Invest Renewable Energy - Green Oil Leases

Sustainable Agro - Energy offer the opportunity to invest in the development of 
green oil plantations. Investors have a number of product options that are 
geared towards highly competitive returns on investment. Fill out the FORM 
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The Agro - Forestry Lease represents a balanced investment in sustainable 
energy. Jatropha is the baseline crop and where conditions are suitable our 
plantation managers utilise other oil and energy producing trees such as 
Pongamia and Sweet Sorghum. Investors can expect to see assured returns 
of 5% in Year 1, 12% in Year 2 and projected returns of around 20% p/a or
more once plots reach maturity from Year 3 onwards.

Invest Renewable Energy in Phillipines

PHILLIPINES

Geography


The Philippine archipelago lies in Southeast Asia at a relative cultural crossroads, a place where Malays, Arabs, Chinese, Spaniards, Americans, Japanese and others have interacted to forge a unique cultural and racial blend. The Philippines occupies an area that stretches for 1,850 kilometres from about the fifth to the twentieth parallels north latitude. The total land area is slightly more than 300,000 square kilometres and the country has a tropical wet climate dominated by a rainy season and a dry season. The summer monsoon brings heavy rains to most of the archipelago from May to October, whereas the winter monsoon brings cooler and drier air from December to February.


Business landscape


The Philippine government encourages foreign investments and the workforce is one of the most compelling advantages the country has over any other Asian counterpart. With higher education priority, the literacy rate in the country is 94.6% - among the highest. English is taught in all schools, making the Philippines the world's third largest English-speaking country. It is important to commit time to establish trusting relationships in the country and a ‘time is money’ attitude is inappropriate. Our operations in the Philippines, both tribal and governmental, have been established with face-to-face relationship building.


Social Aspect


The Sustainable AgroEnergy value proposition has been embraced by the Manobo tribe, an indigenous people in the Philippines. Our tribal partners are showing great commitment and enthusiasm in the farming of green oil crops against a backdrop of favourable government policy. Sustainable AgroEnergy and Manobo representatives have visited the president’s office in Manila and full congressional support of our ground-breaking socio-economic model is assured. Through this process, the Manobo have paved the way for other Philippines tribes that are attempting to establish themselves commercially and influence government policy.

Invest Renewable Energy in Senegal

Invest Renewable Energy - Senegal

Geography

With its capital city of Dakar located on the westernmost point of Africa, Senegal is the gateway to the continent. The country is located 14 degrees north of the Equator and 14 degrees west of the Prime Meridian. Senegal’s total area is 196 190 km² making the nation slightly smaller than Britain or the US state of South Dakota. A consistent tropical rainy season from May to November coupled with generally low, rolling plains rising to foothills in the south east make Senegal a very suitable region for the growth of green oil crops.

Business landscape

Senegal is one of Africa’s most politically and economically stable countries. Since gaining independence from France in 1960, Senegal has been a functioning democracy. All major NGO’s run their West African operations from here, with the UN recently establishing a large office. New enterprises are subject to well structured custom and fiscal advantages, with agriculture a particularly well supported sector.

Social Aspect

Sustainable AgroEnergy are particularly proud of the youth training scheme that we operate in Senegal. In partnership with the FNPJ (Fond National pour la Promotion des Jeunes), the Department of Industry and the U.N, we are educating tomorrow’s farmers in the principles of modern agriculture and fostering entrepreneurialism. We plan to roll the scheme out across all our territories and take our role on the ground very seriously.

Invest Renewable Energy in Cambodia

Geography

Cambodia covers 181,040 km2 in the south-western part of the Indochina peninsula, lying entirely within the tropics. The most distinctive geographical feature is the lacustrine plain, formed by the inundations of the Tonlé Sap (Great Lake), measuring about 2,590 km2 during the dry season and expanding to about 24,605 km2 during the rainy season. This densely populated plain is the heartland of Cambodia. The largest number of sites identified by Sustainable AgroEnergy for green oil crops are outside these areas of the Mekong Valley and the Tonlé Sap basin, concentrated in the west, south-west and north-west of the country where the land is generally gently undulating with elevations in the range of 50 m to 300 m.

Business landscape

Cambodia is located at the heart of South East Asia, the most dynamic region of the world economy for the past several decades. In 1999, the country became a member of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), which groups 10 countries with a total population of about 550 million and a GDP of something around $600 billion. Cambodia is not without the problems of many a poor developing country (e.g. poor infrastructure) but where government policy is concerned, it can claim to offer a liberal welcome to investors. Among the world’s LDCs covered by the Index of Economic Freedom, Cambodia ranks at the very top in market-friendliness.

Social Aspect

As our most advanced nation in terms of the development of green oil and agroforestry assets, we have had the chance to see the impact of our model on the rural communities of Cambodia. Aside from engaging with the opportunity to learn new agricultural techniques, they are benefitting from the cooperative framework that we have introduced. Clubbing together with other farmers to gain from economies of scale and also stable sales channels for their new crops are a welcome change to traditional hand-to-mouth subsistence farming.

BioFuel Market Development

The market for biofuels is in a relatively early stage of formation but it is growing rapidly. Its development will be influenced by a range of variables including technological change, significant adjustments to regulatory regimes and evolving distribution mechanics.


At present there are inadequate biofuel feedstocks to meet the burgeoning demand for biodiesel. Most biodiesel currently being produced is based on rapeseed or soy, while ethanol production is based on carbohydrate or sugar-rich crops such as cassava or sugar cane. However, the production of such biofuels on a sufficient scale to meet world demand could negatively affect food security in certain parts of the world.


