Ener-Core and the Dresser-Rand Business Enter into Commercial and Manufacturing License Agreement for Ener-Cores Power Oxidizers
July 30, 2016
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Ener-Core, Inc. signed a Commercial and Manufacturing License Agreement (CMLA) with the Dresser-Rand business, part of Siemens Power and Gas Division. The Agreement grants the Dresser-Rand business the exclusive right to manufacture Ener-Cores Power Oxidizers within the 1 to 4 MW power capacity range and to sell the Power Oxidizers (integrated with the 2 MW KG2 turbine manufactured by the Dresser-Rand business) directly to industrial customers. The CMLA will be effective upon the successful completion of the Full-Scale Acceptance Test of the 2 MW system, which is expected to reach completion in July. The CMLA will replace the existing November 2014 Commercial License Agreement (CLA), which did not allow for the manufacture of the Power Oxidizer system; upon the effectiveness of the CMLA, the existing Commercial License Agreement (CLA) between the Dresser-Rand business and Ener-Core will expire. As this new CMLA will allow the Dresser-Rand business to manufacture Ener-Cores Power Oxidation systems, it will enable Ener-Core to reduce its manufacturing infrastructure and lower its operating costs, thereby allowing Ener-Core to focus on its core business of developing and deploying additional applications for its groundbreaking technology. Ener-Core will collect a license fee payment for each unit that the Dresser-Rand business sells, with the precise fee payable based on a percentage of the total value of each system sold. Ener-Core expects to collect license fees between $370,000 and $600,000 per unit. The Dresser-Rand business expects manufacturing of Ener-Cores Power Oxidizer units to begin by the end of 2016 with initial sales occurring within calendar year 2016. The Dresser-Rand business has additionally agreed to minimum sales thresholds, beginning in 2017, to sustain the terms of exclusivity. Ener-Core expects that these minimum payments, combined with Ener-Cores reduced operating expenses, will enable Ener-Core to be cash flow positive within 12 to 18 months.
Ener-Core, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and has commercially deployed products based on technologies that generate base-load, clean power from polluting waste gases that are otherwise destroyed or vented into the atmosphere by a range of industries. The Company also designs its technologies to provide power generation solutions with reduced air emissions. Its Power Oxidation technology offers an alternative to traditional methods of destroying gaseous pollution, by simultaneously enabling industrial facilities. Its commercial products include Ener-Core Powerstation EC250 (EC250) and Ener-Core Powerstation EC333 (EC333), which combine its Power Oxidizer with an approximately 250 kilowatt (kW)and over 333 kW gas turbine, respectively. It is also engaged in developing a product, which is called the KG2-3GEF/PO (KG2 with Power Oxidizer (KG2/PO)). It has over two powerstations in operation at a landfill site in the Netherlands and at the University of California, Irvine.