WASTES TO POWER
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NOTE: Burning gargbage is not considered 'alternative power'.
On this page one finds companies that make power from household wastes, landfill gas, wood waste biomass, flare gas power, and waste plastic to fuel.
BIO DIGESTERS - HOUSEHOLD SEWAGE TO COOKING GAS AND POWER
- Biotech-IPO by 2012?, 2010 distributed energy project - 100,000 domestic biogas plants in Kerala, household wastes to cooking gas and/or power. Pre-commercial investment opportunity. based in south India.
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 ANIMAL SEWAGE 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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