The new plant is located in Newry, Ireland. ZeroPoint's first operational facility in Europe is located in Schwarze Pumpe, Germany.
The Potsdam, New York-based firm's carbon negative process utilizes biomass to create renewable gas and yields biochar as a co-product. Biochar is a highly stable form of sequestered carbon with multiple uses in agriculture and industry.
The gas in Ireland is combusted in a gas engine to produce power for the local utility grid. The gas and engine also produce useable heat.
ZeroPoint says its solution can be deployed to produce renewable synthesis gas used in gas engines, steam boilers, thermal applications, or co-firing with coal, oil, biogas or biomass.
The company is also working to commercialize a patent pending process to upgrade sewage sludge and other low-grade materials for improved gasification and combustion as well as working to convert syngas into liquid hydrocarbons.
"We are very excited to be working on a second successful deployment of an advanced biomass-to-energy solution," said CEO, John Gaus. "We believe that we are currently producing the most stable, steady state and clean gas chemistry from biomass gasification in the world. We fully expect this second project to achieve operational robustness, reliability and commercial profitability."
ZeroPoint is currently working with a number of strategic relationships to assemble and deploy a basket of similar projects across North America and Europe.
"Biomass technologies are fundamentally differentiated from wind and solar technologies," said Company Chairman, John Blend. Traditional wind and solar voltaic power are intermittent with weather and nightfall whereas biomass projects deliver base load energy and integrate more easily with utility grids. "We see biomass filling a growing role in renewables as well as delivering highly attractive returns to project investors. I believe, at the moment, we are the only solution provider in the world to enable two, grid-connected, carbon-negative power plants and we plan to empower additional sites in the near future."
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