The Netherlands-headed biogas upgrading specialists Bright Biomethane, part of bioenergy technology specialists HoSt, has announced that it, together with Australian clean energy infrastructure and equipment provider Eneraque Pty Ltd has been selected to supply its biogas upgrading system to power, and gas utility major Jemena Ltd for the country's first biomethane-to-grid project. The Malabar Biomethane Project is expected to be completed in 2022.
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Initiated by Jemena and Sydney Water, the estimated AU$14 million Malabar Biomethane Project has received AU$5.9 million grant funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). The project will be realized by Bright Biomethane in collaboration with Eneraque.
The project involves cleaning and upgrading the raw biogas produced by existing anaerobic digestion (AD) of sludge infrastructure at Sydney Water’s Malabar WWTP in South Sydney to pipeline compliant biomethane (aka renewable natural gas – RNG) before injection into the Jemena Gas Network for distribution to thousands of Sydney homes and businesses for cooking, heating, and hot water.
This is an incredibly exciting step forward for Australia in the renewable energy space – as a locally owned and run business, this is an area we are quite passionate about. Partnering with Jemena to deliver a clever waste-to-energy solution for Sydney Water, is a very positive step in paving the way to a greener future in Australia, remarked Jeremy Pringle, Director at Eneraque.
With a capacity of 1 100 Nm3 per hour of incoming raw biogas, the upgrading system is a PurePac Grand in Bright Biomethane’s modular biogas upgrading systems range. The Malabar WWTP is one of the largest in the country and the project represents a first in Australia for Bright Biomethane.
This is a great development of biomethane production and deployment in Australia and an acknowledgment of Bright’s growing worldwide presence. Those involved visited our wastewater-to-biomethane facility in the Netherlands pre-Corona. We are proud to bring our Dutch technology now to Australia in excellent collaboration with Eneraque, said Jeffrey Kruit, Area Sales Engineer at Bright Biomethane.
