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Project Details

• LRE is a food waste-to-RNG facility currently under construction in Linden, NJ.
• The facility has the capacity to process 1,475 tons per day of organic waste that will produce 3,783 dekatherms per day of renewable natural gas, the energy equivalent of 30,200 gallons of gasoline each day.
• The project will convert organic waste into bio-methane using proven anerobic digestion technology in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. The bio-methane will then be upgraded to pipeline-quality natural gas for injection into the Elizabethtown Gas system next to the site.
• The project also provides additional advantages, offering New York City, Northern New Jersey, and the broader metro region an opportunity to manage their organic waste streams to comply with state and local food waste regulations that require organic waste to be diverted from landfills.
• Construction on the facility began in January 2024 and is slated to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2025.

“From the creation of hundreds of jobs, the potential to reduce greenhouse gases, and the use of innovative technology, this project is another example of how ɧºüÊÓƵ is leading the way toward a cleaner energy future." - Mike Renna

Environmental Benefits

• Landfills represent a third of human-made methane emissions in the United States. By diverting organic waste from landfills, LRE is anticipated to avoid an estimated 120,000 metric tons of CO2e annually when working at full capacity.
• The project’s production of renewable natural gas will be used to offset fracked natural gas in the local Elizabethtown Gas distribution network.
• LRE will use on-site Bloom Energy fuel cells to produce nearly all the on-site power requirements, thereby minimizing reliance on the local grid and associated carbon emissions.
• The project will also produce 200-300 cubic yards per day of digested solids that will be sold as a soil amendment, which is a natural organic byproduct of the anaerobic digestion process and can be used as an alternative to chemical fertilizers.

About the Project Owners

ɧºüÊÓƵ, an energy infrastructure holding company based in Folsom, NJ, delivers energy services to customers through two primary subsidiaries: ɧºüÊÓƵ Utilities (ɧºüÊÓƵU) and ɧºüÊÓƵ Renewable Energy Ventures. ɧºüÊÓƵU houses the company's regulated natural gas utility operations, delivering safe, reliable, and affordable natural gas to more than 725,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers across New Jersey via its South Jersey Gas and Elizabethtown Gas subsidiaries.

Elizabethtown Gas is the natural gas energy provider to over 300,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in parts of Union, Middlesex, Sussex, Warren, Hunterdon, Morris and Mercer counties. This project will blend the RNG from the Linden Renewable Project into the Elizabethtown Gas natural gas distribution system.

ɧºüÊÓƵ Renewable Energy Ventures, a non-regulated subsidiary of ɧºüÊÓƵ, leads the company's efforts to develop renewable energy projects including dairy farm renewable (RNG), landfill gas RNG food waste gas RNG, and waste treatment. ɧºüÊÓƵ Renewable Energy Venture's portfolio includes active construction and RNG development rights at 40+ farms thought out the United States. With its current pipeline of future projects ɧºüÊÓƵ Renewable Energy Ventures is positioned to be a leader in RNG Development.

The LRE project is owned and operated by Catamaran Renewables, LLC. Catamaran Renewables is a Joint Venture partnership between Captona and ɧºüÊÓƵ.
 

Captona is a North American investment firm with 15 years of transactional experience in the clean & renewable energy sector focused on investments in latestage middle-market clean fuel and renewable energy projects across the RNG, wind, solar, fuel cell and storage asset classes.
 

The LRE Project was developed by RNG Energy Solutions, LLC. RNG Energy and its members have 100+ combined years of experience successfully developing, financing and managing the construction of complex energy infrastructure projects. The RNG Energy Teams experience includes the development of natural gas Combustion Turbine and Combined Cycle projects, Anaerobic Digester Projects and biomass projects.