Future of RNG North America 2027

• Positioning for the Next RNG Growth Cycle: Consolidation, Capital and Competitive Advantage: Examine how consolidation, changing investment conditions and differences between US and Canadian markets will shape growth, asset ownership and competitive positioning.

• Proving the Next RNG Demand Frontiers: Separate credible opportunities from untested narratives in maritime fuels, data centres and international markets, including the buyers, contracts and transactions needed to turn potential demand into commercial offtake.

• Securing Bankable Municipal, Utility and Cross-Border Offtake: Explore how producers can build long-term buyer partnerships, compare procurement priorities and contract structures, and balance revenue certainty with access to higher-value credit markets.

• Unlocking Industrial and Commercial RNG Demand: Examine how industrial heat, corporate decarbonisation and supply-chain transport can create new markets, and what buyers require to translate emissions-reduction ambitions into long-term procurement commitments.

• Converting Heavy-Duty Fleet Potential into Fleet-Wide Adoption: Assess how engine capability, verified operating experience, duty-cycle suitability and driver expectations influence procurement, and what is needed to move from successful pilots to wider deployment.

• Rebuilding RNG Economics Through Biorefinery Value and Cost Reduction: Explore how digestate, fertiliser products and biogenic CO₂ can strengthen revenues, alongside modular manufacturing, operational improvements and systematic reductions in project and equipment costs.

• Making the Fleet Business Case Bankable: Examine how vehicle premiums, utilisation, maintenance, resale value, fuel savings and environmental-credit sharing determine total cost of ownership and the commercial case for fleet conversion.

• Building Fleet-Ready Fuelling Corridors Around Committed Demand: Explore how anchor fleets, truck-stop partnerships and coordinated infrastructure investment can deliver the coverage, capacity, redundancy and reliability required for heavy-duty operations.

• Bridging the Funding Gap Before FID: Assess how grants, development capital, equity and debt can support different stages of project risk, including the early funding gaps that prevent credible projects from reaching construction.

• Unlocking Feedstock Portfolios Through Stronger Waste Partnerships: Examine how feedstock owners and developers can align contract terms, allocate value and build development pipelines, while managing contamination, PFAS exposure and long-term supply risks.

• Making Distributed Digestion Commercially Viable: Compare centralised aggregation, customer-sited systems and hub-and-spoke models, including how modular approaches can unlock mid-sized farms and dispersed organic waste streams.

• Turning Policy and Carbon Accounting into Practical Market Access: Explore how GHG Protocol and SBTi treatment, book-and-claim, certification and attribute tracking affect corporate procurement, international transactions and the credibility of RNG environmental claims.

• Chris Tynan, Founder & CEO, Burnham RNG
• David Canales, Director of RNG Development, Maas Energy Works
• Brent Lilienthal, COO, VP & Board Member, South Jersey Industries
• Doug Dagan, Senior Vice President – Renewable Energy, Suburban Renewable Energy
• Anita Doyle, Business Development Manager – Renewable Natural Gas, Kinder Morgan
• Charles Love, GM, Technical Sales (RNG/H2/CNG), Love’s Alternative Energy
• Michael Openlander, Managing Director, Investment Banking, Moelis & Company
• Philip Viggiani, CEO, REN Energy International
• Alex Barrow, Vice President, Projects & Operations, Redtail Renewables
• Matt Holub, Vice President – Origination, Terreva Renewables
• Ryan Oatman, President, Westward Nexus
• Connor Hays, Energy Corporate Strategy & Development, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas
• Gina Cavalier, VP, Fuel & Energy Solutions, Secure Supplies USA
• Jennifer Wheeler, Senior Consultant – Zero Emissions Transportation, 1898 & Co.
• Kevin Gross, Senior Project Manager | Renewable Energy Expert, Gross & Co
• Alan Johnson, Regional Sales Director, Sysadvance
• Andreas Kammel, VP Alternative Drivetrains, TRATON GROUP (subject to final confirmation)

Future of RNG North America 2027 brings together senior professionals involved in the development, financing, supply, production and use of renewable natural gas across North America, including:

• RNG Producers, Project Developers and Asset Owners: Companies developing, owning and operating landfill-gas, agricultural, food-waste and wastewater RNG projects, alongside businesses building and managing multi-asset production portfolios.

• Waste Companies, Municipalities and Feedstock Owners: Landfill owners, waste-management companies, wastewater utilities, agricultural businesses and organic-waste generators developing RNG opportunities, selecting project partners and securing long-term feedstock arrangements.

• Gas Utilities, Pipeline Operators and Energy Suppliers: Organisations procuring RNG, integrating renewable gas into distribution networks and developing utility, industrial and cross-border supply partnerships.

• Heavy-Duty Fleet Operators and Transport Fuel Buyers: Trucking, logistics, distribution, parcel-delivery, refuse and municipal fleet operators evaluating natural-gas vehicles, fuel procurement, operating performance and the economics of wider deployment.

• Industrial, Commercial and Emerging Energy Buyers: Energy-procurement and sustainability teams assessing RNG for industrial heat, power generation and corporate decarbonisation, alongside prospective buyers in maritime fuels, data centres and fuel-conversion markets.

• RNG Traders, Marketers and Environmental-Credit Specialists: Companies originating supply, structuring offtake agreements, managing environmental attributes and connecting producers with compliance, utility, voluntary and international markets.

• Vehicle Manufacturers and Fuelling-Infrastructure Providers: Truck and engine manufacturers, truck-stop operators, station developers and fuel-service companies aligning vehicle capability, corridor coverage and infrastructure investment with fleet demand.

