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Flint Hills Resources, a Koch Industries subsidiary that owns the sprawling Pine Bend Refinery south of St. Paul, was unanimously accepted into the Minnesota Solar Energy Industries Association last month by the group’s board.
(OPAL Fuels) OPAL Fuels LLC, previously known as Fortistar RNG and TruStar Energy, and NextEra Energy Marketing, LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC will build the first renewable natural gas production facility in Minnesota. The project will be located at a landfill owned by Republic Services, Inc. and interconnect with a pipeline owned by Xcel Energy, Inc. For many years, OPAL has collected and processed gas to generate electricity at the 255-acre Pine Bend Landfill in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. NextEra Energy Marketing will now work with OPAL to replace the existing pow...
April 28, 2021News Two companies are partnering to build a facility to produce natural gas from a landfill and supply a pipeline in Minnesota. OPAL Fuels LLC, a Fortistar portfolio company, and NextEra Energy Marketing LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, announced April 28 plans to build the first landfill renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility in Minnesota. The project will be located at a landfill owned by Republic Services Inc., a leader in the U.S. environmental services industry, and interconnect with a pipeline owned by Xcel Energy Inc., the leading electric and ...
NextEra Teams Up with Opal Fuels for Minnesota RNG Project NextEra Energy Inc. is diving into the renewable natural gas (RNG) game with plans to develop a landfill gas capture facility with fuels distributor Opal Fuels LLC. The utility, the self-described world’s largest producer of wind and solar energy, plans to work with Opal to replace an existing power generation facility with a new RNG production development. The project would be located at Republic Services Inc.’s Pine Bend landfill in Inver Grove Heights, MN, and would be operated and managed by Opal. The company plans to distri...
Get our free mobile app It's a place you've probably driven by many times when on Highway-52 but did you know it's also a place 40 percent of all waterfowl and shorebirds in the US visit each year? I admit that ever since we put up a bird feeder in our yard, I've become more interested in the many species of fine feathered friends that call Minnesota home. So when I read the statistic that nearly half of all shorebirds (and waterfowl) visit this spot in Minnesota, I was intrigued. It's the Pine Bend Bluffs Scientific Natural Area It's a place birds visit every year. A LOT of birds!