Biogas
The Resource Recovery group have been working on proposals and gathering information about potential biogas projects in the region. Read some of these resources below.
Goondiwindi Regional Council has entered into a 20-year agreement with The Hydrogen Collective (H2C) to commence construction on the Goondiwindi Hydrogen Project which has the potential to save millions of dollars for ratepayers. The project is expected to be operational at the region’s wastewater facility in late 2023.
Eureka Prize-winning technology transforms sewage plants into energy producers - Qilin Wang’s closed-system approach to water treatment could see a range of benefits for the planet. Treating wastewater is an energy-intensive process, and that’s not its only impact on the environment. It also creates ammonia as a non-biodegradable by-product, a substance that disrupts the balance of nutrients in the waterways in which it is discharged. University of Technology Sydney Senior Lecturer Dr Qilin Wang, however, has found a way to deal with both of these issues. He was awarded the 2020 Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher for this work. Wang proposes using the ammonia for energy — removing it as a harmful waste product from the treatment process and having it power the very activity that produces it.
'We pay a tax to produce clean energy': the Queensland pig farmer who is leading the way on climate action - In the past five years, his company, Bettafield Piggery, has invested millions of dollars in an advanced biogas system that not only meets all its own electricity needs, but feeds extra back into the grid. It also takes care of all the piggery’s organic waste – plus extra food waste from schools and cafes in the nearby town – and generates water for irrigation and rich compost for the fields.
Colac's renewable organics network is turning food waste into biogas, hot water and power - this unassuming country town, which serves as hub for farms dotting the green Otway pastures, is about to become home to a new energy concept. By utilising a natural phenomenon, armies of bacteria will transform the waste water, chemicals and food waste solids into biogas, turning an otherwise useless product into electricity, hot water and fertiliser.
Meet the giant mechanical stomach turning food waste into electricity - Tonnes of food scraps collected from restaurants and supermarkets are being converted into electricity under a green energy initiative powering thousands of homes in Perth. The City of Cockburn has made the waste to energy service a permanent fixture of its general duties, collecting rotting food waste from local businesses and feeding it to a mechanical 'stomach' at a nearby fertiliser plant. The anaerobic digester heats the food, traps its methane gas and feeds the energy into the electricity grid, powering up to 3,000 homes.