Start-up Underway on North America’s First Biogas Upgrading Facility

PlanET is pleased to announce that it has begun commissioning on North America’s first biogas upgrading facility. This biogas plant will be the first farm-based biogas plant in Canada to employ biogas upgrading technology and the first farm-based biogas plant in British Columbia for Agriculture. Phase one of the plant will generate enough renewable natural gas to heat approximately 1000 homes. The plant features two anaerobic digesters, one dry feeder system, two pasteurization units, and a biogas upgrading system. The plant will produce biogas from several organic waste streams: dairy manure, chicken manure, FOG (fats, oils, and greases), and corn silage. For further information or inquiries, please contact Matt Lensink, Application Manager at 905-935-1969.

 

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PlanET Announces Western Canada Sales Office

PlanET Biogas Solutions is pleased to announce it has extended its relationship with Christopher Bush. Effective today, Chris will represent PlanET Biogas Solutions in Western Canada. Chris has a deep and passionate background in anaerobic digestion including the development of the Catalyst Power Inc. Abbotsford site, referred to as the "The Farm of the Future...Now". Chris is located in Abbotsford BC (an hour from Vancouver). Read full story here

 

Vandermeer Greenhouse's PlanET Anaerobic Digester in the News!

"Fuel from the Vine" published in Greenhouse Canada, March 2010 issue. Read the article here

 

"New Biogas Plant: BC Farmer Plans to Convert Manure into Renewable Energy"

Article published in Manure Management magazine, January/February 2010 edition. Read the full article here.

Ledgecroft Farms Celebrates the Completion of its Anaerobic Digester Project with Open House

Saturday, November 21, 2009

On Saturday, November 21st PlanET, with the help of DDACE Power Systems, Organic Resource Management Inc. and Farm Credit Canada, hosted an Open House for the Green family at Ledgecroft Farms in Seeley’s Bay, Ontario (North of Kingston). Approximately 400 people, neighbours, friends, politicians, and parties interested in biogas, visited the farm throughout the afternoon. The event provided Ledgecroft Farms with the opportunity to open their completed anaerobic digester project to the public. Visitors were guided through the farm by an informative brochure and well-placed signs describing the important components of the system.

The Ledgecroft Farms biogas plant is based around a 1,500 m3 anaerobic digester vessel where organic inputs are transformed into biogas by way of a biological process. Manure is transferred directly into the digester while other off-farm inputs are pasteurized first (held at 70 °C for one hour) before entering the digester. The gas produced in the digester is burned in a 500 kW Jenbacher biogas engine-generator set that produces electricity for sale to the local grid. The final commissioning at Ledgecroft Farms is underway and the biogas plant will be producing electricity for the Hydro One grid within a couple weeks.

For more information about this project please contact info@planet-biogas.ca

 

PlanET Biogas Solutions Inc Wins 2009 St. Catharines Chamber of Commerce Eco Action Award

Thursday, November 5, 2009

PlanET Biogas Solutions was launched in 2006 as a joint venture between Martin Lensink and German-based PlanET Joint Venture. The venture combined the research of Mr. Lensink, a St. Catharines engineer working in the field of anaerobic digestion, and the construction technology of PlanET biogas plants in Germany and Holland.
PlanET Biogas Solutions specializes in the production of electricity through the process of anaerobic digestion – a process in which microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen producing a renewable fuel source. This renewable fuel – when captured properly – is converted to produce electricity.
The company designed and constructed the first biogas plant for Bayview Flowers in Jordan Station. The plant now produces enough energy to run a 250kW engine supplying the greenhouse with electricity and heat, and with enough excess electricity to be sold back to the grid to operate approximately 300 homes.
As part of the system’s digestion, the Bayview plant uses dog kibble surplus from a factory in Toronto, which has helped to reduce methane gas emissions though the diversion of this by-product. The leftover material from the digester, a liquid called digestate, contains high levels of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium- which has become a valuable fertilizer.
The company has also completed projects in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and is developing plants in Eastern Ontario and British Columbia with installations in the United States to commence in 2010.
PlanET Biogas Solutions is a true leader in renewable energy development.