Brightmark, a global waste solutions provider, has partnered with three New York dairy farms on the Helios Project, the latest in a series of renewable natural gas (RNG) projects the company has launched over the past two years.
The project is part of the recently announced joint venture Brightmark RNG Holdings, a Brightmark platform in partnership with Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
Gardeau Crest Farms located in Western New York and Lawnhurst Farms and Willet Dairy, located in New York’s Finger Lakes Region, have each signed supply agreements with Brightmark indicating their intent to provide the company with dairy manure from their herds that will serve as feedstock for the three existing anaerobic digesters on the farms. The digesters will capture, extract and clean the methane in the manure, then convert it into RNG and inject it into a nearby gas pipeline for distribution.
When fully operational in the third quarter of 2021, the digesters will produce up to 500 MMB
