In the United States (US), Fortistar, LLC, an opportunity-oriented, private investment and energy asset management firm focused on helping to facilitate the transition to a zero-carbon economy, has announced that it will be entering construction shortly on a portfolio of new landfill renewable natural gas (RNG) for transportation fuel projects.
Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) or biomethane is American-made from sustainable sources such as landfill gas (LFG) and anaerobic digestistion (AD) on farms, industry or wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). RNG is carbon-neutral and chemically identical to fossil natural gas, allowing it to be to be used as a transportation fuel in natural gas vehicles and trucks.
Landfills are the major source of RNG. The growth in natural gas fueling infrastructure spurred on by companies such as TruStar Energy, an affiliate of Fortistar, has dramatically improved the prospects for the development of a commercially viable RNG industry with distribution into the existing transportation fueling system.
RNG offers a tremendous opportunity to sustainably expand America’s transportation fuel supply. Our firm has operated in dozens of landfill gas to energy projects; TruStar Energy has constructed over 100 natural gas fueling stations. Fortistar is poised to close the loop in a coordinated manner and produce, distribute and supply RNG across the country. We are looking forward to speaking with industry and municipal representatives during the 2018 WasteExpo about developing our next portfolio of projects, said Mark Comora, President of Fortistar.
Celebrating 25 years as a private company, and twenty years beyond that as an investment affiliate of a major international company, Fortistar has built, invested in and managed portfolios of successful independent power and sustainable/clean energy generation projects in the United States and in Canada.
