Fluence wins EUR-1.7m waste-to-energy order in Argentina

Fluence Corporation Ltd has been awarded a €1.7 million(USD1.92823 m) contract for a waste-to-energy system for its customer ArreBeef Energia S.A., a prominent beef processor in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The system will be designed and built using anaerobic digestion technology developed by Fluence to produce biogas, as well as electrical and thermal energy. The system is expected to be installed and operational onsite by November 2019.

Fluence’s scope of work includes upgrading ArreBeef Energia’s existing wastewater treatment plant and adding a custom-designed waste-to-energy system that will use the sludge and byproducts from meat processing to produce biogas. The biogas will, in turn, be used to produce electrical and thermal energy.

ArreBeef Energia will use the thermal energy produced by Fluence’s system to power its own operations, thereby lowering its operating costs. The electrical energy produced will be fed into the grid in Buenos Aires, allowing ArreBeef Energia to benefit from incentives under Argentina’s RenovAR initiative. RenovAr was established by the national government in 2016 to incentivize businesses to lower their energy costs and increase the efficiency of the national grid.