What We Do

What We Do

Our holistic approach

3 Rivers Energy Partners develops, builds, owns, and operates large-scale anaerobic digestion and renewable natural gas processing facilities. We help distilleries, breweries, sugar mills, ethanol producers, food and beverage processors, and other industrial companies transform organic waste and underperforming byproduct streams into pipeline-quality renewable natural gas and valuable soil nutrients.
 
Our approach gives industrial partners a reliable, long-term solution for managing organic material without requiring them to finance, staff, or operate a new business outside their core expertise. We manage the entire project lifecycle—from feedstock evaluation and project financing through engineering, construction, commissioning, renewable natural gas processing, facility operations, and nutrient management.

Solving the Business Problem First

Producing renewable natural gas is only part of the value we create. Every successful project begins by identifying and solving an existing operational challenge.

High-volume organic byproducts can create significant costs, logistical demands, wastewater-loading concerns, production constraints, and exposure to unreliable offtake markets. Traditional management methods may require extensive transportation, energy-intensive drying, land application, wastewater treatment, or dependence on third parties whose capacity and pricing can change over time.

We develop each facility around the specific needs of the industrial partner and the characteristics of its organic byproduct stream. The result is a practical waste-to-energy solution designed to improve operational reliability, reduce long-term risk, and create value from material that might otherwise remain an ongoing expense or constraint.

We Build, Own, and Operate Every Facility

3 Rivers Energy Partners is not simply an equipment provider or engineering consultant. We use a build-own-operate model that gives us responsibility for the long-term performance of each facility.

Our team coordinates:

  • Feedstock sampling, testing, and project feasibility

  • Site evaluation and utility planning

  • Project development and financing

  • Engineering and technology integration

  • Permitting and regulatory coordination

  • Construction and commissioning

  • Anaerobic digester operations

  • Biogas conditioning and renewable natural gas processing

  • Pipeline interconnection or on-site energy delivery

  • Digestate management and agricultural distribution

  • Long-term maintenance, monitoring, and optimization

Because we remain involved after construction, our interests stay aligned with those of our industrial partners. We are responsible for developing a project that can operate safely, reliably, and financially over the long term, not simply one that can be built.

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3 Rivers Energy Partners Lynchburg Facility Aerial Photo

Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Facilities

Anaerobic Digester Process
Anaerobic Digester Process

Our RNG facilities consist of anaerobic digesters and a gas upgrading plant. The digesters intake waste (stillage) to utilize as a feedstock for the anaerobic digestion process. The digesters use a natural process in which microorganisms breakdown the feedstock and produce bio-gas and natural fertilizer. The bio-gas then goes through the gas upgrading plant to be refined into usable renewable natural gas (RNG).

Our goal with this process is to allow our feedstock partners to completing the nutrient life cycle of the crops used to make their products by taking their waste and using it to produce a renewable fuel and soil nutrients that can be used to replenish the surrounding farmland.