Waste to Energy Fund: Bioenergy – Funded projects
These are the details of the grant recipients and their projects. The funded projects will increase renewable energy generation in Victoria.
For background, view:
-
Announcement date: 21 June 2023
Central Highlands Water Corporation
Investigating the viability of reusing forestry residues from 1,215 Ha pine plantations as a biomass product for a range of potential uses including heat and electricity generation.
Funding: up to $60,000 .
Corangamite Shire Council
Corangamite Shire Council will undertake a feasibility and technical study to assess the viability of pyrolysis technology for generating bioenergy and biochar end-products from the regions green waste and FOGO waste.
Funding: up to $20,000.
Dairy Australia Limited
Identifying opportunities within Victoria for the development of bioenergy projects based on co-digestion of problematic waste streams from the dairy, red meat, pork and chicken industries.
Funding: up to $200,000.
Delorean Energy Pty Ltd
Building a waste to energy facility in Stanhope, Victoria. The facility will use anaerobic digestion technology to process typical organic waste feedstocks including under-utilised feedstocks like industrial organics.
Funding: up to $40,000.
Eco Recyclers Pty Ltd
Determining the feasibility of commoditising Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste timber into a high value biomass for use in energy recovery.
Funding: up to $47,500.
Energy 360 Pty Ltd
Collaborating with a medium sized dairy farm in Gippsland, to conduct a feasibility study and business case for a waste to energy project using anaerobic digestion technology.
Funding: up to $43,500.
FHAH Pty Ltd
Investigating the use of biomass at their Tatura site and biomass replacement feedstock at their Mansfield site and reduce reliance on natural gas grid infrastructure.
Funding: up to $50,000.
Frontier Carbon Pty Ltd
Building the Biorefinery Renewable Energy Park in Mildura, Victoria’s first renewable fuel biorefinery project.
Funding: up to $225,000.
Gaia Enviro Tech
Determining the feasibility of building a Regional Bioenergy Hub utilising anaerobic digestion (AD) at a medium scale within regional Victoria and will provide a positive business case for AD as a suitable waste-to-energy solution.
Funding: up to $35,000.
Golden Camel Mining Pty Ltd
Developing an anaerobic digestion plant to provide 1 - 2 MW ‘behind the meter’ base load power to a mineral processing facility that is currently being built in Nagambie.
Funding: up to $25,000.
Goulburn Valley Region Water Corporation (GREAT)
Transitioning the Shepparton Wastewater Management Facility to a green energy technology hub, delivering local energy resilience and nutrient recycling.
Funding: up to $130,000.
Max Biocare Pty Ltd
Developing a business case for the generation of fungal enzymes for recalcitrant agricultural waste treatment, while mitigating waste streams and integrating with circular economy programs.
Funding: up to $127,300.
Mornington Peninsula Shire Council
Undertaking a feasibility study to map and quantify agricultural and commercial food organic waste streams, from within the green wedge rural zone, and current materials flow and processing.
Funding: up to $30,000.
Orbost and District Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc
Studying of feedstocks and bioenergy options in or near the township, conducting basic biochemical testing on the major feedstocks and proposing potential project sites.
Funding: up to $31,334.
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Supporting a research study to develop a portable and scalable solution for converting waste cooking oil to biodiesel utilizing an additively manufactured (3D printed) catalytic reactor.
Funding: up to $250,000.
Tempo Foods
Converting the dairy manufacturing waste to renewable biogas using a unique small scale anaerobic digestion system. This project will reduce Tempo’s reliance on natural gas for hot water.
Funding: up to $250,000.
Westernport Region Water Corporation
Understanding the viability for a waste-to-energy cogeneration facility at Westernport Water’s Cowes Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Funding: up to $212,500.
Yarra Valley Water Corporation
Developing a feasibility study and business case for investment into additional electricity generation infrastructure at Yarra Valley Water’s bioenergy facility in Wollert. It will capture its full renewable energy generation potential from the excess biogas which is currently being flared.
Funding: up to $175,000 .
-
Announcement date: 21 June 2023
Australia Consolidated Milk Pty Ltd
Converting wasted cheese from production process to produce biogas which will then be converted into electricity to run the dairy manufacturing plant.
Funding: up to $850,000.
Gaia EnviroTech
Installing an anaerobic digestion system that will convert organic waste into an energy resource. The biogas produced will help to displace natural gas and insulate from increasing wholesale gas prices in Victoria and protect against the threat of future gas supply shortfalls.
Funding: up to $407,000.
Katunga Fresh Pty Ltd
Building a pyrolysis plant that will allow them to use its organic waste to be fed into the pyrolysis units, with the additional ability to process off site biomass within a 200-kilometre radius of the site. The project will reduce Katunga Fresh’s demand on the grid to zero by using the processed biomass to warm the glasshouses and will result in 145,000GJ of natural gas being returned into the grid saving Katunga more than $3,000,000 per year.
Funding: up to $1,000,000.
LMS Energy Pty Ltd
Constructing a first-of-its-kind dry anaerobic digestion facility at the Wyndham Refuse Disposal Facility to recover biogas from 10,000 tonnes of organic material and used to displace fossil fuels intensive onsite biogas renewable energy facility, or act as a natural gas substitute.
Funding: up to $550,000.
Oztek Holdings Pty Ltd
Developing a covered anaerobic lagoon for this biodiesel plant and rendering plant that processes meat by-products. The lagoon will rejuvenate an existing covered anaerobic lagoon to double site biogas production, purchase and install equipment that will enable biogas conversion into heat and electricity.
Funding: up to $591,983.
Saputo Dairy Australia Pty Ltd
Recovering the natural gas configured microturbines and have them modified to run on biogas. It will also fund the addition of heat recovery units on the turbine exhausts, for installation at Allansford cheese and whey plant, where up to 4.5 MW of biogas is currently produced and flared.
Funding: up to $1,000,000.
Union Pastoral Pty Ltd
Using anaerobic pond coverings to capture biogas. Organic animal effluent will be used to create electricity for their operations using a combined heat and power generation plant. Utilising bioenergy resources generated onsite will help Union Dairy project site at Woolsthorpe achieve emissions abatement of approx. 7,500 tCO2e per year.
Funding: up to $840,582.
Union Pastoral Pty Ltd
Using anaerobic pond coverings in to capture biogas created by organic animal effluent and create electricity to use in their operations using a combined heat and power generation plant. By capturing the methane emissions from the ponds and creating electricity will help Cooramook Dairy project site at Grassmere achieve annual emissions abatement of approx. 11,000 tCO2e per year.
Funding: up to $892,313.
Yarra Valley Water Corporation
Developing an anaerobic digestion facility at its Lilydale Sewage Treatment Plant site. This fund supports the purchase of generation equipment. Once commissioned, this plant will process around 27,000 tpa of commercial and industrial food waste, producing around 11,400 MWh per year of electricity to power onsite and the remaining electricity injected into the grid.
Funding: up to $1,000,000.
More information
This grant program is closed, but you can email us if you have any queries.