EverGen Infrastructure Corp. has signed an settlement to produce Canadian renewable pure fuel (RNG) to FortisBC Power Inc. for 20 years.
The RNG will come from Fraser Valley Biogas Ltd., which Vancouver, British Columbia-based EverGen acquired 2021. EverGen accomplished the enlargement of Fraser Valley Biogas final December, elevating its RNG nameplate capability to 160,000 gigajoules yearly.
FortisBC, a Surrey, British Columbia-based pure fuel and energy utility, will inject the RNG from Fraser Valley Biogas into its pure fuel system, EverGen stated in a press release. FortisBC operates the interconnection facility on the RNG manufacturing facility.
“This settlement ensures a secure and predictable provide of RNG for FortisBC, whereas offering EverGen with a reliable buyer and long-term income stream”, EverGen stated.
David Bennett, director for renewable fuel and low carbon fuels at FortisBC, commented, “By persevering with to extend our RNG provide, we’re serving to to cut back greenhouse fuel emissions and supporting our imaginative and prescient to have round 75 p.c of the fuel in our system be renewable and low-carbon by 2050”.
Put into service 2011, Fraser Valley Biogas, which processes manure and off-farm organics, is Canada’s first agricultural digester to provide RNG, in accordance with EverGen. RNG, or biomethane, is biogas upgraded for use instead of typical pure fuel by rising its methane content material.
“The RNG generated by this challenge is a part of FortisBC’s program to produce renewable fuel to houses, companies and its prospects”, EverGen says on its web site. “Fraser Valley Biogas additionally supplies Abbotsford farms with renewable fertilizer by way of the digestate produced as a part of the method”.
Fraser Valley Biogas reached its highest ever month-to-month manufacturing final February at 9,716 gigajoules. “Our efforts have translated into tangible outcomes as we count on the ability to exceed its nameplate capability of 160,000 GJs per 12 months as soon as totally ramped up”, EverGen chief government Mischa Zajtmann stated in a press release March 5.
EverGen stated then, “Together with ongoing optimization efforts and the finished set up of the third digester, EverGen stays dedicated to its manufacturing targets and assembly the rising calls for for RNG and low carbon infrastructure in Canada”.
Simultaneous with the FortisBC settlement announcement, EverGen additionally stated it had inked “a long-term feedstock provide settlement with a waste disposal consolidator within the area”.
“The feedstock secured represents higher than 50 p.c of the off-farm waste required to realize nameplate capability”, it stated.
Zajtmann stated, “With each offtake and feedstock agreements in place on a long-term foundation, EverGen has considerably de-risked the FVB challenge”.
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