Expression of Interest - Regional Renewable Organics Network

⁠⁠⁠This EOI is issued to the open market in order to:

• Begin Barwon Water’s procurement process for a new ‘Regional Renewable Organics Network’ project,
• Identify, qualify, and shortlist, a number of organisations interested in bidding to become the projects EPCM provider, and
• Test a number of internal assumptions to help ensure that the eventual RFT and EPCM contract are precisely tuned to reflect the capability, appetite, and conditions, present in the marketplace.

The Regional Renewable Organics Network (RRON) is a proposed organics processing facility that leverages Barwon Water infrastructure to maximise the value of organic waste and convert it to valuable end-products and renewable energy, reducing costs and emissions, creating jobs and driving a circular economy for the region and Victoria.

The facility will have the capability to process a range of organic wastes including municipal organic waste (food and garden organics), commercial and industrial organic waste and biosolids. A large percentage of this waste is currently sent to landfill. The end-products will be soil conditioners aimed at providing benefit to agribusiness in the region.

The facility is proposed to be built in a staged approach with multiple technology streams. This allows the facility to adapt as waste management behaviours, waste volumes and end markets evolve. The first stage will have the capacity to process the projected municipal food organic and garden organic wastes volumes at the mid 2030’s, a portion of the regional commercial and industrial organic wastes, and biosolids that are in excess of the capacity of the existing Plenary biosolids at Black Rock. At 2032, a second stage investment decision may be required, but stage 2 is out of scope for this procurement.

Please refer to the RRON Briefing Pack at Appendix A for detailed information.