Waga Energy, a specialist in the production of biomethane on waste storage sites, has signed a contract with Decatur Hills Landfill, a company attached to the family waste treatment and recovery group Best Way Disposal, to produce biomethane in Greensburg (Indiana). , UNITED STATES). As part of this agreement, Waga Energy will finance the construction of a production unit using its patented WAGABOX® technology to recover the gas emitted by buried waste in the form of biomethane. Waga Energy will operate the unit for at least 20 years.
The WAGABOX® unit will produce 55 GWh of biomethane per year, injected directly into the local gas network. Its commissioning will avoid the emission of more than 9,000 tonnes of CO2 eq per year into the atmosphere, by replacing fossil natural gas.
The result of 15 years of development, WAGABOX® technology revolutionizes the recovery of gas from waste storage sites thanks to cryogenics. It optimizes the energy production of sites and provides high quality biomethane, which can be injected directly into natural gas distribution networks, regardless of the composition and quality of the raw gas. Nineteen WAGABOX® units are in operation in France, Canada and Spain. Sixteen other units are under construction in the United States, France and Canada. The Decatur Hills Landfill project is the seventh undertaken by Waga Energy in the United States.