Vegawatt™ In The News
News Articles 2008 - Jan. 5, 2009
Would you like power with your fries?
Date: 1/5/09 Energy RevolutionsOwl Power Company, developer and manufacturer of clean energy cogeneration systems, has announced Vegawatt™, an innovative new cogeneration system for restaurants and food service facilities. Vegawatt™ uses waste vegetable oil from any food service operation as a fuel to generate on-site electricity and hot water, saving the restaurant thousands of dollars as well as providing a clean, renewable source of energy. Vegawatt™ is installed and has been running since early December at Finz Seafood & Grill.
Restaurant Uses Vegetable Oil To Help Meet Energy Needs
Date: 1/5/09 Facility BlogOwl Power Company, developer and manufacturer of clean energy cogeneration systems, has announced Vegawatt(TM), a cogeneration system for restaurants and food service facilities. Vegawatt uses waste vegetable oil from any food service operation as a fuel to generate on-site electricity and hot water. Vegawatt is installed and has been running since early December at Finz Seafood and Grill in Dedham, MA.
Vegawatt plugs in grease-fired restaurant generator
Date: 1/5/09 CNET.com and Yahoo NewsIn a sign that waste may be a favored energy source this year, a small company on Monday said it has successfully plugged a vegetable oil generator into the electricity grid at a Boston-area restaurant.
The Vegawatt system, developed by Owl Power Systems, burns used-up vegetable oil from restaurant fryers to make electricity.
Vegawatt. Grease into power for restaurants
Date: 1/5/09 - Polizeros.comNow, restaurants can simply dump their grease into a Vegawatt machine and have it produce electricity and hot water rather than pay to have it shipped away. Vegawatt calculates that 80 gallons a week of oil will result in a savings of $850 per month.
Owl Power Announces Installation and Operation
of World's First Clean Energy System for Restaurants
Date: 1/5/09 - EarthToys.com
BOYLSTON, Mass., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Owl Power Company, developer and manufacturer of clean energy cogeneration systems, has announced Vegawatt(TM), an innovative new cogeneration system for restaurants and food service facilities. Vegawatt(TM) uses waste vegetable oil from any food service operation as a fuel to generate on-site electricity and hot water, saving the restaurant thousands of dollars as well as providing a clean, renewable source of energy. Vegawatt is installed and has been running since early December at Finz Seafood and Grill. Download the pdf article.
Boylston Firm’s Slick System Powers Restaurant
Date: 1/5/09 - WBJournal.comAfter a month running a Dedham restaurant, Boylston-based Owl Power Co.'s vegetable oil-powered electricity generation system is ready for prime time, the company says.
The Vegawatt system is a co-generation system aimed at restaurants and food service facilities. It uses waste vegetable oil to generate on-site electricity and hot water. The company says the Vegawatt is fully automated and requires no maintenance or intervention by restaurant staff.
Vegawatt Adds to Restaurant's Power Menu
Date: 1/5/09 - Matter NetworkWhile restaurants in many locations have long had the option to recycle their waste grease products, or sell them to biofuel manufacturers, onsite reuse of leftover grease eliminates carbon emissions produced by the transportation process, and presents a better bottom line for the businesses and homes employing it. Vegawatt's data suggests food service operations may be able to glean $2.55 from every gallon of waste oil, roughly ten times what waste oil buyers are currently paying.
Vegawatt system available for restaurants
Date: 1/5/09 - Mother Nature NetworkRestaurants can now use vegetable oil waste to produce energy on site.
Vegetable oil’s use as an energy-producing product is not new. Cars across the United States run on waste vegetable oil from restaurants. Restaurants can now harness the power of their own waste vegetable oil by installing a Vegawatt system from Owl Power Company.
Owl Power Installs Vegawatt(TM) Cogeneration System
Date: 1/5/09 - Green Energy NewsVegawatt uses waste vegetable oil from any food service operation as a fuel to generate on-site electricity and hot water. Vegawatt is installed and has been running since early December at Finz Seafood and Grill in Dedham, Massachusetts.
McDonalds’ and KFC’s old oil may power restaurants
Date: 6/11/08 - BlorgeThere’s Vegamite, Veg-O-Matic, and now the Vegawatt. A new power company is making a generator that will turn old restaurant oil into restaurant power. The 50 – 80 gallons of oil (or more) tossed by restaurants can provide them power, and hot water.
Owl Power Company has a prototype system that they will be testing this fall, that should allow restaurants to take their old grease/oil and use it to power the restaurant. Rather than tossing the oil in the dumpster (or selling it to bio diesel car owners), the oil would be poured in the Vegawatt. Since many restaurants have to pay to have the old oil hauled away, this would save them hauling fees.
Out of the frying pan and into the power grid
Date: 6/10/08 - cnet newsIf fry grease can run a Mercedes, why can't it power the restaurant it came from?
That's the idea behind Owl Power Company's Vegawatt power system, a machine that converts a restaurant's waste oil into electricity and hot water.