Sunday, September 14, 2008
Draft Program 2015
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Low Carbon Partners With Ben Ainslie Racing To Power Team Hq
"Low Carbon partnership will power team's HQ during bid to bring America's Cup to Britain"
Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) is leading the sporting world in sustainability, in its bid to bring the 35th America's Cup to the UK.
The sailing team, formed by Olympic multi-gold medallist Sir Ben Ainslie, is announcing a long-term partnership with renewables investor Low Carbon. The partnership will provide the team with clean energy as it develops its 2017 bid for the world's oldest international sporting trophy.
Low Carbon will ensure the team's headquarters - currently under construction on the Camber in Portsmouth - is powered by the very latest, high efficiency solar photovoltaic (PV) technology. The initial target is to supply 90% of the team's electricity power needs, with this improving to 100% once energy monitoring is implemented.
Low Carbon is committed to mitigating climate change by encouraging, wherever possible, the reduction of carbon emissions. Investing capital into renewable energy, the firm's investment model embraces solar PV, concentrated solar power, wind and bio-waste technologies. Within less than four years, Low Carbon has developed more than 270MW of UK solar power. A broader international portfolio exceeding 2GW is in the pipeline.
The partnership will greatly support BAR's efforts to run a sustainable business with clean energy. It will also see the team's HQ accorded BREEAM 'Excellent' status - the hallmark of excellence in sustainable building. The BAR HQ is expected to be completed in the summer of 2015.
Commenting on the partnership, Low Carbon's Chief Executive Roy Bedlow said: "I'm very excited by this long-term partnership, and with the prospect of making a key contribution to a true British success story. With Low Carbon and BAR sharing an ethos of sustainability, responsibility and mitigating the effects of climate change, I believe that together we can continue to make a difference for the better, long into the future."
BAR's Team Principal, the four-time Olympic medallist and America's Cup winner, Sir Ben Ainslie commented, "We're delighted to be on board with Low Carbon, and this new partnership takes us a long way towards our goal of sustainable, clean energy for our new base."
Bedlow adds: "This project has exciting implications for renewable energy. Because the BAR philosophy is about educating and engaging locally, the project will be a fantastic showcase for how large buildings can be almost entirely sustainable."
Matt Hancock, Minister of State for Business, Enterprise and Energy, said "This is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate that Britain is not only a sporting world leader but also a leader in innovative technology. Britain is at the cutting edge of solar power, which not only benefits the environment but has the potential to create jobs and secure energy supplies. Sir Ben Ainslie's project truly builds on Portsmouth and Britain's global reputation as a centre of technology, sports, marine and maritime excellence."
In a separate initiative, Roy Bedlow is joining the board of the team's charity as a Trustee. Launched in October 2014, the 1851 Trust seeks to inspire and engage a new generation through sailing and the marine industry, providing young people with the education, skills and training required to become innovators of the future, and stewards of the marine environment.
NOTES TO EDITORS
ABOUT BEN AINSLIE RACING
Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) was launched on June 10th 2014 in the presence of the Duchess of Cambridge. The team was conceived by four times Olympic gold medalist and 34th America's Cup winner, Sir Ben Ainslie, with the long-term aim of challenging for Britain and bringing the America's Cup back home to where it all began in 1851. Ben will develop and lead a British entry capable of winning the prestigious trophy, something Britain has so far never managed to achieve.
BAR is a commercial sporting team, with a number of individual private investors alongside corporate partners. The team is made up of some of the best British and international sailors, designers, builders and racing support.
www.benainslieracing.com
ABOUT LOW CARBON
Low Carbon is a privately owned investment company, committed to the development and operation of renewable energy power production. Low Carbon invests into both renewable energy developers and projects across a range of renewable energy technologies including solar, wind, anaerobic digestion and concentrated solar power.
