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Journey Toward Impact is a series highlighting partnerships, funded by European Union, in Low Carbon and Circular Economy Business Action in Canada (LCBA Canada) project. By connecting European cleantech innovators with Canadian companies and communities, LCBA Canada helps turn promising ideas into real partnerships that support decarbonisation and a circular economy transition. KiRa Technology's journey is one example of how European innovation, backed by EU-supported collaboration, is creating tangible impact across the Atlantic.

Some companies begin with a business plan. KiRa Technology began with what Fabio Pellegrini cheerfully calls a crazy idea between father and son. The two come from completely different worlds. Fabio is a mechanical engineer who spent years in the automotive sector while his father, Piergiorgio, used to work as IT manager and programmer since the 1970s and also gained experience in the green building sector. In 2014, in their small North-Italian town of Savignano sul Rubicone they sat down together in front of a blank sheet of paper...

KiRa Technology took part in the poster session of the international symposium Biomass-Based Carbon Removal: Pathways to Gigaton-Scale Industrial Transition, organised by the University of Bologna in Ravenna as part of the European project NET-Fuels (Horizon Europe).

The event brought together researchers, companies and stakeholders working on innovative solutions for CO₂ removal and the transition towards sustainable industrial models, with particular focus on the strategic role of biomass and bio-based technologies.

In this context, KiRa Technology presented its circular economy model based on the short biochar supply chain, built around the BioGS microcogenerator. The model proposes an innovative approach to biomass valorisation, in which the plant operator is not simply an energy consumer but becomes a true transformer of raw material.

Through the thermochemical conversion of biomass, BioGS simultaneously produces energy and biochar, turning agricultural and forestry residues into high-value resources. In this vision, energy production is a consequence of the biomass valorisation process, while biochar becomes a central element for the environmental and economic sustainability of the supply chain.

The model delivers concrete benefits for all actors involved: competitively priced biomass supply, high-quality biochar production and new economic opportunities along the entire value chain. At the same time, it promotes the decarbonisation of production processes and stable carbon sequestration in the soil, contributing to European climate targets.

Participation in the symposium was an important opportunity to engage with the world of international research and innovation, confirming the growing interest in solutions that integrate energy production, sustainable biomass management and atmospheric carbon removal.

KiRa Technology thus continues its commitment to developing technologies that combine environmental sustainability, energy efficiency and economic value for local territories and communities.

The BioGS-1.0 was exhibited at Infotherma 2026 in Ostrava (Czech Republic) by ENVITAL sro, KiRa's authorised distributor for the Czech and Slovak markets.

Among the competing products, the biomass microcogenerator ranked 2nd in the most innovative products category, confirming growing Central European interest in carbon-negative cogeneration solutions from local biomass.

The AIEL Energia dal Legno journal publishes an article on KiRa Technology and the role of biomass microcogeneration in renewable energy communities (REC).

The BioGS-1.0 is presented as the 'missing piece of the puzzle': a programmable, carbon-negative generator able to deliver electricity and heat continuously, complementing the intermittency of solar panels and ideal for truly self-sufficient energy communities.

In front of 5,853 visitors from 37 countries and among 427 exhibitors, BioGS-1.0 by KiRa Technology won the Gold Innovation Award in the BIOCHAR category at the 2025 edition of Bio360, held in Nantes (France). Participation was co-financed under the Digital Export Grant 2024-2025.

The jury recognised in BioGS-1.0 a solution capable of tackling a complex technical challenge: through advanced pyrolytic gasification, the micro-CHP system produces 1 kWe of electricity and heat from diverse biomass feedstocks, including agricultural residues. The biochar generated has a carbon content exceeding 90%, making it valuable both as a soil amendment and as a carbon sink for the stable removal of CO₂ from the atmosphere, resulting in net negative emissions.

The jury's citation highlighted the growing number of units operating in demanding conditions and remote locations, evidence of concrete market validation that positions BioGS-1.0 as a technology ready to make a significant impact in small-scale applications.

One of our first customers comes from Finland, a young, motivated and enterprising individual who, in addition to installing the BioGS-1.0 system at his home, has also created a showroom to showcase the technology to potential customers and has already become our official dealer.

His installation consists of:

• BioGS-1.0
• 5000-liter puffer tank
• Western Co. Leonardo Pro X 5000 VA inverter
• 3.6 kWp photovoltaic system
• Pylontech US3000C lithium batteries 10.5 kWh

KiRa Technology took part in the BAITE Innovation Award, the international contest for innovative start-ups promoted by ReGeneration Hub Friuli in partnership with the Accademia di Gagliato Globale, as part of the NanoValbruna 2023 festival in Valbruna (Malborghetto-Valbruna, UD). The team presented the BioGS-1.0 in the Energy macro-area of the contest, dedicated to energy conversion and the use of renewable sources.

KiRa Technology appears on StartUPper, the Sky Italy channel programme dedicated to innovative startups. In the episode aired on 19 September 2019 (channel 821), Fabio Pellegrini presents the BioGS-1.0 to a national TV audience.

The programme offers a chance to share KiRa's vision: clean, local, carbon-negative energy produced from waste biomass, accessible to private homes and small farms alike.

KiRa Technology was selected among 35 startups from the Network Incubatori e Parchi Scientifici e Tecnologici for the seventh edition of the Premio Gaetano Marzotto, part of the "from idea to business" path promoted by Associazione Progetto Marzotto. The Biomass MicroCHP project was presented by AlmaCube, the University of Bologna's business incubator, at the awards ceremony on 20 July 2017 at the UniCredit Pavilion in Milan.

KiRa Technology makes its media debut in 2017: a father and son who invented a system for producing electricity and heat directly at home from waste biomass.

The CesenaToday article tells the story behind what would become the BioGS-1.0: a closed-cycle Stirling microcogenerator able to turn prunings, woodchips, and pellets into useful energy, with biochar as a carbon-negative soil-enriching by-product.