Dairy Waste-to-Energy Specialist Amp Americas Makes Two Acquisitions.

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US-based Amp Americas II, LLC, a specialist in converting dairy waste into carbon-negative renewable transportation fuel and power, has expanded its dairy renewable natural gas and electricity assets portfolio with two acquisitions that tripled the size of its carbon-negative fuels portfolio, the company said.

Amp Americas has expanded its partnership with Generate Capital, consolidating Generate Capital's flagship Indiana dairy RNG project assets into Amp Americas' expanding dairy RNG portfolio, with Generate investing in the corporate equity of Amp Americas.

Amp Americas' management team commenced development of the Indiana projects in 2012, and Amp Americas has operated and managed them on behalf of Generate Capital since June 2019.

These Indiana projects consist of five digesters and two gas processing plants that capture methane from approximately 1.5m gallons per day of dairy waste generated by 36,000 cows across nine dairies.

The projects then purify and compress the methane, which otherwise would enter the atmosphere, into carbon-negative renewable transportation fuel.

Amp Americas also acquired a group of RNG project assets in Idaho from Vitol Green Holdings LLC, an affiliate of Vitol.

The Idaho projects consist of three digesters at two gas processing plants and one electric power generation plant that capture methane from over 940,000 gallons of dairy waste per day generated by 36,000 cows across three dairies.

The projects then purify and process this methane into carbon-negative renewable transportation fuel and power.

With these additions to Amp Americas' portfolio, the company now operates seven of the largest dairy biogas-to-transportation fuel projects in the United States and is currently producing fuel from dairy waste generated by over 100,000 cows across 20 dairies, producing...

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