TG2®* is a renewable energy company with a focus on recycling waste streams and a balanced business approach delivering triple bottom line profits.
TG2® /t’ai chi t’u/ the name of the Chinese philosophical symbol representing balance.
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Why
We believe that renewable energy and recycling waste streams represent the biggest business opportunity of our time.
We also recognise that developing countries play an important role in that endeavour, representing a unique opportunity to improve the entire supply chain, generate value for all stakeholders and address social and environmental aspects.
Vastly underpaid farmers supplying multi-million-dollar profit companies is simply not sustainable. The consequence of such a model is not only severe poverty, it has far-reaching social and environmental impacts moving us even further away from sustainability.
The capitalist model needs to consider social and environmental costs from the entire supply chain. Only when we factor in and cover all these costs can we speak of genuine profit.
We now have an important opportunity to put things right, both environmentally and socially, and we can only achieve maximum impact when we engage the entire supply chain and allow everyone to benefit. In other words, a balanced business approach.
What
We create, develop and execute renewable energy impact projects. We currently have a particular focus on:
01
PV (photovoltaic) projects in Japan
Acting as project developer with a particular focus on the PV site biomass management (trunks, branches, roots) and recycling into biomass energy, reducing methane emissions and coal consumption.
02
Certified sustainable white wood pellet projects in SE Asia
Support via equity investments and offtake agreements. SE Asia has abundant biomass resources, which can be cultivated sustainably and support coal replacement programmes and dedicated biomass power stations.
03
Recycle industrial agricultural waste streams into an environmentally sustainable replacement fuel for coal, a so-called “TG2 pellet™”,
Through a process of steam explosion, we are cleaning up SE Asia-based agricultural waste streams, such as coconut husks, rubber trees and empty fruit bunches (EFB), and turning these into a carbon neutral fuel replacement for coal, lowering coal consumption and reducing harmful methane and CO2 emissions.
04
Supporting a broad community-based ecological farming teaching programme
Using the tree species Gliricidia Sepium, we are teaching live fencing applications to reduce logging and benefit from a natural pesticide and inexpensive homemade organic fertilisers that replace expensive and dangerous chemicals, saving money and improving the local environment. The combined impact makes the programme eligible for carbon credits and meets a number of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
05
Supporting industrial plant conversions
Where we turn outdated and struggling industrial processes into modern-day value-added processes that are socially and environmentally sound.
How
Innovation, passion and resolve are the cornerstones of our approach. Solving problems creates value and committing to making an impact on the social and environmental supply chain creates sustainability.
We develop new technologies and processes that allow us to recycle waste streams into a valuable commodity while cleaning up pollution and reducing emissions.
We engage with farming communities, schools and government entities to support the supply chain and bring value to their processes.
We support the development of biodegradable plastics and applications that are eradicating use of oil-based plastics.
We pursue new renewable energy sources and energy generating technologies.
We support impact investing and triple bottom line focused businesses.
We practice and promote adoption of the UN’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).
We advocate for proper compensation for social and environmental impact costs.
Where
We primarily focus on SE Asia where we see multiple opportunities for recycling agricultural waste streams and creating meaningful social, environmental and financial impact. Our primary offtake market is Japan.
Contact
TG2® GmbH
- Baarerstrasse 8
- 6300 Zug
- Switzerland
TG2® K.K.
- The Tate 003
- Shinagawa-Ku
- Higashi-Gotanda 5-12-18
- Tokyo 141-0022
- Japan