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Today's Transition Fuel, Tomorrow's Green Gold Wednesday 8Th July Biomethane; today’s transition fuel, tomorrow’s green gold Wednesday 8th July #WorldBiogasSummit21 Flexible Generation and Turning Landfill Gas into an Asset WBA Summit Alex Marshall Agenda Group Business – Clarke Energy Development and – Gas engines Marketing Director – Case studies 7th July 2021 Introduction 3 Global Supporting net- Experience Lower costs and Turnkey Maintenance zero carbon Operates in 27 Over 7.3 GWe Turnkey EPC Full maintenance, countries Our projects seek of Jenbacher Lower costs contractor with operation and to support the installed and carbon civil engineering overhaul services transition to a emissions through capabilities maximising zero-carbon fuel efficient equipment economy power availability Geographical reach 4 Geographical reach 5 Product Offering 6 INNIO’s Jenbacher gas engines TPI’s Biogas Upgrading Systems (0.25-10MW) (Membrane and selective solvent) Fuel flexibility 7 Biogas Flexible delivery model 8 Biogas Upgrader or Power module Biogas Genset A Jenbacher biogas A membrane or amine engine module is biogas upgrading unit or configured for the a biogas engine recovery of both electricity and heat Hybrid solutions Power plant Clarke Energy can take Clarke Energy can on a greater scope of supply a turn-key project supply and installation of a multi- incorporate different engine power plants power generation technologies Clarke Energy global biogas experience 9 800 700 600 500 ~1.4GWe 400 300 globally 200 100 0 UK / France / Australia / USA India Eastern Africa Latin China Ireland Belgium New Europe America Zealand Agricultural Waste Landfill Wastewater treatment plant Energy efficiency basis of combined heat and power technology 10 Conventional Power Plant Fuel (100%) Electricity for transmission (35%) Supplied electricity Generation/heat Transmission Losses (efficiency) 33.5% losses (65%) (1.5%) Gas-fuelled CHP plant Electricity (45%) Fuel 90% (100%) Efficiency Useful Heat (45%) Generation/heat losses (10%) Increase in Intermittent Capacities in a Growing Incidence of Top and Bottom Prices. 11 Projections by Aurora ER* 07305 227960 Source: Aurora ER 2021 Biogas and flexible generation 12 At biogas plant • Larger gas storage >4 hours • Move away from base load generation support tariffs • Onsite flexible power generation with gas reciprocating engines and energy trading software Using gas network • Biogas upgrading to clean biogas to grid injection standards • Utilise grid as gas storage location • Grid connected gas peaking stations to balance grid Embio Limited, 13 Mahad, India Agricultural biogas fuelled combined cooling, heat and power plant 1.5MWe 1 x JMC420 Forsa 14 Pimbo, Hillhouse, Chadderton, Bancroft Forsa Energy’s peaking station portfolio Grid balancing, renewable energy enablement, full EPC, 4 installations 80MWe Pimbo, Hillhouse, Chadderton, Bancroft 4 x (4 x J624 + 1 x J616) Confidential client, 15 United Kingdom Natural gas fuelled peaking station Grid balancing, Capacity Market, record time, full turnkey delivery 50MWe 11x JGS624 Nova Power & Gas 16 Campia Turzii, jud. Cluj, Romania Natural gas distributor and supplier, part of the E-Infra Group 4 x engines Engine supply to a project supplying delivered February electricity to an industrial park whilst 2021 providing capacity market services 13.4MWe 4 x Jenbacher JGS 620 gas engines Monetising landfill gas 17 Landfill gas constituents 18 Source: G. Tchobanoglouset al, 1993 Landfill gas CHP schematic 19 Landfill gas treatment phases (Source Landfill Methane Outreach Program) 20 Plessis Gassot, Véolia Propreté 21 and Dalkia, near Paris, France Largest landfill gas power plant in France Waste heat recovered for district energy scheme 17.3MWe 4x J620, 5x J416, 1x J320 Agrigaz Biogas Upgrading Facility, 22 France Biogas upgrading facility Stripping CO2 from biogas, injecting upgraded gas into gas distribution network. 23 Thank you James Rockall WLPG World Biogas Summit 2021 July 8th 2021 What is (traditional) LPG? LPG is traditionally a co-product of natural gas production (>60%) and crude refining. It consists of propane and/or butane. Consumption 315 million tonnes/yr in 2020 >2,000,000 employees 3 billion consumers Global value of the business > $300 billion/yr www.wlpga.org LPG fuels thousands of applications From cooking… www.wlpga.org …to transport www.wlpga.org From offroad applications… www.wlpga.org …to anything requiring mobile heat www.wlpga.org CLEAN, DECENTRALISED AND EFFICIENT ENERGY JUST LIKE LPG BUT RENEWABLE What is BioLPG? Chemically identical 80% lower CO2 than LPG Being consumed by thousands of families and businesses today Why use BioLPG? What is it used for? What is it made from? Demonstrate the credibility of meeting at least 50% of 2050 non-chemical demand with rLPG – c.130 million tonnes www.wlpga.org