Wellington
New Zealand clean energy golden child LanzaTech has added yet another notch to its belt, and isone of 10 international businesses that will pitch to the USA Department of Defense next month.
The U.S. Military is the world’s largest consumer of fossil fuels, and its various brancheshave made commitments to slash fossil fuel use and increase biofuel and other renewable andalternative fuel types over the next 15 years.
LanzaTech’s patented bacterial fermentation technology uses industrial off gases withcarbon-monoxide rich feedstocks to produce ethanol, which in turn can be converted to drop inhydrocarbon fuels.
The Auckland-headquartered company, also registered as an Illonois-based business, has a numberof research projects with coal, steel mill and petroleum companies and countries across Asia andAmerica, as it scalesup the production of its non-food based system. LanzaTech’s technologyconverts polluting wastes into useful products.
It joins nine other biofuel, wind, transportation, microgrid and energy storage companies whichwill attend the Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit in Honolulu on Sept. 13 (link
The Defense Department recognises the importance to security of alternative fuels, seeing as muchof the world’s oil and gas comes from currently unstable parts of the globe.
The Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organisation (
Such is LanzaTech’s rapid growth, growing patent portfolio and seemingly endless signing up oflarge multinational project partners, that the public almost takes for granted, forgetting that itis really playing with the big boys.
One of its hugely important roles is acting as the pin up for other innovative, technologicallysavvy New Zealand companies operating in the world’s biggest business – energy.
LanzaTech is up against some pretty stiff competition in Honolulu, but it ticks a heck of a lotof the right boxes as far as the US Military is concerned.
Don’t be surprised to hear a yell of triumph from up that way in less than three weekstime.
Yet again it will have a headache, a good headache....how to satisfy a growing pile ofpartners.