Viridia Test Case
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Contents
Company
Background
- Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority (NBCUA)
- Pilot program proposal.
- Location - City of Waldwick NJ
- Waldwick, NJ
- Waldwick NJ - wikipedia
- Waldwick Newspaper - local
- Waldwick Community Alliance
- 25 miles from Time Square (35 - 90 min drive).
- Other Information
- They have solar panels on site producing some of their energy.
- BWI Equipment Inc. Home Page
- Klines is one of the installed sites of the BMI Equipment
- Lancaster Grease-to-Biofuel Example uses BWI Equipment Inc. SV-2 processor.
Research
- The Problem - Fat's, Oil, and Grease and our Sewer Systems (FOG)
- FOG and Our Nations Sewer Systems
- FOG Science - website with background articles on FOG.
- The Business Case
- San Francisco Brown Grease Recycling Project
- Napa wants your fats Similar business case...$640,000 to build plant. (Uses microbes - Woody's friend)
- What to do with Brown Grease Great general background on brown grease and discusses the microbe solution in some detail.
- ASCE - Waste Grease to Biofuel presentation. Includes some of the technology/science.
- Cleveland Crains - Cleveland funding bio-mass projects
- Riverside CA - Grease-to-Gas project Why not to methane?
- Restaurant Grease Trap
- #6 Fuel oil
- Competitors
- Service Providers
- Darling International Need more research
- Equipment Providers
- Call Riverside on methane equipment
- Service Providers
Seed Analysis - Viridia
Ecosystem Design
- Analyzes the different ecosystems that Viridia Seed is connected to and how they are:
- relationships to them
- trends within the ecosystem
- 3D flows and opportunities
- Here's the Viridia Ecosystem Map
Business 3D Margin Design
- With a single action the business lifts up the environment, community,and economics.
- The detailed 3X margin Analysis is available
- Viridia 3X Margin Improvements
3D Risk (Deep Root) Design
- What are the key risks from a community, environmental and economic viewpoint and what 3X actions can be taken to allow the business to survive these risks. These include:
- Natural Variability (Temp, Rain, Snow, Daylight, Wind)
- Community Variability (elected officials, owners, drivers, neighbors, gov't regulations)
- Economic Variability (Supply, Demand, supplies, labor, utilization)
- Here are the key risks for Viridia
- Risk of supply of grease from restaurants ... substitutes (Chris)
- Price fluctuation/demand for Bunker fuel – (Kirsten)
- Landfill substitutes (aka donuts at the landfills)– (Dan/Joe)
- Permitting – (Dan)
- Management Team cohesiveness – (Dan)
- Neighborhood Odor – (Tom / Helen Bradley)
- Economic Robustness A Plan for the Perfect World? - (Tom Brennan)