Turn-key, carbon-negative facilities will be first of their kind in global market

September 10, 2012

Potsdam, NY - Envirotherm, an Allied Technologies company, and ZeroPoint Clean Tech, the world's leading biomass gasification technology company, have announced they will join forces to build turn-key, biomass power plants. These combined heat and power (CHP) plants are the first standardized biomass gasification plants in the global renewable energy market to be fully EPC delivered with performance warranties. Two plants are currently operational in Europe and construction on the first of the next eight projects is expected to begin before year-end. The plants range in size from 2 to 20MW. The combined effort to create full EPC delivery of a standardized solution for biomass gasification plants includes relationships with world leading OEM vendors, project financiers, feedstock and recovered wood suppliers as well as with vendors of after-market services.

“We are excited about this important step forward in the biomass gasification market,” says John Gaus, ZeroPoint CEO. “To date many project developers have experienced difficulty in arriving at optimal technical solutions as well as aligning proper resources to reliably construct and commission operating projects. As a result, it is also difficult for small developers to achieve financing or for interested customers to get the CHP plant they desire. The combination of strong technical solutions, the ability to deliver distributed scale power plants and relationships with leading OEMs as well as sources of investment will propel this market. In particular, Envirotherm possesses deep domain expertise in gasification and is well poised to construct numerous replications of standardized plant designs in Europe and North America."

Envirotherm brings extensive experience with gasification technology and designing and building complete power plant facilities. "We are highly impressed with the ZeroPoint biomass gasification technology and excited to work with leading developers, OEMs and investors in this renewable energy marketplace," said Hansjobst Hirschfelder, the Managing Director of Envirotherm.

About ZeroPoint:

ZeroPoint is the world’s leading biomass gasification technology company, with proven technology for carbon-negative, biomass gasification. The company's process is carbon negative because it creates biochar, a highly stable form of sequestered carbon. The company possesses five patents with six additional patents pending including processes to upgrade sewage sludge and other low-grade fuels for combustion and gasification. The company is also engaged in research and development with gas-to-liquids technology.

About Envirotherm, an Allied Technologies Company:

Experience and competence are the pillars of ENVIROTHERM GmbH. Through its worldwide activities Envirotherm's highly experienced team offers tailor-made solutions for plant engineering. Within the Allied Technologies Group, ENVIROTHERM GmbH forms part of the engineering service sector with focused technological capabilities in the fields of syngas generation, thermal waste treatment, dedusting technologies and flue gas cleaning plants.

Base Load Electricity from Biomass Sequesters Carbon and Powers European Grid at Second Location

August 6, 2012

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. (ZeroPoint) today announced that its second biomass gasification deployment is producing carbon negative heat and power. The second site to export power is in Newry, Ireland. The first site is operational in Germany.

ZeroPoint's carbon negative process utilizes biomass to create renewable gas and yields biochar as a co-product. Biochar is a highly stable form of sequestered carbon with multiple uses in agriculture and industry. Renewable gas from the ZeroPoint solution is cost competitive with burner tip natural gas in much of the world. The gas in Ireland is combusted in a gas engine to produce power for the local utility grid. The gas and engine also produce useable heat. The ZeroPoint Solution can be deployed to produce renewable synthesis gas used in gas engines, steam boilers, thermal applications, or co-firing with coal, oil, biogas or biomass. The Company is also working to commercialize a patent pending process to upgrade sewage sludge and other low-grade materials for improved gasification and combustion as well as working to convert syngas into liquid hydrocarbons.

"We are very excited to be working on a second successful deployment of an advanced biomass-to-energy solution," said CEO, John Gaus. "We believe that we are currently producing the most stable, steady state and clean gas chemistry from biomass gasification in the world. We fully expect this second project to achieve operational robustness, reliability and commercial profitability."

ZeroPoint is currently working with a number of strategic relationships to assemble and deploy a basket of similar projects across North America and Europe. "Biomass technologies are fundamentally differentiated from wind and solar technologies," said Company Chairman, John Blend. Traditional wind and solar voltaic power are intermittent with weather and nightfall whereas biomass projects deliver base load energy and integrate more easily with utility grids. "We see biomass filling a growing role in renewables as well as delivering highly attractive returns to project investors. I believe, at the moment, we are the only solution provider in the world to enable multiple, grid-connected, carbon-negative power plants and we plan to empower additional sites in the near future."

