Archaea Energy, a renewable natural gas (RNG), has announced the successful start-up of Project Assai, an RNG facility located at the Keystone Sanitary Landfill in Dunmore, Pa.
Pipeline-quality RNG was produced and commercial operations were achieved on Dec. 30, 2021. Assai is now the highest capacity operational RNG facility in the world.
Assai was constructed, commissioned, and completed within budget and fewer than two years, a timeline shorter than industry averages for landfill gas to RNG development projects, including much smaller projects. Assai has an inlet capacity of 22,500 standard cubic feet per minute (scfm) and combines landfill gas flows from the Keystone Sanitary Landfill and the Waste Management Alliance Landfill. Assai is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by more than 200,000 metric tons annually and significantly reduce air pollutants, many by more than 90 percent.
Assai is expected to deliver more than 4 million metric million Brit