• Technology, Engineering and Equipment Companies: Digestion, biogas-upgrading, gas-treatment, compression and monitoring specialists, alongside EPC firms and equipment suppliers supporting project delivery, operational performance and cost reduction.

• Biorefinery and Resource-Recovery Partners: Companies developing commercial outlets for digestate, fertiliser, soil products and biogenic CO₂, helping RNG producers strengthen project revenues and make fuller use of plant outputs.

• Banks, Investors and Project-Finance Specialists: Commercial lenders, infrastructure funds, strategic investors, development-capital providers and financial advisers assessing project bankability, early-stage funding, acquisitions and portfolio growth.

• Policy, Legal, Carbon-Accounting and Certification Specialists: Policymakers, regulators, industry associations, lawyers, certification bodies and sustainability experts addressing incentives, contracting, emissions claims, attribute tracking and market-access requirements.

• Senior Decision-Makers Across the Value Chain: Attendees include Chief Executives, Presidents, Managing Directors, Vice Presidents, Project Directors, Commercial Directors and leaders in RNG Development, Origination, Gas Supply, Fleet Operations, Fuel Procurement, Investment, Engineering, Sustainability and Business Development.

Future of RNG North America 2026 brought together 64 registered attendees representing 50 organisations. Over two days in Houston, producers, developers, utilities, investors and industry specialists examined how demand, environmental-credit markets, policy, operating performance and finance are shaping the next phase of North American renewable natural gas development.

A Forum Across the RNG Value Chain

The event welcomed RNG producers, project developers, waste companies, technology suppliers, engineering firms, fuel suppliers, traders, financial advisers and sustainability specialists. Participating organisations included Republic Services, Kinder Morgan, LF Bioenergy, Terreva Renewables, BP, Clean Energy Fuels, Anew Climate, STX Group, Love’s Alternative Energy and Redtail Renewables, reflecting the range of businesses involved in producing, supplying and commercialising RNG.

Market Outlook and the Next Growth Cycle

The conference examined an industry moving from rapid expansion towards consolidation, operational improvement and more selective development. Discussions explored how aggregation, acquisitions and stronger asset management could create value as developers face more complex sites, higher capital requirements and closer investor scrutiny. Speakers highlighted the importance of experienced teams and realistic commercial assumptions in building resilient production portfolios.

Demand Diversification and New Offtake Opportunities

Demand was a defining theme throughout the programme. Discussions examined pressure on established transportation markets and opportunities to broaden RNG use across utilities, industrial heat, power generation, remote operations and other commercial applications. Heavy-duty fleets remained an important market where predictable routes and fuel requirements support deployment. Virtual pipelines and hub-and-spoke logistics were also explored as ways to connect production with customers and monetise gas where conventional pipeline access is constrained.

Policy, Incentives and Environmental-Credit Markets

Speakers examined how the Renewable Fuel Standard, California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard and federal tax incentives influence project revenues and investment decisions. Discussions highlighted the risks of relying on exceptionally high credit values or a single policy-supported market. Across the programme, incentives were considered alongside the underlying requirements for durable demand, reliable operations and project economics capable of withstanding changing market conditions.

Contracting, Interconnection and Bankable Revenue

The conference explored what makes an offtake agreement financeable, including contract duration, counterparty strength, pricing, delivery obligations, environmental-attribute ownership and the allocation of regulatory risk. Pipeline interconnection emerged as a critical development issue, with gas-quality requirements, permitting and construction schedules affecting both revenue timing and contractual commitments. Speakers emphasised the need to align market access, financing, construction and offtake from the outset.

Feedstock, Technology and Operational Performance

Technical and operational discussions examined how feedstock variability, contamination, equipment selection and commissioning affect reliable production. Sessions explored landfill-gas upgrading, anaerobic digestion, food-waste preprocessing and the importance of incorporating operating experience into plant design. Feedstock supply was considered as both a commercial relationship and a measurable performance risk, requiring realistic contracts, representative testing, quality controls and dependable logistics.

Financing, Data and Credible Environmental Value

Investors and advisers discussed the importance of secure feedstock, conservative revenue assumptions, experienced project teams and effective risk allocation. The programme also examined how operational data, carbon-intensity calculations, certification and chain-of-custody systems support investor confidence and buyer acceptance. Clear ownership and tracking of environmental attributes were identified as essential to credible emissions claims and the development of voluntary RNG markets.

Building Long-Term Value Through Integration

A consistent message emerged across the conference: the next phase of RNG growth will depend on bringing supply, operations, infrastructure, contracts, finance and environmental credibility together. Adding production capacity must be matched by reliable performance and access to customers willing to support durable commercial relationships. Future of RNG North America 2026 provided a forum to assess these interconnected challenges and explore how the industry can turn its expanding resource base into resilient projects and long-term value.

At the event we strive not only to bring you to the same location at the same time as your customers/suppliers/peers, we strive to ensure you meet face-to-face with each and every one of your target contacts and to provide you with the time you need to have multiple unhurried conversations with them and build a lasting business relationship:

• A pre-event informal introduction the evening before the conference
• A minimum of five hours’ networking built into the two day conference agenda
• A networking grid which enables you to make your target contacts aware you are looking for them
• The option to join either social drinks or dinner during the evening of Day One
• ACI’s on-site team will assist you in locating your hard-to-find target contacts & make face-to-face introductions

Of course, if there is anyone you are unable to meet over the two days, ACI’s event team will do their best to initiate contact after the event.