Jemena, Sydney Water partner to produce biomethane in South Wales
SGSP Assets Pty Ltd. (Jemena), a prominent energy infrastructure firm, has reportedly partnered with Sydney Water in order to produce biomethane at the Malabar Wastewater Treatment Plant in South Sydney.
Sources with knowledge of the matter stated that the produced high quality zero-emission biomethane gas will be inserted into the NSW gas distribution network of Jemena in South Wales, which consist of 1.4 million customers.
The recent development will be Australia’s first ever renewable green gas project and is estimated to power over 6,000 NSW homes. In fact, sources confirmed that the new project is worth over USD 14 million with Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) contributing USD 5.9 million while Jemena providing USD 8.1 million.
Dr Jennifer Purdie, Execute General Manager at Jemena, Gas Distribution, mentioned in a comment that for the first time in Australia biomethane will be introduced in the gas network with over95 terajoules of initial capacity of producing renewable green gas annually. She added that this will be enough to fulfill the gas demand of around 6,300 households.
Dr. Purdie further confirmed that the project has the potential to scale up to 200 Terajoules every year, sufficient to satisfy the gas demand of about over 13,300 households.
According to industry experts, over one million terajoules of biogas was generated globally in the year 2014, representing approximately 1.5% of the international supply of renewable energy. The biofuels sector in Australia is expected to offer 250,000 jobs in the region and can mitigate around 9 million tons of CO2 emissions.
In this context, sources confirmed that the biomethane project in Malabar is predicted eliminate around 5,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions. If scaled up to its full potential, the project is likely to mitigate 11,000 tonnes of CO2, further allowing it to become a major contributor towards Net Zero Plan, NSW Government’s Stage 1 initiative to lower carbon emissions by 35% by the year 2030.
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