Event Description

Steve Figgatt, Founder and CEO of Sycamore International, will explain how his firm leverages sustainable business practices as a competitive advantage and to increase value capture. A primary tenet of their company is embracing the concept of a global circular economy, in which there is zero waste and all materials are reprocessed for reuse. Immense amounts of energy were invested in the production of electronics we all use. Preserving those assets and reusing those materials is more efficient and sustainable than mining and refining virgin materials. Steve will delve into this industry to explore solutions for responsible electronics recycling and some challenges the industry has faced.  Sycamore applied their sustainable business philosophy to their electricity production, installing the first commercial solar microgrid coupled with an ESS Energy Warehouse Iron Flow battery on the planet. By pioneering the use of this system, they’ve made a viable business use case with a reasonable ROI for distributed energy production and long duration energy storage in industrial applications. These systems will help enable renewable energy to indeed serve as base load power as we decarbonize the grid across the United States. Steve will provide an overview of this system, the technology, the benefits over lithium batteries and general application for these systems.