Energy Farmers is working with stakeholders to ramp up the bioenergy industry in Australia. Our view is that we need to build the confidence of farmers and feedstock suppliers in bioenergy technology, develop biomass supply chains and ultimatley be in a position to supply large amounts of biomass to future bioenergy and biofuels projects across Australia. We also design and develop small on site solutions that use wastes resources to ...
We presented at Bioenergy Australia’s annual conference held in Melbourne on the 25th-27th of November on the work we have been doing in the bioenergy space. It was great to mix with other industry players and sobering to hear they are all facing the same constraints getting projects off the ground.
Biomass projects are complex needing a lot of different aspects to come together to ensure project success. Financing these projects is an issue, long development times mean that investors get fatigued ...
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Internationally it has been proven that bioenergy can be a significant player in energy supply. Indeed many developed economies have ambitious plans to increase the contribution of bioenergy in future. Currently bioenergy contributes less that 1% of Australia’s energy supply. Australia must draw from these international experiences and apply them as part of actions required to combat the effects of climate change.
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In May, the Federal Government announced the successful applicants of “Filling the Research Gap” and “Action on the Ground“, round one funding, direct beneficiaries of the Clean Energy Futures policy.
I think its great to see the variety of projects and it’s the first real step to getting farmers and the rest of Australia away from their reliance of fossil based products and toward more sustainable agricultural ...
Continue Reading →All wastes contain energy.
Organic energy is produced when an organic waste is converted into a fuel, such as methane. The process helps us reduce environmental damage because it recovers a valuable resource (methane) and reduces pollution in the atmosphere. Inorganic energy is produced when high calorific materials, such as plastics, are recovered. The plastics used to generate inorganic energy are most often those that can’t be recycled.
As part of stage one of EFA’s Mid West Waste to Energy Project Development ...
Continue Reading →The Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Food have launched “Filling the Research Gap” as part of its Carbon Farming Futures Program. 201 million dollars will be invested to support research into emerging abatement technologies, strategies and innovative management practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the land sector, sequester carbon and enhance sustainable agricultural practices.
The funding is available to Australian companies, business, research organisation, government agencies and departments. Research priorities for funding ...
Continue Reading →The Clean Energy Council’s 2011 Bioenergy Review provides a good snapshot of the Australian Bioenergy industry.
The report covers the economic benefits of bioenergy, policy and regulatory environment and an outlook for the industry including the effects of a price on carbon.
Continue Reading →There is still a lot of negativity in the agriculture community about the governments Clean Energy Future policy, here is a letter written to the Countryman about why the policy has merit! See the link here
Continue Reading →This a great article on how Europe is using a carbon tax to finance bioenergy and highlights how far behind Australia is.
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Its moments like these that tell me we are on the right path and its going to be an exciting future for agriculture. Richard Branson’s Virgin Australia have just announced a consortium with Renewable Oil Corporation (ROC), Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation (DYMTF) and Future Farm Industries Co-operative Research Centre (FFI CRC) to develop a sustainable aviation biofuels with benefits that will flow to the Australian farming community and the environment.
I believe this highlights the fact ...
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