The Biogas Yield Explosion: Nature Energy’s 66% Higher Yields, 3 New US Projects and a New US CEO

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July 25, 2022

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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … The biogas frenzy of course is a happier story. It seems every company in the world has discovered the virtues of decarbonization but few have mastered the logistics, global footprint, capital and technology to convert reams of daily and agricultural waste to replace fossil fuels in our gas pipelines. Glory be.

It may then come as little surprise that when the world’s largest producer of biogas energy in the world, Nature Energy, took aim at the US market, they tapped former Fox Business vice-president and Morning Call anchor Alexis Glick to head up operations.

Media folk are rarely tapped to head major energy companies, so a word of explanation might help. In recent years, Glick has been CEO of GENYOUth, where she built and led the largest public-private partnership in support of better youth nutrition. Among the bedrock supporters: the NFL and the dairy industry. So, managing partnerships with big brands and communicating with farmers — skills in the wheelhouse already.

Let’s spend a minute today looking at biogas markets and technologies — and also the dudes from Denmark, Nature Energy. What they bring to the table. Turns out, a lot.

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In addition to the upcoming US projects, the company owns and operates 12 biogas plants in Denmark and one in each of the Netherlands and France. The company has acquired land to build biogas plants at three sites in Quebec: Farnham, Louisville, and Saint-Joseph de Beauce, Quebec.

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In the end, it’s about manure management. Used well, a powerful soil amendment and a source of on-farm energy. At worst, an odious source of GHGs. To build a solution, you need a village,. In this case, technology and operations, to start. That’s Nature Energy. Then, partnerships with North America’s dairy farmers, large scale food and industrial companies, and help support the rapid adoption of clean biogas fuels.

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Glick told us, the focus is on getting the shovels into the ground at the three projects in Wisconsin and Minnesota. It’s time to operationalize the plants that have been identified, Glick told us. READ MORE

Énergir, Nature Energy to develop RNG projects in Quebec (Énergir/Biomass Magazine)

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