Chesapeake Utilities says RNG production Started at Full Circle Dairy in Florida
Chesapeake Utilities Corp. has announced injections of renewable natural gas at its Radio Avenue injection point from the company's RNG facility at Full Circle Dairy in Madison County, Florida.
The injections are part of the commissioning phase of the company's RNG development project, which included the construction and operation of a dairy manure-to-biogas RNG facility at Full Circle Dairy. The facility produces RNG, with the deliveries and injections of captured RNG started in June 2024.
The RNG is transported from the facility to the injection site by Chesapeake Utilities' subsidiary Marlin Gas Services, a provider of virtual pipeline solutions. Approximately 4,700 dekatherms of RNG have been captured and transported to the injection site during the facility's first month of production.
The RNG facility at Full Circle Dairy captures and cleans methane from manure generated by dairy cows.
FPU Renewables, which constructed and operates the RNG facility, and its parent company, Florida Public Utilities Company, are subsidiaries of Chesapeake Utilities Corp.
The facility is expected to produce an average of 100,000 dekatherms annually and represents a capital investment of $22 million. It is also projected to capture and redirect approximately 1,116 metric tons (mt) of methane per year, equivalent to 27,900 mt of CO2.
As per the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas equivalencies calculator, the methane reduction is equivalent to over 6,000 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year and a CO2 emissions reduction equivalent to the annual energy consumption of more than 3,500 homes.
The fuel injection point in Yulee has been adapted to enable alternative fuels, such as RNG, to be delivered into the existing pipeline delivery system moving gas northward and support the growing demand for energy in Nassau County, New York.
