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"The
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"Ghengis
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"Jasper
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BERAL,
INC.
Andrew G. Racz
Director of Research
300 East 54 Street, Suite 26C
New York, New York 10022
Telephone: (212) 319-6949
Fax: (212) 753-1944
E-mail:
mlikar@aol.com
April
27, 2008
ALTEK
POWER CORP.
APK - TSX.V
| |
Last
sale |
$0.07 |
| |
52-week
range |
$0.16
- $0.04 |
Balance Sheet
(as of December 31, 2007)
| |
2007 |
| Total
Current Assets |
2,481,598 |
| Total
Assets |
4,705,215 |
| Total
Current Liabilities |
2,308,463 |
| Shareholders'
Equity |
1,538,786 |
|
|
INTERVIEW WITH MR. BYRON LOWEN,
CHAIRMAN & CEO, ALTEK POWER CORPORATION
|
|
Q: Mr. Loewen,
in a few sentences, what is Altek Corp.
A: Altek Power is publicly listed
corporation in Canada under TSX Venture Exchange. The
company has approximately 2,300 owners, shareholders,
and is in the business of producing a 1.2 megawatt, which
is 1200 kilowatt, electrical generating plant. That plant,
while it produces the 1.2 megawatts of electricity, also
produces approximately 2.5 megawatts of thermal energy
which can be used for the heating of buildings, air conditioning
or steam generation for industrial purposes.
Q: Mr. Loewen, we are in the year
2008, and at least the two Democratic contenders for the
American presidency each talk about giving $50 billion
for research for what's called alternative energy. Would
you please tell me where does all that fit into your prospects?
A: Altek Power, through its 1.2
megawatt electrical generating plant, is an alternative
energy consumer to this extent. Alternative energy refers
to the use of alternative sources of energy to make power.
Examples would include solar, bio gas, syn gas, bio diesel,
and several other fuels like ethanol.
$50B
government-sponsored research
Solar
|
Bio-Gas |
Syngas |
Bio-diesel |
Ethanol |
Source
of fuel for AT1200 |
Altek Power Corporation reports the following
update of an installation of an AT1200 Electrical Generation
facility in Northern Alberta, Canada. The plant has successfully
completed run testing to a load bank at the site. Final
commissioning of this facility is expected to be completed
by early May following receipt of certain electrical switching
equipment required in order to go on line. The AT1200
will provide electrical power for the operation of an
oil and natural gas battery. This project represents the
first installation of the new AT1200 in Canada.
Based upon this installation, the sale of an AT1200 to
Sasil of Italy and several more sales under negotiation,
the Company looks forward to a strong year. The Company’s
focus on manufacture, assembly, and sale of AT1200 Electrical/Thermal
Generation plants will continue in order to meet an accelerating
demand for reliable power production in the 1,000 to 5,000
kW sector.
| The
AT1200 is a gas turbine driven power generation
system which produces 1,200 kW of electrical
power and up to 2,500 kW of thermal power.
Its portability due to its lightweight and
small foot print make it an ideal power source
for remote locations and other areas with
unreliable power. |
|
Altek Power Corporation develops timely,
profitable and environmentally responsible energy solutions.
Altek provides quick to market electrical generation plants,
which respond to energy needs worldwide. Further information
may be found at www.altekpower.com
Our Mission: To provide timely, profitable and environmentally
responsible energy solutions.
Q: Now, all these words are well
known to the audience of CNN. What you do is not known.
So would you please connect your activities to what you
were actually just saying?
A: Certainly. The key to our business
is that our engine, the turbine, the gas turbine which
runs our plant, will be designed to use each and all of
the fuels that I just mentioned.
Q: Mr. Loewen, the American politicians
ever since the mid-seventies were talking about the different
structure and the fuels that Detroit is using up. Now,
over thirty years nothing has happened. But Detroit is
using alternative fuels. They're supposed to use alternative
fuels. Now, where do you come into this enormous picture?
A: The Detroit companies use a
reciprocating engine to power their vehicles. Reciprocating
engines are known to be highly restrictive on being able
to use more than one fuel. If you recall, that when you
purchase a new car your car has a fuel specified. It must
use only perhaps unleaded gas or perhaps diesel. Our
turbine will be designed to use several fuels. Bio
gases, all of the gases, syn gas. It will also designed
to use diesel, bio diesel, various kinds of liquid fuels.
So basically we have one engine that's capable of using
many fuels, and that indeed is both unique and it's also,
in our opinion, very responsible as an alternative energy
supplier.
