BP’s Archaea Energy and Republic Services partnering to build RNG plant

BP’s (NYSE: BP) subsidiary Archaea Energy and Republic Services (RSG) celebrate the first renewable natural gas – RNG – plant in the companies’ Lightning Renewables joint venture. The Archaea Modular Design plant at Republic’s National Serv-All Landfill in Fort Wayne, Ind., is the first of approximately 40 landfill gas-to-RNG projects targeted by the JV and is scheduled to come online this summer. The Fort Wayne AMD plant will convert landfill gas, a natural byproduct of the decomposition of waste, collected from Republic Services’ landfill into RNG. The Fort Wayne plant, once in operation, is expected to process up to 6,400 scfm into RNG. With the 2022 acquisition of Archaea, bp is now the largest RNG producer in the US. The Lightning Renewables RNG projects directly support Republic Services’ long-term sustainability goal to beneficially reuse 50% more biogas by 2030. The JV’s portfolio of projects will bring Republic’s total landfill gas-to-energy portfolio to more than 100.