Waga Energy to install RNG system at Indiana landfill

France-based Waga Energy has signed a 20-year contract with Best Way Disposal, Kalamazoo, Michigan, to produce renewable natural gas (RNG) at the Decatur Hills Landfill in Greensburg, Indiana.

Waga Energy will fund construction of an RNG production facility using its patented Wagabox technology to convert landfill gas (LFG) into pipeline-quality RNG. The facility is slated for 2025.

“We are extremely proud to launch this new RNG production project with Decatur Hills Landfill, a company that purposely operates with humility and hard work; commitments and high standards that we fully share,” Waga Energy CEO Guénaël Prince says. “Thanks to the Wagabox solution, the gas resulting from the breakdown of organic matter contained in waste, which until now was flared, will be used to supply the local community with clean, local and renewable gas.”

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Once the plant is operational, Waga Energy says the Wagabox unit will deliver more than 200,000 metric million British thermal units (MMBtu) of RNG per year, and production will be injected directly into the local natural gas grid through a dedicated interconnect to be built as part of the project. According to the company, The Decatur Hills Landfill Wagabox unit will process up to 1,000 standard cubic feet per minute (scfm) of LFG into RNG, which would avoid more than 13,700 tons of CO2e annually.

“Decatur Hills is very excited to be part of this great clean energy project,” says Curt Publow, environmental compliance manager for Decatur Hills Landfill. “It has taken a long time to find the right partner, and we think that Waga Energy has some unique solutions that will bring this resource from the landfill to the energy grid as a sustainable, renewable fuel.”

Waga Energy has 19 operational units in France, Canada and Spain, with 16 more units under construction in the U.S., France and Canada. This is the seventh gas rights agreement executed by the company in the U.S.