MEYLAN, FRANCE: In early November, SUEZ and Waga Energy commissioned a brand new Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) manufacturing unit on the Madaillan landfill in Milhac-d’Auberoche (southwestern France).
This project is additional proof of SUEZ’s dedication to recovering biogas sourced from waste, an entirely inexperienced energy that’s produced and distributed locally in a brief cycle. This is the fifth RNG manufacturing unit to be commissioned collectively by SUEZ and Waga Energy.
Recovering RNG from biogas sourced from the fermentation of waste inside landfills is a rising problem in phrases of waste administration and ecological transition on a native level.
The Madaillan landfill run by SUEZ in Milhac-d’Auberoche processes round 105,000 tons of family waste every year, and till recently recovered the biogas produced by the breakdown of waste inside the type of warmth and electricity. To take the manufacturing of renewable energy one step further, SUEZ joined forces with Waga Energy to arrange a RNG manufacturing unit.
The choice of an innovative technology to provide households with renewable gas For its landfill in Milhac-d’Auberoche, SUEZ opted for WAGABOX® technology, developed and patented by Waga Energy.
The results of ten years of development, this innovative technology recovers gas from landfills inside the type of RNG, a renewable substitute for fossil-based pure gas. The WAGABOX® technology combines membrane filtration and cryogenic distillation to separate the energy-rich gas from the opposite components (carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen and volatile pure compounds).
This high-quality RNG is then directly injected into pure gas grids and marketed by SUEZ to meet users’ wants in phrases of heating, cooking, hot home water or to provide vehicles.
At the Madaillan site, SUEZ will produce – thanks to the WAGABOX® technology – as much as 88,000 MMBtu (20 GWh) per year of RNG, equal to the annual consumption of over 3,000 native households, saving 3,500 tons of CO2eq emissions every year through the substitution of RNG for fossil-based pure gas.
This is the fifth RNG injection project carried out collectively by SUEZ and Waga Energy inside the scope of their partnership. Since 2017, 4 different WAGABOX® units have been commissioned in France (in Saint-Maximin, Gueltas, Chevilly and Ventes-de-Bourse).
A sixth unit is currently under construction on the landfill in Montois-la-Montagne. With a mixed put in capability of 480,000 MMBtu (140 GWh) per year, these six units will provide over 20,000 French households with renewable gas, thereby saving 23,000 tons of CO2eq emissions per year.
The construction of the WAGABOX® unit in Milhac-d’Auberoche was funded by Waga Energy and Meridiam. This is the third WAGABOX® project to profit from the support of the corporate specializing inside the long-term administration and funding of sustainable infrastructure. The Nouvelle-Aquitaine area additionally contributed €400,000 to assist fund this native ecological transition project.
According to Guillaume Bomel, General Manager for Infrastructure at SUEZ, Recycling & Recovery France: “Given the present context amid excessive tensions over energies, particularly gas, waste is an available useful resource that could assist us obtain energy independence whereas addressing environmental and climate-change issues. The fact that SUEZ opted for the innovative WAGABOX® solution ties in entirely with the Group’s dedication to recovering RNG, a local, renewable, carbon-free energy which helps to advertise energy and ecological transition on a native level.”
According to Mathieu Lefebvre, CEO of Waga Energy: “SUEZ is one of many first operators to have positioned its belief in Waga Energy to produce RNG at its landfills. With this new project, Waga Energy and SUEZ are actively serving to to tackle local weather change and to advertise native energy independence. It’s a nice instance of a profitable partnership between an innovative younger firm and a main worldwide corporation, and provides additional proof of French industrial experience in waste processing and recovery”.