Biotricity Corporation trades under the symbol GWND.PK

Overview

Corporate profile

Biotricity was formed to address America's growing demand for energy by converting non-food, organic matter into electricity with very low emissions. Our technology affords us competitive advantages to produce power from biomass in a highly profitable, economically sustainable and environmentally conscious fashion. Biofuels made from abundant, renewable feedstocks can reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, lower impacts on climate, and stimulate economic growth.

Highlights

• Profitable
  Zero-cost biomass coupled with a premium for green electricity will strengthen our profit margins and drive profitability
• Economic Growth
  Rural areas will receive a sustained economic boost as biofuels create strong markets for diverse plant and agricultural materials
• Secure, renewable power supplies
  Americans will enjoy a more secure and sustainable power supply that is less dependent on foreign oil
• Reduced greenhouse gasses
  Biofuels made from cellulosic biomass can drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions
• Non-food Feedstocks
  Increasing use of cellulosic biomass, such as stalks, wood chips, switchgrass, and other organic materials, to sustainably produce affordable, homegrown fuels – without affecting food crops.

ABC's of Biopower

Biomass power technologies convert renewable biomass fuels to heat and electricity using processes similar to that used with fossil fuels. Next to hydropower, more electricity is generated from biomass than any other renewable energy resource in the United States. A key attribute of biomass is its availability upon demand - the energy is stored within the biomass until it is needed. Other forms of renewable energy are dependent on variable environmental conditions such as wind speed or sunlight intensity.

Today in parts of the developing world and until several decades ago in the United States, biomass has been primarily used to provide heat for cooking and comfort. Technologies have now been developed which can generate electricity from the energy in biomass fuels. The scale is small enough to be used on a farm or in remote villages, or large enough to provide power for a small city.

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Benefits

Economic Growth

Biomass resources are varied, ranging from agricultural crops and residues to forest resources and energy crops. They are available in every region of the United States. Achieving our Vision will infuse dollars back into the domestic economy by creating a market for business output, generating income, and encouraging capital investment, which, in turn, will further increase the demand for business output – the “multiplier effect.” In essence, for America, renewable energy means creating new markets, industries, and jobs. The inherent wealth of biomass feedstock in America provides opportunities for large-scale biomass production and processing facilities. The untapped potential of 1 billion tons of annual biomass supply in America will provide the basis for the renewable energy industry to grow.

Balance of Trade

Increasing demand combined with spikes in petroleum prices suggest that U.S. petroleum imports will further exacerbate the U.S. trade deficit. More critical to the deficit is the price inelasticity of oil. Even small changes in the price of oil have a large impact on the deficit. According to The Economic Policy Institute, the dramatic increases in the cost of petroleum products and the volume of imports were responsible for more than one-third of the increase in the trade deficit in 2004. If domestically produced biobased products and bioenergy can begin to replace a portion of petroleum products, those dollars could remain in the U.S. and provide an opportunity to fuel domestic economic growth.

Environmental Benefits

Biomass could also have an important impact on power generation especially if Biotricity turbines replace electric generation that would otherwise have been generated from coal. Electricity generators rely on coal for over half of their total energy requirements and accounted for 93 percent of all coal consumed for energy in the United States in 2003. Electricity generators consumed 35 percent of U.S. energy from fossil fuels and emitted 41 percent of the CO2 from fossil fuel combustion in 2003.

The Clean Air Act mandated that the Environmental Protection Agency establish emission standards for NOx and other pollutants. Currently, CO2 emissions are not regulated as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. As the contribution of CO2 to global warming has become more widely accepted, however, some states have independently adopted limits on vehicle tailpipe CO2 emissions, and it is possible that other CO2 emission limits may be imposed in the future. Biotricity can help industry meet such new requirements. Reducing the amount of fossil fuels we use and replacing them with cleaner-burning biomass will also decrease air pollution and related public health costs.

Net Carbon Benefits

Since bioenergy is made from crops and trees that absorb carbon dioxide, the cycle of their growth and oxidation is carbon neutral and their substitution with petroleum-based fuels and feedstocks can help to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions. By increasing growth rates and efficient production methods, we can potentially reduce CO2 concentrations by increasing our use of bioenergy.

Energy Diversity and Security

The issue of energy security in the United States is largely an issue of oil and gas supply security. The United States has only 4 percent of the world’s population but consumes about 25 percent of the world’s produced oil. Vulnerability to even short-term disruptions in oil and gas supply was illustrated during the Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005. The nation is dependent on foreign sources of oil, with 65 percent of its 2005 annual oil consumption coming from imports, including approximately 17 percent from the Persian Gulf region.