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Waste becomeshigh-value syngas.
Our technology converts a broad range of waste and biomass into valuable local energy.
Energy securityEnergy resilienceAffordableSustainable
The future of energy
Superior
conversion
technology.
Flexible. Modular. Decentralized.
Connected. Smart.
We convert waste and biomass into high-value syngas for local power and fuels. Recovered process heat drives cooling.
The conversion advantage
Concord Blue® transforms waste and biomass into hydrogen-rich syngas for industrial energy, baseload power and valuable fuels. Our modular technology connects local resources with the energy demands of tomorrow.
Superior conversion. Connected possibilities.
Hydrogen-rich syngasBaseload electricityHeat-driven coolingSovereign energy security
01 / The technology
The conversion
advantage.
Patented staged reforming. Broad feedstock flexibility. High-quality, hydrogen-rich syngas.
Explore the technology
Advanced Gasification. Steam Thermolysis. Staged Reforming.
The patented Concord Blue Reformer® combines two distinct conversion stages with a dedicated approach to supplying process heat. This architecture supports two fundamental advantages: broad feedstock flexibility and high-quality, hydrogen-rich syngas.
That syngas opens multiple pathways: supplying industrial energy, generating baseload electricity, or producing hydrogen, methanol and aviation fuels through downstream processing.
Recovered process heat adds another opportunity: driving cooling systems for AI and data centers.
CONCORD BLUE REFORMER®
One core technology. Multiple energy pathways.
The energy system ahead
The future is staged reforming,
leading to high-value syngas.
Flexible.
A broad range of waste and biomass resources. Multiple pathways to energy, fuels and industrial products, matching local resources with affordable, sustainable energy solutions.
Diverse waste and biomass. Multiple energy pathways. Affordable, sustainable solutions.
Modular.
Standardized Reformers® combined into facilities sized for each project. A scalable foundation for phased investment and resilient energy infrastructure.
Standardized Reformers®. Phased investment. Scalable, resilient infrastructure.
Decentralized.
Resilient local infrastructure that brings conversion close to resources and demand, shortening distances for waste transport and energy delivery.
Resilient local energy. Shorter distances for waste transport and energy delivery.
Connected.
Local energy distribution links production with nearby industry, communities, AI and data centers, supporting resilient networks and a more sustainable energy system.
Nearby energy distribution. Linking industry, communities, AI and data centers.
Smart.
Affordable, resilient and sustainable by design. Local resources and nearby demand planned together, with short transport and distribution routes and productive use of syngas and recovered heat.
Short routes. Local resources. Power and heat put to work. Affordable. Resilient. Sustainable.
Technology in motion
Follow the syngas.
See the impact.
From local resources to digital intelligence and industrial heat.
Watch the Concord Blue film
4:53Explore interactive energy pathways
01 / CONVERSION
CBR®
Waste & biomass into high-value syngas.
02 / ENERGY DELIVERY
Power generation
Gas conditioning. Generation. Switchgear.
Conditioned syngas
Prepared for industrial burners.
03 / REAL-WORLD APPLICATION
Power becomes possibility.
Servers activate. Data reaches the cloud.
Energy drives industry.
Furnace heat. Steel production.
Syngas → electricity → AI & data centers → cloud.
Explore upcoming short films
Short CBR® films and animations · production pending.
02 / AI & data centers
Power the compute.
Recover the heat.
Deliver the cooling.
Co-locate a CBR® as part of an AI data center. Deliver baseload power from syngas and adsorption cooling from CBR® waste process heat.
Discuss a data center projectCBR® + AI INFRASTRUCTURETwo complementary energy services
THE RESOURCEWaste &
Waste &
biomass
Concord Blue Reformer®
SYNGAS
Power generation
Baseload electricity
CBR® WASTE PROCESS HEAT
Adsorption chillers
Cooling for data centers
AI &
data centers
Electricity + cooling
Baseload power.
Syngas can supply baseload electricity close to data centers, independent of wind and sunlight.
