8AProject activities

8A Project activities

(1) An animal effluent management project must involve one or more of the following activities (which are called project activities in this determination):

(a) biogas generation for biomethane;

(b) biomethane production;

(c) emissions destruction;

(d) emissions avoidance.

(2) Biogas generation for biomethane involves:

(a) treating organic effluent by generating biogas from it; and emissions avoidance.

(b) capturing that biogas; and

(c) sending that biogas to a biogas upgrading system that is part of a project biomethane facility.

Note: Conversion abatement from biogas generation for biomethane only occurs when biomethane produced from biogas as part of the project can reasonably be expected to be combusted within Australia as a natural gas substitute.

(3) Biomethane production involves:

(a) treating biogas by biogas upgrading to produce biomethane at a project biomethane facility; and

(b) sending the biomethane to an end use where it can reasonably be expected to be combusted within Australia as a natural gas substitute.

Note 1: Acceptable end uses may include sale and transport to a gas retailer or gas consumer, or on-site combustion for heat or power.

Note 2: Combustion of biomethane may occur on-site at a project biomethane facility, or off-site if the biomethane is transported from a project biomethane facility to an end user. This may be through injection into a gas distribution or transmission network, transport via road, or another gas transport mechanism.

(4) Emissions destruction involves:

(a) treating organic effluent by generating biogas from it; and

(b) capturing that biogas; and

(c) destroying the proportion of the biogas that is methane using a combustion device.

(5) Emissions avoidance involves treating organic effluent by:

(a) removing material that includes volatile solids (diversion of the material); and

(b) dealing with the diverted material aerobically in a way that produces materially fewer total methane and nitrous oxide emissions than would be produced by treatment in an anaerobic pond (a post-diversion treatment).