Our Clean Tech Partners
The companies listed here are working with Offsetters to provide carbon credits for the 2010 Legacy Portfolio. Until December 2012 Offsetters is building the 2010 Legacy Portfolio, anchored by these BC based clean technologies, to provide quality carbon offsets from renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. This will ensure carbon emissions resulting from operations associated with the Games will be offset with real, additional, and permanent emissions reductions.
Ballard Power Systems
Ballard Power Systems Inc. is a world leader in the development, manufacture, sale and servicing of clean energy proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Our comprehensive portfolio includes fuel cell products scalable in power output from less than one kilowatt to over one megawatt.
Our FCgen family of stationary power products and FCvelocity family of motive power products offer the following benefits over traditional power sources:
- Zero emissions;
- Efficiency in converting fuel to electricity;
- Quiet operation;
- Combustion free operation (no sparks, flames);
- Lightweight;
- Built-in redundancy;
- High reliability; and
- Scalable power output.
To successfully commercialize fuel cell technology, Ballard is actively engaged with industry-leading partners that are integrating our fuel cell products into end-use solutions. Our fuel cell products meet the needs of a wide range of market applications - including material handling equipment, transit buses, residential cogeneration systems, backup power units and distributed power generators.
Ballard Power Systems is based in Canada, with head office, research, development and manufacturing facilities in Burnaby, British Columbia. Our 10,220-square-metre plant is the world's first volume manufacturing facility for fuel cells.
To learn more about Ballard Power Systems, please visit them at: http://www.ballard.com
IMW
andLandfill Gas Canada
Offsetters has partnered with Landfill Gas Canada (LFGC) Ltd. to develop carbon offsets for the 2010 Legacy Portfolio using compressed natural gas (CNG) technology supplied by IMW Industries Ltd.
LFGC Ltd. is a Canadian company focused on the innovation and commercialization of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Projects in the renewable energy sector. LFGC’s range of services include project financing, regulatory permitting, engineering, construction management, and facility operation. To learn more, please visit LFGC at http://www.lfgccorp.com/
IMW is a leading supplier of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) equipment for the displacement of diesel fuel in transportation and industrial applications such as bus / taxi fleets and gas-fired power generation plants. In addition to having a higher carbon footprint than CNG, oil-based fuels such as gasoline and diesel significantly contribute to health-related problems caused by urban air pollution.
To learn more about IMW, please visit them at http://www.imw.ca
Lignol
Lignol is one of BC's leading technology companies undertaking the development of biorefineries for the production of fuel-grade ethanol and other biochemical co-products from cellulosic biomass feedstocks. Lignol's biorefinery technology is widely regarded as one of the most promising cellulosic ethanol solutions under development.
The process consists of an initial pre-treatment step that utilizes solvent extraction to separate a cellulose-rich substrate from the other components of the wood, which dissolve in the solvent. The cellulose is treated with a mixture of enzymes and yeast, resulting in beer, which is then distilled into fuel grade ethanol, used for gasoline blending. The liquid stream from the initial pre-treatment process is treated to recover co-products, notably a very pure form of lignin, known as HP-L™ lignin as well as furfural and other valuable biochemicals.
Lignol's development is driven forward by a highly-skilled and dedicated team at its world-class Biorefining Technology Centre located in Burnaby British Columbia. This facility contains Lignol's biopulping, bioconversion and lignin characterization laboratories as well as an industrial-scale biorefinery pilot plant. Using this facility, Lignol has successfully demonstrated the end to end conversion of BC feedstocks to cellulosic ethanol and other biochemical co-products.
To learn more about Lignol, please visit them at www.lignol.ca/
Nexterra
Nexterra is a leading developer and supplier of advanced biomass gasification solutions that generate heat and power for institutional and industrial customers.
Nexterra's gasification systems convert biomass fuels into clean burning syngas that can be used as a direct substitute for natural gas and other fossil fuels in the production of heat, steam or power. Nexterra's technology has proven that customers can reduce costs and become more energy self-sufficient, while significantly lowering greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air contaminants.
Nexterra was established in April 2003. Over the past six years, the company has focused on enhancing and commercializing its proprietary gasification technology for thermal and cogeneration applications. Nexterra's technology uses the fixed-bed updraft method of gasification. For industrial and institutional scale energy systems, this technology offers the best fit in terms of economics, fuel versatility, low emissions and performance.
To learn more about Nexterra, please visit them at www.nexterra.ca/
Sempa Power
Sempa Power Systems was formed with building owners and stratas to identify ways to reduce the cost of heating buildings, specifically in the resort community of Whistler.
Experiments around the use of off-peak electricity to displace fossil fuels for certain fuel heating applications highlighted the extraordinary potential of this concept. They patented some of the core ideas, further enhanced and developed the Hybrid Heating System and now Sempa works with owners of buildings across North America to use this Hybrid Heating system to lower costs and reduce greenhouse gases.
To learn more about Sempa Power, please visit them at www.sempapower.com/
