Renewable money blog Archives - Page 2 of 13

350 PPM LTD: Highlights of 2023 – PART 3

10 January 2024 admin 0

Please see below for Part 3 of our 2023 highlights series. Megawatt Mosaic Records 1st Year Revenue of €86,596.25 Megawatt Mosaic Ltd is a joint venture between 350 PPM, its team as individuals and the team from an existing and successful Solar and BESS (Battery Energy Storage Systems) pre-construction developer. I say successful, as our partners had a track record of the sale of 17 pre-construction development projects in the three years before they joined Megawatt Mosaic. Pre-construction development is everything that needs to happen before project construction can start. The fundraise occurred in late 2022 and was completed in Q1 2023. It [...]

350 PPM LTD: Highlights of 2023 – PART 2

9 January 2024 admin 0

Please see below for Part 2 of our 2023 highlights series. Organic Heat Exchangers Ltd is the inventor of the EnergiVault, which is a COLD Battery. With energy storage, it's proven that it is much more efficient and effective to hold the energy or lack of it (in the case of cooling), in the medium of use. If you need cold, hold the energy as cold, heat; hold it as heat, etc etc. This is the principal of EnergiVault – the cold battery. Cooling probably represents circa 20% of energy usage worldwide. In some locations up to 80% of a country’s electricity [...]

350 PPM LTD: Highlights of 2023 – PART 1

8 January 2024 admin 0

Overall, if you take the value of the four companies we were working with on 1st January 2023, which I estimate to be collectively around circa £39M, and contrast this with the values of the same businesses on 1st January 2024, which I estimate to be £106M, you could say we have had a pretty good year. Of course, revaluations are largely baseless without the ability to exit. Yet two of the companies we are working with are engaged with numerous institutional investors. Institutional investors are generally quite keen on providing some form of exit for early-stage investors, and both Megawatt [...]

GreenMine is the new trading name for Pyrolysise

27 November 2023 admin 0

GreenMine, the new trading name of Pyrolysise Ltd, is gaining significant traction. GreenMine has co-developed a series of technologies designed for processing unsorted municipal waste (including plastics) from kerbside collection and landfill sites. One of them is detailed here. Municipal waste is a significant contributor to atmospheric pollution with landfill accounting for 4% of greenhouse gases in the UK. Landfills can also contaminate water supply through leachate into the subsoil. With GreenMine's technology, unsorted waste can be processed into bio-coal (allowing energy generation), bio-char (the new black gold), bio-oil (including lignin) and recyclables (glass, metals, minerals etc). Green baseload power and as [...]

New expert clean tech advisor

14 November 2023 admin 0

We’re delighted to welcome Dr Jacqui Taylor to our team. Jacqui is a high-level climate leader recognised by the United Nations (UN). She is a principal consultant to companies in the clean tech and renewable energy sectors, and an expert advisor to the UN and the European Commission, providing policy and technology strategic input to address climate change. Dr Jacqui Taylor said: “I am delighted to join the team at 350 PPM. I will be bringing together my investment, climate policy and cleantech expertise to deliver a new approach to the emission reductions required to deliver net zero”. For the past 15 years, [...]

ENG8’s EnergiCell latest milestone hits the news

4 November 2023 admin 0

ENG8 says it can generate five times as much power as it puts into its fusion energy process. This milestone has hit the news. Fusion energy specialist, ENG8, has demonstrated an electrical energy output five times greater than the energy used in this ground-breaking, independent validation at Culham Innovation Centre in Oxfordshire, one of the top five leading fusion centres in the world, and home to the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority.During each of the three tests, lasting approximately 10 minutes each, ENG8’s ‘EnergiCell’ consistently scored an electrical energy output of five – one unit of electrical energy in, and five units [...]

Taking the heat off global warming

23 October 2023 admin 0

Earth’s well-documented changes throughout history are nothing new, but global warming today is taking a major human, economic and environmental toll across the world. In the next five years, the World Meteorological Organisation predicts that global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels. It’s a critical time to take stock and critically review where we are as an industry in the global context of our battle against climate change. Most climatic changes are due to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives. However, the current warming trend is different because it is [...]

Betting big on black gold for the offset market

16 October 2023 admin 0

Biochar technology is showing real potential for helping to mitigate climate change as well as reducing waste and producing energy as a byproduct. But what exactly is biochar and what is it made of? Biochar, or “black gold”, is a lightweight black residue made of carbon and ashes, remaining after heating biomass in a controlled process called pyrolysis. It is rich in pyrogenic carbon and can endure in soil for thousands of years. Although it looks a lot like common charcoal, biochar is produced using a specific process to reduce contamination and safely store carbon. During pyrolysis organic materials, such as wood [...]

Pyrolysise Launch Fundraise, Release IM and Video to Finance Waste Carbonisation Technology

15 October 2023 admin 0

News from Pyrolysise Ltd, that 350 PPM has been working with since May 2021: PYROLYSISE LTD Pyrolysise aims to revolutionise waste processing and clean and redevelop landfills though co-development of Carbonisation technology which can process unsorted waste, emissions and particulate free. The process creates offtakes of: Bio-Coal, Bio-Char, Bio-Oil and Mineral Recyclables in proportions dependent on the inputs. One WCP (Waste Carbonisation Plant) is in operation now, which processes 10% Municipal Solid Waste and 90% Plastic, yet the WCP’s can be adapted for all waste types. Plastic processing will be an interesting development in the UK as subsidies are expected to be between £200-300 [...]