Ameresco, Republic Services JV achieves commercial operation at Illinois plant

Ameresco (AMRC) announced that its newly formed joint venture with Republic Services (RSG) has achieved commercial operation at their landfill gas, or LFG, to renewable natural gas, or RNG, plant located at Republic Services’ Roxana Landfill in Edwardsville, Illinois in November. The Roxana RNG facility captures naturally occurring landfill gas and processes it into pipeline-quality RNG, a low-carbon transportation fuel. This project beneficially uses previously flared LFG to create RNG that will displace fossil fuel in a nearby Energy Transfer natural gas transmission pipeline. The facility, which is one of the largest of its type in North America, is designed to process 6,000 SCFM of raw landfill gas per minute.