Viridi Energy, a leading renewable natural gas (RNG) platform, announced that it has signed a 20-year offtake agreement with 脡nergir, L.P. 脡nergir, a Quebec-based diversified energy business, is the largest natural gas distribution company in Quebec as well as, through subsidiaries, the largest electricity distributor and the sole pipeline natural gas distributor in Vermont.
Under the agreement, which begins next year, Viridi will deliver 650,000 gigajoules of pipeline-quality RNG annually to 脡nergir from its waste-to-energy facilities in Brunswick, Maine; Marathon County, Wisconsin; and Bethlehem, New Hampshire. This RNG, which will account for roughly 50% of the total volume produced at the respective sites, will create enough energy to heat over 10,000 homes for a year.
鈥淰iridi Energy is proud to announce our new 20-year agreement with 脡nergir,鈥� said Dan Crouse, CEO of Viridi. 鈥溍塶ergir has a proven reputation as a leader in decarbonizing North American energy. Combined with Viridi’s flexibility in sourcing utility-quality RNG across our growing portfolio of assets, this partnership will help 脡nergir achieve its sustainability goal of carbon neutrality in the energy it distributes by 2050.鈥�
鈥淭hanks to Viridi鈥檚 well-established team and expertise, we will be able to increase RNG volumes within our grid and expand our solutions designed for all our customers looking to shrink their carbon footprint. We are looking forward to working together during this long-term agreement that will help us gradually achieve our target to inject a minimum of 10% RNG by 2030,鈥� said Vincent Regnault, Executive Director, Gas Supply and Renewable Gas Development, 脡nergir.
This agreement signifies the first major deal completed through Viridi Energy Marketing and Trading LLC, Viridi鈥檚 newly established commercial arm that makes it easy for buyers to source RNG from any of Viridi’s waste-to-energy facilities. The three sites from which Viridi will supply 脡nergir are all part of its fast-growing pool of RNG assets.
In March 2024,聽Viridi announced it acquired a legacy biosolids digester plant聽in Brunswick where it will process an estimated 85,000 tons of biosolids from local wastewater treatment plants per year into sustainable RNG; in December 2023, it acquired an in-progress landfill gas-to-RNG project in Bethlehem that is expected to produce up to 600,000 MMBtu per year of RNG; and in March 2023, Viridi announced聽its partnership with Marathon County聽where it will convert the county鈥檚 landfill emissions into clean RNG equal to more than three million gallons of gasoline annually.