- SAB signs PPA with Bio2Watt to deploy a waste-to-power facility.
- SAB intends to reduce its carbon footprint
The South African brewery giant (SAB) has announced the signing of a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Bio2Watt. The company will convert livestock waste into biogas for electricity generation to power a SAB brewery in South Africa.
Bio2Watt is currently building a plant at Morester’s Vyvlei Dairy farm. The plant will handle the waste produced by the 7,000 cows on the dairy farm. The cow dung will be mixed with other organic waste collected in the municipality of Malmesbury to produce biogas. The heat from the combustion of this gas will be recovered to generate electricity.
The Bio2Watt biogas plant will have a capacity of 4.8MW. The ad hoc company set up to develop the project, Cape Dairy Project, has chosen the Canadian company Anaergia to set up the future facilities. The livestock waste to biogas and electricity project is being developed with Norfund of Norway and Public Investment Corporation (PIC), a South African public entity.