OPAL Fuels, a Fortistar portfolio company, and NextEra Energy Marketing, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, have plans to build the first landfill renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility in Minnesota.
The project will be located at a landfill owned by Republic Services, Inc. and interconnect with a pipeline owned by Xcel Energy, Inc., the leading electric and gas utility in the region.
For many years, OPAL, which was previously known as Fortistar RNG and TruStar Energy, has collected and processed gas to generate electricity at the 255-acre Pine Bend Landfill in Inver Grove Heights, Minn. NextEra Energy Marketing will work with OPAL to replace the existing power generation facility with a new RNG production facility that will capture 3,200 standard cubic feet per minute of landfill gas and produce more than 6 million gas gallon equivalents (GGE) of RNG per year.
Once completed in the first quarter of 2022, the project will capture and convert land
