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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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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

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