Energir,” Viridi CEO Dan Crouse says. “Energir has a proven reputation as a leader in decarbonizing North American energy. Combined with Viridi’s flexibility in sourcing utility-quality RNG across our growing portfolio of assets, this partnership will help Energir achieve its sustainability goal of carbon neutrality in the energy it distributes by 2050.”

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Energir is the largest natural gas distribution company in Quebec as well as, through subsidiaries, the largest electricity distributor and the sole pipeline natural gas distributor in Vermont.

“Thanks to Viridi’s well-established team and expertise, we will be able to increase RNG volumes within our grid and expand our solutions designed for all our customers looking to shrink their carbon footprint,” says Vincent Regnault, executive director of gas supply and renewable gas development for Energir. “We are looking forward to working together during this long-term agreement that will help us gradually achieve our target to inject a minimum of 10 percent RNG by 2030.”

The agreement signifies the first major deal completed through Viridi Energy Marketing and Trading LLC, Viridi’s newly established commercial arm that makes it easy for buyers to source RNG from any of Viridi’s WTE facilities.

In March, Viridi acquired a legacy biosolids digester plant in Brunswick, where it plans to process an estimated 85,000 tons of biosolids from local wastewater treatment plants per year into sustainable RNG. In December, it acquired an in-progress landfill gas-to-RNG project in Bethlehem that is expected to produce up to 600,000 MMBtu per year of RNG, and in March 2023, Viridi announced its partnership with Marathon County, where it will convert the county’s landfill emissions into clean RNG equal to more than 3 million gallons of gasoline annually.