Waga Energy to produce renewable natural gas at Florida landfill

Hillsborough County, Florida, has selected Waga Energy, a French company with U.S. operations based in Philadelphia, to build, own, operate and maintain a renewable natural gas (RNG) production unit at the Southeast County Landfill in Lithia, Florida. 

Waga Energy will upgrade the landfill gas into pipeline-quality RNG and utilize its Wagabox technology. Once operational, Waga Energy says the plant will be able to process up to 3,000 standard cubic feet per minute (scfm) of landfill gas and produce over 610,000 million British thermal units (MMBtu), or 160 gigawatt-hours, of RNG per year, delivering gas to the local pipeline for at least 20 years. 

The project is expected to reduce up to 47,500 tons of CO2 equivalent emissions annually due to the displacement of fossil fuels, equivalent to avoiding the CO2 emissions from 4.2 million gallons of diesel consumed. By producing pipeline-quality RNG, Waga Energy says the project supports the circular economy and reduces reliance on fossil fuels with a local, reliable and renewable source of energy provided to the community. 

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The Southeast County Landfill is owned by Hillsborough County and operated by WM. The landfill accepts more than 400,000 tons of waste annually. 

As a result of 15 years of development, Waga Energy says its patented Wagabox technology revolutionizes landfill gas upgrading by combining membrane filtration with cryogenic distillation. It maximizes the renewable energy production of landfills by ensuring the production of pipeline-quality RNG, regardless of landfill gas variations in flow rate and composition. 

“We are proud to be partnering with Hillsborough County on this major project and deploying our first Wagabox unit in Florida near our U.S. commercial headquarters,” Waga Energy co-founder and CEO Guénaël Prince says. “Together, we are turning landfill gas into RNG, a clean, local, renewable energy, and taking concrete action towards energy resilience and the decarbonization of the gas infrastructure for Florida’s communities.”