QUADROGEN POWER SYSTEMS INC.
Project Details
Total Cost
$7.9 Million
BCBN Investment
$1.5 Million Loan
Status
Completed
Location
Delta, British Columbia
Sustainable energy from landfill waste
Quadrogen Power Systems, Inc. (“Quadrogen”) completed the installation, commissioning, and operation of its innovative renewable natural gas (RNG) generation project utilizing landfill gas from the Vancouver landfill in Delta, British Columbia. The innovative step in this project is that this is the first time FortisBC will transport RNG by tanker truck from the landfill to a site for injection into the natural gas infrastructure. This project created a “virtual pipeline” to test the logistics of moving RNG by truck. This project paves the way to deliver low carbon energy to or from any area of the province that is not currently accessible through existing natural gas infrastructure.
FortisBC received approval from the British Columbia Utilities Commission to purchase up to 60,000 gigajoules annually of the produced RNG for injection into its natural gas infrastructure, enough energy to meet the needs of approximately 700 residential homes in the province.
FortisBC partnered with an independent transport company, Certaurus, who transported the RNG around 17 kilometres from the Delta project site to an existing FortisBC natural gas pressure regulation station in Richmond. Injecting RNG at the pressure regulation station eliminates the need to install any new permanent infrastructure.