Tasmania’s Bioenergy Future Online Summit was held Monday 9 November 2020 together with the Tasmanian Government. This event consists of both a seminar where you will hear from industry experts sharing information through presentations and existing projects/case studies followed by three breakrooms that will look at a more in-depth discussion of projects and technology within the industry.
Tasmania’s Bioenergy Future online summit seeks to provide an opportunity for the agriculture, farming, industrial, energy, transport, mining, and local government sectors to understand their potential opportunities in bioenergy and the broader bioeconomy. To understand more about the technologies and feedstocks please check out KPMG State of the Nation Report and Biogas Opportunities for Australia recently published by Bioenergy Australia.
Tasmania’s Bioenergy Future (Seminar)
Opening Address
• Guy Barnett MP, Minister for Energy
State of Australia’s Bioeconomy and the opportunity for Tasmania to drive a new economy
• Shahana McKenzie, Bioenergy Australia - Global and Domestic drivers accelerating Australia’s bioeconomy
• Matt Walden, ARENA - Commonwealth Bioenergy Roadmap
• Martin Moroni, Department of State Growth Tasmania - ABBA project update & overview of bioenergy technologies
Investing and driving an offtake for bioenergy
• Mac Irvine, CEFC - Offtake bankability for bioenergy projects
• Michael Froud, Pittwater Capital - Tasmania Bbioenergy opportunities & challenges
• Kate Daley, Tas Gas - AD and the opportunities for decarbonisation of our gas networks
Recording available here.
Extracting value from organic waste streams through anaerobic digestion to produce biogas, biomethane and high-value products
• Molly Chapman, FinnBiogas - The 1,2,3’s of Anaerobic Digestion
• Samantha Lamond, Energy 360 - Power up your waste
• Edward Lynch, Neras & Frank Wennerberg Combigas - Learning from danish biogass: a comparative analysis
• Kunal Shah, Anaergia - Anerobic Digestion options for Tasmania
• Alexander Vogelsang, Aquatec Maxcon - Anerobic Digestion options for Tasmania
• Trip Allen, BTS Biogas - AB Agri (UK) AD, A BTS Biogas Success Story
• Maxime De Keyser, Waterleau - Biogas recovery from brewery wastewater
Q&A facilitated by Michael Froud Pittwater Capital
Recording available here.
Capitalising on Tasmania's abundance of forestry and agriculture residues for renewable heat and power
• Garry Thorp, McCain Smithton Plant Boiler - The opportunity to use radiate pine as an energy source, rather than chipping and shipping overseas.
• Trevor Innes, Timberlink Australia - Sawmill residue fired boiler to heat timber drying kilns
• Jelena Radisic, Greenhams - Greenham's use of bioenergy in meat processing
• Christian Jirkowsky, Polytechnik - Biomass Energy The importance of tailoring energy plants to the available residues and the application
• Tony Esplin, RTG - Export opportunities associated with wood pellets
• Thomas Strang, Justen Pacific - Why Tasmania can be a Bioenergy Superpower
• Annette Cowie, NSW Department of Primary Industries - Environmental and social co-benefits from bioenergy
Q&A facilitated by Gavin Matthew, AFPA
Recording available here
Biofuels and biochemicals in Tasmania a new industry to drive new jobs
• Steve Rogers, Licella - Green Fuels – Green Ferries – How Tasmania could power its Trans-Tasman ferries on sustainable fuels
• Geoff Bell, Microbiogen Biobased Fuels and Chemicals: Potential Opportunities for Tasmania
• Barrie King, Global Fuel Solutions - MECC advanced fuels biorefineries
• Prasad Kaparaju, Griffith University - Biogas production from agricultural residues and upgrading to biomethane for vehicle fuel
• Jennifer Lauber-Patterson, Frontier Impact Group - A great opportunity in the development of Renewable fuels and bio-manufacturing Tasmania
• Michael Berry, University of the Sunshine Coast - Maximising economics return on timber residue and forest floor waste through supply chain management
Q&A facilitated by Mac Irvine, AFPA
Recording available here.
Download the full event program here
With thanks to the Tasmanian Government whose ABBA funds from ARENA and Agrigrowth made this seminar possible.
The ABBA data is collected by State Growth and published on the AREMI (Australian Renewable Energy Mapping Infrastructure) allowing bioenergy developers to locate areas with biomass for bioenergy production and provides an opportunity for those with underutilised biomass to find a market for it. For those with any biomass from agricultural, municipal, industrial or forestry sources that would like to have this data in ABBA please contact Martin Moroni :
Martin Moroni
Project Manager Domestic Processing and Bioenergy
Department of State Growth
4 Salamanca Place, Hobart
Email Martin.Moroni@stategrowth.tas.gov.au
mobile 0488 213 214