Ambit Energy Maryland is now a reality. For several years Ambit has looked at the Maryland marketplace as a potential expansion state and they recently announced at their annual Ambition sales convention that it will open on November 1^st for service to its sales force of independent energy consultants across the country.

Initially the Ambit Energy service will only be available in the Baltimore Gas & Electric service territory which encompasses about 1.2 million business and residential customers across Baltimore City and all or part of 10 central Maryland counties. Baltimore Gas and Electric will continue to provide the delivery, service and maintenance for customers while Ambit will be retailer.

With this new territory, Ambit Energy’s 100,000 plus independent energy consultants will have the opportunity to gather customers throughout the BG&E service territory. Ambit has industry leading value to offer its customers as they are the only energy retailer offering customers the ability to earn free energy by referring friends and family to the service. This program essentially turns Ambit customers into walking billboards for the service as they are being rewarded to do so.

With this new territory Ambit looks to continue its aggressive growth history which has made it the number one fastest growing privately held company on the prestigious annual Inc 500 list. Expansion territories have long been a part of Ambit’s strategy and this year marks a new phase in the strategy because Ambit will follow the Maryland expansion with Pennsylvania in the first quarter of 2011.

Electricity choice in the state of Maryland has been available since July 2000, but residential choice has not fully developed until the past year or so as rate caps expire and competition thus moves into a fully deregulated and free market.

If you would like to take a closer look at the opportunities with Ambit Energy Maryland, check out our website and you can learn everything you could ever need to know about that and energy deregulation as well.

Ukrainian engineering company ZORG is not planning to leave Ukrainian market of biogas technologies. As company’s representatives stated, recent news about company closing its Ukrainian office are, merely, a fraud. One of Ukrainian magazines, whose name wasn’t made public, released fake information in regards to company’s future plans right after “ZORG Ukraine” closed its advertising account with magazine’s major editors.

Despite the economic crises, Ukrainian market of bio-energy technologies demonstrates, by far, its highest level of demand. Company’s current contract with INSECO lead to installment of 33 biogas plants in Babyno (Rivne region, Ukraine), making it one of the world’s largest bio-energy projects. The cost of company’s contacts, signed in 2010, already estimates up to 25 mln. Euro, in comparison to 4 mln. Euro ZORG gained in course of 2007-2009.

“ZORG Ukraine” is currently working on optimization of its advertising expenses. Due to marketing efforts of the last 3 years, company’s brand became widely known in Ukraine. Thus, in the nearest future, company’s major marketing campaign is going to be held in neighboring countries.

About ZORG:

ZORG executes full range of engineering services within biogas industry. The company designs and builds biogas plants under German state-of-art technology and know-how license.

ZORG works on a global scale: company’s projects have been successfully implemented in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Latvia, and Turkey.

ZORG UKRAINE Ltd
Adress: 172, Gorkogo str., Kiev, 03680, Ukraine
Tel/fax +38 (044) 5212951
Tel/fax +38 (044) 5212952
Tel/fax +38 (044) 5212953
E-mail: [email protected]
zorg-biogas.com

According to information provided by RBK-Ukraine, EU increases the amount of biogas production by 20% annually. In half of the cases, fumes of the city dumpsters serve as the source for biogas production. Meanwhile, biogas plants for recycling of organic waste, employed by EU countries, are developed and designed in Ukraine.

Essentially, annual increase in production of alternative energy, including the production of biogas from the organic waste, in Ukraine has reached a higher rate than that of EU. In 2007-2008 the amount of running biogas plants in the country ranged within a dozen. Due to a number of biogas plants, built by Ukrainian experts in course of 2009, the dynamic growth of alternative energy production in Ukraine is currently higher in comparison to any country, member of European Union.

In course of the first few days of 2010, Ukrainian construction company “ZORG Ukraine” signed two new contracts for construction of biogas plants with Latvian company “EcoGen SIA.” As representatives of “EcoGen SIA” stated, the choice to work in partnership with “ZORG Ukraine” was made due to exceptional experience of the companies’ employees and its projects in Europe and Asia.

Prime Minister of Ukraine has recently made a statement about validation of new penalties by the Cabinet of Ministers for Ukrainian companies that produce and yet fail to recycle organic waste using biogas plants.

About ZORG:

ZORG executes full range of engineering services within biogas industry. The company designs and builds biogas plants under German state-of-art technology and know-how license.

ZORG works on a global scale: company’s projects have been successfully implemented in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Latvia, and Turkey.

ZORG UKRAINE Ltd
Adress: 172, Gorkogo str., Kiev, 03680, Ukraine
Tel/fax +38 (044) 5212951
Tel/fax +38 (044) 5212952
Tel/fax +38 (044) 5212953
E-mail: [email protected]
zorg-biogas.com

By the 18-th of January 2010 the Ministry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine received 7 requests to proceed with concessionary import of equipment, used within the industry of renewable fuels. Following information has been provided by the press-service of consulting company FuelAlternative.

On January 1, 2010 Ukrainian government validated a law “On making changes and additions to the tax policy of Ukraine in order to facilitate production and usage of biofuels.” According to the changes brought by the government, Ukrainian companies that work in the field of alternative energy can get an exemption from the tax on value added when they import technical equipment.

About ZORG:

ZORG executes full range of engineering services within biogas industry. The company designs and builds biogas plants under German state-of-art technology and know-how license.

ZORG works on a global scale: company’s projects have been successfully implemented in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Latvia, and Turkey.

