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Alberta CleantechIndustry Overview

March 25, 2013

Jeff BellIndustry Development Officer, Clean Energy and BiorefiningAlberta Agriculture and Rural [email protected]

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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

About Us Alberta Opportunities Why Alberta? Policy Drivers3

Example: Bio‐refining

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HEAT

ELECTRICITY

PermolexRed Deer, Alberta


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Example: Bio‐refiningEnerkem Waste to Fuel FacilityEdmonton, Alberta


Example: Multiple ValuesEnerkem Waste to Fuel FacilityEdmonton, Alberta

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• Increases landfill diversion from 60% to ~90%

• MSW > syngas:• Methanol• Ethanol


Wood Biomass ProjectCamrose, Alberta

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Waste water treatmentEnergy

Example: Multiple Values


Strathcona District Heating PlantSherwood Park, Alberta

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Example: Co‐siting

9MW Natural gas heat1MW bio heatWood waste Agricultural pellets


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


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


Forested land per capita (hectares)

• 38 million hectares forested land

Abundant:• Hardwood• Softwood• Logging residues• Wood waste

Why Alberta? – Forestry Feedstocks


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.


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.


• 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

Policy‐ Production Based Incentive

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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

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