Announcing the APL Authorized Representative Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------
ALL Power Labs is receiving a growing stream of proposals for overseas representation and reselling of our products. Many of these come from individuals who’ve been watching our progress for years, and find our products have now achieved a level of maturity to justify pilot scale rollouts in their region. Fortunately, we agree. We also know the next stage of our growth cannot happen without commercial partners in “faraway” local markets. There are many details of product demonstration, last mile services, and local project development that we cannot well serve online from Berkeley, California. This is where you come in. Today we’re announcing the launch of our global Authorized Representative Program. The goal of this program is to find individuals who can successfully localize our products, and build the related businesses to grow the results. This will be much than an arms length reseller agreement. It will be an active participatory role, somewhat like a “Value Added Reseller”, but with responsibilities and opportunities extending well beyond a typical VAR. As an Authorized Representative (AR), you will be expected to orchestrate regular product demonstration events at your site, somewhat like we do with our monthly Open House events in Berkeley. You’ll be offered a wide array of “last mile service” commercial opportunities, as well as the add-on projects that regularly arise around a gasifier installation. You’ll become the “go to” person in your region for small-scale biomass power generation, and be given a front row seat to develop the larger deployments in your region. To succeed in these activities, you’ll need to possess technical abilities across gasification and internal combustion engines; general business and logistics expertise; and financing expertise to enable purchase scaling. Few people come with all of these resources together by default. You should, at the very least, be willing to assemble teams or local partnerships that in time will address all these pieces of the puzzle. We’re open to establishing AR relationships anywhere in the world. However, for the first six months of the program, we’d like to focus on the following regions. · Italy · Indonesia · Eastern Europe · Australia · South Africa · India · Canada · Thailand (or mainland S.E.A) · UK · Costa Rica Note that we already have reps in three additional regions. These individuals chose themselves prior to this program through getting a Power Pallet and starting action on-the-ground. They are Holger Roswandowicz in Germany, Yoav Palatnik and Vickson Korlewala in Liberia, and Gerardo Turrubiate in Tulum, Mexico. Hundreds of others have asked or proposed things over the last 4 years, but we didn’t have a clear program to offer. Now finally, we do. We believe our personal scale power products are on the cusp of a transformational uptake in-the-market and on-the-ground. Waste biomass fuel is nearly everywhere and often free. Rural electrification --whether developing world or otherwise-- usually suffers from high cost or high intermittency, with few options that truly replace the usability of the grid or a diesel genset. Those who’ve been watching us for last few years have been watching us progressively roll out the answer-- and do so at a price point unprecedented in the biomass energy sector. We are in no way done with our development. Both our technology and its productization continue to undergo rapid development, and will continue to do so for years to come. However, we are finally at a first point of design stability and manufacturing capacity to support meaningful pilot scale rollouts, and encourage local businesses to form to drive the opportunity forward. We expect these efforts to return significant rewards in future years --across multiple bottom lines-- however in the near term, there’s mostly just going to be lots of work. Understand clearly that this will be a high opportunity cost engagement, appropriate for only the exceptionally motivated, and those in possession of a long view. Nonetheless, we hope you will seriously consider joining us for the adventure, and help us put a significant dent in the universe of the energy problem. If you would more information on the program, please write us at [email protected] and we’ll send you the full program details. Thank you for considering. I hope you will join us. Jim Mason www.gekgasifier.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Mason Website: http://www.whatiamupto.com Current Projects: - Gasifier Experimenters Kit (the GEK): http://www.gekgasifier.com - Escape from Berkeley alt fuels vehicle race: www.escapefromberkeley.com - ALL Power Labs on Twitter: http://twitter.com/allpowerlabs - Shipyard Announce list: http://lists.spaceship.com/listinfo.cgi/icp-spaceship.com _______________________________________________ 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/