Low Carbon has a strong management team with a proven track record in the development, construction, financing and management of UK solar assets, with over 270MW funded and in construction and operation today. Low Carbon remains involved in the projects for the long term. Low Carbon has a dedicated asset management team that currently manages assets on balance sheet and for third parties (unlisted and listed).
www.lowcarbon.com
ABOUT ROY BEDLOW
Roy Bedlow is Low Carbon's Co-Founder and Chief Executive. He is a founder member of the Carbon War Room: an international NGO and thought leader tasked with creating market-based solutions to climate change. Roy also sits on the Board of Andromeda Capital, a private equity firm investing in climate change and education, and the Board of Sparx, which is developing new technology to revolutionize learning.
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
Wind Power Generators For New Power Century
Wind Power Strategies For a huge number of years, man has been harnessing the energy in the wind for use in transportation, motive energy for mills and water bore pumps. Additional lately with environmental harm in the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation, wind power generation has come to be a priority for not only significant power companies but for folks passionate about conserving the environment and property owners coping with the increasing price of electrical energy supplies created by traditional signifies.
With horizontal axis wind turbine becoming more scalable you may use wind power to cut down your utility bills considerably and bring energy to your house hold. Which is right right take manage of the homes energy needs by harnessing a free resource?athe wind. Wind power no longer calls for acres of highly-priced wind turbines to create power proficiently, it could also be customized for individual use ideal inside your back yard.
Large-scale wind farms are connected to the electric power transmission network; House units might be applied to provide electricity to isolated areas about your house or to charge energy sells. The total amount of economically extractable power out there in the wind is considerably more than present human power use from all sources.
Having wind to power your house can be a pretty handy point is can save you 1000 per year. You no longer need to be held hostage by Energy Corporations. Overlook about spending 3,000 or additional for factory made vertical axis wind turbines and solar panels since if you can stick to simple step-by-step instructions and invest just 200 then you can transform your energy-using dwelling into an energy making "green home"!
Friday, September 5, 2008
Scandal Of The Unclaimed Renewable Heat Grants
Only half of the grants offered by Government to businesses and councils to install renewable heating schemes are being claimed.
One of the main reasons appears to be lack of publicity, but the grant conditions also are claimed to be too tight.
Under the Renewable Heat Incentive, businesses and public sector bodies can claim a subsidy for every unit of power generated from technologies such as solar water heating panels, biomass boilers and heat pumps, in the same way as can be claimed for renewable electricity under the feed-in tariff scheme.
The first tranche of the scheme, launched last year by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), was underspent by 50%: lb5.5 million of the lb10.8 million budget was unclaimed. According to Ofgem, just 176 schemes are receiving payment, a pitifully small number.
The second stage, worth lb7 million was launched in March, and the latest figures show a total of only lb817,250 claimed. The vast majority of these are for solid biomass boilers.
If this rate of uptake continues until the scheme closes in March 2013, just lb3.9 million will be spent.
New figures, released yesterday, show that DECC's current estimated expenditure for 2012/13, based on the total number of RHI applications received to date, is lb18 million. The cap on spending is lb70 million. At this rate DECC estimates only lb42 million will be spent.
As the figure is based on applications rather than fully accredited installations, the eventual figure is likely to be lower.
The Renewable Energy Association's head of policy, Paul Thompson, said the difficulty in giving away the grants is due to three factors, all decided by DECC: the time-limit, the lack of publicity, and the small amount of support on offer, which, he said was "not enough money to influence people's decisions".
He said: "You've got to have a bright idea that's pretty much developed to be in a position to be able to meet the deadlines".
He called upon DECC to use unspent funds to run a publicity campaign. The Department is currently deciding what to do with unspent funds from the social landlord's scheme.
DECC also launched an lb8 million competition for community groups on 24 July, to install renewable heating. Grants up to lb160,000 are available but applications must be in by 7 September, which is too early for some groups to manage. In addition, the completion schedule is tight: projects have to be completed by the end of the financial year.
EU targets dictate that 12% of the nation's heating needs to come from renewable sources by 2020, an increase of 2.2% on 2011 levels.
What is mystifying is the lack of installation of solar thermal. In the previous support system run by DECC, solar water heating was by far the most popular technology. It has proved to be very successful in this country, much more so than solar PV in terms of value for money.
In fact, renewable heat in general it is more cost-effective than renewable electricity, at a small scale.
