In California, Aemetis and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) recognized and celebrated a significant Aemetis Biogas LLC renewable natural gas project milestone on Friday at a ribbon cutting ceremony held at the Aemetis Advanced Fuels facility in Keyes, California, including the commissioning of the company’s dairy RNG cleanup and compression unit and interconnection with PG&E’s gas pipeline for the Aemetis Biogas Central Dairy Digester Project.
The Aemetis RNG system testing has been completed, including testing of the PG&E interconnection unit, which will enable the production and delivery of utility-grade RNG for sale as transportation fuel to California customers via pipeline delivery.
When fully built out, the planned 60+ dairies in the Aemetis biogas project are expected to capture more than 1.6 million MMBtu of dairy methane annually, and reduce millions of tons of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade. The Aemetis biogas cleanup unit is co-located at the Aemetis Advanced Fuels ethanol plant and is directly connected to the PG&E natural gas pipeline.
In addition to three operating dairy digesters, the Aemetis Biogas Central Dairy Project is scheduled to complete five more dairy digesters in Q4 2022, begin construction of five additional dairy digesters later this summer, and complete 40 miles of pressurized biogas pipeline by the end of Q4 2022.
