WAGA Energy is joined forces with Steuben County in New York, on a renewable natural gas (RNG) project at the county’s Bath landfill. The RNG produced, will be injected in the local grid and used as a biofuel to decarbonize mobility. The Steuben County landfill will be the first in the U.S. to adopt WAGA Energy’s WAGABOX technology.

The WAGABOX unit purifies 1,000 standard cubic feet per minute (1,600 cubic meters per hour) of raw landfill gas to deliver 207,000 mmBtu (60 GWh) of RNG. The facility also produces RNG that can be used for residential consumption or as a transportation fuel, equivalent to supplying around 4,000 homes with clean, local, and renewable energy, saving an estimated 13,500 tons of carbon dioxide per year.

How does it work? 
The unit produces grid compliant RNG (also known as biomethane) from the methane generated by the decomposition of the waste in the landfill.