Greenbug Energy Inc.
GreenBug Energy designs, manufactures, installs, operates and maintains Archimedes screw generators for low head micro hydro sites and related industrial energy recovery applications between 1 and 500kW in size. Our partners are hands-on champions of GreenBug Energy - our advisors, suppliers, research partners and friends have shown exceptional quality in their work and commitment to our goals. Through partnerships with exceptional public and private organizations and the support of forward-thinking individuals, GreenBug Energy is enhancing its’ impact around the world.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Hydro Power
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About us
GreenBug Energy designs our own Archimedes Screw generator systems.
Systems are different for every site because they have to be designed not only for the head and flow regimes of the site but also within the limitations of the local electricity grid if grid connected.
Therefore our designs stem from our R & D work but any specific site design first starts with understanding the head and flow regimes at the site and understanding the grid environment at the site.
Because the most optimal system has to be determined for every site and involves the interrelationship between hundreds of variables, all of our design information is codified within our proprietary Waterwatts™ model for use in the detailed project plan phase of our site assessment process.
Even though GreenBug team members hold advanced university degrees in engineering. GreenBug DOES NOT OFFER or provide professional engineering services and does not hold a certificate of authorization to provide professional engineering services.
Instead GreenBug “designs” all aspects of systems and provides these designs to outside professional engineering firms for engineering services as required in the approvals processes.
Why does GreenBug have staff with advanced engineering degrees but doesn’t offer professional engineering services?
For instance, we couldn’t find a firm that would calculate the dynamic thrust load on the upper bearing with the screw moving and full of water. (This is understandable considering most professional engineers hold only bachelor degrees in engineering and deal mainly with routine engineering problems.) We therefore had to do it ourselves and approached the universities for help and started research projects with them and eventually hired young advanced degree graduates (PHD and Masters) from these projects or otherwise, but as they were new recent graduates most were not as yet professional engineers (P.Eng) and did not hold certificates of authorizations therefore they were restricted legally under the Professional Engineers Act of Ontario (responsible for regulating the practice of professional engineering in the province) from providing professional engineering services. Therefore, internally we came to “design” only and eventually found experienced exceptional outside engineering firms we could pass our designs to that could provide engineering services as required.
Core Values
GreenBug Energy’s work is governed by its' core values. They aren’t framed and they don’t hang on the walls of our offices and we hope they never have to.
Our values.
Our core values are more felt than known word for word, and each person at GreenBug may describe them a bit differently because they aren’t hung on the walls but their essence is communicated every day in what we say and don’t say and in what we do. Together our values contribute to an atmosphere of action at GreenBug.
Core Values
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Do the right thing – no matter what.
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Make the world we live in – for it to be better we have to make it better.
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Never quit – hard work and persistence are king.
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Plan – have a process and measure twice, cut once.
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A sense of urgency.