April 17, 2022. True North Renewable Energy, LLC (TNRE) announced a partnership with The Weitz Company (Weitz) and DRANCO, Inc. (DRANCO) as the Engineering-Procurement-Construction (EPC) Technology supplier for their organic waste to renewable energy development projects in the Western United States. Weitz-DRANCO has agreed to assist TNRE on an established basis to provide the necessary technology expertise required for TNRE’s state-of-the-art anaerobic digestion/advanced composting facilities.
TNRE develops, owns, and operates state-of-the-art organics-to-renewable energy facilities, including large scale, regional high-solids anaerobic digestion (AD) infrastructure. These facilities reuse and repurpose organic resources diverted from landfills to create beneficial, sustainable products, including biomethane and soil-amending compost.
Weitz is a full-service construction company, general contractor, design-builder and construction manager with office locations throughout the United States. Weitz is known for managing Industrial projects on time and within budget. DRANCO (formerly OWS) is a world leading company in the construction and operation of anaerobic digestion plants for solid waste organics and in organic waste management consultancy.
TNRE is currently developing three facilities in Imperial County and Kern County, CA and Yuma County, AZ. Each facility will be capable of processing up to 600,000 tons per year of organic material, producing up to 1,000,000 MMBtu/y (8MM DGE/y) of renewable natural gas (RNG) and reducing pollutants by 160,000 MT of CO2e/y (35,000 passenger vehicles per year equivalent). Each of these facilities requires an investment of over $250MM and will make a significant contribution toward providing the infrastructure needed for California to meet its climate goals. TNRE is already well advanced in the permitting process of these sites and expects the first plant to be under construction by the end of this year and fully operational by the beginning of 2025.