Adsorption cooling from CBR® waste process heat.
Local resources. Resilient supply.
Power and cooling designed together.
Power + cooling
Co-locate a CBR® as part of an AI data center. AI and data centers need dependable power and effective cooling. Concord Blue® connects both needs to locally available waste and biomass.
Baseload power.
Hydrogen-rich syngas can fuel electricity generation close to data centers, providing a baseload energy pathway independent of wind and sunlight.
Adsorption cooling from CBR® waste process heat.
Local resources. Resilient supply.
Power and cooling designed together.
A foundation for affordable, resilient and sustainable digital infrastructure.
Domestic resources.
Waste and biomass become a recurring domestic energy resource.
03 / National energy infrastructure
Domestic resources.
Sovereign
energy security.
Domestic waste and biomass. Local CBR® networks. Affordable, resilient and sustainable national energy infrastructure.
Explore sovereign energy
Concord Blue® provides the conversion technology for a new generation of national energy infrastructure, built around domestic waste and biomass.
Modular, decentralized CBR® facilities connect local resources with nearby industry, communities, AI and data centers. Local production and distribution shorten supply chains and can reduce dependence on imported fuels while displacing natural gas.
Together, these facilities create a scalable foundation for affordable, resilient and sustainable energy, strengthening national capability and long-term energy security.
Local conversion. National resilience. Sustainable sovereign energy security.
Local conversion.National resilience.Sustainable sovereign energy security.
The national energy opportunity
An energy resource.
Replenished every year.
Waste and biomass can become a nation's equivalent of perpetual, distributed oil fields—close to the people and industries that need energy.
01 / Annual resources
Generated nationwide.
Communities, industry and agriculture generate waste and biomass year after year—an energy resource already distributed across the country.
Why this changes the energy equation
Think of a country's recurring waste and biomass as the equivalent of perpetual, distributed oil fields. These resources are generated again each year, across communities, industry and agriculture—often close to where energy is needed.
Superior conversion changes their value. Concord Blue's patented CBR® technology transforms prepared feedstock into high-value syngas: a platform for low-carbon power, industrial energy, hydrogen and synthesized fuels. Recovered CBR® process heat also supports adsorption cooling.
Standardized, modular Reformers® make local deployment scalable. Short feedstock routes and nearby energy offtake connect domestic resources with domestic demand, creating a decentralized foundation for affordable, resilient and sustainable sovereign energy security.
Resilient. Affordable. Sustainable.
Explore connected energy
Explore connected energy
Local conversion.
Connected at scale.
Local resources. Nearby demand. Short transport and distribution routes.
CBR® / CONNECTED ENERGYLOCAL
04 / Our advantages
Superior conversion.
Practical advantages.
Broad feedstock
flexibility.
flexibility.
Convert a wide range of prepared waste and biomass streams into valuable energy resources.
Prepared waste and biomass. Valuable local energy.
High-value
syngas.
syngas.
Staged reforming produces hydrogen-rich syngas for industrial energy, power generation and downstream fuel production.
Hydrogen-rich syngas for industrial energy, power and downstream fuels.
Natural gas
displacement.
displacement.
Conditioned syngas can replace natural gas in suitable industrial applications.
Conditioned syngas can replace natural gas in suitable industrial applications.
Baseload
energy.
energy.
Storable feedstock supports energy production independent of wind and sunlight.
Storable feedstock supports energy production independent of wind and sunlight.
Productive use
of process heat.
of process heat.
Adsorption cooling from CBR® waste process heat.
Adsorption cooling from CBR® waste process heat.
Scalable
deployment.
deployment.
Standardized Reformers® serve local demand or combine into larger facilities and national energy infrastructure.
Standardized Reformers®. Local facilities. National energy networks.
05 / Applications
One technology.
Multiple markets.
LOCAL RESOURCEWaste + biomass
CBR® CONVERSIONCO + H₂
SELECT AN APPLICATION BELOWIndustrial syngasNatural-gas replacement
01Industrial syngas
Natural-gas replacement
Replace natural gas in suitable industrial applications with conditioned, hydrogen-rich syngas.
