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ENEnergy was established in 2006 as a result of a project established in 2005 to find viable renewable energy solutions. The scope of the project was to look at all renewable energy solutions to identify the best ones. All types of renewables were evaluated: solar, wind, waves, Fischer Tropch and many more.The project was run by Ivar Skårset and Hans Olav Bjørnenak (the founders of ENEnergy). They very quickly discovered that converting biomass to other forms of energy without using any type of combustion was the most promising solution. However, there were still a number of problems that needed to be overcome before this was truly viable.First and foremost, the issues were linked to very long processing times. Long processing times means that to produce meaningful volumes of energy would require more energy to be put in to the process and very large processing facilities to be built. This requires a huge investment and increases the cost of production. Any success in speeding up processing times has a multiplier effect on the economics of bioenergy.When we started in 2006, the hydrolysis process for converting celluloses to sugars could take weeks, so we started work with a few Scandinavian Universities specifically focusing on the single issue of processing time. By 2008 we had reduced the time requirement for that process to hours. That is now one of our core technology advantages.We achieved that target, we also saved on several processing steps and significantly reduced costs further. The time used in each process is a cost reduction in itself but we also cut out an expensive pre-treatment step. This resulted not only in lower production costs, but also in a much better energy balance.In summary, we can now produce liquid energy at industrial scale; we have several projects ready to start, with the industrial partners we need to do so. We now want to expand the business to a global operation with project teams for each geographical area.
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