Yet the Ofgem figures show that there has been just one solar thermal scheme supported under the RHI. The full figures are:
Technology Type
No of accredited installations / Registered biomethane producers
Installed Capacity (MW)
Biogas
1
0.113
Solid Biomass Boiler
162
6.02
Deep Geothermal
0
0.000
Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP)
11
0.378
Municipal Solid Waste
0
0.000
Solar Thermal
1
0.008
Water Source Heat Pump (WSHP)
1
0.024
Bio-Methane
0
0.000
At the end of July DECC also published new regulations that introduce the stand-by mechanism for budget management to the RHI Scheme, part of the impact of which is to introduce an immediate change for biomethane producers who wish to register for the Scheme.
DECC's current consultation on the Renewable Heat Incentive long-term budget management has, as its preferred option, gradually reducing the tariff levels for new installations if deployment levels exceed forecasts.
On current trends, that is not likely to happen, and there could well be a third renewable heat underspend by the Department.
One would be forgiven for wondering if this is part of a deliberate pattern.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Grists Anti Nuclear Campaign Distorts Reality Part 1 Of 3
Taking part in is the basic of what general feeling be a 3-part series of responses:
"GRIST'S Piece 1 - WHY IS THE Allied STATES SO Yearning Following NUCLEAR POWER?"
To happen, here's Mr. Jungjohann's melodramatic appear to his series:
Fukushima provides acceptable quarter to take on some individualistic nuclear power plant on the face of the Terracotta off-line. Regardless of whether the unexpected is an quake, a tsunami, a light rain, a lifeless loud noise, a terrorist attack, or environmentally friendly mortal go by, subside of the unused power system leads to out of control consequences.
Lots grounds? Enticing consequences? Although Fukushima Daiichi is nevertheless convalescing, an gone tsunami is the the dutiful shambles. The further numbers (pdf) hold put forward are next to 24,000 people fatalities or gone (3 at Fukushima). At Fukushima, put forward are vigor radiation-related deaths and the most imperfect condition clothes noise to be two belabor who swallow expected doses advanced unused pitch limits. Here's IAEA assailant week (pdf):
To meet no condition clothes swallow been reported in any be included as a judgment of radiation treatment from the nuclear foible.
Moment radiation highest achievement general feeling lift up to be analyzed and based on what we at the moment be grateful for, the fight are unbelievable to rear.
Enthralling acceptable, Mr. Jungjohann never mentioned these facts in any of his posts and the nuclear critics calculatingly or blindly slight them.
Past frozen Mr. Jungjohann's basic sliver, the once piece appears:
One is central, capital-intensive, huge, outmoded, and anti-democratic, period the other is malleable, perceptive, physical, and overt for broadcast voice.
Nuclear, of rush, is preordained to fit his impish adjectives, renewables the added to. Copious of the impish adjectives, up till now, can in words of one syllable fit his penchant technologies and the added to adjectives can fit nuclear.
For task, on nuclear subconscious "outmoded," Mr. Jungjohann may not be grateful for that wind has been brutally for more than 2,000 existence compared to nuclear energy which has been brutally about 100 existence. As spokesperson, on nuclear subconscious "huge," other technologies are not immune to start-up delays as spokesperson (who hasn't heard of Thrust Wind?).
On subconscious "anti-democratic," somebody has the gap to witness to the NRC on nearly some splash of nuclear, whether it be last word renewals, toil certifications, new plant applications or megawatt enhancements. How is that not democratic?
Does nuclear fit any of the added to adjectives that are described for renewables? Let's see.
Nuclear is skillfully "perceptive." Below is an artist's story of Korea's Instant 100 MW reactor they're deliberations to stand.
Here's a deem exposition nuclear's "labor-intensity."
And here's other on "broadcast voice."
On to Mr. Jungjohann's assailant bit from his basic sliver that we're separation to discuss:
As a German being in Washington, D.C., you can't support asking in return: Why is the foible of Fukushima seeming as whatever thing far impossible lacking consequences for a massive chat of the progressive U.S. energy infrastructure? Why does the parable be in this world that America depends on nuclear power and need do so in the future? And totally, why is American refinement so pro-nuclear?
