South Jersey Industries, Inc. announce their partnership to construct one of the larger food waste-to-renewable natural gas (RNG) projects in the United States. The Linden Renewable Energy (LRE) Project, based in Linden, NJ will convert organic waste into pipeline-quality RNG that can be used for a variety of applications to displace fossil fuels. This marks SJI?s first non-utility led anaerobic digester project that will directly connect its utility customers with a New Jersey-based RNG producer.

Elizabethtown Gas, one of SJI?s primary utility subsidiaries, will blend the RNG from the Project into its existing natural gas distribution system. The LRE Project will accept a wide range of feedstock, including food waste from industrial, commercial, and institutional entities, as well as grease waste from restaurants and other food service establishments. Anaerobic digestion is a natural process that breaks down waste in the absence of oxygen to produce natural gas and a nutrient-rich material that can be used as fertilizer.

As a result, the LRE Project will convert up to 1,475 tons of waste to produce up to 3,783MMBtu/day of RNG?this is the energy equivalent value of 30,200 gallons of gasoline per day. The LRE Project includes development and construction of multiple off-site food waste pre-processing and depackaging operations in New York City, New York State and New Jersey. LRE has partnered with Phoenix Power Group as the engineering, procurement and construction provider and is proud to have top tier equipment providers to bring this project to completion.

It has also strategically aligned with multiple waste haulers in New York City and New Jersey that will provide source-separated waste as part of their compliance with New York City and New Jersey organic waste diversion requirements.