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KiRa Technology: carbon-negative energy, made in Italy

Heat, power, and biochar from local wood

BioGS-1.0 is the first carbon-negative biomass micro-cogenerator: it turns wood the community already has into electricity and hot water, and locks carbon away as biochar while it runs.

Talk about a pilot See how it works
24 kWh
of electricity a day, up to
17 kg
of CO2 removed a day as biochar
3
patents behind the design
1 unit
for power, hot water, and biochar

What the technology does

Wood goes in. Three things come out.

Electricity

Up to 24 kWh a day: enough to carry an off-grid home or take real load off a community building's diesel.

Hot water and heat

Cogeneration captures the heat instead of wasting it, so the same wood that makes power also warms the building.

Biochar

The carbon leaves as biochar, a stable soil amendment. That is what makes the machine carbon-negative rather than just clean.

Why it matters here

The fuel is already on the land. Diesel is not.

For off-grid homes and community buildings with long heating seasons, wood is local and diesel is flown or trucked in. BioGS-1.0 turns that local wood into baseload heat and power for the darkest months, when solar is at its weakest.

It pairs naturally with the solar and battery systems IES already installs: solar carries the bright half of the year, KiRa carries the dark half.

Have wood? Let's talk.

Tell us about the building and the wood you have around, and we will explore whether a KiRa pilot fits your community.

Talk to IES about KiRa Visit kiratechnology.com