Press Releases


Amp Americas Dairy RNG Projects Have Reduced More Than 2 Million MT of CO2e

September 2024 Read Here

Amp Americas Completes RNG Facility, Partners with Wisconsin Dairy to Deliver Methane Solution to Community 

July 2024 Read Here

Construction Underway on New Amp Americas Dairy RNG Facility in Wisconsin

February 2023 Read Here


Amp Americas Names Antoine Lafargue Chief Financial Officer

April 2022 Read Here


Amp Americas Triples Carbon-Negative Fuels Portfolio With Two Key Acquisitions

December 2021 Read Here


As Growth Accelerates, Amp Americas Expands Senior Leadership Team, Moves Corporate Headquarters To New Chicago Office

April 2021 Read Here


Amp Americas Expands National Footprint, Brings Its Largest Dairy RNG Project Online

March 2021 Read Here


Amp Americas Trades First-Ever Physically Delivered RIN Futures on Nodal Exchange

November 2020 Read Here


Amp Americas Names Clay Walton VP of RNG Services

July 2020 Read Here


Amp Americas Announces $75 Million Investment For New Dairy RNG Developments, Plus New Investment In Its Flagship Indiana Projects

July 2019 Read Here


Amp Americas Expands Landmark Fair Oaks Farm Dairy RNG Project To Increase Biogas Production

February 2019 Read Here


Amp Americas Opens Country’s Largest Dairy Renewable Natural Gas Project

October 2018 Read Here


Amp Americas Opens 20th Amp Fueling Station

February 2018 Read Here


Construction Underway for the Largest On-Farm Dairy Project in the Country

February 2018 Read Here


RNG Producer & CNG Fuel Provider Amp Americas Breaks Ground On Its 20th ampCNG Fueling Station

December 2017 Read Here


Amp Americas Registers Lowest Carbon Intensity Score on Record

September 2017 Read Here


Amp Americas Secures $47 Million Equity Commitment to Scale Network of ampCNG Fueling Stations and Build Renewable Natural Gas Operations

August 2017 Read More


ampCNG and Greater Indiana Clean Cities to Host NGV Road Rally Step at Fair Oaks Farms

June 2017 Read More


ampCNG Signs Fueling Agreement with US Foods, Set to Build 20th Fueling Station

November 2016 Read More


Amp Americas Launches ampRENEW; Signs Renewable Fuel Agreements with Ruan & Dillon Transport

May 2016 Read More


ampCNG Acquires Trillium CNG’s Minority Interest in 17 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Fueling Stations; Grant Zimmerman Named CEO

March 2016 Read More

 

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GREEN FLEET: Amp Americas Hits Clean Energy Milestone, Updates Leadership

July 20, 2020 - Amp Americas, part of the renewable transportation fuel industry, announced a milestone of 500,000 tons of CO2 greenhouse gas emissions eliminated, which is the equivalent of taking 100,000 cars off the road for one year.


WASHINGTON STREET JOURNAL: GENERATE CAPITAL TAKES ROAD LESS TRAVELED IN SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE

December 16, 2020 - Generate Capital looks beyond the traditional private-equity fund model in its quest to solve what it sees as the biggest challenge of sustainable-infrastructure investing: aligning the interests of infrastructure project stakeholders.


RNG COALITION: WALTON SIGNS ON AS VICE PRESIDENT OF AMP AMERICAS’ RNG SERVICES

July 23, 2020 - Amp Americas, a company that specializes in renewable transportation fuel, says Clay Walton has joined the company as vice president of RNG Services. Walton will be responsible for leading and managing the company’s operations and maintenance capabilities and asset management services both internally and externally.


CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS: CLEAN TECH STARTUP GETS $75 MILLION FOR NEW PLANTS

July 25, 2019 - Amp Americas, a Chicago-based company that turns cow manure into renewable natural gas to power trucks, aims to double its output.


HARD WORKING TRUCKS: AMP AMERICAS REPORTS SHARP UPTICK IN RNG GROWTH & NOTES THAT THE FUEL IS CLEANER THAN ELECTRIC

February 25, 2019 - RNG is cleaner than EV, less expensive for owners and the general public, and brings immediate benefits. We’re years away from EVs making a significant climate or air quality impact. NGVs fuels with RNG are cleaning our world now.


