Clean Energy completes RNG production facility at Drumgoon dairy

Clean Energy Fuels announced that it has completed a new renewable natural gas, or RNG, production facility at Drumgoon Dairy in Lake Norden, S.D. The 6,500-cow dairy farm is expected to supply 1.66M gallons of negative carbon-intensity RNG annually to the transportation market when at full capacity. Construction of the $38M RNG digester project was completed in early-December 2023 and injection into the interstate natural gas pipeline system of the RNG began within weeks. The RNG produced at Drumgoon will be virtually stored until all pathways for federal and state environmental credits are approved, and a carbon-intensity score is assigned to the RNG, expected in the first half of 2024. The Drumgoon Dairy RNG project was financed through Clean Energy’s joint venture with bp, developed with Dynamic Renewables, and is one of several RNG projects the three companies have partnered to build at dairies in the Midwest. All the RNG produced at Drumgoon will be available at Clean Energy’s fueling infrastructure.