When compliance, operations, and management work from different data at different times, issues can compound. This is how Morrow Renewables closed the gap.
In any industrial operation, the value of data is inseparable from its timeliness. For operators in the Renewable Fuel Standard program, where the regulatory value of a facility’s output depends on an unbroken record of validated data, this latency problem has a direct financial consequence: errors that could have been corrected during the month become liabilities at month-end, and liabilities at month-end can become invalid credits six months later.
At most RNG companies, the compliance processes had been built around the tools available: a PI historian for process data, a secondary SCADA interface for supplemental readings, and a set of analysis spreadsheets that translated raw values into the calculations required for RIN generation, before passing the documents to consultants. Each of these components worked as designed. But a significant period of time would pass from data gathering and cleaning to getting the information back from consultants — and the people responsible for compliance, operations, and management each worked from their own slice of the picture.
The team at Morrow Renewables described the practical experience of this fragmentation as “very time consuming and tedious” to assemble a complete view of any given period’s performance. When anomalies occurred — a data gap, an unexpected flow variation, a plant downtime event that affected measurement continuity — the compliance team would often be working from a historical approach. As a result, the original cause was sometimes difficult to reconstruct. Plant engineers who might have had context in the moment had moved on to other concerns. The event log had to be re-examined from scratch, and the remediation options were constrained by both time and the structure of the monthly record.
Rimba addresses the visibility problem at its root. Rather than providing another reporting layer on top of the existing fragmented architecture, the platform integrates directly with the data sources operators already use — PI historian, SCADA systems — and maintains a continuous, protocol-aware view of each site’s operational and compliance status. The result is not a new data silo; it is a shared operational picture that all stakeholders — compliance, engineering, operations, and management — can access.
Rimba monitors incoming process data continuously, running protocol-aligned checks against the live data stream rather than waiting for a month-end batch review. Missing data, out-of-range readings, unexpected flow changes, and other anomalies that affect measurement quality and RIN generation are detected on the day they occur. The platform runs automatically, against every data point, on every site, around the clock.
This shift from retrospective batch review to continuous monitoring increases the reliability and trust of compliance management.
When the platform detects a condition that affects gas production or measurement quality, it generates a structured notification that reaches the relevant stakeholders — compliance, engineering, and operations — simultaneously, rather than sequentially after the fact.
Daily plant health summary emails give the compliance team a structured view of each site’s status at the start of every working day. Custom alerts are configured for the specific conditions that affect RIN generation at each facility — flow anomalies, sensor dropouts, pressure excursions — ensuring that no event with compliance implications passes unnoticed into the monthly record.
Beyond the alerting function, Rimba provides the shared operational picture. Compliance, operations, and management now access the same continuously updated data, at the same time, through a single platform. The fragmented spreadsheet environment that previously required each stakeholder to maintain their own view of facility performance is replaced by a common interface that reflects the current state of all three sites at any moment. The compliance record is continuous, documented, and accessible.
“Rimba’s reporting features, the alerts, the capabilities to see missing or out-of-range data in near real time are advantageous to us. We can remedy things early instead of waiting until the end of the month, and have significantly reduced compliance risk. We have visibility into our data in ways we haven’t really had before — without manual maneuvering across tools. Rimba has quickly become a critical part of how we manage and trust our data.”
Jason Naff — Compliance & Maintenance Systems Specialist, Morrow RenewablesThe most significant operational change at Morrow Renewables following Rimba’s deployment was the shift in when problems were identified. Data quality issues that previously surfaced at month-end — too late for efficient remediation — are now detected on the day they occur.
The introduction of shared, real-time visibility has changed the relationship between compliance and operations at Morrow Renewables. Alerts generated by Rimba have driven systematic discussions between the compliance lead and engineering teams — conversations that now happen during the month, when they are actionable.
With issues addressed in real time and a continuous, platform-documented compliance record replacing the prior spreadsheet-based approach, Morrow Renewables is substantially better positioned for QAP audits and regulatory inquiries. Substitution methods are applied consistently and documented automatically. Data quality issues are addressed early — reducing the time, cost, and stress of audit preparation and materially lowering the risk of adverse findings.
Rimba AI provides compliance and operations intelligence for the renewable natural gas industry. The platform connects to SCADA and historian systems, automates RFS reporting workflows, and delivers real-time visibility into plant performance and credit generation. Learn more at rimba.ai.