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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2021
Volume 12 • Issue 5
Biogas on the rise
A decade of rapid growth in Canada
Change of heart
Winning over biomass sceptics
Regional focus: Canada
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Contents
Issue 5 • Volume 12
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A new decade of rapid growth for Canadian biogas
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Bioenergy Insight September/October 2021 • 1
Bioenergy RNG
Industry insight with DMT Clear Gas Solutions
Canada’s agricultural
and dairy market
T
oday’s Canadian
biogas and renewable
natural gas (RNG)
market holds much
promise. Since 2010,
Canada has accumulated
12 RNG projects with 16%
of the total biogas and RNG
projects using agricultural
feedstock1. With the country
only tapping into 13% of its
biogas potential, by far the
biggest growth opportunity
is in the agricultural sector,
where crop residues and
animal manure make up two-
thirds of the country’s easily
available biogas resources.
Growth in the dairy RNG industry
With more than 150 biogas and RNG systems worldwide, DMT understands Canada’s potential and will continue to
develop its RNG market
As a major technology supplier
for Canada, DMT has been A standardised approach Canada? For one, most of the the use of clean technologies
actively developing the immediately benefited anaerobic digesters thus far and fuels, and create jobs
agricultural RNG market for DMT’s presence in the dairy are on mid-size dairy farms in a diversified economy.
some time now. This past RNG industry both in the (approximately 250 milking It will do so by obligating
summer, DMT replaced a water US and Canada, because cows) that co-digest dairy liquid fuel suppliers to
wash system with its membrane it offers versatility and manure with off-farm organic reduce the amount of carbon
separation technology for wide application to dairy waste. With the average created in the production
a mid-size dairy farmer in farms, regardless of size. Canadian dairy farm holding of their fuels. Thus, these
British Columbia (BC) that For dairy farmers or project 89 milking cows, limited regulations will provide an
wanted to focus more on developers, this model is a farm size makes it difficult incentive to develop RNG
farming and less on operating huge incentive as one can for these projects to achieve projects that would otherwise
a RNG facility. Later this year, be online quicker, selling feasibility for RNG production2. struggle to compete in
DMT will complete another RNG sooner, and generating Additionally, other factors today’s energy markets.
biogas upgrading system for a immediate revenue. For known very well in the biogas According to Environment
large dairy farm in Ontario. example, the BC dairy industry to hold back RNG and Climate Change Canada’s
So how does a country with farmer was able to complete projects in general, such as estimates, the liquid-class
only 12 RNG projects suddenly installation, commissioning, distance to the natural gas CFS will reduce greenhouse
get two RNG projects within and start-up, using only DMT pipeline, feedstock ratio, gas emissions by more than
a year? Essentially, the remote support, with this and price of RNG, have 20 million tons in 2030 —
groundwork was already laid. ‘plug and play’ model. This also affected the market’s equivalent to taking 5 million
By working on projects in the was not initially planned potential — but not for long. cars off the road each year3.
US, DMT reduced lead times, but proved effective to The RNG industry eagerly Furthermore, Canada’s
perfecting a standardised, maintain project timelines awaits the finalisation of Minister of Agriculture and
pre-engineered model. during the pandemic. Canada’s Clean Fuels Standard Agri-Food announced in March
Additionally, the development (CFS) later this year. Coming funding of up to $116,800
of its extensive network of Canada’s potential into regulatory effect in (€78,400) for the Canadian
local vendors and partners in December 2022, the goal Biogas Association (CBA)
the last six years has improved What’s held back the of the CFS programme is to to accelerate sustainable
project execution overall. agricultural biogas sector in reduce emissions, accelerate agricultural development4. If
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probability of producing RNG
in a financially viable way5.
DMT has installed several
dairy RNG facilities in the US
using this cluster model. l
References:
1. Canadian Biogas Association.
Canadian 2020 Biogas Market
Report. April 2021
2. Dairy Farmers of Canada. “How
many cows are on Canadian dairy
farms?” dairyfarmersofcanada.ca/
en/who-we-are/our-commitments/
sustainability/how-many-cows-
farms-sizes. January 2019
3. “What is the clean fuel standard?.”
canada.ca/en/environment-
climate-change/services/managing-
pollution/energy-production/
A mid-size dairy farm in British Columbia replaces a water wash system with DMT’s Carborex® MS, a membrane separation fuel-regulations/clean-fuel-
system, to extract CO2 from the methane (CH4) stream standard/about.html. July 2021
4. Global Ag Media. “Canada green-
lights new resources for farmers
Canadian policy mimics the effect, Canada will continue In a cluster, multiple farms who want to discover biogas.”
US Renewable Fuel Standard, to rely on a combination of contribute feedstock to a thepoultrysite.com/news/2021/03/
canada-greenlights-new-resources-
dairy farms will offer low exporting RNG to the US and centralised anaerobic digester for-farmers-who-want-to-
carbon intensity scores and utility incentive programmes. facility. A study conducted discover-biogas. March 2021
increased RNG prices. These Regarding small-scale by the CBA found a high RNG 5. Canadian Biogas Association.
“Agricultural Renewable
revenue opportunities create dairy farming, a model to price, 50-50 feedstock of Natural Gas (RNG) Resource
a strong business case and overcome the scale-related manure and off-farm organics, Clustering Study.” April 2021
incentivise all projects, small economic barriers that or an average cluster of
For more information:
or large in scale. But until project developers encounter four dairy farms spark Visit: dmt-cgs.com
the new regulations take is the adoption of clusters. farm clusters with a high Author: Missy Lee, Marketing Manager
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