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Presentation at the Ministry of Energy, Science & Technology and Public Utilities Private Sector Forum, Pelican Beach Resort, Dangriga Town, Stann Creek Belize, April 4, 2013TRANSCRIPT
PROOF OF CONCEPT:
COMMUNITIY SCALE BIOMASS ENERGY PRODUCTION
Clean Residential Energy Production Carbon Footprint Credits
Managed Forest Conservation***
“The Ethical Obligation on the Part of the Private Owner is the Only Visible Remedy for Conservation.
The Land Ethic Simply Expands the Boundary of the Community to Include the Soils, Water, Plants and Animals.”
-Aldo LeopoldFather of Modern Conservation Management
Who's Responsibility is The Land Ethic?
Overview: Why BioMass?Gateway to Energy IndependenceThrough Biotic Interdependence
➲ Use and Nurture the Naturally Abundant & Rapidly Renewables and Waste BioMass on Sanctuary Belize
➲ Use Proven BioMass Gas Tech to Create Natural Gas for On-Site Generation of Power & Container Fuel (PGI: “DCDT”)
➲ Participate in the Natural Energy Cycle and Reduce Carbon Footprint with a Perpetual Fuel Source Supplying Is A Measurable Mode of Earning Carbon Credits
➲ Effectively Create Community Energy
BioMass - Sourced Energy Engaging the Carbon Cycle
GOAL OF CONCEPT
➲ GOAL: Deliver in approx. 90 days a BioGas 100kWa Energy Grid
➲ Pictured here is a full scale multi MW system requiring only 10000sf partial covered plant. A 100KW system requires only 2500 sf part covered slab. This diagram ilustrates the straightforward and compact systems involved.
Plan of Action Turnkey a 100kW* Grid Connected Power
Able to deliver complete energy requirement for Office, Staff Lodging & Woodshop
• Harvest & Process Bamboo Existing on the Property to Fuel the Annual Requirement of BioMass. (requires 5 acres of bamboo)
• Demonstrate that Model can Produce on-site marketable electricity at a cost of $.10 per kWh, $.20-25 effective cost per kWh (unit).
• Demonstrate Added Value Marketing Potential for Green Equity, Brand Equity & CSR Reporting
*1MW = 1000Kw: Under non-severe weather conditions, one megawatt could power roughly 800
to 1,000 average-sized American homes. 100KW can service 8-10
The Present Situation➲ A Sample House at Sanctuary Belize consumed
1120 units (kWh) in one month.➲ Sanctuary Belize purchases electric energy from
Belize for $.22USD per kWh. The utility for the sample house is $543 for the month.
➲ Or SB could make energy for $.10USD per kWh a savings of $431
➲ Sanctuary Belize has an Estimated 10000 Tons of feedstock waste mass & renewable bamboo
➲ Sanctuary Belize has Carbon +➲ Waste Timber, Lot Waste
➲ Construction Waste, Household Waste
➲ Seaweed, Leaf Litter, grasses, off-gas renewables
➲ Development To Date: Field Study Found Abundant Bamboo and BioMass Onsite Biomass is a Natural Capital Carbon Sink PGI Developed BioMass & Alternate Energy Tech In
US, India and Cambodia Work Order for Pilot Project Awarded to PGI
➲ Important background information: Thousands of BioMass Fuel Systems are Serving
Homes, Business and Major Industry Worldwide. BioMass Fuel is Appropriate Tech when fuel is readily
available such is the case at Sanctuary Belize. Sanctuary Belize could be leveraging CSR as a global
marketing tool for brand equity, goodwill and ethical consumers. (ie SEC, Bloomberg and Reuters now scoring companies Enviro/Social/Governance (ESG) metrics) http://blogs.hbr.org/leadinggreen/2009/05/is-esg-data-going-mainstream.html)
Bamboos, growing thick, standing single–put all your roots together and all is well in the mountains and rivers.” Sengai, 19th century Japanese Zen Master
Sanctuary Sittee River
EROSION CONTROL
Bamboo provides excellent erosion control and check because of its extensive interlocking rhizomes or root systems, which bind together 85% of the soil approximately one foot below the surface where it is planted.
Water and Soil Mgt
FAO prescribes live bamboo and bamboo jetties to prevent scouring at river bends (punta diamante)
Carbon Bio-Mimickery= Carbon Credits
CARBON DRAWDOWN: Dr. Etelvino Novotny at a Terra Preta site in Brazil
In addition to high organic matter contents, Amazonian Dark Earths are characterized by high P contents reaching 200-400 mg P/kg, and higher cation exchange capacity, pH and base saturation than surrounding soils (Sombroek, 1966; Liang et al., 2006). These soils are therefore highly fertile (Lehmann et al., 2003). Fallows on the Amazonian Dark Earths can be as short as 6 months, whereas fallow periods on Oxisols are usually 8 to 10 years long (German and Cravo, 1999).
