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The global market for Nexterra's gasification systems is substantial, especially in urban areas that require small scale, heat and power plants that are clean and generate very low emissions.
Globally, thousands of institutional and industrial facilities currently rely on fuel oil, natural gas and grid-purchased electricity. Nexterra's solutions enable these customers to self generate heat and power using readily available biomass residuals. This shift is due to fundamental changes occurring in energy markets because of higher energy prices, fuel price volatility, demand for renewable energy, electricity market restructuring and climate change. All of these factors are creating strong incentives for fuel switching and on-site energy production.
To date, Nexterra has focused on the North American market, and has designed, built and installed eight industrial scale gasification plants in Canada and the US.
Nexterra is now also targeting facilities in Brazil, the UK, Japan and other markets in Europe and Asia where high energy costs, coupled with stringent environmental regulations and mandates for renewable energy, generate high interest in Nexterra's gasification products.
"Biomass gasification has untapped potential for the development and commercialization of new synthetic bioenergy fuels and products. Nexterra's technology platform and the (joint UBC-Nexterra) Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Project provide a wide range of opportunities for ongoing research and development."
- John Grace, UBC Professor and Canada Research Chair in Clean Energy Processes
Nexterra's award-winning gasification systems are designed, supplied and installed by Nexterra's in-house engineering team that has extensive experience and a successful track record managing and implementing energy projects.
Nexterra is also working with energy service companies and large engineering firms that finance and build cogeneration facilities or small scale power plants.
In addition, the company has an extensive R&D program to develop progressively higher value applications for its gasification technology. Current research programs are focused on syngas upgrading and tar cracking for internal combustion engines, and using new feedstocks such as biosolids. Future programs include syngas enhancement to produce bio-methane, ethanol, hydrogen and other synthetic fuels.
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