Biomass 01: Auspine Renewable Energy Commercialisation Project
Renewable Energy Commercialisation in Australia, Australian Greenhouse Office, 2003
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Auspine is preparing to build a 60MW biomass power station. In order to maximise the biomass yields to supply the power station, it will develop a plantation biomass resource management and procurement system.
Publicly listed forestry group Auspine Ltd has received a $195,000 grant under the Renewable Energy Commercialisation Program to assist with the commercialisation of plantation biomass resource management and procurement systems.
Auspine is currently funding a study into a proposal to build Australia's largest biomass-fuelled power station at Tarpeena near Mount Gambier in the south-east of South Australia. The project is expected to produce 60MW of electricity per annum principally from about 600,000 tonnes of softwood plantation wastes.
The ability to source a regular and uniform supply of biomass fuel is integral to the success of the project. To this end, Auspine will identify the harvest and haulage technology required to efficiently collect and deliver biomass fuel to the Auspine plant. It will also identify thinning and harvest regimes that will improve the productivity of existing high-value plantation products, as well as facilitate the procurement of biomass products.
Auspine aims to enhance existing plantation yield management systems to predict and manage biomass yields and associated green energy equivalents. Auspine plans to develop audit trail systems that will enable tracking of biomass source material, its calorific values and green energy equivalents. It will also develop handling practices that optimise moisture content management and calorific value of biomass source materials.
Biomass fuel will be sourced from pine sawmilling waste and directly from plantations within the green triangle region of South Australia. Plantation biomass fuel will be generated from multi-thinned sawlog regimes. The ability to harvest biomass from early thinnings in particular offers an exciting opportunity to review conventional thinning regimes with the goal of enhancing the rotation production of high-value radiata pine sawlogs.
For more information please contact:
Phil Lloyd
Auspine
Penola Road
Tarpeena SA 5277
Tel (08) 8721 5555
Fax (08) 8721 5551
Email plloyd@auspine.com.au
Internet www.auspine.com.au
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