Partners and Alliances
Strong partnerships and alliances across our business model guarantee success from concept and construction through to operation and scaling. As we grow, we will continue deepening new and existing relationships.
Financing
US Renewables Group (USRG)
USRG is one of the nation’s largest private equity firms focused exclusively on investing in the development and acquisition of companies in renewable power, biofuel and clean technology. Founded in 2003, USRG has mobilized $575 million of capital to invest in renewable energy assets and to date has 17 diversified investments across two funds. USRG is an accomplished team of development and investment professionals with a successful track record of taking companies from concept to commercial scale. The firm has offices in Los Angeles and New York.
Rustic Canyon Partners
Rustic Canyon Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs building transformational companies. The firm was founded in 1999. With more than $800 million in funds under management and investments in more than 50 companies to date, Rustic Canyon is one of the largest venture capital firms based in Southern California, with a strong presence in Silicon Valley and Seattle. Building on over a decade of successful investing, the team works collaboratively, drawing on a diverse set of experiences as successful entrepreneurs, managers, and strategic and financial advisors.
Feedstock
Casella Waste Systems, Inc.
Casella is an integrated solid waste and resource management company headquartered in Rutland, Vermont. Casella is an industry leader in seeking environmentally responsible ways to manage waste and the only solid waste services company participating in the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders program to reduce greenhouse gases.
Technology
InEnTec
InEnTec, formerly Integrated Environmental Technologies, provides high-tech solutions to the challenges of waste accumulation and the need for clean renewable fuels. Through its proprietary waste recycling system, the Plasma Enhanced Melter (PEM™), lnEnTec transforms municipal (household), commercial, medical and most industrial
and hazardous wastes into a syngas for conversion to clean renewable products, such as ethanol and methanol, with minimal environmental impact and low costs.
Nipawin/SRC
Nipawin Biomass Ethanol New Generation Co-operative LTD (Nipawin) and Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) have developed a proprietary catalyst and certain related processes for converting synthesis gas to clean renewable fuels.
