Viridi Energy (“Viridi” or “the firm”), a leading renewable natural gas (RNG) platform, announced today that it has signed a 20-year offtake agreement with Énergir, L.P. (“Énergir”). Énergir, a diversified energy company based in Quebec, is the largest natural gas distributor in the province and, through its subsidiaries, the largest electricity distributor and the sole pipeline natural gas distributor in Vermont.
Beginning next year, Viridi will deliver 650,000 gigajoules of pipeline-quality RNG annually to Énergir from its waste-to-energy facilities in Brunswick, Maine; Marathon County, Wisconsin; and Bethlehem, New Hampshire. This RNG will account for approximately 50% of the total volume produced at these sites and will provide enough energy to heat over 10,000 homes for a year.
“Viridi Energy is proud to announce our new 20-year agreement with Énergir,” said Dan Crouse, CEO of Viridi. “Énergir has a proven reputation as a leader in decarbonizing North American energy. Combined with Viridi’s flexibility in sourcing utility-quality RNG across our growing portfolio of assets, this partnership will help Énergir achieve its sustainability goal of carbon neutrality in the energy it distributes by 2050.”
“Thanks to Viridi’s well-established team and expertise, we will be able to increase RNG volumes within our grid and expand our solutions designed for all our customers looking to shrink their carbon footprint. We are looking forward to working together during this long-term agreement that will help us gradually achieve our target to inject a minimum of 10% RNG by 2030,” said Vincent Regnault, Executive Director, Gas Supply and Renewable Gas Development, Énergir.
This agreement marks the first major deal completed through Viridi Energy Marketing and Trading LLC, Viridi’s newly established commercial arm that simplifies the process for buyers to source RNG from any of Viridi’s waste-to-energy facilities.
The three sites from which Viridi will supply Énergir are part of its rapidly growing pool of RNG assets. In March 2024, Viridi announced its acquisition of a legacy biosolids digester plant in Brunswick, which will process an estimated 85,000 tons of biosolids from local wastewater treatment plants per year into sustainable RNG. In December 2023, it acquired an in-progress landfill gas-to-RNG project in Bethlehem expected to produce up to 600,000 MMBtu per year of RNG. In March 2023, Viridi announced its partnership with Marathon County to convert the county’s landfill emissions into clean RNG equivalent to more than three million gallons of gasoline annually.
