- Sustainability Problem: Energy
- Energy usage can be difficult to supply during peak periods
- Traditional sources of energy such as fossil fuels like petroleum, natural and coal release CO2 into the atmosphere (driving climate change) and other pollutants
- Alternative technology for turning biofuels into energy exist but then energy and food needs would have to compete for limited arable land
- Technology/Solution
- The company Living Power in the UK is collecting used cooking oils from households and businesses, processing it and selling it to the national grid. The oil is “recycled into a renewable carbon neutral fuel the company can use to generate power.”
- The fuel then powers large engines that provide power to the National Grid, especially during peak usage periods.
- Drop off sites are accessible with 90% of people being within 15 minute drive of one of the 500 drop off sites.
- Stakeholders
- Households and businesses that want to sustainably discard large amounts of cooking waste
- Living Power company
- National Grid
- Consumers of food (because land mass wont be used for biofuels)
- 3 steps to implement
- Continue to seek investors to scale program
- Lobby politicians to pass regulations that require the reuse of cooking oils of a certain daily volume
- Provide market based incentives for people or businesses to drop off their cooking oil