Green partnerships: bioenergy entrepreneurs looking for investors, partners, advice
Biopact often receives requests from entrepreneurs, small companies and NGOs looking for partners to invest in a bioenergy project in the South. We try to link these organisations and individuals to potential interested parties. But our 'matchmaking' efforts might have more effect when we put the projects online.
For this reason we will be presenting these requests in the side-bar, under the 'green partnership' logo. We will describe the project's location, size and subject very briefly. Interested investors, service providers, consultants or entrepreneurs can then contact Biopact, after which we will link them up with the project. Note that we will only present medium, small and micro-scale projects (we keep the big ones for ourselves!)
Some of the past two weeks' requests for partners, investors and advice include:
Biopact itself does not invest in any concrete bioenergy projects, but we do have a growing set of references that allows us to connect people interested in doing so. In the future we might develop a dedicated matchmaking website focusing on bioenergy projects in developing countries, in Africa in particular [entry ends here].
energy :: sustainability ::biomass :: bioenergy :: biofuels :: ethanol :: biodiesel :: biogas :: investing :: consulting :: developing countries ::
For this reason we will be presenting these requests in the side-bar, under the 'green partnership' logo. We will describe the project's location, size and subject very briefly. Interested investors, service providers, consultants or entrepreneurs can then contact Biopact, after which we will link them up with the project. Note that we will only present medium, small and micro-scale projects (we keep the big ones for ourselves!)
Some of the past two weeks' requests for partners, investors and advice include:
- A Dutch entrepreneur is building a medium scale (1 million liter per year) multi-feedstock biodiesel pilot plant in Mozambique and is looking for a partner/investor to expand the model to other African countries. Brochure about the project available.
- The owners of a cultural tourism park in East Africa that is integrated into forests that have arisen out of the rehabilitation of a former municipal dumpsite quarry, are looking to sell carbon credits for a new afforestation effort. The rehabilitation was achieved by planting trees into a formerly desolate quarry, which won the project several international awards. The forests were planted from 1993 onwards and are now fairly well grown; they are a mix of indigenous and casuarina trees, with a total acreage of 16 acres. They would like to sell carbon credits for the purpose of completing the plantation of the remaining acres of unreclaimed quarry. They are looking for advice on how to take the project forward and on how to receive carbon credits.
- The operators of a family-run tourist lodge in South Africa, specialising in horse-riding safaris and polo, are establishing 16 holiday homes on a game farm. They are looking into utilizing alternative energy to power the homes, more specifically biogas which could be made from the manure from 20 horses. They are looking for advice from biogas experts.
- An entrepreneur in Kenya wants to establish a Jatropha plantation to produce seeds for biodiesel and is looking for a partner. He has access to agricultural resources and is a trained mechanical engineering technician who has worked in a medium sized biodiesel factory.
- A U.S. based company is looking to start exporting hardwood pellet fuel. No info about quantities involved, but it is looking for potential buyers in Europe (we referred this company to the European biomass trading floor).
- A company based in Nigeria's Rivers State has access to 20,000 metric tons of palm kernel shells, which it wants to export as a biomass source for co-firing or for the production of fuel pellets. (Info about the quality of the shells and farmgate price per ton provided to Biopact.)
- An entrepeneur wants to 'experiment' with Jatropha plantations in Pakistan and Afghanistan and is looking for information and contacts to procure seeds. He is looking for a partner to carry out a feasibility study. The individual thinks "this may provide an alternate source of income to the very poor who give their sons away to the radicals as they cannot afford feeding them, especially in Norhern Pakistan & Southern Afganistan."
Biopact itself does not invest in any concrete bioenergy projects, but we do have a growing set of references that allows us to connect people interested in doing so. In the future we might develop a dedicated matchmaking website focusing on bioenergy projects in developing countries, in Africa in particular [entry ends here].
energy :: sustainability ::biomass :: bioenergy :: biofuels :: ethanol :: biodiesel :: biogas :: investing :: consulting :: developing countries ::
2 Comments:
I remember studying a logo almost just like the one above in my anthropology class. It was a black hand and a white hand instead of a green hand and white hand. It was for some kind of African aid program. The locals wouldn't have anything to do with the program because to them the logo looked like a ghost pulling a black man into the the spirit world.
Mm, thank God we changed the color of the black hand. As far as we know, there are no green-colored people, except for Martians, and they only invest modestly in bioenergy. So I think we're quite safe here. :-)
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