Greenlane Renewables
Greenlane Renewables (Greenlane) is a Canadian based global leader in biogas desulfurization and upgrading. Headquartered in Vancouver, they serve all key global markets.
The company started in 1986 in Auckland, New Zealand and expanded from there. The global headquarters were established in Vancouver in 2017. Brad Douville, CEO of Greenlane, joined the company at that time. He shares that “Greenlane is all about continuing to drive forward the industry. We consider ourselves pioneers and innovators and are unsatisfied with the status quo.” Greenlane is solely focused on upgrading and cleaning up biogas and actively works to address problems with biogas clean-up in the industry.
Greenlane provides desulfurization and upgrading solutions for landfill gas and biogas from anaerobic digesters. Their Cascade H2S regenerative system cost effectively removes corrosive hydrogen sulfide (H2S), and the system is currently the market share leader in Italy, the fastest growing biomethane market in Europe. Greenlane also provides upgrading solutions that include pressure swing adsorption, membrane separation, and water-wash technologies.
As landfill gas is the dominant source for RNG at the moment, their proprietary Cascade LF system that will be unveiled in Fall 2025 solves common issues with landfill gas upgrading such as achieving high methane recovery at lower cost. The system integrates proven core technologies in a novel way to provide an elegant solution.
Greenlane stands out as a leading biogas clean-up technology supplier because they have been around since the start of the industry and have established vast amounts of experience and credibility. With their deep knowledge of all the primary core technologies, they can provide the most attractively priced solutions with the best performance. The company provides full solutions to customers by delivering the systems as well as establishing maintenance contracts.
Over 35 years, Greenlane has deployed more than 355 upgrading and desulfurization systems in 28 countries. In 12 of these countries, they were the first company to provide an upgrader, including Canada 15 years ago in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia. They have also delivered products to Ontario and Quebec for a total of 19 systems, including a landfill in Montreal which is one of the world’s biggest RNG facilities.
On the outlook for the biogas & RNG sector, Brad noted that growth has been and continues to be strong with the International Energy Agency projecting a doubling of global biomethane production from 2018 to 2023, and another doubling from 2023 to 2027. “That corresponds to a 19% compound annual growth rate over 10 years, which far outpaces growth in energy from traditional sources, and from that perspective we’ve seen success. In the US RNG has bipartisan support. In Canada we have very good reasons to double down on renewables to make Canada a clean energy superpower.”
Greenlane has been a member of the CBA for many years. They remain members because they feel the CBA does important work and that the industry needs to come together and advocate as a group to ensure the industry evolves in a healthy and strong way.
