The Commercial Model – Hydro Genyse

You provide the land and the waste. Private capital does the rest.

A private developer finances, builds, owns and operates the recovery facility for a fixed term, typically twenty years. The government’s contribution is the site, a waste supply commitment and permits. No public capital is required for the facility itself, and at the end of the term it transfers into public ownership, fully operational.

The facility is privately financed. The connecting infrastructure stays yours.

The split is worth stating plainly. The gasification facility, the plant that does the work, is built and owned by the developer under the concession, at no capital cost to the government. What connects to it, the pipeline and the government’s own generation, sits on the public side and remains in public ownership throughout.

That means the government is not being asked to fund the plant, and it keeps control of the infrastructure that serves its own network.

A build, own, operate and transfer concession.

A BOOT concession, a long-established model behind toll roads, water treatment plants and power stations. The private side carries construction and operating risk and is repaid from facility revenues; the public side gets the infrastructure without funding the build. Every term is subject to negotiation and varies by jurisdiction.

The plant can be privately financed because of the number of things it sells.

A conventional plant depends on a disposal fee and, at best, some electricity, which is why so many need public subsidy. An integrated facility earns from electricity, hydrogen, CO2, metals, aggregate and credits at once, which is what makes it financeable without depending on any one market.

At the end, the facility is yours, and it is paid off.

When the concession ends, ownership passes to the government at no further cost, and the public owner keeps the full earnings of a plant that is already built and running. At Sint Maarten the facility is valued at approximately $436M at transfer, on an earnings basis.

The city still pays to dispose of its waste. It just pays less.

As with any disposal facility, the plant charges a tipping fee, intended to sit at or below what the municipality pays today. Some proposals offer the service at no charge at all, with the city keeping the full disposal saving.

Land and waste in. A working facility out, twenty years later.

Commit the site and the waste you already collect, with no capital outlay on the facility. Get two decades of firm power and a solved waste problem, then own the plant outright.