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CPO Compact Power

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Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Compact Power LSE:CPO London Ordinary Share GB0031544439 ORD 2P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  0.00 0.00% 21.00 - 0.00 00:00:00
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
0 0 N/A 0

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DateSubjectAuthorDiscuss
17/11/2006
01:21
I think it's teh secret ingredient to a well known source.
hammy davies jnr
16/11/2006
20:59
they don't need the technology there ... don't they just throw all the garbage in the canals ....
don muang
16/11/2006
10:42
I'd move teh lot to Holland, like wot all teh best companies do.
hammy davies jnr
15/11/2006
20:13
Giltspur ..... thanks for adding a reasoned balanced view without unmovable rose-tinted specs.....
don muang
15/11/2006
17:05
gilts you are talking nonsense.
most of the employees of ALK used to work for you - yea right!

Also get your facts right.
See the telegraph article below. "A single 1.8 megawatt turbine produces enough power for 1,000 homes. "


Time to look to the elements
Roland Gribben Last Updated: 12:09am BST 29/09/2006



The Government has launched a drive to make renewable sources of energy, such as wind and wave power, an increased part of everyday life, as Roland Gribben reports

A near fivefold increase in the proportion of electricity generated from wind and wave power and other renewable sources is one of the Government's priorities in accelerating the development of "green energy" and making it more accessible.



There are an estimated 1,600 wind turbines in 125 locations in the UK
Less than 5 per cent of the electricity supplied to homes, offices and factories comes from renewables, although the aim is to double that figure by 2010 rising to 20 per cent by 2020, as wave power, biomass, solar and other sources make a bigger contribution.

The more ambitious target, dictated by a review of energy options, the decline of fossil fuels and the drive to reduce carbon emissions, will involve renegotiating the existing obligation of electricity generators to take a proportion of their needs from renewables and considerable investment to provide additional capacity.

At present the generators receive incentives to handle the more expensive renewable power but with the economics of wind and wave power improving, compared with conventional fuel, the level of subsidy may fall. The subsidy, along with exemption from the climate change levy for electricity from renewables, is forecast to be worth £1bn a year by 2010, when the contribution from clean energy should reduce carbon emissions by 2.5m tonnes a year.



Less than 5 per cent of the electricity supplied to homes, offices and factories comes from renewables
The Government is also supporting this renewables obligation with around £500m of investment in capital grants, research and development funding. Planning regulations are being relaxed to speed up progress but ministers recognise there will be continued opposition to schemes that would involve more of the countryside sprouting wind farms - the main source of renewable energy.

They hope, however, that public attitudes will change and surveys carried out by the Department of Trade and Industry into "wind power myths" suggest that the tide is turning. Alistair Darling, Trade and Industry secretary, says the Government will ensure that energy companies seeking approval for large energy installations are not faced with costly uncertainties and delay: "Local concerns about specific sites must be taken into consideration but the right balance has to be struck with he national need for our vital energy infrastructure,'' he said.

There are an estimated 1,600 wind turbines in 125 locations in the UK producing enough power for nearly 900,000 homes. England has 51 wind farms, Scotland 34, Wales 24 and Northern Ireland 12. Four offshore wind farms are operating, with another 10 being built or at the planning stage.

The UK is the world's fourth biggest producer of wind energy after Denmark, Germany and Spain. The wind farms support 8,000 jobs with the prospect of the total reaching 35,000 in the long term.

Each region in the country is running trials in what the DTI calls a "partnership" which aims to deliver the renewables objective. All of them are involved in setting targets for onshore renewable electricity generation for inclusion in Regional Spatial Strategies.

The latest targets are:

Southeast 425 megawatts
East Midlands 672 megawatts
West Midlands 5 per cent of electricity consumption
Yorkshire and Humberside 468 megawatts
Northeast 454 megawatts
Northwest 797 megawatts
Southwest 597 megawatts
Eastern 821 megawatts
The London target is bigger, with an estimated 40,000 renewable schemes operating by 2010. Each region is also involved in developing targets in other areas, including energy efficiency, combined heat and power and overall carbon reductions.

Some of them, notably London, East Midlands, the Southwest and Northeast, have decided to set targets in a stand-alone energy or renewables strategy. Scotland has set its sights high and believes it can attain its objective of having 18 per cent of its electricity from renewables by 2010 and 40 per cent by 2020 with the help of the Highlands' climate.

Biomass, offshore wind and hydrogen are being targeted to ensure that "the country's natural resources are fully exploited". The DTI's attempts to counter criticism about the expansion of "green energy" have involved campaigns to destroy "myths" by demonstrating that wind turbines do not pose health hazards, devastate house prices, frighten tourists or threaten the bird population.

The typical wind farm, says the DTI, will pay back the energy used in its construction in three to five months and over its lifetime repay the energy 50 times over. A single 1.8 megawatt turbine produces enough power for 1,000 homes.

