Hokitika - Bioplant

Hokitika is a small town in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island, 40 kilometres south of Greymouth, and close to the mouth of the Hokitika River. Its urban population is about 3,000.

The feedstocks for the WTE facility will be available from within the actual 100-hectare facility site, which has thousands of tons of timber lash and biomass available.

The outputs from the facility are bio-diesel, green electricity and biochar. This facility will produce not produce greenhouse gases and will satisfy all environmental regulations.

Plant Outputs

Electricity 1.8MW (43MWh/ day)

Syn-Diesel: 14,000 Litres / day (EN-590 Grade)

Char: 2 tons / day

Project Name

Bioplant Hokitika Project

Project Location

Hokitika, South Island, New Zealand

Project Owners

Bioplant Hokitika NZ Limited

Amount of Waste to be Processed

42 tons of mixed biomass and timber slash per day.

Facility Details

The Facility will comprise:

Pre-treatment equipment designed sort over 60 tons of waste per day.
1 x Bioplant 40 ton/day twin furnace pyrolysis modular Hybrid plant.
2 x 1.1MW waste heat drive generators.
Syngas cooling, cleaning and oil refining equipment
Buildings and site infrastructure including connecting to the electricity grid.

Environmental Benefits

This is equivalent to supplying green power to 1,500 homes and saving over 25,000 tons per year of GHG emissions from reduced landfill and fossil fuel production. This is equivalent to taking in excess 5,000 cars off the road and it supports "Kaitiakitanga" (New Zealand Iwi guardianship of the land).

CSR Activities

See Bioplant website CSR activities.