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CCF Managing Director Gregg Fryett to Speak At Prominent “Powering Towards 2020″ Conference in UK
London (PRWEB) November 19, 2009 — Speaking as an official participant at the Powering towards 2020 Conference in London, taking place today, Carbon Credited Farming Plc’s (CCF) Managing Director, Gregg Fryett, reprimanded central and local governments for “Sleepwalking into a cold, dark future where power shortages are commonplace and black-outs the order of the day”.
If industry forecasts prove accurate, almost 35% of British electricity-generating capacity will have disappeared in less than six years’ time. However, the British green company, CCF, has devised a unique solution to the problem and is poised to help prevent the forecast energy crisis.
Administrations need to be far more proactive in preventing the power shortages, which could be with us sooner than we think
The recent massive power blackouts in Brazil and Paraguay illustrate quite clearly the chaos that can result when the electricity grid goes down and all the lights go out.
Continuity of supply and affordable prices are just as important as the need to cut emissions and reduce our carbon footprint. Fortunately, green oil delivers on all three counts.
At the Powering towards 2020 conference at London’s Barbican, Mr. Fryett, demonstrated how businesses and government alike could guarantee their future power supplies, at a carefully controlled price, by engaging plantation operators like CCF to develop green oil fields that directly replace crude oil and power transport.
Fryett stated, “A local council, for instance, could appoint CCF to create and operate on its behalf a 10,000 hectare plantation, which the council would own, and would eventually be capable of delivering 250,000 tonnes of green oil each year. If sited in Southeast Asia or Africa, the once-only capital cost of establishing the plantation would be less than £10 million spread across the first two years and, as the farm’s capacity grew from year to year, the owner (i.e. the UK local council) could sell any surplus to smaller councils and businesses in the UK, earning themselves valuable extra revenue.”
The non-food power plant, Jatropha Curcas, or other suitable crops, can provide local governments with unrefined oil which will power diesel-engined vehicles without any modification to the engine or fuel system.
Alternatively, they could use the oil, unrefined or otherwise, to fire bio-mass electricity-generating stations. Such stations can be built and operating within 18 months, provided the necessary planning approvals are in place. Government subsidies to build such power stations are substantial, though not widely publicised.
Through its association with Innovative Renewable Energy Ltd (IRE), CCF can also build and operate Energy from Waste (EfW) facilities which have the dual purpose of disposing of waste whilst simultaneously creating heat and electricity. As a logical adjunct to bio-mass operations, they give councils and businesses considerable control over their own power supply, possibly without any capital cost.
“Administrations need to be far more proactive in preventing the power shortages, which could be with us sooner than we think”, said Fryett. “The recent massive power blackouts in Brazil and Paraguay illustrate quite clearly the chaos that can result when the electricity grid goes down and all the lights go out.”
In concluding his address, Fryett spread a ray of hope, “Continuity of supply and affordable prices are just as important as the need to cut emissions and reduce our carbon footprint. Fortunately, green oil delivers on all three counts.”
About Carbon Credited Farming Plc (CCF
CCF is a UK-based company with Green Oil plantations established in a growing number of different countries, including Asia and Africa. New operations are constantly being added to dramatically expand and meet market demand. The renewable, sustainable fuel sources created by CCF work in parallel with big oil conglomerates creating a parallel energy value chain suitable for direct and regulated investment. CCF also acts as a plantation developer for larger clients with budgeted fuel or investment return requirements. For more information, please visit us at http://www.carboncreditedfarming.com/.
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