You can visit ZeroPoint Clean Tech at www.zeropointcleantech.com

Base Load Electricity from Biomass also Creates Useable Heat and Sequesters Carbon

Capital Investment on Available Capacity Comparatively Lower than Solar and Wind

January 3, 2012

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. (ZeroPoint) today announced that its biomass gasification solution produced carbon negative heat and power for the last half-month of its 2011 operations in Germany.

The carbon negative process utilizes biomass to create renewable gas and yields biochar as a co-product. Biochar is a highly stable form of sequestered carbon with multiple uses in agriculture and industry. Renewable gas from the ZeroPoint solution is burned in a gas engine to produce power for the local utility grid. The German project delivered power to the local grid for the last two weeks of 2011 operations that was sold pursuant to the German "Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz", (Renewable Energy Act). The gas and engine also produce useable heat. The ZeroPoint Solution can be deployed to produce renewable synthesis gas used in reciprocating engines, steam boilers, thermal applications, or co-firing with coal, oil, biogas or biomass.

"The last half month of continuous operation and power sales are an important milestone in demonstrating reliability," said CEO, John Gaus. "We fully expect to show higher throughputs and reliabilities and prove attractive project economics in the coming year." The Company intends to deploy a small number of turnkey plants in 2012 with knowledgeable adopters and for the purposes of jointly optimizing its solution for economic and environmental benefit in strategic market sectors. Those targets include; 1) municipal water treatment plants that can effectively consume base load power and heat as well as blend sludge with biomass, 2) remote markets that generate high cost electricity with diesel fuel and 3) landfill gas power plants where power output can be supplemented with renewable gas.

"Biomass technologies are fundamentally differentiated from wind and solar technologies," said Company Chairman, John Blend. Traditional wind and solar voltaic power are intermittent with weather and nightfall whereas biomass projects are intended to deliver base load energy and integrate easier with utility grids. As the reliability of biomass technologies increases, their cost per available kWh installed will become much lower than that of discontinuous wind or solar power. In addition, the ZeroPoint Solution sequesters carbon with the production of biochar. Visit ZeroPoint Clean Tech at www.zeropointcleantech.com

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. announced the completion of phase one commissioning for the ZeroPoint Renewable CHP Solution™ at a project site in Schwarze Pumpe, Germany. The project team has successfully integrated the biomass gasifier with the gas engine, synchronized the generator with local distribution grid, generated power on to the grid to secure a 20-year power purchase price and performed engine emissions testing to confirm environmental compliance. The project will expand with additional ZeroPoint biomass gasifiers and third party reciprocating engines.

The ZeroPoint Renewable CHP Solution™ features high process efficiency, low capital cost, real time gas analysis and fully automated controls in modular, containerized packages for plug-and-play deployments worldwide. The ZeroPoint Solution produces renewable synthesis gas suitable for reciprocating engines, steam boilers, thermal applications or for co-firing with other gases, coal, oil, or biomass. ZeroPoint technology is suitable for CHP plants ranging from 2-20 MWe. In additional to producing high-quality syngas, the ZeroPoint solution yields biochar as a co-product to create a carbon negative process. Biochar is a highly stable form of sequestered carbon with valuable agricultural and industrial uses.

ZeroPoint congratulates its partner, Blue Planet Sustainable Energy, N.V. on the successful project development that included, among other achievements, completion of the rigorous Technical Inspection Association (TÜV) approval process for the gasifier, gas engine and balance of plant at the project site.

May 23, 2011

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. ("ZeroPoint") today announced that it has completed the initial field commissioning of its biomass gasification Renewable Combined Heat and Power Solution at a project site in Schwarze-Pumpe, Germany. During commissioning the ZeroPoint Renewable CHP Solution produced synthesis gas that is suitable for fueling reciprocating engines on a stand-alone basis or by blending with landfill gas or natural gas. The Schwarze-Pumpe project will utilize the ZeroPoint solution to power used Jenbacher gas engines. The project is expected to begin selling power onto the grid within several weeks. The Company's Renewable CHP Solution can be sized to power a wide range of distributed energy projects. The ZeroPoint Renewable CHP Solution produces sequestered carbon in the form of "biochar" as a co-product. Biochar offers a number of positive environmental and agricultural uses in addition to sequestering carbon.

