2023-08-03 04:01:09
trigger has been working on the Fargo-Moorhead anti-flood canal construction project for regarding a year, in USA. A project that the company, which leads the initiative, calls “historic”, since it has become the first sustainable infrastructure development in this country under a public-private partnership, as well as the first green financing project in the US. .
Within this project, the company has developed another innovation project to introduce, for the first time, heavy machinery for civil works, the use of renewable biofuel generated from oil from hydrotreated vegetable residues. A “pioneering” act in the sector aimed at decarbonising the construction of infrastructures.
The main objective, according to Acciona, is to analyze the performance of biopropelled machinery. The idea is that, during the first six months, 385,000 liters of renewable biofuel will be used in two bulldozers. These, in turn, will be monitored to collect operating and maintenance data.
With this pilot project, the company expects a reduction of regarding 1,000 tons of CO2 during those months of construction of Fargo-Moorhead. In any case, its extended use over time in the project “might reduce almost 40% of the greenhouse gas emissions forecast for Acciona’s Construction business by 2023.”
Where does the biofuel come from?
This renewable biofuel is generated from hydrotreated vegetable waste oil (HVO). Basically, it is a renewable liquid fuel that has similar properties to traditional fossil fuel; Yes, it generates 90% less emissions. “And that remaining 10% corresponds mainly to the emissions generated by the HVO production process and not to its consumption,” they indicate.
It should be remembered that the renewable biofuel that Acciona will use will come from the second largest biofuel production facility in the United States, located in North Dakota, “thus promoting the economy and local innovation.”
The innovative initiative to use HVO in heavy machinery is part of Acciona’s emissions reduction program within its 2025 Sustainability Master Plan and is financed by the Decarbonization Fund of the same company. The purpose of the fund is to financially support “those initiatives that promote carbon neutrality in the company’s direct operations.” And they highlight that, in 2023, this fund is contributing to the financing of 17 decarbonization initiatives in different projects around the world.
Fargo-Moorhead
Acciona is executing the Fargo-Moorhead project together with Shikun & Binui USA and North American Construction Group through the ASN Constructors consortium. This initiative “has the power to give new life to communities and, from the consortium, we will contribute to this project of resilience to climate change protecting hundreds of thousands of people, their homes, businesses and livelihoods from the Red River flooding in the future.
Thus, they will build a 30-mile diversion channel around the Fargo, North Dakota metropolitan area, one diversion exit, two aqueducts, 14 drainage inlets, two interstate crossings, 12 county highway crossings, and three rail crossings. It will also operate and maintain the project for a period of 30 years.
Construction of the diversion channel will begin in the fall of 2022 and is scheduled for completion in 2027. And, once complete, it will protect more than 235,000 people from the catastrophic effects of potential Red River flooding.
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