From the team in Madera
What we're learning on real dairies, in plain words — digesters, gas, trucks, and the rules that shape all of it.
A manure lagoon in Madera ends up fueling compute. Here's the whole physical chain: the cover, the gas cleanup, the tankers, and the accounting that makes it worth buying.
Read the note →Carbon-negative is an accounting result, not a slogan. Here's how dairy RNG earns a below-zero score on CARB's public registry, and what a data center can actually do with the fuel and its attributes.
RNG sells at a premium because a stack of incentives sits underneath it. Here's how LCFS credits and voluntary-market attributes work, seen from the buyer's side of the table.
Backup generator fleets burn diesel even in years with zero outages. Here's where the hours come from, and how RNG gives the same machines a very different footprint.
Book-and-claim splits RNG's molecule from its environmental attribute so buyers the pipeline can't reach can still make a verified claim. Here's how it works, and what it can't do.
Carbon neutral is a ledger result. Carbon negative is a measured property of the fuel itself. Here's the accounting behind both claims, and what to check before you believe either one.
Captured dairy methane makes a fuel that scores lower on lifecycle carbon than anything else fleets can buy today. The same molecule serves data centers as power, heat, or verified environmental attributes.
California's SB 1383 requires dairy and livestock methane to drop 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030. Here is what the law says, where enforcement stands today, and the realistic paths a dairy can take.
Manure breaks down and releases methane whether or not anyone captures it. A dairy digester captures it, turns it into pipeline-quality fuel, and sends the leftovers back to work on the farm.