Balderrie

What Balderrie Does (Top)

Balderrie Energies, GmbH, is a Swiss registered company specialized in advanced power ceramics, the application of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells to Enhanced Oil Recovery, electricity storage, electric mobility, and the transformation of municipal solid waste into a cheaper and lower CO2 emitting fuel for the cement industry. Balderrie develops its projects and undertakes its sovereign and strategic advisory services in conjunction with major industrial partners and in association with leading international technology companies and research universities. Please click on "Partners" at the left of the screen for further information.

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SOFC for EOR (Top)

Balderrie has teamed up with Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil company, King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia's national laboratories and major research university, and SOFCpower, a leading European developer of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) with offices in Switzerland and Italy, to develop a low-cost, highly efficient application utilizing SOFC to produce CO2 at the well-head. The CO2 will be injected into the oil reservoir to enhance tertiary reserve recovery by up to an additional 20%. The application generates three additional "waste" (and therefore "free") by-products: heat, which is utilized for industrial purposes, water, which is mixed with the CO2 to enhance EOR efficiency, and electricity, which is sold at prevailing market rates.

Next Generation Power Ceramics (Top)

Balderrie has teamed up with KAUST (King Abdullah University for Science and Technology), Saudi Arabia's leading research university, which has one of the most advanced core-lab systems of any university in the world today, to establish the Advanced Ceramics Group (ACG) with the aim of developing next generation power ceramics, including planar Zebra batteries and other technologies related to Enhanced Energy Systems.

Balderrie's CTO, Tobias KOCH, will take up residence at KAUST for the next two years to oversea the establishment of Balderrie's activities at KAUST and in the Arabian Gulf region. The include the deployment of an integrated Electric Vehicle Program that will use smart grid technology developed by Siemens to integrate the EV's V2G (Vehicle-to-Grid) capable batteries within KAUST's mini-grid system, as a prelude to offering V2G services to the Saudi electric grid. The combination will generate substantial savings in domestic fuel consumption, both in terms of electricity consumption and vehicle usage, and increase the grid's efficiency by using EV batteries for frequency regulation, peak shaving, load shifting, and restart from black.

Carbon-Enhanced Finance (Top)

Where possible, Balderrie utilizes the financial mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol and the European Union’s Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS) to enhance return on investments in alternative energy and energy efficiency. Balderrie's principals include some of the world's top experts in carbon-enhanced finance.

Sovereign Advisory Services (Top)

In exceptional cases, Balderrie provides sovereign advisory services to select governments and public authorities. This is aimed at developing national energy and greenhouse gas reduction policies. This includes systems (and in specific cases, projects) that can lead to substantial reductions in fossil fuel consumption and to an increase in the share of renewable power in the overall power generation mix. In addition, Balderrie has developed a more efficient cap-and-trade model and regulatory system than those currently in use or under consideration by various governments.

An integrated, Comprehensive Approach (Top)

Balderrie has developed an integrated comprehensive approach and strategy to invest in projects that address the world's urgent need of moving to a sustainable energy consumption and fairer, more humane, equitable and ethical socio-economic development conditions worldwide.

Except for its waste-to-fuel projects, Balderrie's activities represent different applications of essentially the same mix of technologies.

For example, under Balderrie's deployment models, the same nickel-sodium battery used as part of a hybrid micro combined heat and power (mCHP) installation is also used in 3MW stationary electricity storage and grid stabilization clusters, and is the same battery that would power the commuter electric vehicles (CEV) that Balderrie is preparing to deploy in the Middle East, Europe and the USA.

Means & Function (Top)

Beyond sameness of means, this represents also a sameness of function, since the CEV batteries will also serve as grid storage and stabilization devices, while the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) that's used to provide the electricity and heat that power the mCHP systems is also used as a range extender in the commuter electric vehicles.

This integrated, comprehensive model also is future and recession proof. It produces the cheapest, fastest, most profitable, beneficial and efficacious socio-economic, job and business creating investment model that individuals, corporations and governments can adopt today.

Additional Info (Top)

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