March 15, 2011

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. announced an initiative to extend the life of landfill gas energy projects. Biomass gasification can extend the life and value of these energy-producing assets through on-site production of gas for existing gas engines and transmission grid connections. The ZeroPoint Renewable CHP Solution produces synthesis gas that is suitable for blending with landfill gas to operate existing engines. Preexisting engines can also run solely on the syngas produced from the ZeroPoint Solution. Project IRRs for this type of investment are as high as 30-40%. The Company's CHP Solution is optimally sized for projects producing 1 to 15 MW and was recently shipped to multiple distributed power generation projects in Europe. Additionally, the ZeroPoint biomass gasification solution produces sequestered carbon in the form of biochar as a co-product. Biochar offers a number of positive environmental and agricultural uses to sequester carbon including at landfills.

March 14, 2011

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. today announced the completion of mechanical installation of a ZeroPoint Renewable CHP Solution at the Blue Planet Sustainable Energy, N.V. project in Schwarze-Pumpe, Germany.

Blue Planet and ZeroPoint are awaiting approval from regulatory authorities to initiate commercial operation of the ZeroPoint gasifier and Jenbacher gas engine as well as to expand the project scope. The project is expected to proceed in phases and will ultimately include the production of bio-derived "green" methanol.

October 13, 2010

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. announced today the shipment of its biomass gasification solution to the Schwarze-Pumpe, Biomass Gasification CHP Project and its partner Blue Planet Energy, n.v. The three phase project includes operation of Jenbacher engines in Phase 1, refueling pre-existing boilers with syngas in Phase 2 and refueling a pre-existing methanol synthesis facility with ZeroPoint syngas in Phase 3. The project will utilize refurbished Jenbacher gas engines. There are a considerable number of used Jenbacher engines available in the global market. Reconditioning such engines for use with biomass derived syngas significantly improves project economics. The photos to the right show the gas engines on site, pre-existing biomass silos at the facility and the gasification equipment shipping from the manufacturing facility in Buffalo, New York shrink wrapped for sea transport.

September 22, 2010

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. announced today that its Biomass Gasification Renewable CHP Solution is certified by TUV Sud to be in full compliance with European Union-Atex manufacturing standards. TUV Sud is a globally recognized testing, inspection and certification organization. The approval clears the way for the ZeroPoint Renewable CHP Solution to be deployed and operated in the Republic of Germany and other locations in the European Union. The system will ship to Germany from ZeroPoint on October 8th.

September 1, 2010

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. announced today that the Company has successfully gasified palm shells in their commercial scale biomass gasification process. Gasification of palm shells creates a significant opportunity for renewable power production in palm oil producing countries. ZeroPoint's successfull testing of the palm shells will generate new market opportunities for the feedstock and create additional value chains in the palm oil production process.

August 26, 2010

ZeroPoint Clean Tech Inc. announced today that is commissioning a biomass gasifier for shipment to Germany. The gasifier will utilize various grade wood chips for fuel and will power a GE Jenbacher Gas Engine to produce electricity and heat. ZeroPoint and its European partner intend to develop multiple combined heat and power projects, renewable gas boiler projects and methanol synthesis projects. The Company and its European partner also intend to become the largest biochar producer in the world. Biochar is a low cost form of sequestered carbon valuable as a soil amendment and for a number of other commercial application as activated carbon. ZeroPoint biochar contains approximately 87% fixed carbon and is activated to 350m2/gram of surface area.

May 6, 2010

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ZeroPoint Clean Tech delivered its first 1,000 pounds of biochar to a commercial farm today. The farm will conduct controlled field studies on the effect of biochar crop production for the New York Farm Viability Institute.

March 4, 2010

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ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. announced today that it is shipping the first of several biomass gasification systems for deployment in Europe. ZeroPoint's "Combined Heat and Power Solution" will convert woody biomass into renewable electricity and heat in a 4MW combined heat and power plant. The system was manufactured for ZeroPoint by the Hebeler Corporation in Tonawanda, NY and successfully passed its Factory Acceptance Test in December 2009.

