Anaergia To Build ‘Manure to Renewable Energy’ Plant In Japan

Canada-based clean energy and recycling player Anaergia is putting cow manure to a great use by producing electricity out of it. The company has announced plans to set up a biogas plant in Kasaoka, Okayama for Toyo Energy Solution Co. The facility will produce renewable electricity using biogas made by anaerobically digesting cow manure from Okayama Prefecture farms. The plant will avert close to 13,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions from manure as well as fossil fuels fr that would have been used for power generation.

The official statement shared that the plant will anaerobically digest about 250 tonnes every day of cow manure from the region. The biogas from it will in turn fuel a combined heat and power (CHP) generator system. The system will generate close to 1.2 megawatts of clean renewable electricity.

In the scheme of things, Anaergia will design, engineer, install, and commission the plant while Toyo will serve as the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor.

In the past, Anaergia had built a facility for Toyo in Yabu City to convert farm and food waste into renewable energy.

Yoshimitsu Okada, President Director, Toyo Group, said, “Toyo Group is pleased to partner once again with Anaergia to develop a new biogas plant, as we consider them to be the global leader in anaerobic digestion technology. We look forward to building many more biogas plants with Anaergia to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, produce renewable power, and help Japan achieve net-zero by 2050.”

Andrew Benedek, Chairman and CEO of Anaergia, remarked, “Wastes such as manure, sewage biosolids, and food scraps create two-thirds of all point source emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas that is 85 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Stopping these methane emissions from waste must be a central tactic in curbing global warming.”

He also added that “the new bioenergy plant of Anaergia will not only help Japan reduce methane emissions from manure, it will also reduce the need for LNG to generate electricity.”