Biogas capture through anaerobic digestion technology is a relatively recent innovation in human history compared to other waste management strategies. That said, biogas has been used for thousands of years and has been adamantly studied for the last couple of decades. ➡️ 900 BC: The first evidence of biogas was during the time of the Assyrian Empire. Citizens would use biogas to heat their bath water. ➡️ 1600s: Approximately 2,500 years later, a scientist, Jan Baptist Van Helmont, recorded that decaying organic matter could create flammable gases. ➡️ 1700s: Count Alessandro Volta concluded the direct correlation between the amount of decaying organic matter and the amount of flammable gas produced. ➡️ 1800s: At the beginning of the century, Sir Humphry Davy determined that cattle manure contained methane. Later, in 1859, the first digestion plant was built at a leper colony in Bombay, India. During this time, biogas was recovered from the sewage system and used to fuel streetlamps in Exeter, UK. ➡️ 1900s: As microbiology science developed, Buswell and other researchers in the 1930s identified anaerobic bacteria and ideal conditions for methane production. Fuel supply uncertainty in the 1970s encouraged countries and companies to innovate and source non-fossil fuel energy, inciting the widespread development of anaerobic digesters. ➡️ 2000s: Now in the 21st century, the demand for renewable energy has dramatically increased. Technologies like anaerobic digestion can meet the growing decarbonized energy demand and global and national methane reduction targets. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eaN2iD62
Vanguard Renewables
Renewable Energy Power Generation
Weston, Massachusetts 11,466 followers
Vanguard Renewables is leading the organic waste-to-renewable energy movement across America.
About us
Vanguard Renewables is a national leader in food and beverage waste recycling and develops organic waste-to-renewable energy projects. The Company owns and operates on-farm anaerobic digester facilities and plans to expand nationwide to more than 150 facilities by 2026. Vanguard Renewables is committed to advancing decarbonization by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from farms and food waste, generating renewable energy, and supporting regenerative agriculture on partner farms via Farm Powered® anaerobic digestion. Our partner collaborations with food manufacturers, retailers, institutions, and other food users provide a pathway to achieve waste diversion, decarbonization, and sustainability goals with reliability and operational and cost efficiencies front and center. Partners also have the option to procure renewable energy generated from our nationwide network of operating facilities. As experts in recyclable materials management, Vanguard Renewables provides our partners with a complete organics waste solution that addresses current and future needs and short-term urgent challenges. Our solution ensures that the food and beverage waste we collect always goes to the highest and best available purpose. Vanguard Renewables is a portfolio company of funds managed by BlackRock.
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- Renewable Energy Power Generation
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- 201-500 employees
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- Weston, Massachusetts
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- Privately Held
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- 2014
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- Renewable Natural Gas, Renewable Electricity, GHG emissions reduction, Organics collection and recycling, Renewable Energy, Strategic Partnerships, Waste Consultations, Waste Collection, Recycling, Sustainability Metrics, Industrial Recycling, Food Waste, Food Waste Collection, Food Waste Recycling, and Sustainability
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Our President of Organics Solutions, Kent Bartley, chatted with Waste Dive last week about our growth plans and the logistics side of our services. Read all about it: https://lnkd.in/eX4f6tu9
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Renewable natural gas can be used for a variety of purposes. The most common include electricity generation, thermal functions for cooking and heating, vehicle fuel, and feedstock as a raw material to produce other renewables such as hydrogen or products like bioplastics. ⚡ Learn more about our Farm Powered RNG: https://lnkd.in/eajWYrpA
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One of our food waste partners, Fancypants Baking Co., recently had an Instagram reel showcasing our partnership go viral with more than a million views. Fancypants sends us their inedible cookie waste, and we turn it into renewable energy! 🍪 Read more and watch the reel: https://lnkd.in/gzuXs6nT
POV: You Turn Your Cookie Crumbs Into Renewable Energy
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Canada's Clean Fuel Regulation is a huge step towards understanding the benefits of landfill diversion and reality of landfill emissions from organic waste. Read more on this initiative from our VP of Strategic Growth, Alex, below!