By comparison, Sustainable AgroEnergy are in a unique position to play a major role in expanding the world’s supply of biodiesel, based on: (i) our green oil plant nursery programme; (ii) ownership of and access to vast hectarage in suitable equatorial regions; (iii) scientific expertise in appropriate farming techniques, irrigation requirements and processing technologies; (iv) commercial understanding of the distribution networks necessary to achieve economies of scale in the production of biodiesel; and (v) our robust funding activities.


Legislation


Sustainable AgroEnergy have tracked the developments in international legislation and policymaking that are shaping the biofuels market and we continue to be encouraged by what we see. Current policies in the major world regions include a 2020 blending target of 10% in the EU. Elsewhere, India encourages the market with duty-free imports of Jatropha to support biodiesel and China continue their substantial investment in feedstock-rich countries.


Vietnam plans to raise the proportion of renewable energy sources to 3% of the national total commercial power supply through 2010, to 5% by 2020, and 11% by 2050. While the US has set a qualitative target for renewable fuel production at an ambitious 36 billion gallons by 2022.


Increased demand side backing for the biofuel industry is one of the most encouraging developments of recent times. Further progress has been made in the intensity of test flights and policy commitments from the global aviation industry. Their self-imposed CO2 reduction targets which include carbon neutral growth from 2020 working towards 50% net CO2 reduction by 2050 are being implemented by industry heavyweights, with Lufthansa set to run commercial flights on a 50-50 blend of kerosene and biofuel from April 2011.


Projections


In a recent report on the oil markets, the International Energy Agency estimated the global oil demand in 2011 to rise by a daily 1.3 million barrels or 1.6 per cent, to average 87.8 million a day
According to the IEA, world energy demand is expected to increase by 65% by the year 2030. Of this increase, 85% will occur in developing nations, many of whom are amongst those least able to afford the costs of environmental impact mitigation. Critically, these nations are also expected to experience some of the greatest population growth during the same period.
Hart Energy Consulting predict a 133% growth in biofuel use by 2020 and project that global supply may be short 5 billion gallons for ethanol, and 3.4 billion gallons for biodiesel by that date, with the deficit beginning to appear around the 2015 time frame.
By comparison, U.C Berkeley state that a 20% increase in fuel demand more than doubles the impact of biofuels on fuel markets.
By 2050, The IEA project that biofuel demand is to reach 700 Mtoe (Million tonnes of oil equivalent), representing 26% of total transport fuel demand.

Invest Renewable Energy Success

Centre of operations, Senegal

IRE - Invest Renewable Energy Success & Experience can be attributed to the success of SSG and  Sustainable Agro Energy's cores strengths to be:

• Superior plant genetics
• Superior farming practices
• Social models that work

Superior plant genetics

We now have several generations of Jatropha genetics underpinning our operations. We take the seeds from only the strongest, fastest growing, highest yielding trees and plant them to grow new trees. Weak or poorly performing trees are uprooted and replaced with strong ones. The process is natural, sustainable and proven.

Through commercial relationships and our own efforts, we have similarly advanced genetics for Pongamia, Oil palm and Sweet sorghum and we are constantly identifying other suitable crops to secure a structured and diverse agricultural portfolio.

Superior farming practices

Best farming practices are obtained through education and technology transfer and, traditionally, marginal communities throughout the world have struggled to access either. Whether the crop is energy, food, cash or lumber, Sustainable AgroEnergy work with our farmers to ensure the application of best farming practices. We use a proven methodology which is sympathetic to local farming customs, practices and commercial drivers.

Invest in Renewable Energy Crops

CROPS

Through close monitoring, soil audits, a local licensee network and many other 
simple yet innovative programmes, Sustainable AgroEnergy focus on improving 
farming in our regions of operation. We apply soil quality standards and techniques 
common on western farms but rarely seen in developing nations, such as 
composting, direct application fertiliser and centralised use of capital equipment.

Biodiversity

At Sustainable AgroEnergy we have accrued comprehensive knowledge and 
experience of many crop varieties suitable for a vast range of climates and soil 
conditions. Following detailed research and testing in equatorial regions, we 
decided to focus our attention on four main energy crops:Jatropha curcas Linn, 
Sweet Sorghum, Pongamia and Oil palm.

Commercially, Jatropha reaches revenue within year one and produces energy 
in the form of high quality oil which sells into a robust marketplace. Sweet 
Sorghum is planted to realise faster revenue profiles, producing sugars for 
ethanol, grain for food and biomass for power generation. The asset-based 
oil crops such as Oil palm and Pongamia are utilised to create profiles maturing 
over a longer timescale.

In addition to these energy crops, our permaculture-based approach ensures that 
farmers are enriching their soils and creating balanced revenue streams through 
the supplementary planting of food, cash and lumber crops. Traditional subsistence 
farming is 100% food focused but with improved farming practices our farmers 
need less of their land to provide enough food to live on. This allows the 
introduction of energy crops. The biodiversity we are fostering is pivotal to 
sustainable, commercial agriculture.

 -Green oil plantations have been established using a range of different 
management models. Some are owned outright by the company, some 
are operated on behalf of investor owners and others on a joint venture 
basis. There are also a large number of outreach plantations of which 
the company is justifiably proud - we provide the initial seedlings, 
agricultural knowledge, management support and a guaranteed market 
at a fair price to self-employed farmers who cultivate the crop on their 
own often unused or unproductive land.
The common threads are the use of Sustainable AgroEnergy's experience 
in plantation management, the application of proven holistic farming 
methods and the acquisition and ownership of the best genetics available 
anywhere.