Rwanda Girls School, Gashora, Rwanda – December 2017
Vincent Igboeli installing PP20 at Gashora In 2009, the Rwanda Girls Initiative opened Gashora Girls Academy of Science and Technology (GGAST) – an upper-secondary girls’ boarding school located in Bugesera District an hour south of the capital city of Kigali. GGAST welcomed its first class of 90 girls in February, 2011. Tapping into APL’s long-established relationships in Africa, especially with the Booker Washington Institute in Liberia, APL placed a PP20 at the Gashora campus. The school has an active agricultural program, operating a successful 14-acre farm on campus where they hope to perfect techniques for running the locally plentiful macadamia……
National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore – July 2017
The National University of Singapore (NUS) installed a PP20 to contribute to research on bioenergy and gasification. NUS began over 100 years ago as a small medical school, today, it is Singapore’s flagship university. A world-class research institution, teams at NUS are working in the same areas of interest as APL, studying gasification technologies and the acronomic uses and benefits of Biochar. We hope that having access to our machine helps them make breakthroughs in this important research space….
Songhai Center, Benin, West Africa – November 2016
APL recently delivered the first of its PP20s to the Songhai Center in Benin. From the Songhai website: “The Centre Songhai is principally involved in agricultural training, research, and production for sustainable livelihood in Africa. Founded… in 1985, the Center has been managed by Africans since then. The Center’s aim is to create the conditions for improving the lives of Africans, the great majority of whom live in rural areas.” “Centre Songhai is a world leader in innovative development programs, including integrated farming, biomass gasification, microenterprise and IT for rural communities. Father Nzamujo, the 1993 Africa Prize Laureate, is a……
Biodico, Five Points, California – August 2015
Biodico is a sustainable bio-refinery operator located in Santa Barbara, California. Committed to sustainability and R&D they have partnered with Redrock ranch in the center of California’s San Joaquin Valley. Redrock sits among the state’s extensive almond and nut orchards on the most productive agricultural land in the USA. Implementing and studying a wide range of alternative energy solutions, and with the assistance of California Energy Commission grants, Biodico has partnered with Redrock Ranch and APL to install a PP20 Power Pallet with an early prototype version of our combined heat and power (CHP) option. This project was the result……
Hybridnet Project, Terni, Italy – August 2015
Massimo Ceroni and Paolo Massarelli lead the team of young engineers who are building a microgrid and alternative energy training center in Italy to help North and Central African refugees learn about sustainable development. Hybridnet plans to leverage European funding to successfully equip these men and women with skills that they can take back to the home countries and deploy. The goal is to help them develop economically and enviornmentally sustainable local enterprise that will allow them to make a living even as they provide an environmentally friendly useful service to their communities. This microgrid integrates our biomass generators with……
El Jardín Botánico, Bogotá, Colombia – June 2015
Two PP20 biomass gasifier-gensets from ALL Power Labs were purchased by system Integrator, Tetra Tech, with the help of a USAID grant, and installed in the José Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden of Bogotá. Located in the capital, it is Colombia’s largest botanical garden and serves both as a recreation and research center. Our biomass gensets are part of a program to create a sophisticated demonstration site featuring multiple forms of renewable power generation integrated into a micro-grid, including solar arrays and energy storage. The Garden is a municipally owned park has an emphasis on Andean and Páramo ecosystems, featuring plants……
Booker Washington Institute, Kakata, Liberia – February 2015
BWI’s Renewable Energy Center in Kakata, Liberia is doing daily runs of three PP20’s to supply a large portion of their campus with power. Planning to begin a commercial mini grid project, BWI REC hopes to begin selling power at affordable rates to a even larger service area adjacent to the campus, and hopes to become self sustaining. Too remote to be included in the unreliable national power grid, BWI has had to use expensive diesel power in their attempt to reboot their institution after its devastation during the recent civil wars. But Liberia is coming back. Kakata was at the center of the……
SURE Green Island, Palawan, Philippines – February 2015
Green Island is a village island located about 14 kilometers off the coast of Roxas, Palawan. It is a small flat island with an area of only about an eighth of a square kilometer with an estimated population of 375. The main source of livelihood is fishing and seaweed farming. Due to the island’s remote location, potable water is shipped form the mainland by boat, and electricity has been supplied by 25 kVa diesel generator which only serves some parts of the island intermittently, depending on the supply of costly diesel. The project is intended to begin with a pilot supplying the area of the island that……
Mission Goundi, Republic of Chad, Central Africa – September 2013
Installed in the Fall of 2013, this project based out of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia – BarcelonaTech, in Spain, plans to install a PP20 in the small town of Goundi in Chad. With support from the Center of Technology Transfer (CITCEA-UPC) at BarcelonaTech and the NGO, Misión y Desarrollo para Goundi, this project aims to build a power system fueled by the corncob waste that is plentiful around Goundi. The electricity they generate is intended first and foremost to power their water supply system and local hospital, built 20 years ago, which currently uses wasteful expensive and polluting diesel……
Village Hub, Suliwesi, Indonesia – April 2012
The Masarang Foundation Integrated a PP10 Power Pallet into their sustainable Village Hub system for palm sugar harvesting on the Island of Suliwesi in Indonesia. This pilot project is located next to a palm sugar factory which uses waste geothermal heat from a 35 MW geothermal plant to dry and prepare palm sugar. This sugar is prepared from the sap of the Arenga Palm which can be processed into sugar and ethanol. The Arenga palm can grow on poor soils, allowing deforested areas to be reforested, acting as a nurse tree to re-introduce more diverse species. The Village Hub concept is to……