VIASPACE Inc. operates as a renewable energy company.
The company’s business involves renewable energy and is based on biomass, in particular its license to an energy crop with the trademark Giant King Grass (GKG). The company, through a license for GKG, obtained from Guangzhou Inter-Pacific Arts Corp., a Chinese wholly-owned foreign enterprise registered in Guangdong Province, which owned by VIASPACE Green Energy Inc., commercializes GKG worldwide, except for the People’s Republic of China (Ch...
VIASPACE Inc. operates as a renewable energy company.
The company’s business involves renewable energy and is based on biomass, in particular its license to an energy crop with the trademark Giant King Grass (GKG). The company, through a license for GKG, obtained from Guangzhou Inter-Pacific Arts Corp., a Chinese wholly-owned foreign enterprise registered in Guangdong Province, which owned by VIASPACE Green Energy Inc., commercializes GKG worldwide, except for the People’s Republic of China (China) and the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Grass Business
The company focuses on GKG, a natural hybrid, non-genetically modified, perennial grass, which the company is growing as an energy crop that could be used to generate low carbon and renewable electricity by direct burning in a biomass power plant, and could be made into pellets that could replace some of the coal in existing power plants thus reducing carbon emissions.
GKG might also be used to produce bio methane through anaerobic digestion and as a feedstock for non-food liquid biofuels, such as bio ethanol and bio butanol. It could also be used as a feedstock for biochemicals and bio plastics. This perennial grass could grow approximately 16 feet in height. It could be harvested approximately twice a year in tropical and semitropical areas with a yield of approximately 375 metric tons per hectare (freshly cut, referred to as wet yield). GKG could also be used as a feedstock to make cellulosic biofuels, such as bio ethanol, bio butane and green gasoline.
The company has Giant King Grass collaborative supply agreements with partners in the Philippines, South Korea, Florida, Louisiana and California. The company has shipped Giant King Grass to these states/countries as part of the collaborative agreements. It grows Giant King Grass in Hawaii.
Other VIASPACE Projects
The company retains a worldwide nonexclusive license to certain patents and patent applications in the areas of interactive radio technology.
Trademarks
The company has a trademark registration for VIASPACE.
History
VIASPACE Inc. was founded in 1998.