Dear Tom, I appreciate the scale of Nexterra's projects: big enough to be real. Of course, they could trip-up on a truly large project that was expected to be more than just a feel-good accomplishment (they've been good at skimming-off the cream, so far). But they smell real, somehow; the UBC plant looks great from the air! I'll bet it looks great, close-up, also. Good engineering has a natural esthetic appeal.
I'm not troubled that their capital cost/kW is unrealistic; At least, for now, their systems are performing above projections. Range Fuel they are not. Now that's refreshing news! Mark -----Original Message----- From: Tom Miles [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 8:50 PM To: 'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification'; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Gasification] 2 MWe Gasifier at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada >Dear Tom, > Nice, pricey system. >Tom Taylor Tom, We find that the ones that are actually running all seem to be pricy. While we get estimates and budget quotes for 0.5-1 MWe systems at $4,000-$6,000/kWe, the ones that are actually running at 2MWe are $8,000-$10,000/kWe. The exceptions are the Sakata and Ankur gasifiers in Thailand. Tom Miles _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
