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Minnesota's first renewable natural gas facility opens at Inver Grove Heights landfill

The fuel will power heavy-duty trucks

Minnesota's first renewable natural gas plant is up and running at an Inver Grove Heights landfill, turning biogases produced by trash into fuel for heavy-duty vehicles.

New York-based OPAL Fuels built and operates the facility, while Republic Services, an Arizona-based company that owns Pine Bend Sanitary Landfill, leases out the land and supplies the biogas. The end product — renewable natural gas — then goes into Xcel Energy's gas pipeline.

"The fact that we can remove or basically eliminate 44,000 metric tons of carbon through this project … every year is very impactful to the communities where we live and work," said Tyler Kraft, general manager at Republic Services, which is involved in 77 similar projects nationally.

https://www.startribune.com/minnesotas-first-renewable-natural-gas-facility-opens-at-inver-grove-heights-landfill/600222915/

 

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