(CercleFinance.com) – Waga Energy announces that it has won the tender for Steuben County (New York State) to produce biomethane at the Bath waste storage site. This is the first biomethane injection project at a waste storage site in the United States.
Waga Energy will build a purification unit on the site using its patented WAGABOX (R) technology, which makes it possible to produce biomethane, a renewable substitute for fossil natural gas, from the gas emitted by landfill waste (landfill gas).
The WAGABOX (R) unit will be commissioned at the Bath site in March 2023. It will process 1,600 m3 / h of raw gas and produce 60 GWh of biomethane per year, equivalent to the consumption of around 4,000 American households. It will avoid the emission of 13,500 tonnes of CO2eq each year.
Waga Energy will finance the construction of the WAGABOX (R) unit and ensure its operation for at least 20 years.
The biomethane produced at the Bath site will be injected directly into the local gas network, and sold to a private operator under a long-term energy purchase contract, on the model of power purchase agreements (PPA ) used in renewable electricity projects.
Five years after the start-up of the first WAGABOX (R) unit, Waga Energy operates 10 units in France and eleven more are under construction in France, Spain and Canada.
Mathieu Lefebvre, CEO and co-founder of Waga Energy: ‘We now offer waste storage site operators a standardized, proven solution, making it possible to produce biomethane at a competitive price, even from low volumes of raw gas. This allows them to effectively contribute to the energy transition while generating additional income ‘.
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