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ARENA Biogas Workshop – August 2016 Matt Walden

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Who is ARENA?

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Australian Renewable Energy Agency

$2.5 billion

in funding

to 2022

$330 million commitment

target to June 2016

Established in 2012 to:

Improve competitiveness

of renewable energy technologies

Increase supply of renewable energy

in Australia

$1.1 billion

committed

to date

249 supported

projects

58 completed projects

Knowledge | Collect, analyse, interpret and disseminate information

and knowledge

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Advancing renewables along the path to commercialisation

ARC grants

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23 March 2016 - Australian Government announced intention to:

• Retain ARENA and CEFC

• Expand ARENA’s mandate to include energy efficiency and low emissions technologies

- Requires regulation

• Predominantly invest via debt and equity under the Clean Energy Innovation Fund

- Requires regulation

- Jointly managed by ARENA and CEFC

• Retain $1.3 billion in savings from May 2014 Budget

- Requires legislative change

New ARENA Board announced 13 April 2016

Recent announcements

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What sort of Projects does ARENA fund and how is this determined?

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ARENA Portfolio

110 38 11 3 19 5 48

Solar PV Solar Thermal Hybrid Geothermal Bioenergy Ocean Enabling

$m

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ARENA Act 2011

Investment Plan

General Funding Strategy

Programme Guidelines

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• Integrating renewables and grids (IRG) • Establishing innovation lab to build quality projects to complement existing

portfolio.

• Renewables for industrial processes • Working with industry stakeholders to determine prospective opportunities

to demonstrate renewables (including bioenergy) reduce costs and improve productivity.

• Off-grid areas • Economic challenges of lower diesel prices

• Technical lessons could be relevant to grid applications

• Fringe-of-grid and network constrained areas • Several relevant projects signed recently year

• Likely to consolidate with IRG priority

• Large-scale solar PV • 22 applications proceeding to full application (due 15 June)

Investment Priorities

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ARENA involvement in Bioenergy

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Case Study: Queensland University of Technology

Utilising biogas in sugarcane transport and milling

• Biogas using AD with sugarcane trash as feedstock

• Biofuels using HTL with AD solids as feedstock

• Project Partners: • QUT • Griffith University • Manildra Harwood Sugars • Sunshine Sugar • Utilitas Pty Ltd

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Case Study: Southern Oil Refining

Lab Scale

Northern Oil Laboratories

Determine processing requirements

Demonstration

Northern Oil Refinery

Trial requirements in batch runs

Pilot

Pilot Facility

Trial requirements in a continuous facility

Full Scale

Commercial Facility

Full run

ARENA QLD Government

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Case Study: RDA Pentland

Sweet Sorghum at Pentland April 2016

• Bankable feasibility for integrated 1st and 2nd generation bioethanol plant

• Evaluation of sweet sorghum as a alternative sugar source

• Carbon and energy balances comparing 1st and 2nd generation bioethanol production in the Australian context

• Project Partners: • CR Tomlinson Ltd • TOMSA Destil S.L. • Beta Renewables • National Australia Bank

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$1.1 Billion

committed to support projects

$2.7 Billion

In project value facilitated by

ARENA investment

37 new projects worth $365M announced in

2014-15

Largest solar farm in the southern

hemisphere now sending electricity

into the grid

30+ remote communities & industries to benefit from $140M in ARENA funding for 12 project in remote off-grid &

fringe-of-grid locations

Award winning

World Environment Day Award

(UN)