Canada gets it right on organics landfill diversion carbon accounting!! Canada’s Clean Fuel Regulation (CFR) is a newly implemented binding requirement for reducing the carbon intensity of transportation fuels nationally (ala California’s LCFS). Environment & Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has developed and released dozens of fuel pathways using the OpenLCA calculation platform. Renewable Gas from Organic Waste is one of these pathways, and the calculation methodology has been in the works for several years. On June 28th, 2024, ECCC finally issued the methodology, and it is an excellent result for biogas industry to potentially access N. America’s highest value CO2 Compliance Market. 1) Definition of Food Waste includes Post-consumer AND Grocery waste. 2) Food industry and manufacturing CAN be considered as landfill diverted if proven individually ("Other Solid Organic Waste") 3) Baseline levels of food waste disposal DO NOT consider regional landfill diversion mandates, rather consider ACTUAL final disposition of organics for Canada as a whole. Current ACTUAL disposal rates of food waste to landfill in Canada is 77% vs. 23% composting/other. This was a make-or-break provision. 4) Perhaps most importantly; the Landfill methane capture rate is ACTUAL as scientifically proven: 36% (vs. 75% used by California Tier 1). Landfills are leaking 64% of the methane! True story. 77% of Canada's food waste goes to landfill and 64% of the resulting landfill methane emissions escape. Congratulations to ECCC for using the REAL numbers - best we've seen from a regulatory body in North America. For a project operating on 100% food waste as defined by ECCC, a CI score of -150 gCO2e/MJ would be expected. Validation of the environmental benefits enabled by LF diversion!
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While steps are being taken in the U.S. to mitigate the food waste crisis, the initiatives are fledgling despite the White House’s 2030 goals. However, certain states and localities have already stepped up, and more legislation is constantly being introduced. Learn more about what organic waste bans may be in place in your area: https://lnkd.in/eKVespyq
Sustainability in Legislation: The Rise of Organic Waste Bans
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Our Farm Powered process provides our host farms with a guaranteed lease payment that ensures a predictable and dependable revenue stream along with the nutrient rich biofertilizer and separated solids which can be used as bedding for their herds at no cost. 🌱 This unique partnership helps farmers focus on farming, and we can focus on providing a manure management program that is not just good for the farm and the croplands, but also for the community and our planet. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ehQztbY5
Sustainable Manure Management for Small Dairy Farms: The Challenges and a Farm Powered® Solution
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We're committed to reducing emissions from organic waste while helping small dairy farmers become more sustainable by providing them with a manure management solution, a diversified revenue stream, and beneficial agricultural byproducts. Each of our Farm Powered anaerobic digesters is custom-designed based on the host farm’s manure content and the region’s organic waste feedstock available, which means that capacities are limited as we continue to expand. 🍎 Get in touch with our team to reserve space in our digesters: https://lnkd.in/eHVNvpAp
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Join us next week for our first #continuingeducation course for #OperatorSchool! On July 23 & 25, attend "Substrates as Potential Energy" to earn 10 PDHs and dive into the physical and biological aspects of #substrates as potential energy for #biogas. ⭐ Highly reviewed at #BIOGASAMERICAS, this course is led by experts Bernie Sheff (US Renewable Energy Development Capital, Inc. Investors and Advisors), Andrew Wedel, P.E. (Settje Agri-Services and Engineering, Inc.), Craig Frear (Regenis), Ashwani Kumar, P.Eng (Vanguard Renewables), Patrick Hirl, PE, PhD (Benedictine College), and VP Tale, PhD, P.Eng., MBA (CRB Water). 📅 Register now: https://lnkd.in/eN_zn9xt #ProfessionalDevelopment
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Our Farm Powered anaerobic digesters provide our host farmers with a manure management solution, fertilizer, and livestock bedding, all while mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and creating renewable energy. 💡 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eHVGnFin
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