Transform your world with Terra Power
Turn contaminated sites into renewable energy fields
Our Business
We clean up land while producing clean power
Terra Power was founded to develop a technology that produces renewable energy using plants grown on contaminated land, whilst simultaneously remediating the land over time.
We use the power of plants to remediate mercury-contaminated sites using a process called phytoremediation. Then we use innovative technology to decontaminate the plants we grow and transform them into biogas through anaerobic digestion.
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Our Technology
Making clean, safe, renewable gas from plants grown on poisoned land
Terra Power's technology represents a paradigm shift in the fields of remediation and renewable energy generation. It transforms remediation from an expensive, energy-intensive, environmentally disruptive process into a low cost, low energy, environmentally restorative intervention. And it avoids the food vs fuel debate by utilising non-arable land to produce bioenergy.
Our innovative technology removes heavy metals from contaminated biomass so that it can be safely turned into biogas. Biogas is a clean, renewable source of energy that can replace traditional cooking fuels, especially in developing countries.
Using an innovative polymer made from waste oils and orange peel, we capture heavy metals like mercury. We then immobilise the polymer to remove the toxins from the environment permanently. This safeguards health and complies with the UN Minamata Convention on Mercury.
The Terra Power Team
Jeffrey Beyer
Co-Founder & Director
Jeffrey is a low carbon development expert with 17 years of clean tech and climate policy experience. He specialises in renewable energy and entrepreneurship.
Jeffrey was a founding director of a climate policy consultancy, Beyond C, and has worked extensively throughout the OECD and in emerging economies on renewables and energy efficiency. He has a background in international development, working through Engineers Without Borders Canada on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa.
Yuyun Drwiega
Co-Founder & Director
Yuyun brings 25 years of experience in toxic pollutants and public health. She is a co-founder and senior advisor of Nexus3, a Bali-based NGO, and co-founder of Indonesia Toxics Free Network.
Yuyun is a Goldman Prize winner for work in anaerobic digestion and toxics, a LEAD Fellow, Ashoka Fellow, and an Ancora Scholar. She has a background in community engagement, international toxics control and public health advocacy.
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