verdant energy solutions announces plans to produce 100% renewable Bio-Coal

(I-Newswire) February 14, 2009 - Verdant Energy Solutions, an emerging American company involved in the developing bio-coal market has announced today that it will be developing Bio-Coal production capabilities in the biomass-rich regions of Brazil. Verdant Energy Solutions will be looking at utilizing supplies from a 100% renewable plantation grown feedstock primarily grown on Verdant-operated plantation sites. Verdant Energy Solutions has also acknowledged that negotiations between themselves and a secondary feedstock supplier, Greenwood Management ApS, have been ongoing.

Greenwood Management ApS is based in Europe and has facilities ideally located in Brazil to logistically supply Verdant Energy Solutions with a secondary source of plantation grown Eucalyptus bio-mass feedstock.

It is widely seen that there is a growing need for a non-fossil fuel alternatives that can be co-fired with coal in order to achieve the required reductions in commercial CO2 emissions. Legislatively mandated CO2 reductions have created a market for Bio-Coal as a "clean burning" fuel whilst current technology is unable to cope with the removal of CO2 from smoke stacks.

Switching to Bio-Coal is seen to provide synergy with current existing energy infrastructure while at the same time meeting the increasingly stringent emission reduction targets in the most cost-effective manner possible.


In other news it has been announced that in Canada the BCBN and the SDTC have recently partnered in a strategic agreement to further the development of commercial bioenergy technology in British Columbia. The Agreement between the BCBN and SDTC will enable a working partnership to identify exciting projects within the British Columbia bioenergy sector to increase funding through investment. The BCBN has already identified several companies in BC that could receive financial assistance from the agreement


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