ZORG UKRAINE Ltd

Adress: 172, Gorkogo str., Kiev, 03680, Ukraine

Tel/fax +38 (044) 5212951

Tel/fax +38 (044) 5212952

Tel/fax +38 (044) 5212953

E-mail: [email protected]

zorg-biogas.com

New advanced waste-management technology has been developed by Ukrainian construction company ZORG Ukraine, designed specifically for plants that produce alcohol. Unique technological upgrade allows the plant to recycle production-wastes, manufacture high-quality fertilizer and biogas, that’s instantly converted into thermal or electrical power. “Biogas plants can cut-down production expenses within the alcohol-production industry sector to a considerable degree,” – commented company’s executive director Igor Aksiutov.

Some unique qualities of production-wastes within this particular industry caused company’s intense research and development of the new waste-management system. Wastage of alcohol-producing plants serves to be the best material for production of biogas, yet the process of biomass digestion, in the following case, has its distinctive features. Taking into consideration the fact, that spent grains have shorter oxidation time-span, company’s engineers divided the digestion process of biomass into two stages: the processes of acid formation and methane formation take places in separate reservoirs, which leads to an increase of the amount of biogas produced by the plant.

The quality of biomass, received from the biogas plant, increases as well. Levels of COD and BOD are ten to fifteen times lower. The wastage of the biogas plant is the high-value product – biofertilizer. Up to this point, alcohol-producing plants managed the wastage by production of dry feeds, although the process demanded the high-level of energy consumption.

Despite the fact, that new waste-management system for plants that produce alcohol is acknowledged as the matter of public interest only now, ZORG Ukraine has already successfully installed its technological solution on various plants in Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

At present moment, company offers its clients a number of specialized waste-management solutions:

• biogas plants for cattle and pig farms;
• biogas plants for poultry farms;
• biogas plants for sugar plants;
• biogas plants for energy crops;
• biogas plants for urban ore.

In addition, one of the leading companies within the field of Ukrainian diary industry “Ukrainska Molochna Kompania” received a license for combined production of electrical and thermal power, which enables the company to sell electricity on the energy market according to the green tariff and non-regulated tariff. The license is granted by “National Energy Regulation Commission.” Green tariff rates are set by NERC Department of power-producing companies. Currently, green tariff rate is 1,34 hryvnias (UAH), exclusive of VAT.

For more information on industrial solutions offered by ZORG Ukraine visit company’s website.

Melbourne, Australia ( Prfriend ) December 30, 2008 -Australia’s largest energy retailer, AGL, is putting its energy into innovative and sustainable renewable energy projects, in an effort to minimising the effects of climate change.

Included in its suite of 29 renewable energy (http://www.agl.com.au/environment/Pages/RenewableEnergyProduction.aspx) assets that it owns or operates, is Suncoast Gold Macadamias in Gympie, Southeast Queensland, which is Australia’s first waste-to-energy (biomass) renewable cogeneration project.  ‘Cogeneration’ is generation of both electricity and useful heat that can be used onsite for good use.

What is Biomass?
Biomass is all matter that can be used as fuel for industrial production.  It can also include biodegradable wastes that can be burnt as fuel.

How is Biomass energy (http://www.agl.com.au/environment/Pages/Energyfrommacadamianutshells.aspx) created?
Biomass can be thought of as storage of solar energy in chemical form.  It can be combusted to generate heat and then subsequently converted into other forms of energy.

How do we create energy from Macadamias?
Creating energy from a waste product like the macadamia nut shells involves the following process:
•    Nut shells are burnt in a fire boiler, which creates steam
•    Some of the steam is used to dry the macadamia nuts
•    The majority of the steam is used to drive a turbine to generate clean, renewable electricity
•    About 40% of the electricity is sent to the national power grid as GreenPower
•    About 60% goes to the customer.

What this means for the environment
The macadamia plant produces enough energy from the macadamia nut shells to power the company’s entire manufacturing and processing activity, as well as about 250 Queensland homes.

This innovative waste-to-energy project cuts Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by around 2,500 tonnes per annum – equivalent to taking about 650 cars off the road each year.  It has also solved the problem of what to do with the 5,000 tonnes of macadamia shells, enough to fill three Olympic-sized swimming pools, that Suncoast Gold Macadamias processes each year.

Suncoast Gold, which exports Australia’s largest native agricultural crop to more than 20 countries including Japan, Europe and the US, has had its efficiency significantly boosted by the provision of electricity, heat and steam.  It has also enhanced its green credentials in the European and Asian markets where consumers are extremely environmentally aware.

By 2010, more than 150 growers throughout Queensland and northern New South Wales are expected to supply Suncoast Gold with about 10,000 tonnes of macadamia nuts each year, doubling the Gympie facility’s output.

AGL’s Asset Manager Neil Cooke says the innovative plant has achieved several firsts.  It’s the first of its kind in the world,” he said. “It also has the largest macadamia shell silo (400 tonne capacity, 18 metres high and 10 metres in diameter) in the world and the boiler is showing that it is possible to achieve consistent performance from a renewable energy plant operated on shells.”

AGL (http://www.agl.com.au) is one of Australia’s leading integrated energy companies and the only Australian energy producer with a full suite of renewable generation, providing natural gas and electricity to over 3.2 million customers more than six million Australians.

Other innovative renewable energy assets AGL owns or operates include the ISIS Central Sugar Mill facility in Childers, Queensland, which is AGL’s first renewable cogeneration project to produce energy from sugar cane by-product (bagasse).

Contact:
Giselle Pethard
AGL Energy Limited
Melbourne
03 8633 6115

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