02Hydrogen
Industrial molecules
Produce pure hydrogen from syngas.
03Methanol & SAF
Fuel pathways
Final syngas conditioning targets a stoichiometric number of 2.1 for methanol synthesis. Dedicated downstream systems enable methanol and sustainable aviation fuel production.
04Carbon products
Additional resource value
Selected feedstocks and plant configurations enable activated carbon or biochar co-products.
Configured for your project
Each facility is configured around local resources, customer demand and the most lucrative energy output for that project.
06 / The global opportunity
Superior conversion technology
changes the value of waste.
≈31,400TWh per year
Theoretical annual syngas energy.
Theoretical global natural-gas displacement potential.
Energy-equivalent basis · 2024 global consumptionUNEP estimates that more than 11 billion metric tons of solid waste are collected worldwide each year. Concord Blue® estimates an annual CBR® feedstock potential of 6.5 billion metric tons of waste and biomass residues. With our superior conversion technology, this resource could theoretically yield syngas energy equivalent to 76% of global natural-gas consumption.
Local resources.
Global energy significance.
Superior conversion technology unlocks the energy in underused waste and biomass, turning resources communities already generate into valuable domestic energy. Standardized, local CBR® facilities can make this resource an important part of a leading sovereign energy mix.
Why this potential matters
Resilient. Affordable. Sustainable.
Concord Blue® estimates an annual CBR® feedstock potential of 6.5 billion metric tons of waste and biomass residues. With our superior conversion technology, this resource could theoretically produce approximately 31,400 TWh of syngas energy annually—equivalent to 76% of global natural-gas consumption in 2024.
We show this potential to reveal the extraordinary energy value that superior conversion technology can unlock from underused resources. With superior conversion technology, waste and biomass become a disruptive, highly valuable energy resource. Communities already generate these resources; the opportunity is to convert them into dependable energy and valuable molecules.
Standardized, modular CBR® facilities bring conversion close to industry, communities, AI and data centers. Shorter waste-transport routes and nearby energy distribution strengthen resilience and reduce dependence on imported fuels.
Superior waste conversion—standardized, localized, affordable, flexible and sustainable—must play an important role in a leading sovereign energy mix.
The resource is already here.
Superior conversion technology unlocks its value.
Sources & calculation
Global waste context. UNEP estimates 11.2 billion metric tons of solid waste collected worldwide annually. Concord Blue®’s 6.5 billion metric tons is our estimate of potentially prepared CBR® feedstock from waste and biomass residues, not a UNEP suitability estimate or a measured fraction of its collected-waste total. UNEP: Solid waste management ↗
Feedstock basis. The calculation uses a prepared-feedstock reference condition of 25% moisture, with inert and otherwise unsuitable fractions removed. Moisture normalization puts different resources on a consistent mass-and-energy basis; it is a modeling condition, not a claim that all raw waste arrives at that moisture level.
Conversion calculation. 6.5 billion metric tons per year ÷ 50,000 metric tons per reference Reformer® = 130,000 theoretical Reformers®. At 66.885 million Nm³ of syngas per year and 13 MJ/Nm³ lower heating value, each reference Reformer® yields approximately 0.241529 TWh per year. Together: approximately 31,400 TWh of annual syngas energy. Source: Concord Blue® reference-case model.
Natural-gas comparison. The Energy Institute reports 2024 world natural-gas consumption of 148.6 EJ, equivalent to approximately 41,278 TWh. 31,399 ÷ 41,278 = 76.1%, rounded to 76%. Both figures use a net-calorific energy basis. Energy Institute: Statistical Review of World Energy 2025, pages 40 and 69 ↗
What the comparison shows. The scale of energy in the modeled resource if converted through the selected CBR® reference case. It compares syngas chemical energy with natural-gas chemical energy. Actual displacement depends on available feedstock, conversion performance and end-use suitability; the figure is not electricity output or a deployment forecast.
