TotalEnergies’ latest RNG move

Farm will produce more than 259,000 MMBtu/y

An Vanguard Renewables renewable natural gas (RNG) facility. TotalEnergies has broken ground on the Oakmulgee Dairy Farm RNG project in Amelia Court House, Virginia, with its joint venture partner Vanguard Renewables, a portfolio company of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a part of BlackRock. (Image: Vanguard Renewables)

TotalEnergies has broken ground on the Oakmulgee Dairy Farm renewable natural gas (RNG) project in Amelia Court House, Virginia, with its joint venture partner Vanguard Renewables.

The Oakmulgee Dairy Farm will produce more than 259,000 million British thermal units per year (MMBtu/y) of renewable gas through an anaerobic digester and divert more than 105,000 tons of food and beverage waste per year from landfill or incineration. The RNG produced at Oakmulgee will fuel AstraZeneca’s Maryland biopharmaceutical production facilities.

TotalEnergies and Vanguard Renewables, a U.S. leader in farm-based organics-to-renewables natural gas production, announced in April 2024 the creation of a 50-50 percent joint venture to develop, build and operate RNG projects across the United States. The partners are currently advancing 10 projects into construction with a total annual RNG capacity of 0.8 TWh (2.5 Bcf or 2,500,000 MMBtu). Beyond these first 10 projects, the two companies will consider investing in a potential pipeline of about 60 projects across the country.

“We are excited to see the Oakmulgee Dairy Farm project break ground, which materializes the ambition TotalEnergies has with our market-leading partner Vanguard Renewables to accelerate the development of food biowaste processing into renewable natural gas in the United States,” said Marc de Lataillade, Vice President, Biogas at TotalEnergies. “This project in Virginia, and two others currently under construction in Wisconsin and Minnesota, are part of a promising potential pipeline of projects that will support TotalEnergies’ ambition to be a leader in the fast-growing renewable gas market.”

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