PROJECTS
"The billions of microbes in our anaerobic digesters are the worker bees of the circular economy working 24/7 to convert organic waste to biomethane."
Conor McCoole, Chairman
BUILD OWN OPERATE
In 2002, Asia Biogas built the first ‘Build Own Operate Transfer’ biogas plant in the cassava starch industry to turn waste water into clean thermal energy. The Korat Waste to Energy project was expanded to treat solid waste and excess biogas was used to generate electricity. We are proud of our role in making biogas the top thermal energy choice for Thailand’s cassava starch industry where 73% of factories now use biogas produced from their own waste.
Our group has developed and completed a further 12 BOOT biogas projects in Thailand and Lao PDR, mostly in the cassava starch and palm oil sectors. Altogether nine of our BOOT projects have been transferred back to the host factory.
We also developed more than 40 small-scale biogas projects at livestock farms in Philippines. And we developed the first BOOT biogas project at a dairy farm in Indonesia.
COMPRESSED BIOMETHANE GAS
In Thailand our focus is to expand production of biogas from palm oil mill waste and cassava starch factory waste. Our first Compressed Biomethane Gas project was commissioned in June 2019 in Rayong, Thailand with support from the Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency (DEDE).
We are now licensed to sell CBG as transport fuel, a direct replacement for compressed natural gas vehicle fuel known as ‘NGV’. The future for biogas in Thailand is biomethane – a clean, renewable fuel that is 100% Thai. It is available to industrial buyers seeking an alternative to fossil fuels.