S7E12 - How to Make Carbon-Negative Fuel, Boost Utility's Revenue and Save the World! - a podcast by Antoine Walter

with 🎙️ Kunal Shah - Chief Growth Officer at Anaergia and council member of the World Biogas Association, the Singapore Water Association, and Imagine H2O Asia. 

💧 Anaergia ambitions to convert waste into a carbon-negative fuel for a sustainable future.

What we covered:

🔸 How we only tap into a fraction of the biogas potential today and why 

🌎 How biomethane can change the Water Industry's carbon path at scale and today 

🤝 How beyond just wastewater's organic potential, there's an incredible synergy to develop with other waste streams and how to leverage it 

⛽ How a wastewater treatment plant can finally become a water resource factory, producing carbon negative fuel 

💰 How achieving this shift will prevent cities from disposing of valuable waste in landfills while increasing their overall revenue 

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 How Climate Change and Decarbonization talks should be integral parts of a modern company's culture 

3️⃣ The three sources of waste Anaergia leverages to feed its renewable natural gas supply chain  

🚀 The potential and limitations of all the current fads around new gas and energy sources  

⏲️ The scale at which a biogas project becomes viable and the secrets to fast-track payback times  

🧱 How breaking a Chinese wall inside a utility family actually changes the name of the game  

🌟 How the north star of utility decision-makers is evolving and how resilience trumps all other KPIs  

📆 How some still pursue fluffy targets while forward-looking utilities have clear marks with year-by-year rollouts  

🌱 How challenging it is to lead complex project sales in the Water Industry as a young professional  

💵 How much of a game-changer it was for Anaergia to walk the talk and finance its own endeavors from Day One  

3️⃣ The three bottlenecks of Anaergia’s growth (that don’t include the usual suspects)  

⚡ How Anaergia intends to become the “Tesla of Renewable Natural Gas” and how they execute that vision  

🧑‍🏫 How the Water Industry is a living MBA for young water professionals, how they are desperately needed, and how they can get support  

📈 The meaning of “Anaergia,” the common pitfalls of water entrepreneurship, resource recovery, Anaergia’s Ideal Customer Profile, Developing projects, Having skin in the game, Becoming a management partner for your customers... and so much more!

🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥   

      

➡️ Send your warm regards to Kunal on LinkedIn 

➡️ Check Anaergia's website

➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on how Carbon-Negative Fuels will decarbonize our World on the (don't) Waste Water Website!

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