Meat company Teys Australia has snared government grants worth more than $7 million to cut energy costs and reduce carbon emissions at three sites.
Teys Australia's Rockhampton facility was allocated a $4.17 million grant from the federal government’s Clean Technology Food and Foundries Investment Program for operational upgrades.
The meat company will install two covered anaerobic lagoons and a basin to capture biogas, which will be used for onsite combustion to save energy costs.
It aims to use the grant to reduce its energy costs in by around $365,000 a year and it also hopes to cut the company’s carbon price liability by $890,000.
The company also hopes the project will cut the carbon emissions intensity at the facility by 74 per cent.
Teys Australia Beenleigh was awarded $2.82 million under the same program. The money will also go to the installation of a covered anaerobic lagoon and basin at the Beenleigh site, and should save up to $1.3 million in power bills a year and reduce the company's carbon price liability by as much as $380,000 a year.
Teys Australia's Wagga Wagga facility also received $227,000 in funding to go toward the installation of variable head pressure and condenser fan speed controls, compressor staging and capacity control, motor replacement and evaporator fan speed control.
This aim of this project is also to reduce costs and improve environmental outcomes.
