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Renewable Energy: Approaching Grid Parity?

Our company has some 12 renewable energy projects in development right now. They are all biomass projects that utilize gasification to extract the energy from the feedstocks, which include dairy and feedlot cattle manures, wood waste, auto fluff, MSW and sewage sludge. All of these "waste commodities" are growing in volume, meaning they won't reach "peak" output in the foreseeable future.

Solar and wind power aren't dispatchable -- they can't be depended on 100% of the time. Biomass gasification is a well-tested, mature technology and I believe its time is here. It's time to think "brown is green."


Joel Keller
joel.keller@randaenerg...