Zeons Corporation (ZEON)

[r_engineer]

USSE insight from another board...

When you have done design, construct and retrofit work for most of the big paper making, paper converting, and fibers companies all over the South, you kind of get to know 'Who's Who' in the neighborhood. I.e.: there is probably as much personal wealth per capita in Americus, Georgia as their is on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. My dad worked for TVA, so I got some incite from him previously. also. And, if you think there is any lack of money around Birmingham, AL or Columbus or Meridian, MS go for a drive through their Country Club districts some afternoon. Likewise, much of the earned wealth in New Orleans and Biloxi finds its way to places like Vidalia much the way a lot of money in Memphis finds its way to rural Wyoming and Montana.

There is a mandated Green Power component for almost all power companies and few of them have met their quota yet. Few power companies want to build more big, union operated 400MW+/- coal-fired these days. They also have a mandate to develop distributed power to desensitize the grid from potential terror attacks against larger facilities.

A 40-40 = 80, or an 80-80 = 160 Combined Cycle plant would be ideal in the rursl perifery to most big metropolitan areas like Omaha, Des Moines Souix City, Rapid City, Fort Dodge, Mankato, Eau Claire, Minneapolis, Rochester, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, the Quad Cities, KCMO, KCKS, St Louis, Peoria, etc., etc., etc. The could always run the steam 1/2 at partial output on Biogas when the turbine half was offline during non-Peaks.

The rural location improves local high tech and skilled employment, puts money back out in the farm communities, the plants don't bother anybody, and it opens up lots of opportunity for other Green Fuel development.

You just need to have a better grip on the big picture. Someone like USSE could build and operate these type facilities for a year or two, and then sell them to local REA's who can get cheap FED financing for the acquisitions while their people get some OTJ training. Combined Cycle plants are State-of-the-Art control-wise and very clean environmentally. They can ramp up to load much quicker than any large coal, gas, or oil-fired large MW units.