Canada-headed biogas technology provider Anaergia Inc. has announced that it has officially commissioned a new biomethane facility in Italy, the Calimera Bio plant in the Province of Lecce. The facility is the second of seven facilities Anaergia is developing which together will form one of the largest food waste to biomethane platforms in Europe.
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The Calimera Bio facility has the capacity to anaerobically digest 24 000 tonnes of landfill-diverted food waste and other organic waste annually. The biogas is now upgraded to biomethane aka renewable natural gas (RNG) for injection into the region’s natural gas pipelines.
On an annual basis, the plant will supply 2.19 million Nm3 RNG to the gas grid. In addition, the new plant will also treat the digestate that remains after the anaerobic digestion (AD) process to create 9 000 tonnes per annum of high-quality biofertilizer.
Anaergia was the technology provider for the Calimera Bio project and owns a majority stake (60 percent) in the facility. Anaergia’s partner in this plant is a regional waste management company.
With six biomethane plants opening in Italy, Anaergia is well-positioned to help meet the growing demand in Europe for biomethane, the European term for Renewable Natural Gas. We are proud of these facilities because they will help Europe meet its ambitious climate change goals as well as its energy security objectives. Given these drivers, we hope to build many more such plants, said Dr Andrew Benedek, Chairman, and CEO of Anaergia.
REPowerEU a driver
The commissioning of the new Calimera plant comes on the heels of the European Commission’s pledge of EUR 37 billion to increase biomethane production in the EU, as part of its EU 300 billion RePowerEU plan to stop Russian energy imports and move to green energy by the end of the decade.
The Commission is proposing an action plan to achieve 35 billion m3 (bcm) of annual biomethane production by 2030.
In addition, last week the G7 Ministers of Climate, Energy, and the Environment highlighted the importance of cutting methane emissions, citing “opportunities to mitigate methane emissions from the waste sector, primarily by diversion of organic waste from landfills…and waste-to-fuel technologies to produce renewable methane from organic waste, agricultural residues, and biomass…”
With offices in five European countries, Anaergia says that it “is in an excellent position to support these goals.”
Over the last two decades, Anaergia has built many facilities using our proprietary technologies that turn any type of organic waste into renewable energy. Based on our proven, world-leading capabilities, Anaergia is in a class by itself and ready to take advantage of the opportunities we are now seeing throughout Europe ended Alessandro Massone, Anaergia’s Commercial Managing Director for Europe.
