While the world is turning its attention to renewable gas and biomethane, Australia is being left behind despite its domestic potential.
One of the great challenges Australia’s renewable gas industry and especially biomethane must confront is it’s still partly thought of as being part of the “nuts and berries fringe” of the energy sector and a lot of small players will dabble in it but not much else, says the chief executive of Bioenergy Australia, Shahana McKenzie., Jemena and Australian Gas Networks, McKenzie pointed out the opportunity in Australia is quite significant and we must look internationally to see what’s possible.
The plan calls for a boost in sustainable biomethane production to 35 billion cubic metres by 2030 by establishing an industrial biogas and bio-methane partnership to stimulate the renewable gases value chain.It also provides producers with incentives for biogas upgrading into bio-methane and promotes the “adaptation and adjustment of existing and the deployment of new infrastructure for the transport of more biomethane through the EU gas grid”.
And the big global energy providers are investing heavily in it as well, with Shell starting its first US biomethane facility last September, while TotalEnergies has partnered with Veolia to produce biomethane from wastewater. “We already have three renewable gas plants in the United States where we clean up gas and inject it into the pipeline and we have two more under construction,” Turner says.“In the US, there are already more than 200 plants operating today that are cleaning up landfill or dairy gas or other things and injecting it into the pipeline and over a thousand globally,” Turner says.
Also speaking at the roundtable, John Falzon, chair of specialist biogas renewable energy firm LMS Energy, says his company exists today because of biogas and have projects in the US, New Zealand and Australia. “If you go to California, they have a lifecycle emissions calculation they do and they do it for transport, but they say, for example, if you are diesel or gasoline, then it’s a score of 90.
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