BioGas MicroGrid in a box (BGMG)

BGMG(Bio Gas Micro Grid In A Box)将开发一种混合可再生能源枢纽，用于非电网社区的部署。它将太阳能、风能和沼气能源结合在一个一次性的集装箱单元中，从电池中储存和部署电能，并回收废热供当地利用。该项目扩大了合作伙伴在最近非常成功的Energy Catalyst Wegen项目中的工作，该项目导致了一种新型的6kW即插即用沼气发生器技术的开发和随后的商业销售。合作伙伴包括Wegen合作者CAGE Technologies Ltd(CTL)/OakTec(电力系统技术开发商)、Sistema Bio(沼气系统OEM和系统试验和演示)和Sutton Power Engineering(发电机OEM和太阳能硬件供应商)。合作伙伴将在现有CTL/OakTec智能控制平台的基础上开发智能能源管理平台，以整合、管理和分配生物/太阳能/风能投入。其他产出将是Wegen沼气发动机技术在新的模块化液体冷却发动机系列中的应用，该系列将允许一系列功率输出满足应用要求，提供世界领先的燃油效率和低排放。液体冷却发动机将采用热电联产技术收集废热进行分配。CTL和Sutton在混合动力系统方面拥有丰富的经验，在伦敦尤斯顿的HS2铁路项目中部署了LPG-太阳能电池系统用于现场福利，最近在奥克尼的邮轮码头使用氢-太阳能-电池混合动力。BGMG将支持撒哈拉以南非洲和印度的碳中性微电网的发展，并将在肯尼亚部署一个试验系统，并在一个高调的地点进行测试。应用包括为大型食品和农业企业、村庄、学校、医院、保健中心和公共建筑提供独立电力。来自附近地点的生物垃圾，包括食物，可以用于饲料。随着全球能源价格的上涨，BGMG的商业理由变得更加强大。虽然该系统将比更简单的发电机或太阳能电池板成本更高，但它可以通过Sistema建立的轻松付款商业模式，在“机械即服务”的基础上向客户提供资金，并且在其整个生命周期内享受最低的燃料和运行成本，使其生命周期成本比传统的基于化石的电力系统低得多。迫在眉睫的商业机会包括为更大的农场、食品生产企业(包括将稻草用作AD原料的大米厂)、农业加工和电动汽车充电。

BGMG (Bio Gas Micro Grid in a box) will develop a hybrid renewable energy hub for deployment in off grid communities. It combines solar, wind and biogas energy resources in one drop-in containerised unit with electrical energy stored and deployed from batteries and waste heat recovered for local utilisation. The project expands the work of the partners in the recent highly successful Energy Catalyst WEGEN project that resulted in development and subsequent commercial sales of a novel 6kW plug-and-play biogas generator technology. The partners include WEGEN collaborators CAGE Technologies Ltd (CTL)/OakTec (power system technology developer), Sistema Bio (biogas system OEM and system trial and demonstration) and Sutton Power Engineering ( generator OEM and supplier of solar hardware). The partners will develop an intelligent energy management platform to integrate, manage and distribute the bio/solar/wind energy inputs based on a development of the existing CTL/OakTec intelligent control platform. Additional outputs will be an application of the WEGEN biogas engine technology to a new modular liquid cooled engine family that will allow a range of power outputs to suit application requirements delivering world leading fuel efficiency and low emissions. The liquid cooled engines will employ CHP technology to capture waste heat for distribution.CTL and Sutton have considerable experience of hybrid power systems having deployed LPG-solar-battery systems for site welfare with the HS2 rail project at Euston, London and more recently hydrogen-solar-battery hybrid to power the cruise ship terminal in Orkney.BGMG will support the development of carbon neutral microgrids in sub-saharan Africa and India and a trial system will be deployed to Kenya and be tested in a high profile location. Applications include stand-alone power for large food and agricultural businesses, villages, schools, hospitals and health-centres and public buildings. Bio-waste from the immediate location including food can be used in the feedstock.As global energy prices rise the business case for BGMG becomes stronger. Whilst the system will be more costly than a simpler generator or solar array it can be funded to the customer on a 'machinery as a service' basis by Sistema's established easy payment business model and will enjoy minimal fuel and running costs over its lifetime giving it a much lower lifetime cost than conventional fossil based power systems. Immediate commercial opportunities include powering larger farms, food production businesses including rice mills where rice straw is used as part of the AD feedstock, agricultural processing and charging EV's.