(CercleFinance.com) – Waga Energy and Steuben County, bringing together 94,000 people in New York state, have started a production unit at the Bath waste storage site. The renewable gas is injected into the network of local operator Corning Natural Gas.
Waga Energy and Steuben County started up a biomethane production unit on March 15 at the Bath waste storage site in New York (United States). It will inject 60 GWh of renewable gas per year into the distribution network of local operator Corning Natural Gas, equivalent to the consumption of around 4,000 homes.
Biomethane will replace fossil natural gas and will avoid the emission of 13,500 tonnes of CO2 eq per year into the atmosphere according to the calculation methodology of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. .
Waga Energy will operate the WAGABOX® unit for an initial period of 20 years, and will generate revenues by reselling the biomethane under a private purchase agreement (BPA). Revenues generated from the sale of the biomethane will be shared with Steuben County.
The Steuben County storage site is the first in the United States to benefit from WAGABOX® technology to produce biomethane from gas spontaneously emitted by buried waste.
Waga Energy currently operates 20 WAGABOX® units worldwide with 14 more under construction.
The Bath waste storage site processes 280,000 tonnes of waste per year. Waga Energy was chosen by Steuben County following a call for tenders launched in 2020.
Guénaël Prince, CEO of Waga Energy Inc.: ‘The start-up of the WAGABOX® unit at the Bath waste storage site in Steuben County is a major step in the deployment of our technological innovation in the United States. United and one more step towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We are delighted with the confidence of Steuben County for this first project in the United States’.
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