Happy Monday! Welcome back to another week of ESC News Blog!
Did anyone see
the Oil & Gas Journal’s Newsletter on October 5, 2023, they had an article
called, “Enbridge, Divert to build first wasted food-to-RNG plant under multi-plant
deal”? The article speaks about Enbridge and Divert expanding the wasted food-to-RNG industry
by building a new plant in Longview, Washington, and this is one of Enbridge’s
investments into projects that are renewable energy in their strive to
help fight climate change and increase energy supplies all the while making the
transition into cleaner energies. This
is the beginning of the relationship between the two companies which agreed on $1-billion
infrastructure development agreement, but it should be noted Enbridge earlier
this year made an investment in Divert of $80 million which is about 10% of the
company. The two companies will be putting
$100 million into constructing the Longview Integrated Diversion & Energy
Facility (IDEF) which will have the task of breaking down about 100,000 tonnes/year
(tpy) of food scraps from food businesses and companies in the Washington and
Oregon area, and the food scraps will be changed into a carbon-negative RNG. Longview IDEF facility will be 66,000-sq ft, and
it will be using Divert’s process of depackaging and using anaerobic digestion at
the facility to make the RNG. The
facility started construction earlier in September and is expected to be operational
in 2024. Divert’s process will help aid
in reduction of food scraps going to landfills where it will reduce the amount
of methane and CO2 going into the atmosphere.
Wasted food causes 10% of global greenhouse emissions (GHG) and learning
how to reduce food waste will help with our goal to reduce GHGs and power our
homes and businesses. If you would like
to read more of the article from the Oil and Journal, please click the
link: Enbridge,
Divert to build first wasted food-to-RNG plant under multi-plant deal | Oil
& Gas Journal (ogj.com).
If you would
like help in looking into how to transport your product and help reduce your
carbon-foot print, contact us via the email in the blog and check out our ESC's website!
We hope you have a wonderful evening!