By Adriano Marchese
Anaergia has been selected to provide services and equipment to a bioenergy facility at the Goodness Grown agricultural site in Australia, its first project in the market.
The renewable energy company said that the contract is with Corval, an Australian specialist property investor, for its subsidiary Anaergia Australia to provide a comprehensive suite of services and proven technologies, including its proprietary PSM Mixers and Service Box Pro equipment.
Anaergia expects the total contract revenue to be about 14 million Canadian dollar ($9.9 million).
The commercial-scale anaerobic digestion facility, located in Tongala, Victoria, will process agricultural waste into renewable biothane which will be used to power a large greenhouse operation adjacent to the Goodness Grown farm site.
Anaerobic digestion refers to the biological process in which microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absolute absence of oxygen to produce biogas and other left over organic material, or digestate.
When operational, the facility will be able to process up to 120,000 metric tons a year of mixed agricultural and commercial feedstock and have the capacity to generate one hundred terajoules of gross biogas energy a year.
The operations will allow a significant portion of the adjacent greenhouse's liquid petroleum gas consumption to be displaced, the company said, and the captured heat and carbon dioxide will be recovered and supplied to the nearby glasshouse operations to support energy requirements.
The project has already received funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, part of its broader National Industrial Transformation, and the plant itself is expected to be operational within two years.
Write to Adriano Marchese at adriano.marchese@wsj.com