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NOTE: Burning gargbage is not considered 'alternative power'.
On this page one finds companies that make power from landfill gas, cow power - farm and sewage biomass gas, wood waste biomass, flare gas power, and waste plastic to fuel.
LANDFILL GAS TO POWER
- Energy Developments Ltd-ENE on ASX, landfill gas power, remote area power, coal mine methane power.
- Maxim Power Corp.-MXG on TSX.V, Gift Lake flared gas power production. also biomass/landfill gas power, co-gen, Majority of revenue is from diesel electric operations in Cambodia.
- Novera Energy- NVE on ASX, 79MW at 40 sites in UK, 50% of Novera Macquarie Renewable Energy Ltd which bought out landfill assets of United Utilities Green Energy in UK. TXU owns +20% of Novera. formerly Primergy.
- Viridis Clean Energy Group-VIR on ASX, 31MW landfill gas at 6 sites in Texas, plus 33 landfill gas power plants in portfolio. see also wind.
- Waste Management Inc-WMI on NYSE, Think Green
COW POWER- FARM BIOMASS GAS TO POWER
- AES-AES on NYSE, large power company, bought AgCert in May 2008.
- AgCert International Plc-taken over by see-AES May 2008, was AGC on AIM London, UK co with 200 biomass plants on farms, 500 on order. IPO in 2005.
- CVPS Cow Power-CV + Catamount Energy, dairy farms making power.
- EcoSecurities Group PLC-ECO on AIM London, consultant and developer of projects, receiving carbon credits from such. projects in 20 countries. has subsidiary Ecomethane
- Environmental Power Corporation-EPG on NASDAQ, has a multi-digester facility in Texas using agricultural and food byproducts.
- Farmatic Biotech Energy AG- formerly WKN 605192 on Xe, biomass electricity. insolvent 03/2004. new private co-Farmatic Anlagenbau GmbH has taken over some of the operations.
- Idemitsu Kosan Co-5019 on TSE, IDKOF.PK, refining, petroleum co, has natural materials that reduce cow methane gas.
- Intrepid Technology and Resources Ltd.- IESV on NASDAQ OTCBB, dairy waste to methane power.
- Kobelco Eco-Solutions-3764 on TSE, has a device capable of turning methane fermented in the process of sewage disposal into biomass fuel for cars.
- Osaka Gas Co Ltd-9532 on TSE, has developed a storage system for methane from cows. see also story
- Yamaha Motor Co-ticker on TSE, makes a golf cart that runs on methane from cow dung.
- Focus on Energy- Wisconsin Agricultural Biogas Caseload
- Manure Manager Magazine-cow power in Canada
- Ontario Cattlemens Association-report includes #'s of methane per cow.
- SUSCON-Sustainable Conservation (California), biomethane report.
WOOD WASTE BIOMASS TO POWER
- Of Note: Power from burning wood is not considered green power in most ERC systems. (exceptions: Michigan and the first power generator certified under Canada's then new EcoLogo system for a facility in Whitecourt Alberta) Wood waste maybe.
- Boralex Inc.- BLX.A, BLX.DB on TSX, operates a power station in Ecuador that takes flared gas to make power, also has hydro and wastewood power plants in Canada and USA. also wind in France (Chepy windfarm).
- Boralex Power Income Fund- BPT.UN on TSX, ten generating stations in Quebec and USA, biomass, co-gen, hydro.
- China EnerSave-531 on SIN Singapore, has 3 biomass to energy plants, to build 20 in China. Carbon Credits deal with EcoSecurities.
- Drayton Valley Power Income Fund- was DVA.UN on TSX, bought by Algonquin Power Income Fund (APF.UN on TSX) 2001. indep. hydro and wastewood power producer. Financial troubles in 2001.
- Energy Developments- ENE.AX on Australian Exchange, waste to energy projects.
- Environmental Power Corp- EPG on AMEX, biomass.
- formerly www.renrg.com - Renewable Energy Corp- formerly REL.AX on ASX, Australia, waste to energy converters for industrial on site power production.
FLARE GAS TO POWER
- Alberta Energy Corp. honourable mention, (now Encana), for pipeline flow-testing innovation instead of flaring the gas. also in regards to the NanPaz project in Ecuador.
- Altek Power- APK on TSX.V, Williston Green Flared Gas Electrical Generation Facility (<1MW), also biomass.
- Boralex Inc.- BLX.A, BLX.DB on TSX, operates a power station in Ecuador that takes flared gas to make power, also has hydro and wastewood power plants in Canada and USA. also wind in France.
- Fluor Corporation-FLR on NYSE, technical partner to see-Man Group Associated Gas and Global Environment Fund
- Man Group-EMG on LON, investment firm, subsidiary MTM Capital Partners will manage the Associated Gas and Global Environment Fund in partnership with the Abu Dhabi government-owned International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) which will invest in projects that capture flared gas.
- Maxim Power Corp.-MXG on TSX.V, Gift Lake flared gas power production. also biomass/landfill gas power, co-gen, Majority of revenue is from diesel electric operations in Cambodia.
- GGFR-World Bank Global Gas Flaring Reduction Project
- Global Forum on Flaring Reduction + Gas Utilization- Dec 3-5, 2008, Amsterdam
- Flares on YouTube
WASTE PLASTIC TO FUEL
- Axiom Energy Ltd-AXE on ASX, IPO 09/2005; plastic to fuel via tech from Ozmotech Pty Ltd.
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