SCS Engineers is excited to announce the appointment of Vice President Jeffrey J. Grill as the new Business Unit Director of SCS Energy. SCS Directors are responsible for geographic business areas or, in this case, a specialty practice in renewable energy under the brand SCS Energy.
Jeff joined SCS Energy in 2019, leading the process engineering team responsible for the design of biogas to renewable natural gas & energy facilities. He has over 20 years of experience in energy and renewable natural gas (RNG) project development. His background is in chemical process engineering and a wide array of engineering and management services, from conceptual to detailed design and implementation. His core values are quality, consistency, and engineering excellence.
Jeff earned multiple B.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering and Materials Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He has professional affiliations and sits on committees with the Renewable Natural Gas Coalition and the American Biogas Council.
During his career, he has built an execution portfolio of 19 patents and applications and designed over 50 Renewable Natural Gas processing plants with a combined designed production capacity equivalent to 16% of California’s 2021 residential natural gas consumption. That is equivalent to almost one and a half percent of the U.S. residential natural gas consumption, equating to a reduction of over 4.1 million tons of CO2 GHG emissions or 2.1 million tons of coal burned annually. The capacity of the landfill gas to pipeline quality RNG projects that Jeff has designed or supervised totals over 335 MMCFD for landfill gas to RNG and over 34 MMCFD for dairy digester and municipal WWTP gas to RNG.
His work at SCS Energy helps many clients and communities, especially those considering landfill gas to RNG to lower carbon footprints and create renewable energy or renewable fuels. Built on one of the U.S.’s longest and most successful biogas practices in North America, SCS Energy designs, constructs, and operates more landfill gas and digester gas to energy facilities than any other engineering firm in the nation. Its biogas and biomass experts provide turn-key services for RNG plants using byproducts from dairy, swine, or poultry farms into carbon-negative renewable energy.
“Jeff’s colleagues and clients are excited to see him take leadership of SCS Energy from Bob Viers, who will now serve in a leadership advisory role. SCS clients attribute their high-quality results to SCS Energy’s industry-leading expertise in biogas gas utilization, combined with the firm’s wealth of knowledge in solid waste management and regulatory compliance,” stated SCS CEO Doug Doerr.
“Our team is a powerhouse of exceptional talent, filled with professionals whose dedication, passion, and pursuit of excellence leave me in awe. Their unwavering commitment to one another and our collective success is inspiring and humbling. I am grateful for the opportunity to work alongside them and deeply appreciate the legacy of Jeff Pierce and Bob Viers,” stated Jeffrey Grill.
Learn More About Biogas and Renewable Natural Gas (RNG):
Environmental Business Journal had this to say in their recently published Emerging Technology & the Environmental Industry issue:
SCS Engineers has built an impressive history, set of accomplishments and qualifications in designing, building and operating Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) facilities. In the RNG field, which is one of the company’s most important market areas, SCS creates the RNG by removing almost all other gas constituents except the methane. These other constituents include carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and other sulfur compounds, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) including siloxanes, oxygen, nitrogen, and waste.
According to Steve Hamilton, a senior vice president, SCS’s leadership position is a result of the firm’s holistic approach and experience.
Our teams employ decades of energy systems expertise as we analyze and evaluate the effects of variations in processes and the parameters important to success. SCS models, maps, and evaluates complex systems and processes to evaluate plant performance. We account for project objectives and requirements while taking your technical, business, energy and environmental objectives into account.
Read the article here, or visit the SCS Engineers website.
In August 2019, SCS Energy broke ground on construction of a 4,000-scfm landfill gas to renewable natural gas (RNG) plant in Indianapolis. Indy High Btu, LLC engaged SCS Energy to build the RNG plant under an engineer/procure/construct (EPC) agreement. Indy High Btu, LLC is jointly owned by Kinetrex Energy, Southside Landfill, and EDL Energy.
The RNG plant employs an iron redox scrubber for hydrogen sulfide removal, membranes for carbon dioxide removal and pressure swing adsorption for nitrogen removal. The plant is on schedule to achieve commercial operation in February 2020.
Kinetrex, as a major distributor of LNG, intends to convert the RNG into LNG. RNG from the plant will fuel trucks replacing nearly 8 million gallons of diesel a year. RNG is less expensive than diesel and significantly reduces the emission of methane and other greenhouse gases.
The Indy High Btu RNG plant is the third landfill gas-to-RNG plant designed by SCS to employ nitrogen removal, meeting pipeline specifications and maximizing gas recovery. Two other plants, including a 5,000-scfm project in Kentucky, which commenced operation in March 2018, and a 5,000-scfm project in Texas, which is currently under construction and scheduled to begin operations in November 2019, are both SCS Energy designs.
SCS Energy is a practice of SCS Engineers specializing in Biogas, Anaerobic Digestion, Renewable Natural Gas and Energy Systems for industrial and agricultural operations.
SCS Energy announced today the expansion of their renewable energy programs with the support of new team member Todd Stewart, PE, PMP. SCS has one of the longest and successful biogas and renewable energy practices in the United States. Stewart will support the expanding renewable energy programs for the waste industry, working out of the firm’s Pleasanton, California office.
Stewart, a Senior Project Manager, brings more than 30 years of experience managing complex solar and biogas renewable energy, anaerobic digestion, gas pipeline, and compressor station projects executed efficiently and cost-effectively for his clients and their stakeholders. His technical background in waste to energy, advanced composting systems, solar and conventional power generation, gas transmission and storage, and plant operations brings valuable skills to SCS’s clients planning to invest in the use of renewable energy to control the cost of operations and meet environmental compliance and responsibilities.
Stewart’s background spans design engineering, construction management, operations and maintenance engineering, and identifying and resolving environmental issues, and he is experienced with regulatory processes specifically CEQA and NEPA. He has demonstrated expertise in conceptual project development, FEED process, and the technical and fiscal management of large infrastructure.
“Todd has developed and coordinated some of the largest combined solar and alternative power generation projects in the world,” stated Steve Hamilton, senior vice president of SCS Energy. “We’re fortunate to be putting his acumen to work for our clients.”
Stewart is a licensed Professional Engineer in California and a Certified Project Management Professional. He is the past President of the California Society of Professional Engineers and a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers and the Project Management Institute. He earned his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.