Engine
designed to use several fuels |
|
Key areas of Business
* Power Turbine Sales and
Manufacturing
* Biomass Sales
* Power Projects
* Patents
As an independent power producer and manufacturer
of distributed generation plants, Altek offers quick-to-market
electrical generation solutions in response to the growing
demand for energy throughout the world.
Corporate Information
Headquartered in Kelowna, British Columbia, Altek Power
Corporation develops timely, profitable and environmentally
responsible energy solutions.
* AT1200 provides distributed power and may be used
for standard/flare gas applications
* Electrical generation using solution gas that would
otherwise be flared
- Our Willeseden Green Facility
* Biomass-fuelled power generation
* District Heating
Current Focus Areas
* Power deregulation in Alberta, California, Texas,
Pennsylvania
* Power deregulation pending in Ontario and several
American states.
* Rising demand and prices for power
* Higher power prices and lower fuel prices mean a profitable
"spark spread"
* Community electrical power and district heating in
Poland
* Waste gas powered electrical and steam generation
in Poland
* Electrical generation and air conditioning in the
Middle East
Q: Now, you have
a turbine. How do you manufacture it and how do you use
it and where do you use it?
Area
of Purchase |
#
Units Under
Negotiation
|
Project
description |
Africa |
6 |
Flare
gas & stranded wells |
Central
America |
4 |
Peru
- Remote Gas Compression |
Central
America |
4 |
Co-Gen
application with HRS |
Eastern
Europe |
2 |
District
Heating System with HRS |
Eastern
Europe |
3 |
Sunflower
seed bio gas |
Eastern
Europe |
6 |
District
Heating System with HRS |
Eastern
Europe |
6 |
District
Heating System with HRS |
Eastern
Europe |
8 |
District
Heating System with HRS |
Eastern
Europe |
2 |
Bio
diesel process application |
Eastern
Europe |
4 |
Fuel
oil fired to support Gird |
Middle
East |
3 |
Military
support & Ministry of Energy |
Middle
East |
4 |
Refinery
process |
Middle
East |
4 |
Flare
gas applications |
Middle
East |
1 |
Animal
waste gasified |
North
America |
2 |
Standby
Power |
North
America |
3 |
Process
industries |
North
America |
5 |
Co-Gen
application with HRS |
North
America |
2 |
Coal
Bed Methane |
North
America |
1 |
Various
village & small town support |
North
America |
4 |
MSW
Gasification |
North
America |
4 |
Chicken
waste gasification |
Northern
Europe |
2 |
Landfill
Methane |
South
Asia |
2 |
Landfill
Methane |
Oceania |
2 |
Chemical
Processor |
South
Asia |
2 |
Chemical
Processor |
South
Asia |
2 |
Textile
industry processing |
Southern
Europe |
1 |
Recycled
Plastics Gasification |
Southern
Europe |
2 |
Chemical
Processor |
|
89 |
|
|
Sales
Likely
Month |
Year
1
Units Sold
|
Year
2
Units Sold
|
Year
3
Units Sold
|
Year
4
Units Sold
|
Year
5
Units Sold |
January |
|
1 |
3 |
5 |
8 |
February
|
|
0 |
3 |
5 |
10 |
March |
|
0 |
3 |
5 |
10 |
April
|
|
0 |
3 |
5 |
10 |
May |
|
2 |
5 |
8 |
10 |
June |
|
3 |
5 |
8 |
12 |
July |
|
6 |
5 |
8 |
12 |
August |
|
3 |
5 |
8 |
12 |
September |
|
3 |
5 |
10 |
12 |
October |
|
3 |
5 |
10 |
12 |
November |
|
3 |
5 |
10 |
12 |
December |
|
1 |
3 |
8 |
10 |
Total |
0 |
25 |
50 |
90 |
130 |
|
A: The various
components of the AT 1200, which our power generation
plant is known as, are manufactured throughout the world,
many of them in the United States and Canada, and they
are all assembled in British Columbia, Canada. The assembly
must be done to a very high standard, and because this
is a power generation plant, the plant must be built to
a standard that meets all of the standards of the various
countries in which we sell the unit.
Q: You make this unit. You assemble
it in Canada. Where do you try to sell it and for what
purpose?
A: Our efforts in sales were augmented
by the Canadian government through the Canadian Trade
Commission and the Canadian Consulate Services. We have
been introduced at meetings in various countries like
Poland, Romania, Lithuania, and several other Eastern
European countries that are developing and that require
this size and type of power generation. Through the European
Union, which is quite advanced in their desire to produce
power economically through the use of alternative fuels,
is a large and strong supporter of our company, as is
the Canadian government. As a consequence, we have been
introduced to various business people in these various
countries, and we are developing a large number of purchases.
These purchases are made by both cities whom require electricity
and district heating for their homes, businesses which
require electricity and heat for their manufacturing processes.
