This summer, hand in hand with the Canadian Greenlane Biogas, a company with whom we have already collaborated in the start-up of the biogas upgrading plant in Valdemingomez in Madrid, we have gone to FLORIDA!
Northeast of Miami, we are on the shores of Lake Okeechobee which is an area famous for its varied wildlife including hawks, eagles, cranes and other migratory birds as well, of course, as the feared alligators which inhabit the innumerable flood zones of Florida.
However, the wealth of this territory is equally fertile for the cultivation of its land and its agricultural and livestock activities. Indeed, it is here that Larson Dairy Inc. develops its livestock activities in the dairy industry. As a result of this activity, cattle manure is obtained which, after being stored in 4 lagoon model anaerobic digesters, produces biogas that is used for energy purposes.
The facilities have 4 biogas pre-treatment and pumping stations (one for each digestion unit), where the biogas goes through a desulphurisation and drying process before being pumped into two biogas upgrading units. These units, by way of PSA (Pressure Swing Adsorption) technology, enable the biogas to reach biomethane grade before finally being injected into the natural gas network.
This biomethane production contributes to reducing the carbon footprint to the same extent as planting 71,000 acres of forest, providing renewable energy equivalent to the energy consumption of 4,000 homes.
Each PSA upgrading system, through which pressurised biogas is processed, includes an Adicomp compression unit. Adicomp is the reference supplier in the sector and for whom Heat and Power Services Group are the official service partner for its start-up, operation and maintenance in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and now also the United States.
In this project we have been presented with new challenges that always add an “extra” to our experiences in the sector, including working at risk in the presence of alligators in the plant or the continuous tropical storms which, with a large electrical load, frequently require the shutdown of plant work.
The start-up of this project coincides with the approval of the new Inflation Reduction Law in the United States which includes important climate action. This law contemplates, among other incentives, tax credits for companies that build machinery related to the reduction of emissions such as anaerobic digesters, gas networks, renewable gas treatment technologies, etc. and which in the words of Patrick Serfass (Executive Director of the American Biogas Council):
“It’s probably the most helpful legislation that we’ve ever had.”
The Law expands the tax credits available to the industry to include biogas systems that produce heat and natural gas having previously only contemplated projects with electricity generation.
This Act also allocates nearly $2 billion to the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy Program until 2027 and $8.45 billion to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program until 2026.
In short, a considerable change in the energy policy that the previous administration had been carrying out and which gives a boost to an industry, such as that of renewable gases, which is already playing a fundamental role within the emission reduction objectives at the global level.
It is with this commitment that Heat and Power Biogas Services works as a key and benchmark player in the sector, acting where we are needed, be it in European territory or across the Atlantic.
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