Energy Management and Project Consulting
Where we are going
We are going big; not for big's sake but because this is fun. And its important.
Inspired by an article read in TIME magazine whilst somewhere over the Bay of Bengal, one of Simbalism's key intentions is to establish one or more projects associated with the conversion of waste (industrial, municipal, residential and agricultural) into electricity via a conversion to bio-gas.
Our vision is for a model of business that brings together
- the problem of waste disposal in southern Africa,
- the expanding demand for energy, and
- the dire needs for job creation and environmental preservation all together in such a way as to deliver sustainable commercial results.
More specifically, what we are working at is the establishment of distributed generation plants with the following key characteristics:
- Mini and Micro gas turbine generators
- Servicing a very specific local market (a particular client, facility or area)
- Fuel source is bio-gas sourced from various categories of waste
- Fuel sourcing incorporates significant job creation programmes by:
- Sorting of waste at facilities where the anaerobic gas harvesting is occurring
- Establishing litter and waste collection programmes by ascribing a value to categories of common residential and municipal waste. This system to encourage natural entrepreneurship in way largely similar to the successful Collect A Can programme in SA
- Carbon credits lend to the sustainability of the project
- Ultimately providing the client with total independence from the Eskom grid via a source of energy that has a negative carbon footprint
- Reduced (possibly zero) dependency on Eskom's generation
- Immunity from load shedding / blackouts
- Improved certainty of electricity quality
- Job creation (due to labour intensive waste collection and sorting projects)
- Negative carbon impact fuel source
- Environmental clean up via market forces
- Project sponsor(s) achieve significant PR / advertising leverage and possibility of meaningful Carbon Credits revenues
- Possible additional revenues from selling excess capacity back into the Eskom grid
The benefits to the range of stakeholders, including society in general, of these projects will include:
In short these projects deliver substantial social good and are nett positive contributors to society.
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
