- BRIGHT IDEAS Howto getthefundingto take fromproposal to profit. renewables Bg CrgsralLuxmore its technologv to Ivanhoe Energy, which uses it anadamight hold much of the Speeding to market to refine heaq, oii from the tar sands. world's oil supply,but that isn't Starting at a small research laboratory in Enysn's pyrol;'sis oil is currently being used stopping its entrepreneurial Sherbrooke University in 1999, Quebec-based companies from becoming world leaders in second generation biofuel Enerkem now runs alarSe commercial facility with a gasifier that turns Edmonton's garbage technologies. Over 100 companies are in the race to prove that their technology can repTacefossil fuels with affordable and planet-friendly biofuels to heat homes solids into 36 million litres of bioethanol a year. Once the facility is operational in mid2011, it will be the first commercial operation in the world to take municipal solid waste (about 100,000 tonnes annually) and turn it into a renewable ethanol that can be pumped into our gas tanks. in heat and power generation, but the gold star has always been renewable "drop-in" transportation fuels that can be slotted into an existing oil refinery to make green gas, diesel or jet fuel indistinguishable from its fossil Thejoiner counterparls. Sticking to its strategy of finding strong partners, Ensyn signed a deal with UOP, the world's major technology supplier to the oil refining sector and a subsidiary of manufacturi ng gi ant Honeywell. I n in the R&D stage.But a few Canadian companies are among the dozen that are commercial or near commercialand each has the potential to change Ottawa-based Ensyn started 25 years ago when oil prices per barrel were still in their teens. The company stuck with its technology, which turns biomass like wood waste into a thick "pyrolysis oil," despite a tough energy market. In 2005, it made a $100-mi1liondeal to October 2008, the com panies f or m ed Envergent Technologies to commeruahze the technology to turn pyrolysis oil to a renewable liquid transport fuel. Randal Goodfellow, Ensyn's senior vice president, says the green fuel will be ready for the oil the way the world fuels up. licence the fossil fuel upgrading application of rcfineryby and schools and rev up industrial and transportation engines. Despite decades of work, the majority of th e next g e n er at ion biof uels (w h i c h are made from materials that do not compete with food production) are still r)wlu.renewcana da. n et 2012. 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I t s i nventi ve approach w as recognized this summer when it received the 2009 Intergovernmental Reneu'able Energy Orga n i z ati o n I nn ovati on Alvar d. Dl,namotive has been turning residual .uvoodto bio-oil for years at its 13O-tonnesper-day West Lorne plant, fueling a 2.5megawatt turbine to make power for the Ontario grid, and selling the oil to a U.S. \t Golder, we understand thatsustainable solutions areimportant to yourbusiness. ffehave50yearsexperience working withclients across Canada andaround theworld lelivering integrated solutions for: ) Waste r Water . Energy . . Transportation Buildings UrbanRenewal ' r Ecosystems-Biodiversity r Infrastructure ' Climate orth America+ 800 2753281 e r r ' Canada M ar c h / A p r i l 2010 Golder Associates customer for the heat market. The economic downturn forced the company to seekout strong partners to heip develop their projects. In a conference call discussing the company's fourth quarter results fbr 2009, CEO Andrew Kingston said, "The market is taking a significant departure." Larpleenergy and oi1companies want to develop projects themselves. Kingston says,"It's a question of a decision of whether the technologv meets their requirements,rather than us having to raise the capi raland put rhe proj ectroget her '. '' Like Ensyn, Dynamotive's goal is to perfect a processto upgradeits heavy bio-oil into a middle distillate that can be inserted into existing oil refineries to produce renewable transportation fuel, and, like Ensyn, it's racing to be the first. "Do what yow do really well, understand.w'lcatit isyou do,arudtlcen connectwit'hotherpartiesin value cLtaintltat will getyow to tlte ynarket." -Randal Goodfellow Dcmonstration of the florv propcrties ,,i Rf I' p-r.rol1.sis oil. Seeingthe forestthroughthe trees \\/est Coast company Nexterra invented its small gasification units to fit onto large pulp and paper or sawmill plants. to take leftover wood and make combined heat and power that could fuel the processor be sold to the grid. But when the forest industry took another turn for the \\-orse. \exterra turned to urban markets. It has sold its gasifiers not only to pulp and plvrvood mills, but to universities and condo developments.Soon it lvill heat and Jo\\'er the hub of energy researchin North -\rnerica, the Department of Energl"s Oak Ridge National Laboratorl. in Tennessee. The $S9-million project is being led b1. \exterra's partner Johnson Controlsrhe two formed a strategic alliance to develop biomass gasification projects after l'orking together on a similar project at the University of South Carolina. Douglas Bradley, president of the C a nad i a n B ioener gy A s s o c i a ti o n C - \ N BIOJ, s ay s Canada ' s a d v a n c e d biofuel technologies are still unknou'n in some sectors-and that needs to change. "lf these companieswant to win the race, :hev need to find strong investment or form strategiicpartnerships like Ensvn's deal .,r-ithHonel'well," he savs. -{nd with more promising advanced b i o f uel te ch nologies f r om C a n a d i a n companies like Lignol and Iogen nearing ,'onrmercialization, CANBIO is focusing o n pro mo ti n g t hes e t ec h n o l o g i e s to p ot ent ia l i n v es t or s wor ldw i d e . 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I n t l - t i s n r r r r 'l i c f . t i r t r i n g i s c r i t i c r l . A r e c e r l t r e p o r t b t',\cce r ttu r c, cntitle'd l3ctting on Scieuce. Disruptive Tcchrlologies in Tl'ansport Fr-rcls.icle'ntjficcl I2 kc1' technologics. fi'om clcctlic cars to algae. utich criuld tlarrsfblnt tltc \\'A.\'\\.c SiilsLlp. Br-rt,fhc' rep{lrt \\'i1r1ls. " a l l o f t h c t c c h r t o l o g i e s a r c 'i n p l a r " t t c x r - .a r t d t h cr e i s a l i l cc to ss of tttlc tcchnologv u'ill irrpact tl.rc cornrtrelcirlizatiort. -fhc st-tcce p o t e n t i n l r r u r k c - t o f -t l r c o t h c r s . " Crystal Luxmore is a Toronto-based freelance rvriter and i'oml: rni c:rfions m:rnagel'fbr the Canadian Bioener$1' A ssociation.