Game Changer: From Garbage to Gas
GAIN Clean Fuel announces the expansion of its renewable natural gas offering.
APPLETON, Wis., April 23, 2018 (Newswire.com) - U.S. Gain President Mike Koel is no stranger to taking risks. He’s the force behind the business division’s formation in 2009 when he identified the demand in providing fleet operators with environmentally-friendly, cost-effective alternative fuel options. Since then, GAIN® Clean Fuel has worked cooperatively with transportation companies across the country to supply compressed natural gas (CNG) as an alternative to diesel, which has become the fuel of choice for many based on significant financial and environmental benefits.
Over the last year, Koel and his team have embraced a new challenge – to become a leading renewable natural gas (RNG) supplier by procuring processed methane generated from landfills, livestock manure and wastewater treatment facilities in an effort to improve local air quality and provide fleets access to an even cleaner fuel.
We are committed to working closely with various producers throughout the process by obtaining gas rights, ensuring compliance, investing in clean-up equipment and project financing to dispense the highest quality RNG to the most forward-thinking organizations.
Mike Koel, President, U.S. Gain
Through vertical integration, flexible business management and strategic risk-taking, GAIN Clean Fuel has recently expanded availability of its RNG offering through the now operational RNG plant at Woodland Meadows Recycling and Disposal Facility in Van Buren Township, Michigan. Woodland Meadows is a regional facility that provides safe and convenient disposal services for communities, businesses and industries serving the Detroit Metro and surrounding areas.
“RNG is one of the few alternative fuels that creates air quality improvements during the fuel production process and also when used in actual transportation,” says Bryan Nudelbacher, director of business development for GAIN Clean Fuel. “This truly positions companies using RNG for sustainability success.”
GAIN Clean Fuel, in partnership with Ameresco, Inc., a leading independent provider of comprehensive energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions, and Waste Management, Inc., the largest environmental solutions provider in North America, is bringing to the market renewable natural gas (generated from the landfill) for use within the transportation sector.
Traditionally, landfill gas is flared onsite, but current technologies allow for the harnessing of this gas and its conversion into a cleaner renewable transportation fuel.
In a well-to-wheel heavy-duty trucking comparison to diesel, RNG produced from landfill gas can provide a reduction in greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide and particulate matter emissions by 85 percent, 75 percent and 98 percent respectively. Well-to-wheel comparisons consider the lifecycle emissions impact of a product — from production through usage and disposal — providing users a realistic comparison verses simply comparing tailpipe emissions.
With several other landfill, dairy farm, and wastewater treatment facility projects in the works, GAIN Clean Fuel is dedicated to expanding availability of RNG.
“We are committed to working closely with various producers throughout the process by obtaining gas rights, ensuring compliance, investing in clean-up equipment and project financing to dispense the highest quality RNG to the most forward-thinking organizations,” says Koel. “Furthermore, we're focused on expanding our station network to maximize accessibility to RNG, and are excited about the partnerships to come.”
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Alison Fiebig
Corporate Communications, U.S. Venture, Inc.
(920) 915-4389
Stephanie Lowney
Marketing Manager, GAIN Clean Fuel
(920) 730-7134
ABOUT U.S. GAIN
U.S. Gain, a division of U.S. Venture, Inc., is a leading supplier of renewable (RNG) and compressed (CNG) natural gas — environmentally-friendly and cost-effective alternatives to diesel. GAIN Clean Fuel stations strategically located throughout the United States and Canada feature easy-access for all natural gas vehicles, 99% site uptime, fast-fill capabilities and premium fuel quality.
ABOUT U.S. VENTURE
For more than 65 years, U.S. Venture, Inc. has been recognized as an innovative leader in the distribution of petroleum and renewable energy products, lubricants, and tires and parts for the automotive aftermarket. Guided by its company vision, “To be the very best value-adding distributor of products that vehicles consume in North America,” they deliver unconventional, creative solutions that give their customers a competitive edge. Headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, the company’s business divisions are U.S. Oil, U.S. AutoForce®, U.S. Lubricants and U.S. Gain.
Source: U.S. Gain