MGX Minerals Announces Energy Solutions for the Cannabis Industry
24 Octobre 2018 - 2:00PM
InvestorsHub NewsWire

MGX Minerals Announces Energy Solutions for the
Cannabis Industry
Vancouver, BC -- October 24, 2018 -- InvestorsHub
NewsWire -- MGX Minerals Inc. (“MGX” or the
“Company”) (CSE:
XMG / FKT: 1MG /
OTCQB:
MGXMF) is pleased to announce
its wholly owned subsidiary ZincNyx Energy Solutions Inc
(“ZincNyx”) has signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with
Braingrid Coproration (“Braingrid”) to co-develop and market a
packaged energy management product offering for the cannabis
cultivation market. The partnership will leverage Braingrid’s
software and technology, which uses proprietary sensing and control
hardware and ZincNyc’s modular energy storage systems, which
provide scalable regenerative zinc-air flow battery for mass
storage of energy, to provide cannabis cultivators with renewable
solutions for cultivation. ZincNyx and Braingrid have agreed to
sign a Definitive Agreement within the next 60
days.
As noted by Braingrid, cannabis cultivation sites
are growing exponentially in cultivation square footage. The
electrical grid is incapable of supplying the demand or storing
excess renewable production, especially in rural areas. Ideal
cultivation zones which have inexpensive land and low community
impact do not have access to the electrical grid to support the
operation.
Energy efficiency is too complicated and costly but
at the same time, low cost energy solutions are required. Cannabis
cultivators intending to survive the upcoming oversupply and the
resultant “race to the bottom” will need to become extremely
rigorous in reducing the cost per gram. Therefore, cultivators who
have a fiscally driven understanding of their energy “footprint”
and are independently autonomous from utility market prices through
local storage and cogeneration will ensure their viability now and
into the future.
Cannabis
cultivation and energy
facts:
-
Cultivation is very energy and resource
intensive:
- Most
growers/operators are unfamiliar and disconnected with energy
pricing and unfocused on energy efficiency due to high market
cannabis prices.
- New laws are
emerging in certain geographies which mandate farmers/cultivators
employ real-time monitoring of water/electricity
use.
- There are many
government and utility incentives available to encourage a
reduction in environmental impact.
- Electricity prices
range from ~7/kWh(CAD$)
to more than 15/kWh(CAD$) with more than of cannabis cultivators
paying ~14/kWh(CAD$) base. Peak demand charges greatly
increases these costs.
- Electricity prices
have outpaced
inflation however
renewable energy sources are mostly
par with conventional energy
sources (i.e. natural
gas)
-
Cultivators will be forced to utilize on-site
cogeneration and peak
shaving technologies such as solar, diesel, gas turbine
(syngas/natural gas) to offset energy costs and make up for the
utility grid stability.
- Energy
overproduction often occurs for solar systems requiring energy
storage for maximum benefit
Braingrid
Executive Team
The Braingrid team is made up of a diverse group of
executives and engineers including founder and CEO Michael
Kadonoff, who previously worked as a professional hardware designer
at General Electric Grid IQ on the premier design team for energy
grid automation and control products. President & COO Matthew
Skynner has over 25 years of high-tech experience, including
leading a global, $1B technology business as Corporate Vice
President and General Manager at
AMD.
About
Braingrid
Braingrid Corporation is a global technology
company that provides an affordable, versatile and quick-to-install
cannabis cultivation intelligence system. Braingrid captures
real-time data needed to increase revenues, reduce costs, risks and
energy while connecting cultivators to their grow on a microclimate
level.
About ZincNyx Energy
Solutions
ZincNyx has developed a patented
regenerative zinc-air flow battery that efficiently stores energy
in the form of zinc particles and contains none of the traditional
high cost battery commodities such as lithium, vanadium, or cobalt.
The technology allows for low cost mass storage of energy and can
be deployed into a wide range of
applications.
Unlike conventional batteries, which have
a fixed energy/power ratio, ZincNyx’s technology uses a fuel tank
system that offers flexible energy/power ratios and
scalability. The storage capacity is directly tied to the
size of the fuel tank and the quantity of recharged zinc fuel,
making scalability a major advantage of the flow battery system. In
addition, a further major advantage of the zinc-air flow battery is
the ability to charge and discharge simultaneously and at different
maximum charge or discharge rates since each of the charge and
discharge circuits is separate and independent. Other types of
standard and flow batteries are limited to a maximum charge and
discharge by the total number of cells as there is no separation of
the charge, discharge and storage
components.
The ZincNyx mission is to provide cost
effective, long duration and reliable energy storage systems for
markets involving renewables firming, peak shaving, diesel
generator replacement, telecom facility back-up, electrification of
ferries and tug boats and electric vehicle charging support. With a
portfolio of 20 granted patents and an experienced management team,
ZincNyx has begun mass production (see press release August 9,
2018). To learn
more about ZincNyx technology visit www.zincnyx.com.
About MGX
Minerals
MGX Minerals is a diversified Canadian resource and
technology company with interests in global advanced material,
energy, and water assets. Learn more at www.mgxminerals.com.
Contact
Information
Jared Lazerson
President and CEO
Telephone: 1.604.681.7735
Web: www.mgxminerals.com
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