NGT NEWS: RENEWABLE DAIRY FUELS BOOSTS PRODUCTION OF INDIANA FACILITY

February 21, 2019 - Renewable Dairy Fuels (RDF), a business unit of Amp Americas, has expanded the production of its biogas operation at Fair Oaks Farms by 30%. The Indiana project was the first dairy biogas-to-transportation fuel project in the country, according to RDF. Now, it has the capacity to produce over 2.3 million gallons per year of 100%-renewable transportation fuel from dairy waste.


FEEDSTUFFS: AMP AMERICAS OPENS COUNTRY’S LARGEST DAIRY RENEWABLE NATURAL GAS PROJECT

October 17, 2018 - Jasper County site will convert 945 tons of manure per day from 16,000 head of milking cows into 100% renewable transportation fuel.


AMERICAN BIOGAS COUNCIL: AMERICAN BIOGAS COUNCIL ANNOUNCES 2018 BIOGAS INDUSTRY AWARD WINNERS

October 17, 2018 - The DMT - CGS Project w/ ampCNG is bestowed the distinction of the American Biogas Council 2018 Innovation of the Year Award for combining two technologies for biogas upgrading that work well independently, but in combination create an order of magnitude improvement in overall efficiency and cost.


HARD WORKING TRUCKS: AMP AMERICAS RESPONSE TO CALIFORNIA’S $41M GRANT TO FUND FUEL CELL TRUCKS OVER RENEWABLE NATURAL GAS

October 2, 2018 - The State of California recently announced that it was awarding the Port of Los Angeles $41 million through its Zero-Emission and Near Zero-Emission Freight Facilities (ZANZEFF) project.

However, despite including ‘near-zero emission’ in its project title, the state has not yet committed to funding near-zero emission trucks, such as those powered by the latest natural gas engine technology.


NBC 5 CHICAGO: 'POWERED BY POO': HOW ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST DAIRIES FINDS ENERGY IN THE UNLIKELIEST OF PLACES

August 2, 2018 - Fair Oaks Farms, a mammoth dairy operation in central Indiana, prides itself on high-tech farming operations which are open for the world to see. But behind the scenes, Fair Oaks has created an energy operation which has become a model for farms around the world.


NGT NEWS: NEW AMP CNG STATION OPENS IN BUDA, TEXAS

April 23, 2018 - Amp Americas has announced the grand opening of its new public-access compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station in Buda, Texas, with US Foods serving as the station’s anchor fleet.


NBC AUSTIN (KXAN): CHEAPER, CLEANER FUEL OPTION COMES TO HAYS COUNTY SEMI TRUCK DRIVERS (VIDEO)

April 23, 2018 - There's a new fuel option for drivers in Hays County. Amp Americas officially opened a new Compression Natural Gas station in Buda Monday morning.


FLEET OWNER: AMP AMERICAS REMAINS ‘BULLISH’ ON CNG EFFORTS IN TRUCKING

April 6, 2018 - ampCNG set to open 20th natural gas station in the U.S. at the end of April.


RENEWABLE ENERGY MAGAZINE: CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON INDIANA BIOGAS FACILITY

February 13, 2018 - Construction has begun on the country’s largest on-farm anaerobic digester-to-vehicle fuel operation, according to Renewable Dairy Fuels, a division of Amp Americas.


THE NEW FOOD ECONOMY: HOW COW POOP COULD POWER THE EMISSIONS-FREE HYDROGEN CAR OF THE FUTURE

February 8, 2018 - Cows and cars are two of the worst polluters. Now, California is piloting a barn-to-biogas closed loop where farm waste will fuel the next generation of climate-friendly cars.


NGV GLOBAL: BIGGEST U.S. WASTE TO RENEWABLE NATURAL GAS (RNG) PLANT UNDERWAY

February 8, 2018 - Renewable Dairy Fuels (RDF), a business unit of Amp Americas, announced at the 2018 Rethink Methane Symposium, that construction is underway on the country’s largest on-farm anaerobic digester-to-vehicle fuel operation. 


FLEET OWNER: AMP AMERICAS BREAKS GROUND ON 20TH AMPCNG FUELING STATION

December 8, 2017 - Public ampCNG Station in Buda, TX, to serve anchor fleet US Foods.


UPS PRESSROOM: UPS DRAMATICALLY INCREASES USE OF RENEWABLE NATURAL GAS

November 20, 2017 - UPS signed a five-year agreement earlier this year with Amp energy for 1.5 million gallon equivalents of RNG per year from the Fair Oaks dairy farm in Indiana.


