Remote Power System
Power and cooling from local waste, for islands and remote sites. Example: a resort island in the Maldives.
Island Power from Waste
Everything arrives by boat
On a remote island, the diesel, the food and the guests all arrive by boat, and everything thrown away has to go somewhere. Most of the diesel is burned just to keep the island cool. And every island has the same three choices for its waste: burn it in the open, leave it for the sea to carry onto the reef, or ship it to another island at great cost, on the same boats that bring the diesel.
The fourth choice: keep it on the island
The waste the island already has becomes the fuel the island already needs. Six steps turn it into electricity and cooling on the same ground, so the diesel boats come less often and nothing goes over the reef.
Six steps, one island
Kitchen waste, plastic collected from the reef, and above all green waste: palm fronds, garden cuttings and coconut husks. Where more is needed, fast-growing shrubs are planted on land no guest ever sees.
Jenja turns it into clean fuel gas at high temperature, with no open flame.
The gas runs an engine that makes the island's electricity, day and night.
The engine's heat drives an adsorption chiller. Chilled water runs straight to the air conditioning of every villa.
Solar carries the midday peak; a battery bridges the evening; at night and through the monsoon the island runs on its own waste.
What is left becomes biochar, mixed into the coral sand to grow the kitchen garden.
An island that runs on what washes ashore.
What the island gets
Diesel savings are for a modelled island microgrid and depend on the site.
Islands and off-grid sites
Island resorts, remote islands and atolls, off-grid villages, mines, research stations and other sites that depend on delivered diesel.
