Innovations in energy require innovations in logistics
Across the spectrum of renewable energies and technologies, supply chain efficiency and cost competitiveness continue to be a key aspect of enabling market adoption. For over the last ten years, PLG Consulting is honored to have the trust of its clients to help bring about the future of energy, basic materials, and ESG objectives of producers, consumers, and investors.
PLG Consulting has advised on multiple renewables projects, providing market analysis, site selection, logistics procurement, and engineering for:
- Refineries, chemical producers, and bulk terminals
- Landfill operators, CNG/LNG, and renewable diesel
- Waste plastic feedstock and midstream operators
PLG Consulting’s representative work and expertise in the logistics of renewables technologies include:
How we help
PLG Consulting is at the forefront of the transformation of the global liquid fuels supply. Specifically, PLG Consulting has been deeply involved in the renewable diesel space and its attendant issues and challenges in optimizing inbound feedstocks and outbound finished product to the growing low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) markets.
- Network sourcing and supply chain strategy for feedstocks, including biomass, soybean oil, DCO, animal fats, and used cooking oil (UCO)
- Railcar fleet sizing, specifications, and sourcing for both feedstocks and finished product
- Multi-modal transloading, storage, and distribution strategy and implementation
- Logistics assessments and optimization for new plant sites, including rail access, plant site infrastructure design and engineering, and inventory and storage requirements
PLG Consulting’s expertise in renewables extends to RNG and LFG, from collection at the biogas source to the transportation of product to customers. Examples of PLG’s capabilities include:
- Optimizing new or existing project valuation
- Evaluation, sourcing, and supply of feedstocks originating from dairies, wastewater treatment plants, agricultural wastes and byproducts, or other sources
- Anaerobic digester technology assessments and applications to optimize methane recovery
- Biogas collection at the source
- Conversion of biogas to renewable energy sources, including power generation, combined heat and power (CHP), or upgrading to RNG (biomethane).
- Pipeline injection and virtual pipeline (trucking) transportation options for delivery to end users
- Assessments related to environmental credits and programs, such as carbon credits, low carbon fuel standards (LCFS) and renewable identification number credits (RINS)
- Identifying markets for biomethane and facilitating offtake agreements
PLG Consulting has been tasked by its clients to help bring logistics solutions as innovative as the mission itself – capturing and repurposing the 90+% of post-consumer waste plastics that currently end up in landfills, oceans, waterways, beaches, and elsewhere. Our expertise spans:
- Network optimization and transportation modeling for waste plastics of multiple grades from municipal recycling facilities (MRF)s across the US
- Site selection for new processing and aggregation sites, including the total cost to serve, the total cost to build, and incentive negotiations
- Plant site logistics infrastructure design and engineering, including warehouse facilities, rail infrastructure, loading racks, marine docks, and tankage. Also includes inventory modeling and facility sizing for adequate storage capacity for both feedstocks and finished products
- Logistics strategy, negotiations, procurement, and operations planning for outbound finished liquid and dry products
Innovation to help green technologies succeed
PLG Consulting helps clients adapt and invent supply chains for emerging renewable products
As rapid technological advances have brought new clean sources of energy and basic materials to market, logistics solutions needed to support those innovations have, in some cases, not even been invented yet. Traditional approaches to supply chain elements such as sourcing, mode selection, inventory management, technology, and network optimization may require modification or outright disruption in order to ensure that renewable technologies can be reliably and cost-efficiently implemented.
PLG Consulting experts have helped “turn the box” and answer the question, “How can we do this?” to help clients achieve ESG goals and bring green energy solutions to the market. Project experience includes:
- Optimization of cellulosic feedstock gathering for biomass fuels
- Truck transportation asset and operations planning for methane gas recovery from landfills (LFG)
- Waste plastics feedstock sourcing and supply chain design
- Site selection and new plant site logistics operations and infrastructure design for renewable diesel and waste plastics processing facilities
- Inbound and outbound logistics planning and procurement for multiple renewable diesel refineries
- Sourcing and logistics strategies for renewable diesel feedstocks
Other services we have provided in the area of renewables include assessment and optimization (operational improvement and cost-out), supply chain design, operations, and due diligence.
PLG Consulting's team of experts is at the forefront of the renewables industry to help you capitalize on this growth and accelerate market adoption for a better world.
Project Examples
Major landfill gas recycler teams up with leading provider of waste disposal and recycling services to bring to market cost-effective compressed gases
An international leader in developing technology to make clean burning, renewable second-generation biofuels was looking to team up with a leading provider of waste disposal and recycling services to recycle landfill gases into cost-effective compressed natural...
Wind turbine producer in a tight production pinch ends up saving over $2.6 million in transportation costs
An international supplier of wind turbine blades found themselves facing a manufacturing problem. When their Spanish business unit announced a production shortfall and thus inability to fulfill existing customer orders of over 600 blades, they scrambled...
Largest North American wind farm development maximizes the use of rail for materials and component deliveries
A major North American wind farm operator was in final permitting stages for the largest wind farm in North America. The project entailed a 3 gigawatt wind farm that would require approximately 1000 turbines in a...
Utility scale turbine manufacturer looks at logistics impact of site location
Client bringing new turbine technology to US market needed to determine logistics impact of manufacturing site location. PLG modeled multiple logistics cost scenarios for various potential manufacturing sites and calculated total logistics costs as a percentage...
Global bio-fuels producer and trader considers rail vs marine shipping
This global bio-fuels company, with operations in over 14 countries, is one of the largest producers of renewable diesel in the world. Always at the cusp of innovation and looking to deliver value to their customers...
Reduced costs while procuring and transporting speciality equipment across four continents
As an early mover and now the largest wind farm developer in the fledgling wind energy industry in South America, IMPSA found itself in need to procure transportation for over 200 blades plus hubs, rotors, and...
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