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We produce environmentally friendly heat and power generation systems for the domestic and small commercial markets.
Our Technology is the culmination of work done by a cooperative consisting of specialist companies and talented and innovative engineering individuals from all round the world.
Our initial research and development, which started over 5 years ago, focused on the effective and reliable conversion of compression ignition engines (diesel engines) to run on vegetable oil.
This was later followed by research and development into heat recovery systems, and control and automation.
Our most recent work has focused on integration with grid power.

Generating electricity locally - why is it so important?

Our planet has only one renewable/continuous source of energy (ignoring geothermal and nuclear), and that is the energy we receive from the sun. This is the budget that our energy usage must meet.
At the moment, our energy usage is several orders of magnitude greater than our budget (due to our extravagant use of fossil fuels), so we have to start being much more efficient with our energy usage.
Although the human race has survived for thousands of years without electricity, it is now highly unlikely that we will give ever up this 'luxury' in the interest of our planet, so we need to be intelligent when we decide how to generate our electricity.
All electricity generation methods entail a certain level of inefficiency - the process produces a vast amount of waste heat. When we generate electricity in power stations (centralised), we almost always waste this heat because heat is very difficult to distribute over distances. The government (UK) reported recently that quantity of heat wasted during electricity generation (centralised) is sufficient to meet half of the nation's heating needs.
It is therefore obvious that the only environmentally friendly way of generating electricity is locally, where the waste heat can be put to good use.

Product Overview

All Volvox CHP systems are:-

designed for the purpose of providing domestic electricity. They are all extremely durable (continuous heavy duty) in order to cope with the long running times required by home electricity production.

designed for easy/cheap maintenance. Anyone with the most fundamental knowledge of engine maintenance will be capable of undertaking most maintenance tasks. All other (more substantial) maintenance tasks can be easily performed by any local mechanic.

capable of running on higher viscosity fuels, like vegetable oil (waste or new) and some models will even run on waste motor oil (pre-processed/blending is required). Conversion kits are required for these alternative fuels, but once fitted, the engines will run just as reliably as they do on diesel.

can run on Biodiesel, red diesel and kerosene (with a little vegetable oil) without any modification.

controlled by a sophisticated, programmable control unit that monitors engine health and safety parameters, and controls the start-up and shut-down sequences and timings. Remote/automated start/stop is available on all models.

covered by a comprehensive warranty.

TheVolvox GenStation Solo - a Cost effective Multi-fuel Domestic Generator with CHP (option)

A 5kW synchronous CHP for off-grid domestic application.

With weather proof, noise reducing enclosure.

The price for the Generator (with enclosure) alone is £2670 (excluding VAT and delivery)

The price for the multi-fuel CHP is £4340 (excluding VAT and delivery

The Volvox Liberty Generators

A low cost, durable, open type genset specifically designed to run on Jatropha Oil. Developed for small communities, farms and larger homes within developing countries where Jatropha Curcas is grown locally.

Only available on trade terms. The Liberty technical brochure is available here.

If you are in the alternative energy retail business, and would like to become a Volvox Authorised Dealer, please drop us an email.