Brimex Energy becomes first Mexican renewable thermal project to be registered on M-RETS
In Mexico, Brimex Energy S.A. de C.V. recently announced that its renewable natural gas facility in Lagos de Moreno is the first renewable thermal project in Mexico to be registered on the CleanCounts Registry (M-RETS), operated by CleanCounts, the nonprofit that runs North America’s largest clean energy registry. The announcement was made jointly at the Mexico Carbon Forum in Aguascalientes (September 2–3) and at the Renewable Energy Markets conference in Washington, D.C. (September 1–3), placing the news before Mexico’s environmental markets community and the North American clean energy buyers who transact on the registry at the same moment. The registration, completed after an independent third-party engineering review by EcoEngineers found no exceptions, approves Brimex to generate Renewable Thermal Certificates (RTCs), a class of Energy Attribute Certificate (EAC) issued for each dekatherm of verified renewable thermal energy the facility produces.
The Brimex facility converts organic waste from three industries that define the Altos de Jalisco region: dairy, swine production, and tequila. Whey and milk byproducts, swine manure, wastewater sludge, and vinasse from tequila distillation feed three anaerobic digesters on site. This includes material from food and beverage brands including tequila producers Teremana and Campo Azul as well as food brands Grupo Lala and Sigma Alimentos. The resulting biogas powers generators that sell electricity to the commercial grid, and a portion is upgraded into biomethane used as vehicle fuel. Brimex holds Mexico’s first federal permits for the production and, as of February 2026, the commercialization of biomethane. The project’s registry account is held through Cyan Energy S.A. de C.V., which serves as account holder and certificate marketer for the facility.
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