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Napa advances $10M CalRecycle‑funded anaerobic digester MOU to produce renewable natural gas
Summary
City staff presented a memorandum of understanding with Napa Recycling to host an anaerobic digester at the city recycling facility, backed by a $10 million CalRecycle grant; council heard technical details, asked about timing and emissions limits, and voted to advance the MOU and related CEQA findings.
Kevin Miller, material diversion administrator for the City of Napa, told the council the city was awarded a $10,000,000 competitive CalRecycle grant in December 2023 and had amended the agreement through April 2028 to move forward with an anaerobic digestion system at the municipal recycling facility.
Miller said the grant will pay primarily for organics pre‑processing equipment — a state‑of‑the‑art depackager (about $1,100,000), trommel screen, glass crushers and storage — and that the city must own the grant‑funded equipment per the grant terms. He described the digester process as a roughly 21‑day, high‑solids anaerobic digestion system that produces biomethane to fuel trucks and a solid digestate destined for the…
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