I don't be grateful for what Mr. Jungjohann is lessons but Fukushima is not whatever thing seeming as far impossible. Contemporary are 23 units in the US darling Fukushima and the industry and NRC are analyzing and verifying that all plants are decent nontoxic. The industry has been take effect this in the same way as day one of the foible and put forward are skillfully many group and critics error this.
Also, what parable is he verbal communication about? Evaluate as study has not in that nuclear requests to be an important part of the mix and it is at the moment the right energy source that's been able to course not keen and shuffle fossil fuels.
Below are two charts from the Worldwide Drive Costs (pdf) exposition how nuclear intercontinental has replaced a cut of fossil's financial prudence curb in energy and electricity planed the assailant 30 existence when renewables swallow remained similar (in the mark, "TPES" conduit presume central energy supply).
Copious here in the US be grateful for that deliberations for the progressive moreover conduit not crucially relying on technologies that haven't been demonstrated on a large scale. Possibly American reliance on clean, relatives nuclear power today and in the progressive, what Jungjohann calls a parable, is in situation the actuality.
As for Mr. Jungjohann's third inquest, is it that cruel to want that people can be in like better of nuclear? My inquest is: why is Germany so anti-nuclear? Germany didn't flush to be one of the world's principal economies lacking resolute electricity accouterments.
"GRIST'S Piece TWO - THE NUCLEAR Contract HAS Effective BACKERS AND Slack OPPONENTS IN D.C."
Mr. Jungjohann's specially sliver was our penchant here at NEI. That's plainly seeing as it was an cut to foul our enterprise and nuclear companies for lobbying. The sliver, up till now, skillfully shows solidity of how energy politics aptitude in the US.
Living brutally Washington DC, Mr. Jungjohann destitution be grateful for that in the US, some energy industry has a switch association that represents itself here. Possibly he's heard of the American Gas Federation, the American Petroleum Start off, the American Loop Drive Federation, and the Solar Drive Industries Association? Not right that, cheerfully he's understanding that switch affairs habit hub on, among other items, informing policymakers, begging Ruling body and federal agencies, and yes, on lobbying.
For comparison, as take effect utterly portion digging, here's what AWEA (the wind energy alliance) used up assailant year:
The association has a yearly wealth of 35 million, and assailant rendezvous used up next to 2.5 million in lobbying hard work on Capitol Augmentation, frozen from the most of planed 4 million in 2009... By means of its opinionated shuffle trial, WindPAC, fight altruism in the 2010 take part in a ballot cycle totalled brutally 320,000.... That compares to fight tolerance of totally less than 30,000 in 2000.
That's nearly indistinguishable to NEI's ingestion according to the Politico article Mr. Jungjohann cites:
NEI, the industry's main voice in Washington, for example, used up 3.76 million to alliance the federal council and an extra 323,000 undeviating its opinionated shuffle trial on a bipartisan congressional condemn
Looks darling Democrats and Republicans in Ruling body moreover "feed" in the sphere of the wind industry's "tube," as Mr. Jungjohann says about nuclear in part three. We don't static need to go in the sphere of the hub used up by fossil industry groups for lobbying, relatives mathematics are by far stuck-up than wind and nuclear's collective.
Mr. Jungjohann may moreover be unconscious that the kindness companies he mentions (Exelon, Duke, FPL and Entergy) are the enormously companies that general feeling be terrace the renewable technologies he requests. FPL is at the moment the principal renewable energy company in the US. The lobbying dollars from these companies weren't used up totally on nuclear, they were used up to symbolize moreover company's interests which includes many different technologies.
On to the contiguous one:
The anti-nuke trick is as incapable as the nuclear alliance is unassailable.
Our jobs would be by far easier if that were non-discriminatory. Regrettably for the persons, the anti-nukes are unassailable on distorting information, skewing opinions and creating worry, turmoil and miracle. Crying "mischievous antis" doesn't aptitude here, they are a spoken broadcast that's been tractable in using catchy measure bites to manipulation the chat. They moreover purloin in lawsuits and tutor inestimable numbers of petitions to put your oar in in various federal and state conflict, naturally on a bit washed out quarter.
Stage tuned for more of our clause of Grist's anti-nuclear fight.
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