Global waste resource
11.2 billion metric tons
UNEP’s estimate of solid waste collected worldwide each year.
Source: UNEPAI & data-center demand
950 TWh by 2030
The IEA’s projection for annual global data-center electricity consumption—nearly twice the 2025 level.
Source: IEA, 202607 / About Concord Blue®
Who
we are.
The technology company behind superior waste conversion.
Concord Blue® owns and develops the patented Concord Blue Reformer® (CBR®) technology—turning waste and biomass into high-value, hydrogen-rich syngas.
We work with customers and partners to build local facilities and scalable energy platforms. Resilient. Affordable. Sustainable.
One protected
conversion platform.
Patented process, core components and integration expertise.
Advanced Gasification.
Staged Reforming.
Steam Thermolysis separates solid conversion from gas-phase reforming.
Inside the technology
The Concord Blue Reformer® (CBR®) is our patented Advanced Gasification technology and the facility implementing it. Its core combines Steam Thermolysis and Staged Reforming: prepared feedstock is converted in one stage, while the resulting gas is upgraded in a separate high-temperature stage.
Circulating ceramic heat carriers supply heat from a separate heat-generation system. This separation supports broad feedstock flexibility and high-quality, hydrogen-rich syngas.
A Reformer® is one standardized module. A CBR® facility can combine one or more Reformers® with feedstock preparation, gas conditioning and the downstream systems required for its selected products.
Local facilities.
National infrastructure.
Standardized Reformers®, deployed close to resources and energy demand.
Our purpose
Our
mission.
Maximize global deployment of superior conversion technology. Turn local waste and biomass into affordable, resilient and sustainable energy, close to demand.
Superior waste conversion—standardized, localized, affordable, flexible and sustainable—must play an essential role in a modern energy mix.
Our mission in full
Superior waste conversion—standardized, localized, affordable, flexible and sustainable—must play an essential role in a modern energy mix.
To maximize the global deployment of Concord Blue®’s superior conversion technology, transforming the waste and biomass resources found in communities worldwide into valuable energy and building affordable, resilient and sustainable energy infrastructure close to demand.
By converting continuously generated local resources into industrial syngas, baseload power and valuable molecules, Concord Blue® connects waste management with energy security. Our modular technology enables communities and industries to build lasting energy value from resources they already have.
Local resources. Superior conversion.
A stronger energy mix.
08 / Management & Board
The people behind
Concord Blue®.
Management
Charlie Thannhaeuser
Founder, CEO / CTO
Frank Gilliam
CFO / COO
Herbert Pehl
Head of Design Engineering
Scott Noll, PhD
VP CBR® Product
Christoph Schuelingkamp
Project Execution & EPC
Board
Charlie Thannhaeuser
Executive Chairman
HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki bin Talal Al Saud
MENA Chairman
David Hunter
Board Member
His Excellency Eng. Osama Al Zamil
Board Member
Charles Huang
Board Member
Frank Gilliam
Board Member
His Highness Prince Sayyid Qais Bin Khalid Al Said
Board Member
Work with Concord Blue®
Your resources.
Our technology.
Four ways to build lasting energy value together.
01 / OWN & OPERATEBuy
Co-develop
Supply
Invest in
Buy
Reformers®
Build and own your plants.
For industrial operators, utilities and project owners.Discuss your facility ↗ 02 / DEVELOP & DEPLOYCo-develop
a platform
Bring the Reformer® to a new territory.
For developers, strategic partners and public-sector platforms.Explore a partnership ↗ 03 / CONNECT RESOURCESSupply
or offtake
Feedstock in. Syngas and hydrogen out.
For waste and biomass suppliers and energy customers.Connect supply and demand ↗ 04 / INVESTInvest in
the opportunity
At company level or directly in project assets.
For strategic, financial and infrastructure investors.Start a conversation ↗Connect
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what’s next.
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Affordable.
Sustainable.
Affordable.
Sustainable.