Ameresco's Landfill RNG Projects Are Now Available for Forward Purchase on Greentruth

Renewable natural gas (RNG), also called biomethane, is pipeline-quality methane captured from organic waste decomposition and upgraded for injection into natural gas infrastructure or use as a verified low-carbon fuel. Landfill RNG specifically captures methane generated by decomposing municipal solid waste (MSW) — a potent greenhouse gas that would otherwise be vented or flared — and converts it into a commercially valuable, compliance-grade energy product.

The production process involves collecting raw landfill gas through a network of extraction wells, removing impurities including hydrogen sulfide, siloxanes, and moisture, then upgrading the gas to pipeline specifications. Medium BTU landfill RNG — such as the output from the Palmetto Landfill — delivers a carbon intensity (CI) profile that supports deeply negative lifecycle emissions accounting when properly verified. For buyers, this translates to Scope 1 emissions reductions that are measurable, auditable, and reportable under leading GHG disclosure frameworks.

A Forward Quantified Emissions Token (fQET) is a serialized forward contract certificate issued on the Greentruth registry prior to physical RNG production. It represents a committed, reserved volume of future RNG output — in this case, monthly tranches of Ameresco's Palmetto and Laubscher Meadows landfill production across 2026 and 2027. Upon physical delivery of the RNG, each fQET automatically converts into a standard QET, representing one MMBtu of verified RNG with full chain-of-custody documentation encoded on-chain.

fQETs carry no additional cost relative to spot QETs. The forward structure delivers two advantages that spot purchasing cannot: buyers lock in today's price against 2026 and 2027 supply, and they secure traceable, serialized certificates for forward-looking Scope 1 emissions planning before production begins. For procurement teams managing annual GHG disclosure cycles, the ability to document committed RNG supply for a future reporting year — with blockchain-verified provenance — eliminates a category of compliance risk that paper-based forward agreements cannot address.

Lock in Ameresco's 2026 and 2027 forward volumes today. Create a free Greentruth account and browse available monthly vintages across both projects.

Fuel Attribute Documentation Certificate (FADC) status is the designation Greentruth assigns to RNG certificates that satisfy the complete evidentiary chain required for delivered fuel use claims under leading GHG accounting and regulatory frameworks. FADC status is not automatic — it is earned only when a QET-RNG certificate clears Greentruth's five-point verification gateway, the set of mandatory criteria that prove the contracted RNG physically entered the buyer's gas supply system via common carrier pipelines.

For both Ameresco landfill fQET listings, FADC status is confirmed on conversion to standard QETs at delivery, once all five criteria are verified:

• Injection point identified — Producer GPS coordinates, pipeline operator, and meter volumes are verified at the point the RNG enters the grid.
• Delivery point identified — The buyer's facility address and utility account are confirmed as the point of consumption.
• Pipeline connectivity confirmed — A GIS database verifies that the injection and delivery points exist on the same interconnected pipeline system.
• Volumetric equivalence — Total certificates issued never exceed the total physical RNG injected, enforced through mass balance.
• Temporal matching — Injection and consumption occur within matching accounting periods.

Meeting all five criteria is what makes a certificate fully valid for Scope 1 fossil CO₂ reduction claims, rather than voluntary support only. For GHG Protocol Scope 1 and Scope 3 reporting teams, this means these Ameresco RNG certificates are audit-ready instruments — not attestations — that reduce the documentation burden at the point of GHG disclosure.

Scope 1 and Scope 3 accounting with verified RNG under the GHG Protocol

A Quantified Emissions Token® (QET) is EarnDLT's proprietary on-chain environmental attribute instrument. Each QET encodes verified lifecycle carbon-intensity data and chain-of-custody documentation directly into a blockchain record on Hedera Hashgraph — making it machine-readable, immutable, and interoperable with enterprise sustainability reporting systems.

Legacy RNG instruments — traditional Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) or paper-based guarantees of origin — were designed for a regulatory environment that predates the real-time data demands of modern GHG disclosure. QET-RNG certificates are built for the current compliance environment:

Learn about QET technology and the QET-RNG standard

The Ameresco landfill RNG certificates on Greentruth — from both the Palmetto and Laubscher Meadows projects — are aligned across every major GHG accounting framework relevant to corporate buyers today. This multi-framework coverage is a structural feature of EarnDLT's QET technology and the Greentruth registry's verification methodology — not a post-hoc standards mapping.

• GHG Protocol Corporate Standard — Certificates support Scope 1 and Scope 3 fuel-use accounting following the GHG Protocol's delivered-fuel methodology. CA GREET 3.0 quantification provides the carbon intensity basis for reporting.
• SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard — FADC-status RNG certificates support Science Based Targets initiative near-term abatement commitments by enabling credible operational emissions reduction claims.
• CDP — Greentruth's machine-readable certificate data streamlines annual CDP disclosure, reducing manual data aggregation at reporting time.
• TCR (The Climate Registry) — All 7 TCR eligibility criteria for delivered fuel usage are satisfied, as documented in EarnDLT's QET-RNG Compliance Passport.
• ISO 14064-3 — EarnDLT's verification methodology is aligned to the international standard for third-party GHG assertion verification.

GHG Protocol Corporate Standard

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For the QET-RNG product

All 38 monthly vintages across Ameresco's two landfill RNG projects are available now — but 713,400 MMBtu total is a finite supply. Once monthly vintages are reserved and delivered, they are retired and cannot be reissued.

To acquire Ameresco fQET certificates:

1. Visit Greentruth.com and log in to your existing account, or create a free account in minutes.
2. Navigate to the Palmetto Landfill forward listing (600,000 MMBtu — Wellford, SC) or the Laubscher Meadows Landfill forward listing (113,400 MMBtu — Evansville, IN) and review available monthly vintages, volumes, and certificate documentation.
3. Select your volume — individual monthly vintages, several months, or a project's full output are available. There is no minimum order.
4. Complete your purchase and receive blockchain-secured fQET certificates directly to your account. Upon delivery, each fQET converts to a standard QET with full FADC status for immediate use in GHG reporting.

Procurement teams with 2026 and 2027 Scope 1 planning obligations, active CDP reporting cycles, or SBTi commitments requiring near-term abatement documentation should act now. These are verified US landfill RNG volumes with GHGP certification and CA GREET 3.0 quantification in place — available for forward purchase today.

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