RNG COALITION: AMP AMERICAS DAIRY WASTE-TO-VEHICLE FUEL PATHWAY REGISTERS LOWEST CARB CARBON INTENSITY SCORE TO DATE

September 29, 2017 - Becomes First Dairy Waste-to-Vehicle Fuel Pathway Certified by California’s Air Resources Board; Names Martin Gilkes COO, Opens LA Office


HARD WORKING TRUCKS: COUGH, COUGH: CALIFORNIA IGNORES ITS OWN EMISSIONS DATA IN PUSH FOR IC ENGINE BAN

September 28, 2017 - Why aren’t Gov. Brown and Nichols parading a press release around about Amp's -255 CI score?


NEXT-GEN TRANSPORTATION NEWS: AMP AMERICAS’ RENEWABLE NATURAL GAS FACILITY NETS LOW CARB CI SCORE

September 27, 2017 - Amp Americas, a renewable natural gas (RNG) producer and marketer and compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel provider for the heavy-duty trucking industry, says its RNG operation at Fair Oaks Farms in Indiana has received the first dairy waste-to-vehicle fuel pathway certified by the California Air Resources Board (CARB).


CHICAGO TRIBUNE: CHICAGO'S AMP AMERICAS GETS $47M IN PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDING

August 10, 2017 - Amp Americas, a Chicago company that makes commercial trucking fuel from cow manure, announced Thursday a $47 million private equity investment from Houston-based EIV Capital.


CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS: CLEAN-TECH STARTUP GETS ANOTHER $20 MILLION

August 10, 2017 - Amp Americas creates biomethane from waste processed at Fair Oaks Farm, a large dairy farm about 90 minutes from Chicago. The six-year-old company, founded by former energy trader and real estate investor Nate Laurell, has built a network of 20 natural-gas filling stations from Indiana to Texas.


WALL STREET JOURNAL PRO: EIV CAPITAL INVESTS $47 MILLION IN RENEWABLE FUEL PROVIDER

August 10, 2017 - Amp Americas, a renewable natural gas (RNG) producer and marketer and compressed natural gas fuel and infrastructure operator for the heavy-duty, commercial trucking industry, has announced a $47 million equity commitment from Houston-based EIV Capital, a private-equity firm focused on the energy industry.


CCTV AMERICA: US FARMERS’ BANK ON MANURE FUELED TRUCKS (VIDEO)

September 22, 2016 - Trucks and cows may seem like an unlikely match. But some farmers in the United States are putting the two together and seeing green? And as a way to power their operations.


HEAVY DUTY TRUCKING: AMP AMERICAS LAUNCHES BIOGAS DIVISION

May 5, 2016 - Amp Americas has launched ampRENEW, a biogas division dedicated to the company’s growing renewable fuel business that has entered into fueling agreements with Dillon Transport and Ruan Transportation Management Systems.


WGN RADIO: WINTRUST BUSINESS LUNCH (AUDIO)

April 21, 2016 - ampCNG's newly appointed CEO, Grant Zimmerman, discusses the history of ampCNG and the bright future of compressed natural gas.


CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FARM TO FLEETS: MANURE HELPS CHICAGO STARTUP BUILD NAT GAS NETWORK

March 17, 2016 - Chicago startup ampCNG launched at a farm in northwest Indiana that converted cow manure to renewable natural gas.


TASTYTRADE: BOOTSTRAPPING IN AMERICA (VIDEO)

March 17, 2016 - Tastytrade chats with Grant Zimmerman, CEO of ampCNG.


HDT TRUCKING INFO: AMPCNG ACQUIRES FULL CONTROL OF 17 FUELING STATIONS

March 17, 2016 - Compressed natural gas infrastructure provider ampCNG has announced that it now completely owns all of the 17 public access CNG fueling stations that were part of a joint venture between the company and Trillium CNG.


CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS: THE DIVVY BIKER WHO WOULD FUEL AMERICA'S TRUCKING INDUSTRY

February 20, 2014 - The case for running truck fleets on compressed natural gas has been half no-brainer, half head-scratcher since 2006, when fracking began to flood the U.S. market with the fuel.


THE NEW YORK TIMES: DAIRY FINDS A WAY TO LET COWS POWER TRUCKS

March 27, 2013 - Fair Oaks Farms in Fair Oaks, In., has long used livestock waste to create enough natural gas to fully power 10 barns, a cheese factory, a gift shop and more.


 

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