Anaergia recognized for two of the 2023 Global Water Awards
Anaergia announced that it has won the distinction of Net Zero Carbon Champion in the Global Water Awards, and a project designed/built by its subsidiary SoCal Biomethane has won Wastewater Project of the Year.
The awards were presented on Tuesday evening at the Global Water Summit in Berlin, Germany.
The Net Zero Carbon Champion award is given to the company whose products and services have done the most to reduce the carbon emissions of their customers in 2022 globally. Anaergia’s projects allow wastewater plants to co-digest food scraps and other organic waste or biosolids.
The awards program also noted the company’s role as a complete lifecycle-solutions partner for wastewater facilities, offering an array of technologies as well as services such as project financing and operations.
The project named Wastewater Project of the Year is a state-of-the-art co-digestion and biogas upgrading facility operating at Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority’s (VVWRA) wastewater treatment plant in Victorville, California. It was commissioned in 2022 by Anaergia’s SoCal Biomethane subsidiary in partnership with VVWRA, North Sky Capital and Live Oak Capital Partners.
The facility, which converts 235,000 tons a year of waste and biosolids into 320,000Mmbtu of biomethane, is North America’s largest privately financed co-digestion-to-biomethane project for pipeline injection at a wastewater treatment plant. By co-digesting waste from sources beyond its own wastewater responsibilities, the plant makes VVWRA a regional champion for waste reduction.
“Last night, in Berlin, Anaergia received two very significant honors in the most prestigious competition in the world for the water sector,” said Andrew Benedek, Anaergia’s chairman and CEO. “With Anaergia receiving two of the most impressive awards out of a total of 12 presented, we deeply appreciate this exceptional recognition given the large number of other excellent and much larger global corporations in the world.”
Established in 2006 by Global Water Intelligence, the Global Water Awards recognize important achievements in the international water industry within several categories, and reward those initiatives in the water, wastewater and desalination sectors. Each year, the Global Water Awards are presented at the Global Water Summit, a business conference for the international water industry.