Gelita Beaudesert Energy Efficiency and Carbon Reduction Project

Gelita Beaudesert Energy Efficiency and Carbon Reduction Project is an industrial and commercial emissions reduction project located in Beaudesert, approximately 70km south of Brisbane in Queensland. It was registered in December 2020. While the exact project footprint area is unknown, the wider Gelita Beaudesert manufacturing facility spans a property of 170 hectares.

Industrial and commercial emissions reduction projects involve reducing energy emissions (from electricity and fuel) by modifying, replacing, or augmenting existing energy-consuming equipment, changing energy sources, or installing electricity generation equipment to substitute grid power. For this project, baseline emissions are determined using a regression model based on fuel, electricity, and industrial process emission inputs.

The Beaudesert region is largely known for agriculture, dairying, and grazing for beef production. The area experiences a subhumid and subtropical climate, with moderate but highly variable rainfall. The dominant soils in the region include fertile Vertosols (cracking clays), Dermosols, and prairie soils formed in fine alluvium.

This specific project revolves around a boiler upgrade at the Gelita factory, a major facility that processes cattle hides from the local beef industry to extract edible and pharmaceutical-grade gelatine. In October 2022, the project proponent varied its method from the older 2015 Industrial Electricity and Fuel Efficiency determination to the current 2021 methodology.