Q: Let me pick up one point, a
particular country, Poland. Forty-five million people,
the country had to be rebuilt a hundred percent after
the Second World War, which is your lifetime, my lifetime,
and they have had electricity ever since. As of today,
they have electricity. What is going to change and where
do you benefit from it?
A: In a country like Poland, many
of the small communities are still without the requisite
power that they need in order to expand their communities.
In order for these communities to expand, they cannot
begin with large mega projects. They must begin with small
projects. And this is driven mainly because of a lack
of infrastructure in terms of the transmission wires for
the electricity or in terms of the distribution for the
thermal heat. Our plant is designed to produce sufficient
power to provide electricity for perhaps 1,000 to 1,500
homes and to provide sufficient heating for perhaps 400
residences.
Developing
Countries
| No
electrical or telephone network. |
|
| Cellular
telephones |
A12000
engine to provide provincial communities,
1000-1500 people. |
| |
Cheap
electricity sources. |
The
21st Century |
|
Q: I presume the
conditions in my native country, Hungary, is no different.
A: That is correct.
Q: I have only once in my lifetime
spent two or three weeks in a Hungarian village. That
was after the war and I even remember that there were
no newspapers, and some civil servant coming from the
mayor or whoever came around every two or three days and
created some noise, banged something, and he said, well,
these are the news items which we want to bring to everybody's
attention. I do not exactly recall whether there was full
electricity. There must have been something because I
was reading in the evening. I don't know how it is now
with television or telephones, but what you are saying
is we are going into these communities which had not been
improved since 1950 by the communist government. For instance,
in all of Hungary there are three telephone companies,
of which one is really big. So you go into this community
where everything is backwards, and the villages around
where I was, let's say there are 1,500 people. What is
it that you do for them?
A: When we come into that village,
we invariably visit the central heating plant. It's a
single furnace which provides for the heat for each of
the homes in that 1,500 person village. I have personally
witnessed furnaces that had 6-inch holes in the sides
of them that were using coal that was being burned in
a very inefficient manner at a very high cost, and with
the joining of these countries with the European Union,
the European Union has set upon these countries rules
of emissions and environmental standards. In order
for the countries to remain in the European Union they
must improve the efficiency of these kinds of plants.
These plants only make thermal energy and they use very
little of the energy of the coal to do so. Our recent
private placements enable our European expansion.
Our Mission: To provide timely, profitable
and environmentally responsible energy solutions that
increase shareholder value.
Q: I want to make a comparison,
which may or may not be fair. But let's take Serbia. After
the war of 1990's, they didn't have the money and a reason
perhaps to build a all-encompassing telephone system.
So everybody has a cellular telephone. As a matter of
fact, everybody has a cell phone in Hungary, in Russian,
in China, and probably India. Are you telling me that
just as the telephone system of these new countries, which
includes the Far East, said it's true that in the United
Kingdom everybody has a telephone at home and everybody
knows everybody's telephone number, long distance, and
so on. But to build it everywhere in the Dalmatian Coast
and so on would be an absolute fortune, so we give everybody
a cell phone and that's it.
A: You're absolutely right.
The cost of installing cellular towers in Easter Bloc
countries and developing countries is far less costly
than the cost of installing wires. That same infrastructure
issue applies to the generation of electricity, and the
benefit which has been recognized by the EU, the European
Union has recently passed a ruling that they will provide
extra support to countries where their power generation
in fact includes 60 percent of the power being used for
district heating and 40 percent for electricity. Our equipment
complies directly for that purpose.
Q: So in other words, what you
are really saying is that your way of generating electricity,
heat, etc., is basically the foster brother of the cellular
telephone system.
A: Yes.
Q: So when communism disappeared,
and as Mrs. Thatcher said, it was thrown into the ash
pile of history, the world decided that there are ten
million people living in Hungary and each of these ten
million can buy shoes, DVD's, cigarettes which you can't
sell in America. So in other words, they are very good
consumers. They work, they're consumers, but in order
to put them into business you have to modernize the heating
system, the electrical system, the telephone system. Otherwise,
you can't do business. As a matter of fact, they build
everywhere very nice airports so people can fly back and
forth, so they are part of the system, part of the consumer
society. And that is why today instead of two billion
people working in this world there are seven billion people.
And because there is a system of heating, electricity
and telephone, all the American movies can be sold to
them and they are part of the consumer society. That's
basically where you fit into the world.
A: That is correct. And if I may
say so, wherever a community in an emerging country is
able to provide for reliable electricity, reliable heat
and reliable communication, that community has every time
without exception exceeded the expectations of its populace.
