PG&E joins Aemetis, Inc. to open renewable natural gas interconnection
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced Friday it had joined with Aemetis, Inc. to commission the interconnection of a new Renewable Natural Gas facility in Keyes, Calif.
The partnership will facilitate the transportation of RNG to California transportation customers, the companies said, capturing more than 1.6 MMBtu of dairy methane per year. That methane, the companies said, would have otherwise gone into the atmosphere.
“We are proud to partner with Aemetis and California dairies to deliver clean, renewable natural gas to Californians. This project is a key milestone in our goal to expand our renewable energy mix within our gas supply and evolve our system to be a safe, affordable, and reliable net zero energy delivery platform,” said PG&E’s Senior Vice President of Gas Engineering Janisse Quiñones.
Once completed, the 40-mile long gathering line will receive RNG produced at the Aemetis Biogas Central Dairy Digester Project and transported through PG&E’s pipeline system to customers. PG&E estimates emissions captured from the 60 participating dairies are equivalent to 1.1 million cars.
“Commissioning the biogas cleanup unit and interconnecting with PG&E’s gas pipeline is a significant milestone for Aemetis,” said Eric McAfee, chairman and CEO of Aemetis. “Our ability to fuel trucks with negative carbon intensity RNG will contribute to California’s goal of carbon neutrality and will reduce transportation air pollution created by diesel emissions.”
The partnership with Aemetis is PG&E’s fourth RNG interconnection in the last six months. A fifth project is slated to come online in December 2022 and will further advance PG&E’s decarbonization of the natural gas system while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
