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Tereos and Lemon Energia will supply electricity from biogas in the interior of São Paulo. The new plant will produce the equivalent of the consumption of around 85 small businesses, with the potential to double the volume in the medium term and benefit the countryside with a sustainability project.
This past Wednesday, (27/07), the French company Tereos announced that it has entered into a partnership with the startup Lemon Energia to supply electricity through biogas in São Paulo. The service aims to turn its attention to small and medium-sized businesses served by the CPFL Paulista distributor and bring more sustainable benefits to the region.
The new plant will produce what corresponds to the consumption of around 85 small businesses
Thus, the energy will be generated at Tereos' biogas pilot plant, which is located at the company's industrial unit, in the municipality of Cruz Alta, in Olímpia (SP). The plant will have a production equivalent to the consumption of around 85 small businesses, in addition to having the potential to double its volume in the medium term.
Biogas will be a complement to the energy generation of the ethanol producer, which produces electricity from sugarcane biomass to meet the consumption of its industrial units.
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“We already had the supply of clean electricity generated from sugarcane biomass. With the production of biogas, we offer another renewable source of generation, contributing to add value to our customers and business partners”, explains Gustavo Segantini, commercial director of Tereos, which in Brazil produces sugar, ethanol and energy from biomass.
In addition, the collaboration already relies on customers for this energy. In this way, Lemon Energia destined small and medium-sized establishments to receive sustainable energy in the region, and also calculates that savings in customers' energy bills can reach up to R$ 160.
The startup Lemon operates in the distributed generation market with plants that provide credits for rebates in the accounts of consumers connected to its platform. According to the startup, this allows for an annual reduction of around 20%. Recently, Lemon raised around BRL 60 million in series A rounds to expand its operations.
New PL that encourages biogas in landfills advances in the Senate
It is also important to point out that, in early May, the Infrastructure Commission (CI) of the Senate approved a bill that aims to stimulate the production of biogas, biomethane and electricity from the use of waste from landfills.
The article includes, among the initiatives that can be met by inducing measures and lines of financing, the elaboration and execution of sanitary landfill projects that contemplate the generation of electric energy.
In addition, the PL also allows companies dedicated to producing energy from the use of solid waste in landfills to receive fiscal, financial or credit incentives from the Union, states or municipalities.
The rapporteur, Senator Fernando Bezerra, presented an amendment to include electricity generation in the National Solid Waste Policy. He also replaced the term “power generation from landfills” with “from solid waste”.
“With this, we contemplate all sorts of solid waste, and not just waste deposited in landfills”, justifies Fernando. The senator withdrew the tax benefit suggested by Hélio José from the project. This is because, according to Bezerra, the measure would violate the Fiscal Responsibility Law (Complementary Law 101, of 2000), the Budgetary Guidelines Law (LDO) and the Annual Budget Law (LOA).