Renewable LPG - pathways Gasification Biorefining and (lipids) pyrolysis Biogas Power-to-x conversion www.wlpga.org Renewable LPG pathways Pathway TRL Main Product rLPG yield Examples www.wlpga.org BioLPG - A Renewable Pathway Towards 2050 The European LPG market can be 100% renewable by 2050 www.wlpga.org rLPG – contribution of rDME ▪ Safe, clean and green – 50+ years of use as an aerosol propellant ▪ Physical properties similar to LPG ▪ Relatively easy synthesis via methanol or syn gas (H2 + CO) ▪ Can be blended into traditional LPG with dramatic overall decarbonisation ▪ Offers negative Carbon Intensity www.wlpga.org rLPG – contribution of rDME ▪ CARB estimates the carbon intensity (CI) of dairy biogas-based DME to -278 gCO2e/MJ compared to ultra-low sulphur diesel which has a CI of 100 ▪ A mix of 20% rDME and 80% propane can give a net zero carbon intensity www.wlpga.org Future molecules through existing infrastructure Working on future fuels and blends e.g. rDME, green ammonia, green hydrogen rDME rNH3 rH2 www.wlpga.org www.wlpga.org 34 Thank you! JAMES ROCKALL Email: [email protected] CONTACT 182, avenue Charles de Gaulle – THE WORLD LPG 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Tel. : +33 (0)1 78 99 13 30 ASSOCIATION Fax : +33 (0)1 78 99 13 31 Email : [email protected] www.wlpga.org 35 Renewable Natural Gas and Hydrogen July 8, 2021 Tej Gidda Agenda Future Energy and Decarbonization Renewable Natural Gas Hydrogen RNG + H2 Lavo: Residential Hydrogen Storage Decarbonization https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/the-energy-future/scenarios/shell-scenarios-energy-models/world-energy- model/_jcr_content/par/textimage.stream/1510344160326/2ee82a9c68cd84e572c9db09cc43d7ec3e3fafe7/shell-world- energy-model.pdf Wehave done relatively well abating electrical emissions. The fuels side of abatement is a harder problem and the largest challenge. Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Current state RNG Production Capability (Mm3 RNG/yr) • RNG currently only makes up 0.1% of the natural gas supply mix in US; biggest hurdle is cost and economies of 20,000 scale 10,000 • Strong potential for growth given push to decarbonize and government support 0 Landfills Wastewater Farms Food Waste Treatment # Operational RNG Number of Potential US Projects in US (1) Projects (RBC, 2020) Operational Potential (2) Landfills 2,600 Future state • RNG from a range of existing sources has the potential to Wastewater 16,000 Treatment meet an estimated 10% of natural gas demand by 2040; roughly equivalent to the size of the solar industry(1), (3). Farms 8,000 • Market potential is essentially demand for conventional gas Food Waste 1,000 (4) • Market potential requires consumers to want to transition to green energy, policy support and feedstock which means a full Total 119 26,600 transition is unlikely (1) RBC, 2020 • Based on a price of $20/GJ, the Canadian RNG commercial (2) National Renewable Energy Laboratory market potential is an estimated $26 billion per year (3) M.J. Bradley & Associates (4) Estimate RNG is: • Proven • Raises no real concerns for pipeline integrity • Distributed • Able to displace fossil fuel • Marketable RNG is also: • Not going to abate the fuels issue by itself Why is Hydrogen Important? • Most abundant element in the universe • Most abundant element on Earth (water) • Energy-rich • No carbon • Bridges electrical and gas networks • The exportable renewable https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/debate-intensifies-over-speed- expanding-universe Consumers are shifting their buying, living and employment habits around sustainability. https://communications.ghd.com/energy-post- COVID/ Hydrogen is Already in Use North America represents 25% of total global NA Hydrogen demand could grow 8 demand times from 18 million Metric Tonnes to over 135 million Metric Tonnesby 2050. How to Make Hydrogen Hydrogen is manufactured almost entirely from coal and natural gas = ~830M tonnes of CO2 emissions per year, and is an integral part of the modern refining and chemical industry. Air Products electrolyzer; for every 1 ton of hydrogen produced, 16 tons of pure oxygen are also produced. Hydrogen Blending Blending allows for: • Utilization of existing natural gas transmission and distribution networks • Transitory decarbonization of the natural gas system • Significant infrastructuredevelopment for hydrogen, both blue and green • The possibility of recovering hydrogen at end- of-pipe Blending requires: • Careful attention to safety and maintenance of pipeline infrastructure • Access to geological sequestrationof carbon dioxide, or utilization approaches • Viable offtake markets GHD White Paper on Hydrogen Blending, undertaken for the Pipeline Research Council International H2 Market – Global Investment Potential 2030 Well established
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