CA (BC): $7.5-million quadgeneration project at Village Farms

When B.C.’s clean energy pioneer Quadrogen Power Systems was founded, producing four useful products from sewage or landfill gas was world-beating technology, thus the inclusion of “quad” in its name.

Quadrogen has created a system to clean gas from the City of Vancouver’s landfill for a $7.5-million quadgeneration project run by FuelCell Energy at Village Farms’ massive greenhouse complex in Delta.

The plant is designed to produce up to 250 kilowatts of renewable electricity, enough heat for 50 homes, five tonnes of food-grade carbon dioxide and 125 kilograms of pure hydrogen, enough to fuel six fuel cell buses.

Using CO2 to enhance growth, the greenhouse produces premium quality tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers for Canadian and U.S. markets. Village Farms will be able to stop burning natural gas for CO2 when the Quadrogen plant is installed this summer.

The BC Bioenergy Network has supported the Village Farms pilot with a $1-million loan to Quadrogen and has another $500,000 on offer should the project meet performance thresholds, said BCBN executive director Michael Weedon.

Read more at the Vancouver Sun

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