BOYLSTON, MASS.—Restaurants can now run their operations on waste vegetable oil, thanks to the development of Vegawatt from Owl Power Company. This new product enables restaurants to reduce their need for electricity and natural gas supplied from utility companies by using their waste vegetable oil to create electricity and hot water.
Owl Power is a developer of clean energy systems and the Massachusetts-based company has been hard at work for the last four years creating, testing, and now unveiling the Vegawatt, a cogeneration system that uses waste vegetable oil as fuel to generate on-site electricity and hot water.
“It’s with great pleasure that we endorse this product,” says Michael Oshman, CEO of the Green Restaurant Assn. “‘Groundbreaking’ truly is the word to describe it. The product’s environmental merits are outstanding. By supporting renewable fuel, the Vegawatt reduces the amount of traditional, petroleum-based, nuclear, coal, and large hydropower fuel typically associated with energy production.”
The Vegawatt is not run on biodiesel, but vegetable oil that would normally be hauled away for disposal. Any restaurant with fryers can use the Vegawatt system to save as much as $800 monthly. It is a fully automated system that requires no intervention of maintenance by restaurant staff, no additional chemicals, and produces no liquid byproducts.
“As businesses everywhere are taking a hard look at their energy costs and their environmental impact, Vegawatt enables restaurant owners to help themselves and the planet at the same time,” says James Peret, president and CEO of Owl Power Company.
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