Third Mode Energy is a small design shop focused on renewable ammonia solutions. The founders, Dave Bradley, Larry Bruce, and Neal Rauhauser met via the Stranded Wind Initiative, but found that a commercial operation was needed to deliver some of the things that were being discussed. We became international in scope in the fourth quarter of 2008 with the addition of Canadian energy policy expert and project manager Matt Zipchen.
As a small, focused firm we needed an engineering company with broad skills to cover areas outside our core competencies. We've begun a relationship with Fuss & O'Neill's Eric Epner, a partner in the three hundred employee firm. Among Fuss & O'Neill's many disciplines their environmental engineering practice is what first drew our eye.
Our current work in renewable ammonia involves business planning for facilities producing between fifty thousand and two fifty thousand tons anually in New York, Indiana, Iowa, and South Dakota. Projects are at the evaluation stage in several other states. The Canadian side produces a more diverse set of possibilities, which hydroelectric ammonia, idle paper production facilities refitting, and various biomass opportunities.
Each of the U.S. ammonia projects has at its core a group of farmers who want to stabilize their cost of inputs while bringing jobs and investments to their area. If this sounds like something you'd like to bring to your town we'd be delighted to hear from you.
