How Harvest Power is transforming organic waste into renewable energy.

A glimpse into the innovative facility in Richmond, BC that uses anaerobic digestion and composting technologies.
Harvest Power is a company that transforms organic waste into compost and renewable energy. It operates a large facility in Richmond, BC, Canada, using CASP and HSAD technologies. It also produces electricity and heat from biogas with a 2G avus CHP plant.

Facts & figures

Application:
Landfills and wastewater treatment
Country:
Canada
CHP:
avus 1000a
Output el/th (kW):
1060 kWel / 1260 kWth
Operator:
Fraser Richmond Soil & Fibre

Harvest Power is the owner and operator of one of the largest composting facilities for food scraps and yard debris in North America, located in Richmond, BC near Vancouver, Canada. It's known as Fraser Richmond Soil & Fibre and uses proprietary Covered Aerated Static Pile (CASP) composting and odor control technologies with specially designed biofilters to produce high-quality compost-based products every year.

 

Harvest Power aims to demonstrate a new and better way for communities to manage organic materials by empowering them through the production of renewable energy at the Richmond site. They use High Solids Anaerobic Digestion (HSAD) at a commercial scale to harness energy from municipal food scraps and yard debris. During the first phase, Harvest processes 30,000 tons of organic materials annually. By using anaerobic digestion combined with composting operations, they are ushering in the next generation of organic management.

 

An advanced 2G avus biogas CHP plant rated at 1,060 kW/h produces electrical energy to serve more than 1,500 homes in Vancouver. Thermal energy is fully utilized throughout the entire facility. The fully containerized and modular CHP plant is monitored 24/7 to ensure everything runs smoothly.