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Characterize
Establish sludge volumes, feedstock characteristics and the condition of existing municipal infrastructure.
Project Portfolio · South Africa
Project ReSource
Transforming municipal wastewater residuals into energy, nutrients and commercially valuable circular bio-economy resources.
The Project
A new approach to wastewater residuals
Project ReSource is a proposed South African wastewater resource-recovery and circular bio-economy programme. It is designed to investigate how wastewater sludge and compatible organic residuals can be transformed from municipal liabilities into productive resources.
Depending on the resource base and conditions at each location, project pathways may include anaerobic digestion and biogas, electricity and heat, biomethane or Bio-CNG, nutrient recovery, soil conditioners or fertilizer inputs and other beneficial uses.
The programme is technology-neutral. Each facility will be developed around its actual feedstock, existing infrastructure, municipal requirements and commercial opportunities.
The Opportunity
Established technologies. A scalable development model.
The innovation lies in integrating proven resource-recovery technologies into commercially structured, financeable municipal projects.
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Configure
Use mass and energy balances to identify the most suitable treatment and resource-recovery pathway.
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Commercialize
Build the strongest project-specific combination of service revenues, savings, energy and recovered resources.
Development Model
From first demonstration to national programme
A central Programme Entity will originate and prepare opportunities. Individual facilities can be financed, constructed and operated through separate Project SPVs where appropriate.
Programme PlatformBuild partnerships and opportunity pipeline
Site ScreeningCompare municipal opportunities
First ProjectPre-feasibility and preparation
Financial CloseEquity, debt and blended finance
ReplicationPortfolio and national scale-up
Impact Potential
Climate-relevant infrastructure with local value
The precise impact will be quantified for each project after the baseline, feedstock and technical configuration have been established.
↘Potential methane-emission reduction
↻Recovery of energy and nutrients
◎Improved residual management
＋Local skills and employment
Investment Opportunity
Development capital for the programme and first project
The immediate requirement is development capital to establish the Programme Entity, screen municipal opportunities, assemble specialist partners and advance the strongest location towards a financeable First Demonstration Project.
Infrastructure equity and debt will follow once the first facility has been technically defined, commercially structured and progressed through the applicable procurement process.
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