Renewable Energy Investment Case6 Apr 2021 12:58
BMN are no longer “just” the world’s best vanadium mining company, because they are quickly realising their ambitions to become a fully integrated vanadium company focused on making the world a Greener place, since they now own:
- 100% of the vanadium that are used for Green (and traditional) purposes;
- 55% of the Electrolyte Production Plant they’re constructing; and
- 25.5% of one of the world’s best known VRFB Manufacturers (Enerox).
This means that Bushveld will be making profits at every step in the VRFB value chain.
Now let's go into a little detail...
> 25.5% Ownership of Enerox. A privately-listed company that's impossible to invest in unless you buy BMN.
- Enerox is the world's best VRFB company, with the longest history, and the highest number of Vanadium Flow Batteries produced.
- We now know that they have had 13MWh's worth of VRFB orders in H2 2020 alone.
- We know with such a strong pipeline they expect to reach 120MWh++ by 2022. Think how many RNSs that alone will involve!
- We can also see (although this has not yet been RNS'd) that Enerox are working on the world's first ever floating VRFB and this should be announced in Q1 2021. This will be revolutionary in itself.
> 55% ownership of the world’s first Electrolyte Production Plant. This is being constructed this year and become operational next year, when it will be producing 200MWh’s worth of electrolyte each year, which can then be sold off or rented out. More RNSs to come on this.
(The remaining 45% is owned by the ‘Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa’ who are financially supporting the project).
> 100% ownership of the Vanadium Electrolyte Rental Limited (VERL) company so that they can rent out electrolyte to various companies around the world for a very stable and very profitable revenue stream.
- The electrolyte is the most expensive up front cost involved with making Vanadium Flow Batteries so the ability to lease/rent it out will dramatically reduce the cost and help VRFB adoption worldwide.
- BMN’s VERL has already signed a contract with Pivot Power - who are owned by EDF Renewables. If they've secured a contract with EDF you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be many many more!
> 100% of the vanadium mined and processed by BMN’s massive vanadium assets, and Vanadium is good for the environment in general, regardless of the end purpose.
BMN's vanadium assets total a combined 550,000,000 tonnes of high-grade vanadium as well as 2 incredibly rare Vanadium Processors (there are only 4 worldwide).
So, as you can see, even when BMN reaches an annualised rate of 6,800 tonnes of vanadium per year later in 2021, there truly are no "Life of Mine" concerns with BMN because their assets are bloody massive.
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And so, in summary, BMN is the best vanadium investment worldwide, and I believe it deserves a place in every green energy investor's portfolio.
DYOR & GLA