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Will County hears update on RNG plant production, outages and long-term costs
Summary
County staff reported the RNG (renewable natural gas) plant exceeded minimum contractual volumes in June but variable monthly output, equipment failures, well-field maintenance and storm-related power outages caused downtime and a projected net loss through August; staff said September production improved and debt service will continue for nine of
Greg Comperta, project manager for the county’s resource-recovery facility, and Dave Harpke, director of the county land-use division, briefed the Will County Finance Committee on operations at the county’s renewable natural gas (RNG) plant and answered members’ questions about downtime, maintenance and costs.
Comperta said production has been uneven but met or exceeded contractual minimums in summer months. “Going back to June, we produced 73,369 MMBTUs… We exceed both of those in June, which is a good month,” he said, and later reported that September production had rebounded to 69,267 MMBTU. Comperta also described several operational disruptions that reduced output in July and August, including a failed feed-compressor motor, valve failures in the nitrogen-removal system, a delivery-point sensor issue with the pipeline operator, ongoing landfill well-field maintenance and storm-related power outages.
The update matters because the plant carries multi-million-dollar debt service and has run a…
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