Yosemite Clean Energy secures the site for its first renewable hydrogen and natural gas production plant
Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.
Yosemite Clean Energy (Yosemite) has announced that it has secured the site for developing its first renewable hydrogen and renewable natural gas (RNG) production plant in Oroville (California, USA) with groundbreaking scheduled for Q2 of 2022.
Press release: “Yosemite Clean Energy Has Secured Their First Plant Site Commercial Scale Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Waste Wood, Stewarding California Forests and Farmland”, 28/10/2021.
Figure 1. Yosemite Clean Energy logo
Yosemite will sustainably convert waste woody biomass into syngas, from which carbon negative renewable hydrogen and RNG is produced using downstream technology already widely commercialized in the US. Yosemite's biofuels production facilities will utilize the gasification technology of Repotec. The Oroville plant will be the flagship dual-bed gasification facility in the Americas, following over 100,000 hours of commercial run-time across developed plants in Europe, Japan and South Korea.
Each plant will produce an estimated 31,000 kg per day of RNG and 12,200 kg per day of renewable hydrogen. Over the next 10 years, Yosemite plans to have biomass energy plants across California and North America. They will be locally owned by farmers and forest landowners, who in return will provide wood waste, gathered at the end of the orchard's lifecycle or through sustainable forest management.
