The Cowra community is taking another determined step towards a new era of local resources producing local energy for local industry and agriculture.
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The Cowra Low Emissions Action Network (CLEAN) Inc is working towards the development of a biomass-to-energy project that will empower regional agricultural communities to generate their own energy from organic waste.
A launch event will be held on Wednesday, June 29 at 10 am in the Cowra Civic Centre Theatrette, to promote the CLEAN Cowra project and to launch the new CLEAN Cowra website at: www.clean.org.au
The new website will provide easily accessible information to support biomass energy creating projects in rural communities across the Central West, and in other parts of Australia where rural communities have access to large amounts of biomass waste.
CLEAN Inc is a Cowra based community group which was established in 2007 when CLEAN facilitated a bulk purchase of solar systems for over 80 households.
In 2016 CLEAN Inc is advocating for the development of a biomass-to-energy project model that can be replicated across regional communities.
This project is about empowering regional agricultural communities to generate their own decentralised energy from organic waste material.
Regional agricultural communities, the food bowl of Australia, are under pressure to adapt to high input costs for food production and the increasingly tight requirements and expense of waste management.
CLEAN Cowra is looking to create a solution that will convert this waste into electricity and high value products such as fertiliser, through the processes of anaerobic digestion and thermal recovery.
The aim is to combine several biomass waste materials produced in the Cowra region to produce power that can then be distributed through a localised network.
By converting organic waste from food production into energy, local biomass waste, resources will be harvested and transformed.
The waste is to be converted into high-value products, including energy and fertilisers, through the use of proven technology.
“This exciting project has enormous benefits for regional communities and the new website will help support the evolution of a new way of literally empowering rural and regional communities,” said local CLEAN member Casey Proctor