The people have done much better, their standard of living
has increased drastically, and this can all be done without
mega projects. Historically the generation of electricity
has been completed by very large plants and very long
transmission wires. Today distributed generation in the
form that we produce is the chosen way because the projects
are smaller and much more numerous.
Q: Altek today has 116,000,000
shares. At $0.8, it's less than $10 million market cap.
The company has a modest amount of cash, has prospects
to deliver between 25 and 50 units which you can sell
for less than a million dollars, maybe $750,000. But if
you take the outside figure of 50 times a million, it's
a potential $50 million backlog, and with very modest
sums of money, but with some government support you have
a market cap of $10 million and a relatively experienced
management. What is it that's needed to install let's
say the first ten units?
A: To answer that I must go backwards
one step. It's important to understand that in excess
of $14 million has been spent on developing our technology.
Our technology is now ready for the market, and this has
been proven by our recent sales which we published. The
next ten units, to answer your question properly, will
require an initial investment of $1.5 million and a down-road
investment of between $5 and $10 million additional dollars.
As my obligation is to the shareholders of this company,
it would be the desire of this company to sell fewer and
to own more of the plants which the public wishes us to
install worldwide.
Q: Let's assume you find the $10
million and you take a 3-4 year viewpoint, how many of
these generation units do you think you will be able to
manufacture and sell?
ALTEK
POWER CORPORATION
Use of Proceeds
| |
CAD
Dollars
1.00
|
Revenue
Generation
AT1200
Demonstration Plants
Sales
& Marketing
Product
Development - SDTC
Project
Development |
$ 2,000,000
$ 850,000
$ 2,000,000
$ 1,700,000
|
| |
$
6,550,000 |
Altek
Power Corporation
Debt Reduction
Working
Capital
Financing
Fees & Legal
|
$
2,206,421
$ 897,579
$ 346,000 |
| |
$
3,450,000 |
Use
of Proceeds |
$
10,000,000 |
|
A: Four years from
now, our annual output is estimated to be in the range
of 150 to 200 units per year.
($CAD) |
Projected
2007
|
Projected
2008
|
Projected
2009
|
Projected
2010
|
Revenues:
Innovator
Sales
Service
Sales
Power
Sales
Other
Equipment
|
0
|
14,976,000
213,067
675,815
7,488,000
|
31,620,000
2,118,783
1,636,835
15,810,000
|
56,020,000
5,720,083
3,992,886
28,010,000
|
| Total
Revenues |
0 |
23,252,881 |
51,185,619 |
93,742,969 |
Gross
Profit
Gross
Margins
|
0 |
5,784,855 |
12,817,669 |
25,619,486 |
| Total
Overhead Expenses |
1,663,513 |
1,699,060 |
3,584,000 |
4,301,920 |
| EBITDA |
(1,663,513) |
4,085,795 |
9,333,669 |
21,317,566 |
| Earnings
before taxes |
(1,744,409) |
3,986,025 |
9,257,469 |
21,241,366 |
Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking
Statements
Except for historical information contained herein,
the statements contained herein are forward-looking
statements that are made pursuant to the safe
harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation
Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve
known and unknown risks and uncertainties that
may cause the company's actual results in the
future periods to differ materially from forecasted
results. These risks and uncertainties include,
among other things, volatility of prices, product
demand, market compensation, and risks inherent
in the Company's operations.
|
Q: So that is over
$100 million, let's say $100 million a year.
A: I suppose it is, yes.
Q: And you envisage selling as
well as leasing with units to become like a manufacturing
and marketing merchant bank of what you call your electricity
generating industry?
A: Yes. In addition to that, we
expect to become a utility, an actual producer of energy
in several countries worldwide, where we would own the
equipment and we would, in fact, sell the electricity
and the thermal energy.
A: I totally concur with your thinking,
and I wish to also say as an example that in the Gulf
of Mexico today, the United States has very large amounts
of oil extraction through oil platforms. We have a solution.
Our equipment will provide a solution which will eliminate
a very large amount of the air pollution being caused
by power generation on those platforms, while at the same
time providing a much more ergonomic and safe environment
for the workers on those platforms.
It's interesting to note that a very few miles north of
the northern border of the United States, in Alberta,
Canada, there is more oil than in all of Saudi Arabia.
We have a history, Altek Power, that is, has a history
of working in Alberta in the oil fields, and is very familiar
with the needs of the oil extraction business and our
equipment is designed to augment that process. With this
in mind and this alone, Altek's success in terms of sales
is assured. With the rest of the world, we will be hard
pressed to keep up with the demand. We look forward to
a most exciting future for our shares.
(Article
83 - posted April 27, 2008)
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only current opinions which are subject to change.
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