EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP - The Atlantic County Utilities Authority, in partnership with OPAL Fuels and South Jersey Industries, has announced that a renewable and compressed natural gas facility is operational at the ACUA’s solid waste landfill on Delilah Road.
The facility captures and processes landfill gas into RNG, providing a renewable, lower-carbon fuel alternative to diesel and conventional natural gas. The project marks a significant milestone for South Jersey Industries as it is the first project to deliver RNG into the South Jersey Gas pipeline. The facility has a nameplate capacity of 2,500 SCFM of landfill gas and is anticipated to produce more than 650,000 MMBtu or over 4.6 million gasoline gallon equivalent per year of RNG.
“The launch of this facility marks an important milestone in OPAL Fuels’ mission of turning waste into clean, domestic energy,” OPAL Co-CEO Adam Comora said in a release. “This project reduces emissions, improves local air quality, creates jobs, and strengthens American energy independence.”
The projects serves an example of how every landfill can benefit from producing RNG by generating financial value, cutting methane emissions, and displacing diesel to decarbonize transportation,” he said.
Chet Benham, president of SJI Renewable Energy Ventures said the project “underscores our commitment to innovation and continuing efforts in renewable energy solutions.”
“ACUA is proud to continue its long history of innovation by becoming the first public solid waste facility in New Jersey to host an RNG project,” ACUA President Matthew DeNafo said. “Because of the shared environmental leadership among OPAL, SJI and ACUA, landfill gas is now a renewable energy source for our community.”
The RNG project represents the first collaboration between OPAL Fuels and SJI as part of their previously announced 50/50 joint venture to develop, construct, own and operate RNG facilities. A second collaboration is anticipated at the Burlington RNG Facility located in Florence Township.