December 9, 2009

The first of six ZeroPoint Biomass Gasification Solution under contract to Kedco Power Ltd. passed Factory Acceptance Testing today. The skid mounted gasification system operated in continuous steady state mode while producing a scrubbed synthesis gas intended for use in an internal combustion engine. Kedco Power Ltd. of Cork, Ireland plans to deploy the system into a 4MW wood-fired plant currently under development in Newry, Northern Ireland.

August 15, 2009

Blue Planet Sustainable Energy, N.V. plans to use ZeroPoint Technology to convert an existing fossil fueled methanol plant in Schwarze-Pumpe, Germany into a bio-methanol ("Green methanol") production facility. ZeroPoint's high efficiency modular systems will convert wood chips into synthesis gas for use as a feedstock in the methanol production process. The project would involve as many as twenty-five ZeroPoint systems at full build out. ZeroPoint and Blue Planet entered into a joint venture to develop the biomass gasification market in Northern Europe in April, 2008.

August 4, 2009

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. today announced that the United States Patent Office has issued a patent protecting its core biomass gasification technology. Patent No. 7,569,204 "Apparatus for Controlling the Gas Composition During the Gasification of Carbon Containing Feeds" is one of two U.S. patents now issued to the Company. ZeroPoint has an additional twelve patents currently pending as well as trade secrets related to its gasification process and various extension technologies.

December 17, 2008

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. has received an additional $1.5 million investment by The New York State Common Retirement Fund. The investment was announced today by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli during a press event at ZeroPoint's Tonawanda, NY contract manufacturing plant. "ZeroPoint Clean Tech is a perfect example of how we can do well for the members of the Retirement System while doing good for New York businesses," DiNapoli said. "ZeroPoint offers innovative renewable energy technologies that have the potential to significantly change how the world produces its energy. This is a great investment for the pension fund, and a good step toward making New York and the country more energy independent."

October 21, 2008

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. today announced the execution of a commercial agreement with Kedco Power, Ltd. of Cork, Ireland ("Kedco"). Kedco is a publicly traded bio-science energy company. Under the agreement, Kedco will deploy six ZeroPoint gasifiers into various renewable energy projects in Ireland and the United Kingdom. The first projects will utilize wood pellet and wood chip feedstocks to generate electricity and heat. Kedco possesses extensive experience in multiple renewable energy technologies including dry fermentation, biomass heating, power generation through the installation of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) units, and domestic wood pellet boilers.

June 24, 2008

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. has announced the commissioning of its first commercial gasification process at Tonawanda, NY. The process and equipment designs are based on the Company’s Potsdam, NY pilot plant. ZeroPoint anticipates shipping the equipment to its first customer later this summer. The successful commissioning of ZeroPoint’s first commercial process sets the stage for the Company’s joint venture partners in India, Malaysia, Europe, and the U.K. who will deploy ZeroPoint equipment into biomass distributed generation, combined heat & power, and gas-to-liquids projects.

February 15, 2008

ZeroPoint Clean Tech is proud to announce research funding by the New York Farm Viability Institute (NYFVI). The institute recently announced $100,000 was allocated to ZeroPoint for bio-energy research. Under the terms of the partnership ZeroPoint will be evaluating the energy conversion efficiency through gasification for various agricultural crops. NYFVI executive director Thomas Sleight said "ZeroPoint is conducting practical, applied research in converting agricultural biomass, including shrub willow, hay, mixed grasses and corn stover, into energy products. Additionally, the project will provide much-needed economic data for farmers to use when considering growing crops for energy feedstock in New York. Partnerships such as this one, which includes private business, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Clarkson University and others are crucial to the future of New York agriculture."

March 15, 2007

In March 2007 ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. successfully commissioned its first commercial scale biomass gasification system at the company's technology development facility in Potsdam, NY. The commissioning process began with a successful cold start of the proprietary gasification reactor and the achievement of steady state operations utilizing hard wood pellets. The system is designed to produce a clean burning synthesis gas from biomass. The synthesis gas is a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen that can be used for variety of purposes as a replacement for natural gas in process heat applications, to generate electricity, or for introduction into a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst process to generate liquid fuels. This successful commissioning will allow ZeroPoint to continue proving out the system by conducting ongoing system operations, testing various biomass feedstocks, and to begin commercializing the system in today's rapidly evolving global energy markets.