The department concludes: "Onshore wind is currently the most economically viable renewable technology but it will increasingly operate as part of a renewables mix as other technologies come in."

asparks
15/11/2006
16:47
Gilts. Its not just the electricity produced plus the heat to be used by industry, its the fact that it is a way of dealing with rubbish other than landfill. CPO are also developing a biomass technology to 'burn' crops to produce electricity. It is of course 'small beer' but so is the market cap of the company. Lots of risk but potentially lots of upside.
spiv 1
15/11/2006
13:47
gilt get your facts right 3.8 MW is enough to power a few thousand homes not 250 as you say
According to the Alkane RNS today "2.7MW can power 3,000 homes."
Therefore 3,8MW should do 4,000
sounds like a good by produce of household waste disposal to me.
you sit back and watch this go up when the contract is signed (sometime in next 2 weeks)

asparks
15/11/2006
12:26
Thanks Gilts
spiv 1
15/11/2006
12:11
sort of o/t BB for Sechilienne-SIDEC French biomass and windpower business
praipus
15/11/2006
11:52
Spiv

Why do i care, Why do i care?

Gos alone knows really.

Good luck Spiv, if you think there is money in it for you I wish you well.

giltspur
15/11/2006
11:48
Just looked at the CPO website. There is a nice article there from Recycle.com with a bit more info. The new £20m plant will also produce heat that will be used by industries in the area as well as the elctricity generating part of it. Lets just hope this time cpo can come through on the timescale promised. If so, the next few weeks will be very interesting.
spiv 1
15/11/2006
11:18
Gilts, why do you care? Personally I'm investing in CPO for 2 reasons:
1. To make money!!!
2. I believe it is an environmentally friendly technology so is a good thing to back.

spiv 1
15/11/2006
10:43
spiv

I made a spelling error - so what? I copied part of the WIP - interesting reading but obviously you will have to read the entire document to get it in context but have the government broke its own rules? It is afterall a commercial project?


WASTE IMPLEMENTATION
PROGRAMME
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
DEMONSTRATOR PROGRAMME:
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA


This Programme cannot – due to State Aid rules - support commercial projects.

Details on the type of organisation will also be required e.g. not for
profit, charity, Local Authority, private etc.

giltspur
15/11/2006
10:13
asparks - oh ok, thanks. Should have interesting impact on share prices.
praipus
15/11/2006
10:09
praipus - its included in the queens speech for the opening of parliament.
asparks
15/11/2006
10:05
Gilts, its DEFRA not DEVRA. It is true that CPO have a poor reputation for saying one thing and then not coming through with it. That said, the original funding for the new Avonmouth site through Balkan Engineering got bogged down with legal problems. Not really the fault of CPO. Essentially Balkan Engineering welched out of it and so CPO had to find an alternative. Hats off to them that they have and also that they have secured £5m from DEFRA. I spoke to Richard Hogg at CPO a couple of days ago, and he was adamant there would be news in the next couple of weeks on funding completion. I guess time will tell.
spiv 1
15/11/2006
10:00
asparks

ok then.

giltspur
15/11/2006
10:00
asparks how do you know climate change bill is to be announced today?
praipus
15/11/2006
09:40
climate change bill to be announced today.

good news for CPO

asparks
15/11/2006
09:39
gilt stop moaning and start making some money.
asparks
15/11/2006
09:33
spiv

The idea of AIM is to raise money by issuing shares to the public.

This idea of gifting money to a AIM company is wholly unacceptable because it undermines the very concept. People might possibly believe that buying a stock which is supported by DEVRA adds credibility - it is therefore misleading.

The turbo genset has already done the rounds on AIM once under Collin Bessant who incidentally cashed shares to the value of £600,000 when it was capitalised at near on a billion quid. The concept failed to take off but not for lack of PR. They introduced it as the "high speed generator that didn't need a gearbox" - a bit like saying this new car is the steering wheel version - gensets in that range don't have gearboxes. It did trials to BP on burn off - trials are trials, they are not cash generative be it on ships or dry land.

It is an outrage that public money is being used to support a concept on AIM which amounts to nothing more than R & D.

I don't object to government supporting ideas in universities but this is unacceptable because it is a capital market and the government is effectively subsidising it directly. It's a wrong decision and should be reversed at once.

On your argument it is now acceptable for instance for the government to subsidise TDM, or any of the other lame ducks hobbling around AIM. On the face of the proposal it's outrageous but I need to do much more research to see what the terms are.

giltspur
15/11/2006
09:23
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15/11/2006
08:23
PS ... I assume the new Bristol contract will actually go ahead now ...... but if you look thru the local Bristol newspaper you'll find that CPO were saying the signing was expected very soon many months ago ... they didn't qualify it with the proviso they would need a grant before Bristol Council would be signing on the dotted line .... I'm always a bit suspicious of companies that don't quite give the full picture when it suites them
don muang
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