New Waste Energy Leasing Model Captures Brazil Export Order
British company Ultra Green Group have combined new waste conversion technology with a lease hire model to create affordable waste to electricity units.
The first application is a joint venture with Power Station operator A and G Energia in Brazil where the two companies will site units throughout the country.
Designed in Britain by Ultra Green Engineers and Researchers the units are the vanguard of a series of waste solutions the company says it will roll out globally for remote areas, towns, cities new build towns, hospitals and power stations.
UG CEO David Weaver told us. "We have advanced technology and a unique mobile design but what we had to devise was a method to make the system commercially irresistible. We worked with our Brazilian partners who are very creative and came up with a business model not dissimilar to aircraft leasing.
Converting waste to electricity or biofuel is logical but people need a reason to make the first step. By lease-hiring small affordable units for emote areas and proving how attractive turning a problem into an advantage can be, we know the big cities, hospitals, industrial sites and power stations will be attracted."
The deal is part of a long term programme that could be worth over £500 million and could make Brazil the most advanced waste conversion country in North or South America.
The first units to be supplied are self-contained "plug and play" systems in modified 40 foot containers and produce 0.5mw of electricity from 0.5 tonnes per hour of mixed solid waste.
The deal was signed with Brazil Energy giant A and G Energia and the tow companies have formed a joint venture company, Ultra Green Energia do Brasil, to initially import units but eventually to manufacture in Brazil.
The mobile plants will be lease hired to everyone from plantation owners to small villages and are particularly valuable in remote locations such as sugar plantations where waste can be used to generate power instead of diesel generators which Ultra Green claim are more costly to operate.
Ultra Green say the units are particularly valuable for use in areas where there is no power, but are equally effective in processing most kinds of organic waste from Municipal solid waste through bio mass to medical and toxic waste. UG also say in most cases their systems are much cheaper to operate than fossil fuel generator units and have the added advantage that they consume waste products instead of high value scarce resources such as hydro carbon fuels.
The small mobile units are the first phase in the programme with A and G, as the JV say they intend to build much larger plants in cities, and alongside power stations throughout Brazil. UG engineers also claim they can also convert sugar cane pulp waste to bio-diesel and add a further layer of efficiency.
Ultra Green engineers and researchers say they have designed these and other technology as part of an ambitious programme to turn waste from a problem to a resource.
Amongst other designs UG have a township model which creates no excess waste and needs no external electricity and a low cost sewage to energy system.
The Brazil units emit very low emissions unlike diesel generators as the base technology is a proprietary version of Pyrolysis where waste is converted to gas by the use of heat in the absence of oxygen, so no combustion takes place and therefore there are no harmful combustion emissions.
UG says it plans to roll out this business concept globally. However Brazil is the first country in the World to understand and take this cutting edge process and business model.