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Adgen Energy
Plants in Partnership
Samantha FullerWomen in Telecoms & TechnologyLondon, 10 January 2011
Adgen EnergyWe are developers and operators of biogas energy plants
o Team built with unmatched UK experience
o Development and construction finance available for multiple plants
o Partnership model is key to access and deliver the best economic and sustainable plants
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Source: www.internationalfuturesforum.com
Making sense of it all, finding the investments
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The macro Scene
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The interest in bio power from energy companies
Security of supplySustainable Fuels
UK faces The Two Towers of Mordor!
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CLEAN-TECHEXTENDING OUR CURRENT THINKING
Major Investment Themes:•Clean tech no longer just chemistry.•Renewable energy not just dumb generation systems.
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AGE OF…
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Age of Chemistry becomes Age of Biology
20th Century 21th Century
Adgen EnergyTechnology Changes
20th Century 21st Century
Fuel: it grew, we harvested. - forest - fossilised forest (oil)
Synthesise and Bio-Energy - we raise fuel makers - algae, methanogen (biogas)
Combustion technology Gas biology, then microbial fuel cells…?
Past Future
todaytoday
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The concept of bridging technologies
We can see the middle
Fog of future developments
Getting on the bridge is clear
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Examples of bio power horizons - the only horizon-stretching tech play.
Mixed Waste to Solid Fuel (RDF) that can substitute for modest coal in CHPYesterday’s technology (steam) moving to more sustainable fuels.
Gas engines or Fuel Cells using Bio-gas, Today’s technology looking forward, still C02 emitting
Microbial fuel cells with useful by-products?
Future technology?
What can we upgrade?(mature technologies)
What can we build now?(known but not mass scale;
solar, geotherm, ground source)
Technology still in R&D?
(Wave and Tidal)
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AGE OF…
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Age of dumb/slave becomes age of smart
Electrolux smart fridge
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Smart Grid allows for a different energy set up: embedded, fast responding, partnerships.
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Biology and Smart, lead to rise of systems
Major Investment Themes:•Systems, connected, partnerships. •Single building examples •City wide examples
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The New Ground Rules: understanding interconnectivity
www.internationalfuturesforum.comSource: The IFF Interactive World Model
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Our company’s Embedded Energy Solution – today!
Local connectivityHome Energy
Local Farms and Gardens (Fertiliser)
Local Biogas Plant
Organic waste from local homes and
businesses
The same folk
The same folk
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Infrastructure Migration
Major Investment Themes:•Urban Age•Global Energy Patterns•Infrastructure
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Bioenergy in the city? OR crops in city and farming for bioenergy?
Apartments, Austria
Convention Centre, Vancouver, Canada
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First glimpse of integrating technologies.Urban Farms on amazing scale!
Potatoes farming in central Tokyo.•Not your local allotment, this is full production scale.•Cooling the roof.•Some cities experimenting with gray water treatment and non edible plants.
Chicago: lettuce, herbs and veggies.Some numbers:• 12,000 square feet (0.11 ha)• Yields 20,000 lbs of veggies (9,000 kg)• Income $25/ft2 over cost $15/ft2.
Adgen EnergySo how to graft on to this? Use existing buildings.
150,000 lbs soil (68 tonnes)
• 20°C decrease in roof temp.• 9°C decrease in full building temp.• 30% less winter heating needed.
Biogas perspective (today’s technology).•We look and say, ‘wow’ use for my organic fertiliser!•CHP (Fuel Cell or gas) – “super, use for my C02!”•Biogas and CHP look at each other and smile with the new friendship.•Still room for Solar Therm, Air S. Heat Pumps, smart devices and other friends.
Brooklyn, NY – professional farm.
Montreal, Canada– professional farm.
Adgen EnergyMigration uses old and new players
Fuel cell installer (new) Biogas developer (newish)
Energy flows (old)
Building FM (old & new)
Old players:•Customer base•Customer handling capabilities (CRM).•Operations & Maintenance.
New Players.•Niche solutions•Highly skilled in new technologies.•Understand integrated solutions.•Commercially flexible, partnerships.
Adgen EnergyScale of “hardware” city sized, not room size.
36 MWhr Battery, is the entire building, paired with 40MW generation (solar and wind)
Adgen EnergyIntegrating it all – think your local utility can?
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Introducing Adgen Energy
Plants in Partnership
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