BioGas Corp (BGC) is a leading developer of anaerobic digester/biogas projects in the United States
The BGC team has been developing large scale biogas projects since 2011. These include food waste to electricity projects in North Carolina, Rhode Island, California, and New York as well as animal waste to electricity/renewable natural gas in North Carolina, Oregon and Colorado. These projects operate under long-term (15 to 10 year) off-take agreements with investment grade utilities and petroleum refiners.
While BGC has exited out of several of its projects over the years, it is continuing to develop multiple projects with a develop, own, and operate business model. Each project deploys a best-in-class anaerobic digestion technology with a bankable performance guarantee.
The BGC team developed 5 biogas projects at Orbit Energy prior to launching BioGas Corp as a spin-off in 2016. All 5 prior projects involved sale of electricity under long-term power purchase agreements (PPA) and/or renewable energy certificates (RECs) producing power from food scraps generated by commercial, institutional, and industrial facilities. These projects include:
- a 5.2 MW project in Charlotte, NC (PPA with Duke Energy)
- a 3.2 MW project in Johnston, RI (PPA with National Grid
- a 4.5 MW project in Des Moines, WA (PPA with Puget Sound Energy)
- a 6 MW project in Calverton, NY (PPA from Long Island Power Authority)
- a 9.6 MW project in Staten Island, NY (RECs contract with the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority)
The Charlotte, NC and Johnston, RI projects were sold to a major hedge fund in 2015. The Des Moines, WA and Calverton, NY projects were turned over to Orbit Energy for completion of development and construction in 2016. BGC kept the rights to the Staten Island, NY project and is currently moving forward on development of this project as a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility instead of a power generation project.
Several additional projects have been added to BGC’s portfolio since 2016 including in California, North Carolina, Oregon, and Colorado.