Energy Magazine September 2016 | Page 79

USA

“ Is it green ? If we increase the efficiency of how fuel is used by three times and reduce the carbon footprint of a complete facility , then it sounds pretty green to me ”

– Gregg Bauer , Managing Partner
renewable energy production .”
S2NRG is still a young company , and Bauer admits that their hands are full ; with pipelines in the US , in central and eastern Europe and in Chile and Columbia , the company has full schedule . However , he says that as the company continues to grow there will be opportunities to expand . “ As the company grows and we raise more capital there will be other markets that are attractive which we will then consider ,” he explains . “ But they will need to fit that criteria where we know that we have the correct resources and the correct relationships and commercial environment for that to happen .”
The cost of capital One of the major questions that arise from any form of recycling or renewing
energy use , how does the company or the industrial host make money out of this ? The answer is simple : the energy is served out to the grid , with the industrial host receiving royalties .
“ We integrate the energies sources in such a way that we maximise the economic benefit of the energy coming out of our plants to ensure that we are getting the maximum benefit of the real time energy market while allowing the hosts to modulate their process where possible , where it makes more sense to sell energy than it does to produce say , aluminium ,” adds Bauer . Think of it as demand management taken to another level .
These projects are funded by large energy private equity groups like EIF / Ares . S2NRG shares the economics from the sale of power between the energy private equity groups , who own
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