SilvaGas Corporation (f/k/a FERCO Enterprises) is a renewable energy technology company engaged in the development of clean energy and waste disposal solutions. The Company is the exclusive licensee to the patented SilvaGas® process. The SilvaGas process generates clean medium Btu gas through the gasification of biomass feedstock, including forestry, pulp and paper residue, agricultural byproducts, municipal solid waste and energy crops. Unlike existing technologies, the SilvaGas biomass gasification process produces gas that can be substituted directly for natural gas in most applications, including conventional gas turbines, advanced gas turbines and fuel cells.

The SilvaGas process is currently the only large-scale biomass gasification technology in existence that generates a medium heating value gas. Unlike the low heating value product gas produced by competing gasification systems, the SilvaGas process product gas can be used as a direct substitute for natural gas for distributed generation or can be blended with natural gas for large existing turbines. This process is highly flexible in that it can accommodate a wide variety of feedstocks of varying moisture content without impacting the heating value product gas. In addition, the system produces reduced emissions of greenhouse gases, at 98% below conventional fossil fuel plants and 40% below conventional biomass plants, with near zero net carbon emissions on a closed loop (life-cycle) basis.

The US Department of Energy and private investors have provided over $64 million in funding to develop the SilvaGas process. The process was first tested at a 10 ton per day pilot scale plant for over 22,000 hours of operation on a broad range of biomass feedstocks. Following the conclusion of pilot testing, the SilvaGas Process was demonstrated at commercial size at the McNeil Generation Station in Burlington, Vermont, one of the largest wood-fired power generation plants in the world. The Vermont Gasification Project (“VGP”), which is capable of processing 500 tons per day, was constructed to demonstrate the commercial scale viability of the technology. The operational results to date from this full-scale pilot plant have exceeded the Company’s expectations.

Based on the results of the testing in Vermont, the Company is currently focused on project development efforts of SilvaGas plant sizes equivalent to 10 to 50 MW in size (200 to 1,000 tons per day). The Company also recently filed a process patent for a smaller scale system of 1 to 5 MW (less than 100 tons per day) which would be ideally suited for use with distributed generation technologies.