This startup is making manure out of other biogas power plants and now has $62M to play with
Working away on his PhD in Munich only a few years ago, Stephan Herrmann (now a doctor) couldn’t have conceived of a time when his idea for a carbon-negative power plant would attract millions in funding. But now, together with Reverion co-founder Felix Fischer, he has a $100 million backlog of orders for his invention and a fresh $62 million in the form of a Series A funding round.
The idea behind Reverion’s power plant is simple enough: It uses biogas — basically agricultural waste like food or manure — to generate power. However, over the course of his PhD and later real-world tests, Herrmann figured out how to make the plant as much as 80% more efficient than existing biogas plants. That meant it was producing double the output of conventional gas engines, and producing renewable natural gas or green hydrogen, making it effectively “reversible.”
Over a call with TechCrunch, Herrmann outlined how he did it: “We work with hydrogen fuel cells, and created a new system architecture around those. And the process design is very different to normal biogas power plants.”