Incentive Eligible
The Renewable Story
• Original forecasts which turned out to be wrong:
IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Wind and Solar turned out to be Costly per kW, Tech Complex, Maintenance Prone, Susceptible
Original forecasts which turned out to be true:• Off-the-Shelf Durable and Existing BioMass Tech Can
be Converted to Clean Fuel Burners
• Agrarian Developing Countries have abundant Fue Stocks for Biogasification
• Low GHG and High Carbon Credit Incentives
• Scarcity of Fossil Fuel Energy Increases
Levelized Cost:
• Wind $ 83 p/MWh
• Solar $144 p/MWh
• Hydro $ 77 p/MWh
• Biomass $ 56 p/MWh *US EIA 2010
Potential Alternatives➲ Alternative strategies
Remain on Dependent Grid and Suffer Price Shocks Invest In Costly High Tech With Slow Break Even/ROI Allow Others to Manage Alternative Fuel Upstream Allow Sustainable Natural Capital to Remain Locked in Land
Instead of Our Three Bottom Line Plan (Biotic Cycle) Lost Development Value Addition of Carbon Trading & Finance
➲ Pros and Cons of each strategy
Solar Is “Free Fuel” only if CapEx, Land Space and Maintenance Not Weighed*
Wind Can Be Geo-Fickle, Prone to Disaster Damage BioFuel Follows a Natural Energy Cycle, is a Renewable
Resource, Promotes Soil Resilience and is a Carbon Capture PROFIT Center
➲ 100kW produced is $60,000 overhead reduction*The 1 MW photovoltaic solar installation by Gap Inc's Western Distribution Center in Fresno, CA
required five acres, cost $7 million, and took 6 months to build
INFRASTRUCTURE ASSUMPTIONS for 100kW Proof of Concept
TURNKEY Top-Down-Draft-Reburn-Gasifier + 3 phase 120kW** 200,000USD
Annual Hours of Operation 6000 (.80 max)
Feed per 24 hour period 3.24 tons
Output (kW) per 24 hour period 2400kW (4:1 turndown capable)
Output (Kw) Annual 600000kW (units)
Output (alternative unit) HP per 24 hour period 3216HP
Output (alternative unit) HP per Year 804000HP
GRID CONNECTION CAP EX
Grid connection ( UPS delivery track 30,000USD
Integrated Grid Control System 25,000USD
Harvest and Project Management Tech Tran 50,000USD
Community Power available (p hr) 100kWa
Annual hours of operation 6000
Annual power generation (units (kwH) 600000
Annual biomass consumption 1020 tons
Annual Cost of operation 42600 USD
Depreciation (Equipment straight 15yr) 7500 USD
Process Cost (value of waste) 10000 USD
TOTAL COST POWER PER ANNUM 60100 USD
Annual Revenue as bio-char
27000
USD
15% cost of marketing/FOB logistics
-4050
USD
22950
USD
ACTUAL NET ANNUAL COST
14550
USD
BI-PRODUCTSCharcoal (Annual) 90MT
Clean Char-Fuel to the local market
Bio-Char or Activated Char as Co-Industry
Carbon Down As Soil Additive to Local Farmers
Scalable Tech: 100kW / 1000 Ton
To Multi-Megawatt/ 10000 Ton
Tri-Production – Tri-Tech
Who Is Using BioMass?
Siemens India: 40 MW
Hindusthan Paper 5+4 MW
Goteborg Energi 4000 cars
US NAVY 1/3 BDies
State of Assam 16MW
Surabhi Bamboo 120kW
PGS-Haiti 20kW
MNBA-IIT 12kW x10,000 community units
Press Release:
11-05-2012: Campbell Soup Co., OH: Fires up their new 12MW Factory Biogas (next to their 60 acre pilot solar farm 16MW)
Independent Blue Sky Approach
Forms of Biomass & Corresponding Tech:
Animal Waste (Tri-Tech/Heat)
Solid Garbage (Plasma)
Algae (Bio-Diesel/ Ethanol)
Woody Waste/ Bio-Ag (NG/Heat)
Watery Waste/ Bio-Ag (NG)
Fuel Crops (Bio-Diesel)
Committed CSRThe Power of Integrated Reporting
For Pragmatic & Social Impact Sensitive Consumers
Tomorrow Begins Today
For More InformationContact: Frank Costanzo- Connelly, PGI: Biomass Energy Project/[email protected]: Robert Kathman, EBT: Santuary [email protected]