Kwik Trip to Sell RNG Produced at Wisconsin Landfill Gas Project
by Erin Voegele (Biomass Magazine) Officials in Dane County, Wisconsin, have announced that Kwik Trip will be a primary dispenser of renewable natural gas (RNG) produced at the county’s landfill biogas project when it reaches completion later this year.
According to Dane County, its landfill biogas project will turn trash and cow manure into RNG and inject it into an interstate transmission pipeline so it can be bought and sold to power fleets of compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles. Kwik Trip’s partnership with the county will allow it to dispense renewable CNG from the pipeline and sell it at its CNG fuel stations.
The county said its new facility will feature a biogas offloading station to allow other biogas producers, such as manure digesters, to inject their gas into the pipeline. “This Dane County project is the first in the nation to be able to receive biogas from multiple off-site locations and connect that renewable gas with CNG gas stations locally and across the nation,” said the county in a press release, noting that the third-party biogas must be purified and compressed by the owner’s equipment before being hauled to the landfill and injected into the pipeline.
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The county estimates it will generate enough revenue from the project to payback its $28 million cost in just a few years. READ MORE
