Our goal is to develop, build, and operate small to midsize renewable energy power plants that utilize low temperature, starved air gasification technology. We work with techonology providers that have proven technology gasifiers to turn various types of biomass and carbon-based fuels into a clean energy source.
Gasification offers distinct advantages over traditional combustion of a fuel:
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Feedstock flexibility – Gasification can produce energy from a wide variety of low-value carbon feedstocks such as woody biomass, energy crops, corn stover, agricultural wastes, and other waste materials. This flexibility increases the economic value of these resources and lowers costs by providing industry with a broader range of feedstock options, and thus lower and predictable energy pricing.
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Near-zero emissions – Gasification systems can meet the new strictest environmental regulations pertaining to emissions of regulated pollutants, greenhouse gases, particulate matter, and toxic compounds. Gasification by its very nature is a clean process, which when combined with the latest in air pollution control technology provides best-in-class technology to meet BACT requirements.
- High efficiency – Gasification can be integrated into combined heat and power (CHP) systems using traditional boiler and turbine technology. The resulting systems are highly efficient, squeezing more value from each pound of feedstock. Systems using gasification with CHP and related components can achieve thermal efficiencies of over 60-70 percent, compared with an efficiency of less than 40 percent for conventional electric generating plants.