Converting waste to energy in India will soon be possible with
New Zealand technology.
Mumbai-based company Concord Enviro Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd
(CES), which has broad ranging investments in various forms of
renewable energy, has signed a commercial deal with New
Zealand-founded company LanzaTech.
Concord Enviro Systems portfolio of waste-to-energy includes
municipal solid waste (MSW) to energy at the largest contributor.
Through a group company Concord Blue, a German-Indian company, it
provides advanced gasification technology for syngas generation
from a wide variety of waste streams.
LanzaTech chief executive Dr Jennifer Holmgren says LanzaTech
has licensed its technology to CES to enable the production of both
power and fuels from MSW syngas. LanzaTech's other multiple deals
throughout Asia have been joint venture deals to establish plants
using LanzaTech technology and partnership arrangements to help
develop the technology, or identify licensing opportunities.
"Concord Enviro Systems' gasification units convert a variety of
feedstocks including MSW and waste biomass," Dr Holmgren says.
"This collaboration will enable us to accelerate deployment of our
technology utilising waste synthesis gas streams and is central to
our mission of harnessing waste streams for the production of
valuable fuels and chemicals and increasing access to energy
globally."
"Coupling our technology with CES' is an effective way to deploy
small, distributed systems for producing liquid transport fuels
from waste biomass or MSW. CES recognises the economics of and
significant revenue potential that our technology brings.
"For LanzaTech this agreement is significant as it represents
our first technology sale in a key strategic market and a very
critical waste segment," Dr Holmgren says. "It is estimated that
global generation of MSW has risen 37 percent since 2007. With
developing countries spending a significant portion of their
available budget on solid waste management, using this waste as an
energy source and deploying distributed MSW systems means we could
have a real material impact on energy democratisation."
Mr Prayas Goel, managing director of Concord Enviro Systems
(CES), says LanzaTech's technology provides multiple, immediate
opportunities in the Indian market.
"Our goal is to accelerate the deployment of this technology,
with an initial demonstration plant for MSW to ethanol production,"
Mr Goel says. "We are committed to delivering environmentally
friendly, economically feasible and sustainable waste to energy
solutions."
LanzaTech has also inked an agreement with Virgin Atlantic to
develop a ground breaking low carbon aviation fuel.
Virgin Atlantic is planning on using the new fuel on its routes
from Shanghai and Delhi to London Heathrow within two to three
years as LanzaTech and its partners develop facilities in China and
India.
