Philippines NuevaChar
Biochar
Biomass
プロジェクト概要
ACM is a carbon project developer focused on sector-specific decarbonization. Their goal is to decarbonize the rice industry by creating a fully circular model of energy use, minimizing rice husk and straw waste by generating green energy and electricity, organic fertilizers and pesticides, and biochar. They are focused on the Philippines, one of the largest rice-growing countries in the world, and our target is to eventually (by 2050) decarbonize the 20 million tonnes of rice production annually, leading to an ambitious 35 million tonnes of CO₂e every year through a combination of avoidance and removal.
ACM’s ElectroChar project comes on the back of the successful implementation of the NuevaChar facility. ACM has been operating NeuvaChar for nearly two years. They are now upgrading their pyrolysis technology and installing ElectroChar projects moving forward – these are combined heat and power facilities that produce biochar.
These units will be built by their technology partner and installed at rice mills in the Philippines to replace existing biomass boilers. ACM has signed MOUs with eight separate rice mills to develop units on their premises.
Each ElectroChar unit will produce 1,100 tonnes of rice-husk biochar and 2,000 tonnes of carbon removal credits per annum. Consequently, by 2025, they expect to generate approximately 8,750 credits per annum (4 ElectroChar and 1 NuevaChar) and will be looking to scale up to 50 units in the Philippines by the end of the decade.