The Recipient, Rialto Bioenergy Facility, LLC, in cooperation with a project team consisting of W.M. Lyles Co., Anaergia Technologies, LLC, and Momentum, sought to expand the capacity of the existing Rialto Bioenergy Facility (Facility). When fully operational, this new commercial-scale system will produce 2.5 million diesel gallon equivalent per year of carbon negative renewable natural gas (RNG) for use in waste collection and transport vehicles across the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Recipient has executed feedstock agreements and offtake agreements to both receive required feedstock for the project and sell the RNG produced at the facility. When operational, the Facility will convert 85,800 tons/yr of regionally available food / organic waste from municipal solid waste sourced from processing facilities such as Waste Management’s Sun Valley Recycling Park into carbon negative RNG for use as a transportation fuel.
The Facility has successfully started operations and, with agreement of the California Energy Commission, has begun collecting preliminary data, including throughput, operating hours, Class A soil production, and RNG production. Upon completion of the data collection process, the Recipient will update this abstract and the full report with conclusions and lessons learned.
