CPC's founders  have a wealth of experience in AC renewable hybrid power systems

We also have significant experience with DC solar home systems as a result of this Renewable Energy Service Company in Indonesia.

We have noticed that there are lots of biomass residues, but almost none of it is being used for small scale distributed power generation

In 1999 we applied our knowledge of rural distributed energy to the development of a first generation modular biopower system. System #1 was a 15 kWe system operated for the first time to power 80 homes in the village of Alaminos in the Philippines using coconut shells as the fuel.

We also used the Philippine biopower system to demonstrate the ability to power productive use applications.  This one is a 10 hp, 3 phase motor operating a grinding machine.

System # 2 was operated in California in a combined heat and power demonstration for the California  Energy Commission. This system was inter-connected to the PG&E grid.

Our second generation pre-commercial  systems, called the BioMax, follow what we refer to as  an Integrated Modular Architecture. 

In partnership with the US Forest Service and the Department of Energy, we are installing multiple pre-commercial systems as part of a product validation program

Secretary of Energy Abraham inspects our BioMax system at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

The first of our BioMax product validation systems was installed at SBS Wood Shavings in New Mexico

A BioMax was converted to a Community Productive Use Platform for use in a Philippine coconut processing facility developed with funding assistance from the World Bank Development Marketplace program. The CPUP produces three kinds of power: mechanical, electrical and thermal.

The CPUP is slowly converting this mountain of more than 100,000 coconut husks to fiber that can be woven into erosion control nets, creating employment for the local people while eliminating an environmental problem (the husks are normally burned)