Qualifying Technologies
Under the UK legislation, all the following technologies qualify as `renewable` under the current Renewables Obligation regime:
- Onshore wind
- Offshore wind
- Landfill gas
- Sewage gas
- Hydro below 20MW declared net capacity
- Hydro above 20MW declared net capacity commissioned after 1st April, 2002
- Geothermal power
- Tidal and tidal stream power
- Wave power
- Photovoltaics
- Energy crops / Co-firing of biomass
- Other biomass
- Energy from waste
Renewable Energy - Waste as Resource
Energy and Waste
Today, the world is struggling with high prices and a burgeoning energy shortage which shows no signs of abating. Although fossil fuels remain an important source of energy, renewable energy and other non-traditional energy sources need to serve an important function in meeting consumers` consumption demands, alleviating energy crises and increasing national security by reducing the dependence on imported fossil fuels.
Energy: Our Dependence
Electricity capacity demand is soaring, both in the UK and abroad.
For example, the USA continues to import about half of its oil supply, yet world oil production is expected to plateau between 2010 and 2020, and could trigger additional price increases in coming years. Fossil fuel supplies are declining globally, and, once consumed, cannot easily be replenished.
Waste: Our Problem
Today`s energy-dependent society creates more than just supply shortages. Consumption of fossil fuels also pollutes our air. Combustion of coal and natural gas to produce electricity emits nearly 2.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere each year. Electricity is, in fact, the single largest source of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, a component of smog that contributes to ground-level ozone.
A more visible problem is the waste we create in massive proportions. The typical European consumer generates 510 kilos of residential waste per year and USA consumers are almost twice as wasteful generating about 950 kilos per person per year.
Indeed the world is awash in a mountain of waste!
Many municipal landfills are forced to close every year having being filled to capacity. Tyres, plastics, industrial waste, demolition debris and agricultural waste all contribute to a major disposal problem that threatens our health, wastes natural resources and litters our landscape with illegal dumping.
A Greener Way toward Energy Independence
Unlike most energy technologies which deplete limited resources and contribute to a waste problem already in a state of crisis, KP Renewables` ``Carbon Recycling`` concept uses carbon waste streams as fuel with our technological advanced processes to generate clean energy or fuels with near zero harmful emissions.
Today`s advanced gasification or pyrolysis technologies are environmentally responsible processes that cleanly utilise carbon wastes such as tyres, waste oil and carpet remnants to sewer sludge and even the biomass fraction of municipal solid waste. These innovative technologies can also convert biomass, municipal waste and plastics and other carbon containing waste materials into either renewable fuels or energy in the form of electricity and heat.
Utilising these advanced environmentally friendly technologies, KP Renewable is uniquely positioned to deliver renewable energy for today`s world markets and a cleaner environment for our future.
