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Alberta CleantechIndustry Overview
March 25, 2013
Jeff BellIndustry Development Officer, Clean Energy and BiorefiningAlberta Agriculture and Rural Developmentjeff.bell@gov.ab.ca
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Bio‐Industrial Opportunities Branch
About Us Alberta Opportunities Why Alberta? Policy Drivers
Alberta Bio‐energy Opportunities– Renewable Gasoline
• Ethanol• Methanol• Butanol• Green gasoline
– Renewable Diesel• FAME• HDRD
– Biocrude
– Biogas– Renewable Natural Gas– Syngas– Agricultural Energy Pellets
• Canola straw• Wheat straw• Waste• etc.
– Bio‐coal– Renewable Chemicals for the Oil Patch
• Drilling fluids• Surfactants• Solvents
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Example: Bio‐refining
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HEAT
ELECTRICITY
PermolexRed Deer, Alberta
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Example: Bio‐refiningEnerkem Waste to Fuel FacilityEdmonton, Alberta
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Example: Multiple ValuesEnerkem Waste to Fuel FacilityEdmonton, Alberta
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• Increases landfill diversion from 60% to ~90%
• MSW > syngas:• Methanol• Ethanol
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Wood Biomass ProjectCamrose, Alberta
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Waste water treatmentEnergy
Example: Multiple Values
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Strathcona District Heating PlantSherwood Park, Alberta
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Example: Co‐siting
9MW Natural gas heat1MW bio heatWood waste Agricultural pellets
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Why Alberta?
– Business friendly environment– Thriving economy– An Innovative and diversified
economic base– Diverse population– Young population– Entrepreneurial spirit– Thriving small business sector– Strong labour market– Highly skilled labor force
– Highly educated population– Advanced research facilities
(including bioenergy)– Competitive taxes– Well developed infrastructure– Strategic location– Abundant agricultural
feedstocks– Abundant forestry feedstocks– Supportive policy environment
for bio‐innovation
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Arable land per capita (hectares)
• 8.5 million hectares arable land
• 11+ million hectares pasture/forage
Abundant:• Crops (Wheat, canola, barley, etc)• Straw• Manure
Why Alberta? – Agricultural Feedstocks
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Forested land per capita (hectares)
• 38 million hectares forested land
Abundant:• Hardwood• Softwood• Logging residues• Wood waste
Why Alberta? – Forestry Feedstocks
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Why Alberta? – Diverse economy
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Policy‐ Specified Gas Emitters Regulation
• In place since July 2007• Facilities that emit >100,000 tonnes of GHG/year must reduce emissions intensity by 12 %
• Four compliance options:1. Improve internal operations;2. Purchase Alberta‐based offset credits;3. Contribute to the Climate Change and Emissions
Management Fund;4. Purchase or use Emission Performance Credits.
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Source: Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development
Policy‐ Offsets /compliance history
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Policy‐ Grant Programs
• Climate Change and Emissions Management Fund
• Approved 43 projects totaling $830 million (of which $161million came from CCEMC)
• New multi‐year “biological project” designed to attract the
best biological related projects.
• 5 bio‐related projects funded so far
1. Growing Power Biorefinery
2. Enerkem
3. Lacombe Biorefinery
4. Slave lake pulp Bio‐methanation
5. Lethbridge biogas
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Policy‐ Grant Programs
• Two Related Programs:• Biorefining Commercialization and Market Development Program
• Bioenergy Infrastructure Development Program
• Ran April 2007 to March 2011
• Intended to expand investment in biorefining
• Supported more than 70 bioenergy projects with
grants totaling approximately $150 million
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Policy‐ Production Based Incentive• Alberta’s Bioenergy Producer Credit Program
provides incentives to producers of bioenergy in Alberta for actual energy produced;
• Started in 2007 and has been extended to 2016;
• Supports a wide variety of bioenergy products;
• Province’s commitment to date is $490 million;
• To date $44 million has been awarded to producers.
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• Requires an average of 2% renewable diesel in diesel fuel and 5% renewable alcohol in gasoline sold in Alberta.
• Fuels must demonstrate at least 25 % fewer greenhouse gas emissions than the equivalent petroleum fuel.
Policy‐ Renewable Fuel Standard
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• Advanced Materials and Chemicals Program• Bio‐Economy Strategy Development• Bio‐Resource Information Management System (BRIMS) ‐ web‐based feedstock inventory
Alberta Innovates Bio‐Solutions
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• Biogas Innovation Program• Biomass polygeneration/gasification• Bio‐char• Bio‐pellets• Biomass Fuels Lab
Alberta Innovates Technology Futures
Table 1. Inventory of livestock and municipal feedstock materials and biogas energy potential in Alberta
Feed materialBiogas yield Annual biomass production
in tonnesAnnual energy potential in
PJm3/tonneBeef cattle manure 19 - 46 22,955,019 8.7 - 21.1
Hog manure: grower to finisher 28 - 46 1,848,415 1.0 - 1.7
Dairy manure 25 - 32 3,217,714 1.6 - 2.1Poultry manure 69 - 96 284,342 0.4 - 0.5
Animal fat 801 - 837 87,000 1.4 - 1.5
Animal carcass (homogenized-bovine)
348 - 413 264,023 1.8 - 2.2
Municipal wastewater sludge 17 - 140 539,835 0.2 - 1.5Household waste 143 - 214 N/A N/ATotal straw and other roughages 105 - 158 2,654,585 5.6 - 8.4
Thin stillage (ethanol by-product) 58 105,000 –
Total manure (including municipal sludge) and straw and other roughages
– 31,850,933 21 - 39
Source: Alberta Agriculture based on various sourceshttp://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$Department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex11397
Why Alberta? ‐ Feedstocks
Why Alberta? – Competitive Taxes
Why Alberta? – Entrepreneurs
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Policy‐ Nine Point Bioenergy Plan
• Released in 20061. Commercialization/Market Development Program
2. Bioenergy Infrastructure Development Grant Program
3. Renewable Energy Producer Credit Program
4. Energy Micro‐generation Standards and Policy Revisions
5. Bio‐industrial network development
6. Taxation and Investment Instruments for the Bioenergy Sector
7. National Renewable Fuel Standard and Energy Market Targets
8. Specified Risk Material (SRM) Disposal Protocol
9. Investment Support through Existing Programs that align
with Bioenergy Development
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Source: Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development
Policy‐ Offsets /compliance history
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Source: Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development
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Renewable Fuel Standard
Why Alberta? – Cleantech
• Permolex• Growing Power Hairy Hill• Enerkem• CR Fuels
Current Situation‐ Ethanol
• Western Biodiesel• Kyoto• Archer Daniel Midlands
Current Situation‐ Bio‐diesel
• Cargill Meats• Lamb Weston• McCain• Lethbridge Biogas• Highmark Renewables
Current Situation‐ Biogas