Welcome
CAROLINA-PACIFIC LLC, a privately held energy company chartered in South Carolina, welcomes you to the future of energy and economic progress for the Palmetto State. The company is dedicated to innovative and meaningful energy solutions for South Carolina and beyond. The firm's directors and partners are moving forward with two significant Clean Power projects within the realm of FORESTRY PRODUCTS and SWITCHGRASS for Biomass and Biofuel:
FORESTRY PRODUCTS: Our biomass research, production and export facilities are preparing to introduce US renewable fuels to EU utilities today, whether for co-generation or dedicated sourcing for CO2 neutral and near-sulfur free power production. The company is pursuing agreements with utilities to capture the bounty of renewable natural resources in the Southeastern United States and New England, both from the forestry side and through energy crops. The directors have confidence that the US market will follow suit after their European counterparts, and either State or Congressional mandate will bring the publicly traded US power utilities storming toward biomass in 2009, with power plants scrambling to lay claim to resources in these regions in the period of 2010 to 2014. For now, at least in South Carolina, the utilities pay mere lip service to the notion of clean energy.
In the meantime, the company's focus is intently on the UK and Northern European markets, where clean power generation is taken seriously. EU and national regulators are imposing mandates and incentives, and these utilities are already burning renewable fuels to create electricity. The European utilities are investing millions in boilers and material handling specifically designed to burn renewable fuels, and Carolina-Pacific is prepared to deliver Clean Fuel from the Americas to Europe.
Power Station in East Riding of Yorkshire, UK
In support of its initiative to develop a superior product specifically designed for utilities and industrial applications, Carolina-Pacific developed a product known and trademarked as the ROCette™, which delivers in excess of 8,000 BTU per pound or 17.5 Gigajoules per metric tonne to power generators. The ROCette™ is produced using a proprietary method and is primarily derived from Southern Yellow Pine when produced in the Southeastern US and Northern Pine when crafted in New England and in the Canadian provinces. The product is superior to the commonly used "wood pellet" when considering the carbon footprint of the product, including shipping, as one metric tonne occupies 1.1 cubic meters, while pellets require 1.5 cubic meters for the same amount of energy.
ROCettes™
SWITCHGRASS: Carolina-Pacific will work with its partners to take advantage of 21st century technologies and President Bush's 2006 and 2007 State of the Union calls to action as well as parties responding to the Obama stimulus initiatives to foster cleaner alternative fuels through cellulosic hydrolosis to create a 160,000 acre basin of Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) - shown to be a ready supplement to wood when prepared for combustion and more than four times more efficient as a source of ethanol than corn, with a fraction of the petroleum investment required and no burden upon established foodstuff supplies.
Mature Carolina-Pacific co-sponsored South Carolina's First Switchgrass Conference in November 2007
Each of these programs - FORESTRY PRODUCTS and SWITCHGRASS - promotes US energy independence through the establishment of a significant resource of Switchgrass energy crops and the rationalization of resources for harvest and combustion on a significant, but environmentally forthright scale.
Our approaches consolidate US and foreign energy interests into one of the most advantageous and exciting energy opportunities ever presented in the Southeastern United States. Our Science Advisory Panel is on the forefront of technological innovations that will revolutionize the "wood pellet" industry in the US and Europe, and we are supported by a wide array of public and private interests pursuing the optimum solution to the certain demand for renewable fuels. Our directors have the insight and experience to bring the project to fruition, to bring significant change to rural economies and turn the opportunity into reality. Our marketing representative work within and know their respective regulatory environments.
CAROLINA-PACIFIC earned the support of the South Carolina Renewable Energy Infrastructure Fund to advance its research into combustion, and the company's directors expect major announcements in the coming days concerning its European market penetration, infrastructure and partners in finance and transatlantic transportation.
Corporate Offices
180 E. Bay Street, Suite 200, Charleston, South Carolina USA 29401
Tel: +1 (866) 972 FUEL (3835); Fax +1 (843) 722 0223
Inquiries@Carolina-Pacific.com
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