BioYield LLC

In addition to advising clients on BioEnergy feedstock and commercialization strategies, we at BioYield are constantly thinking about value added agribusiness or BioEnergy project opportunities that can be commercialized now, have stand-alone economic sustainability, and fit within the emerging BioEnergy market place.

Several specific project concepts we are currently pursuing are briefly described here. If you are interested in discussing any of these projects, or have other project ideas you’d like assistance on, please give us a call. We thrive on collaborative thought and creativity and look forward to engaging in an open dialogue on any and all ideas and feedback.

• Combined Heat and Power (CHP):     BioYield is developing projects to implement distributed biomass based CHP solutions for use by industrial and institutional facilities. Modest capital cost, relative ease of feedstock procurement, high avoided energy cost and enhanced energy efficiency from synchronized thermal and electric loads are key value drivers of these projects.

Biomass CHP can achieve energy efficiencies of up to 85% for meeting the thermal (heating, cooling, process heat) and electric needs of industrial or institutional facilities.  And, unlike solar and wind power, biomass power has the advantage of being Baseload  -  or available all the time. Electric demand doesn’t just occur when the sun shines or the wind blows. Biomass power on the other hand can provide an important renewable baseload component to any power portfolio.

BioYield’s primary focus is on project opportunities and partners to develop biomass based CHP facilities for industrial and institutional facilities primarily in the mid-Atlantic region.

• The Land Rush:    The ability to secure the significant sums of capital needed for large scale BioEnergy projects will frequently be hampered by the difficulty in securing an assured long term supply of biomass feedstock. Investors and banks want relatively long term supply and price certainty, yet land based natural resource supply chains (e.g., farmers) have typically operated on a short term basis. BioYield is exploring creative land ownership and leasing strategies that will enable large scale processors to control future feedstock supply, while maintaining core asset value (land) and providing near term income.

A simple analogy for BioEnergy biomass production is that “land is the new oil reserve” … not all land is equal, and not all feedstocks work well everywhere .. as the multitude of emerging biomass conversion technology companies begin to build facilities, competition for locking in premier land for the assured supply production of biomass feedstocks will intensify … resulting in what we think could be a modern day “Land Rush”.

To beat the rush BioYield is seeking investment and strategic partners for a land management company that would “lock up” premier land stock that is not well suited for food production but is perfect for producing biomass for the coming BioEnergy facilities and has existing alternative uses that can be managed to provide positive income in the interim.

• Agricultural Waste Solutions:    Although the specific impacts can be debated, the environmental benefits of BioEnergy are typically viewed as greenhouse gas mitigation. Some critics see little real environmental benefit when issues such as land use change or comparisons to wind and solar enter the equation.

BioYield is working to identify and develop strategies where BioEnergy can generate other environmental gains such as waste reduction and water quality improvement. Combining BioEnergy objectives with manure management is one prime example. Properly developed regional manure-to-energy solutions can reduce fossil fuel use, lower methane and other GHG emissions, reduce polluting nutrient run-off and provide significant value and returns to farmers and investors.

BioYield is developing projects to reduce the environmental impacts caused by animal (cow, hog and poultry) manure that also create incremental value to underlying farm operations. Of special interest are projects within the Chesapeake Bay water basin.