The Alberta government will grant over $137,000 for an $8 million electricity-from-biomass project in the county of Stettler.
Prairie Biogas Ltd. and the county government will use the province’s funds to help develop a plant that can process 25 tonnes of mostly farm biomass but also municipal waste, producing a “clean” synthetic gas that can be used to generate up to two megawatts of power.
The proposed plant, if successful, could also produce heat and “clean” hydrogen for other uses, the province said in a release Wednesday.
The company and country will investigate the possibilities for cutting down on waste management costs and creating “green” energy from waste while boosting revenue for the county.
The grants come from two provincial programs, the biorefining commercialization and market development program and the bioenergy infrastructure development program.
