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Investing in Clenergen is a partnership in projects addressing the needs of a cleaner greener planet with an environmentally sound and sustainable Clean Energy Generation system, which is in compliance with and in excess of international standards for environmental protection, biodiversity, quality, safety and full traceability backed by a global management team providing a deep wealth of experience in the science, technology, finance and management of this business, as well as practical experiences of managing and investing in similar businesses in both emerging and developed markets.

Significant cash flow generation is provided after the initial build-out phase to adequately service debt; the stability of those cash flows is partially guaranteed through long term, defined, Government provided Power Purchase Agreements (PPA).

After a significant research and development the company has developed a program to

• Produce high-density, short-rotation biomass crops on a commercial scale at a cost of production equivalent to or less than the price of coal using a proprietary integrated farming model, and
• to produce power, steam, hydrogen, chemicals and other important products through advanced gasification technologies.

Clenergen Management recognized very early in the investment cycle of future power production platforms that a large and investable gap existed in the area of co-generation / co-gasification (of petcoke and coal), using biomass in conjunction with standard hydrocarbon fuels. In taking the unique position of approaching the issue from a plant science and plantation management perspective rather than from one of engineering, Clenergen has achieved a vital component in the future of co-gasification, the ability to deliver a standard, uniform virgin biomass on a commercial scale at regular intervals over a long period of time with a calorific value in excess of 17Mj/Kg.

This ensures that none of Clenergen power projects stand exposed to the vagaries of the market prices and supplies of feedstocks.

A unique feature of Clenergen’s business model is the application of the Tree adaptation process on the proprietary feedstock plants. Clenergen has identified one fast growing species of tree and another species of Grass to which it applied a proprietary Tree Adaption Process for rapidly increasing its growth rate by 30 to 40%, for the purpose of producing an economically viable source of feedstock/biomass for generating a renewable source of electricity.

Gasification is the only technology that combines the economic advantages of coal with the environmental benefits of natural gas.

This technology is perhaps the only technology that produces 24x7 `green-clean energy’, all through the year without any dependence on monsoon, sunlight, wind and on nature, in general and without the hazards of radiation, a permanent threat in nuclear fission technology. The capability of gasification to displace coal combustion, natural gas and petroleum is a major incentive for Governments in developed and developing nations to rapidly deploy this proven technology. South Africa, Finland, Sweden and Norway have demonstrated successfully over the last 50 years, the benefits of the deployment of gasification technology.

Besides the above,since gasification produces a syngas of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, it is the only conventional energy technology (besides nuclear fission) capable of producing the massive quantities of hydrogen that would be required to convert all or a major portion of the world’s transportation fleet from gasoline and diesel fuel to hydrogen in the future.

In 2004, The Gasification Technologies Council (www.gasification.org) identified 385 commercial scale gasifiers in use globally in 27 different nations on four continents. With name such as General Electric, Siemens, Sasol, Sembcorp Industries and Foster Wheeler all involved in gasification technology or gasification projects, the technology is well established, proven and highly refined. Last year, Sembcorp Utilities (the Govt. of Singapore’s industrial conglomerate - utilities division) opened their $200M Wilton, UK, wood fuelled electricity generation plant.

In 2006, global electricity production through biomass fuelled gasification was estimated to be in excess of 60 GW’s, with Germany, Holland, Hungary, Poland and Spain showing extraordinary expansion of the technology (due to EU Renewable Energy Directive) and China, fast becoming a significant player.

In THE United Kingdom large scale coal fired power plants are integrating up to 25% biomass in order to reduce their carbon footprint; in conjunction with expansion into 100% biomass supplied Power Plants. Over 300MWe Biomass power plants are scheduled to be operational within the next 3 years.

Merrill Lynch estimates that at the end of 2007, the global power shortage was 350 Gigawatts (350k MWe), with almost 1/3 of that coming from India alone. They further project that figure to rise to 1 Terawatt by 2018. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has also predicted that global energy demand will rise by 60% by 2030. This equates to 4,800 GW of new generating capacity, 2,000GW of which will be needed in OECD alone, largely to replace legacy coal and nuclear generating plants.

In order to create long term regional sustainability, it is the company’s responsibility to have a social and environmental impact program and integrate its operations into the core of the local social network and population of the region under development.

This plan which will include assisting with educational facilities, scholarship programs, providing health care facilities and proper housing / meals for employees, and a responsible attitude toward protecting the lands of the community. The Clenergen Foundation creates projects that will empower the people in the countries we work in. The Foundation has developed over a 3 year period an agricultural product that provides all the necessary inputs for cultivation of 1 hectare of Jatropha on marginalised land. The program (Jat in a box) will empower rural farmers with an additional source of income which over time could yield in excess of $1000 per acre.