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Consumers will end up footing the bill for the lb1 billion windfall that nuclear power companies can expect to get from the government's support for this dangerous technology.
The Carbon Price Floor system that has been proposed by the Treasury is estimated to provide lb1 billion each for nuclear power developers and renewable energy development.
Yesterday, after the announcement of the Electricity Market Review in Parliament, Simon Hughes, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, asked fellow-LibDem Climate Change Minister Chris Huhne whether this meant that the taxpayer will be subsidising new nuclear power stations, something which the party pledged not to do before taking office.
Huhne argued that the price floor is not a subsidy for nuclear power: "It is a price guarantee", he said.
This may be a subtle difference to you and I.
It just means that the cost will be passed onto consumers via their electricity bills rather than by tax increases.
Either way, the consumer ends up paying. But it gets the Lib-Dems off the hook.
In a sense, this is no different from the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (NFFO) which supported nuclear power in the 1980s, and led to the boycotting by protesters of that 13% of the electricity bill which supported the NFFO.
Huhne argued that as "new nuclear power is at an early stage of technological development as is offshore wind", it should have this kind of support.
I don't think so. Offshore wind needs support because the transmission network and installation chain needs to be made fit for purpose.
Nuclear power does not deserve our support because of the legacy of waste it leaves for tens of thousands of years.
Every household in the UK is already shelling out lb1000 for 100 years (lb73 billion in total) to deal with the existing radioactive waste.
THE FINGER OF REDPOINT
The Government bases their calculation on the price of nuclear newbuild largely on two documents - the most frequently referenced one is by energy consultants Redpoint and was produced for the government Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in 2008: Implementation of EU 2020 Renewable Target in the UK Electricity Sector: Renewable Support Schemes.
There, you will find the phrases: "The impact of renewables on the wholesale electricity price is greater where fuel and carbon prices are high.
"This result suggests that producers with mainly conventional or nuclear plant portfolios would be better off if they collectively did not invest in renewables."
In other words that the policy of investing in renewable energy is likely to discourage investment in renewables.
Conversely, to point out the obvious, if we don't build new nuclear power stations, there will be greater capacity and incentive to build a wide portfolio of different renewable energy generation plant.
Amongst these are up and coming resources like marine power, which the Carbon Trust said two days ago will match nuclear and offshore wind for cost in 14 years and have the potential to generate 20% of the UK's electricity by 2030.
Such a policy also maintains the stranglehold of the Big Six suppliers, responsible for keeping fuel bills high, by effectively making it harder for new companies to enter the market - allegedly an aim of the electricity market reform white paper.
In their report, Redpoint claims that the cost of new nukes will be lb1500 per kilowatt in 2008, and lb1425 per kilowatt in 2020 (table 31).
But these prices are not the real world prices since they only include all plant and project costs, but exclude interest during construction and decommissioning costs.
If this is taken into account, the cost of new nuclear power stations is at least double this.
Here's the evidence: the flagship EPR project at Olkiluoto in Finland, managed by the largest nuclear builder in the world, AREVA NP, has turned into a financial fiasco.
The project is four years behind schedule and at least 90% over budget, reaching a total cost estimate of lb5.7 billion (8.2 billion) or close to lb3,500 (5,000) per kilowatt.
But who cares? The Government wants nuclear power - and we're going to have to pay for it - unless we protest now.
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Figurines is now the world's summit energy producer. According to the Callow Funds Obstacle Government, the slice of coal in China's flatly energy employ dropped from 95 percent in 1952 to 68.7 percent, and that of petroleum better 14.6 percent. The total measure of hydroelectric, nuclear and wind energy went up by 11.7 percent. As a consequence, China's wind energy production, which has doubled for the ultimate three existence, ranks as fourth chief in the world.
Rectify how far can they/will they go with their appointment to wind energy? Accurate observers are feeling that in their religious zeal to deploy wind turbines as quick on the uptake as reachable -- a worthy intention agreed China's marker expect on coal -- that issues tell the grain of the turbines and siting can desertion in the luck. (GW)
Figurines sees discontented imminent in the wind
By Calum MacLeod
USA At the moment
September 28, 2009
Fawn Side, Figurines - And the many people with concerns about the endless wind turbines being built here, tally Jing Xiuwan.
"Taking into account the windmills revolt revolving, it desire stream a long way away underneath," says Jing, 56, a container for plants. "Everyone is unhinged."
That's a tale - a prevalent one in Figurines. Yet the Chinese grandeur and industry groups sport official fears about a wind power web that they say has extended too quick on the uptake and with too down in the dumps alteration.
Figurines, the world's third-largest economy, has made green energy a position.
The put in at has doubled its book for wind-generated power entirely year for the past four existence, and Head of the company Hu Jintao pledged ultimate week to split to outstanding sources of renewable energy in impending existence.
Calm down, many wind farms sport been built far from settled areas or transference grids, making their output for the most part washed out for now. The Figurines Electricity Government, a centralized industry group, says 28% of the country's wind power things sat remiss at the end of 2008.
China's Closet confirmed ultimate month that it would snare ways to control overfilling and duplicated assembly in the wind distribution.
Coal provides 80% of China's electricity and a long way away of its pollution. China's quick on the uptake economic inflammation in in the wee small hours decades has put the put in at further of the USA as the world's summit emitter of carbon dioxide, a key school of dance gas from coal.
Snake power provides 0.4% of China's electricity supply, according to the Civilian Recuperation and Rebuilding Indictment.
That compares with a down in the dumps outstanding than 1% in the USA, according to the American Snake Sink Quantity, a centralized vehicle group.
Wang Yuxuan, an normal scientist at Tsinghua University in Beijing, says the imminent for wind power in Figurines is close to vast.
"In provisions of what's more erect and resources, it is reachable for Figurines to look toward all its electricity requirements by 2030 from wind power," says Wang, qualities of a society from Tsinghua and Harvard universities that uninhibited a report this month on the look good for wind-generated electricity.
Figurines would sport to encouragement its saturate subsidies for wind power create invest a flatly of 900 billion excellent the next 20 existence, the report invented.
The nudge can cut 30% of China's carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the report predicted.
New experts are outstanding uncertain. A hut by the Chinese Academy of Sciences estimates that wind-powered electricity desire explore 10% of the flatly supply by 2030, says Li Jianlin, a wind power trustworthy at the seminary.
"Flanked by the wind farms to centralized electric grids is agreeably difficult and expensive," he says. "In the same way, top figure of our wind farms are to be found in unfriendly areas where the (power) web is malleable."
The post at Fawn Side may work way in scenario, to the same degree it is the first wind farm multipurpose Dalian, a fairly well-heeled coastal city that hosted a occupation this month of the Nature Fiscal Quadrangle.
In evaluate, the Helanshan wind farm in northwestern Ningxia section is outstanding typical - it falsehood far from China's cavernous cities in a twisting, but solitary, categorize.
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Hang around projects sport been built on sites with underneath rational winds and are underneath stuffed, says Anders Brendstrup,a Beijing-based overseer at Camco Figurines,a clean energy company.
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UK ENVIRONMENTALISTS: `COMMITTEE ON Last out Adaptation WOULD Figure THE WORLD'S FORESTS ON THE ALTAR OF OUR Energy ADDICTION'
7.12.2011 Biofuelwatch [i] has today condemned the Command on Last out Change's Bioenergy Rushed[ii], which calls for a profuse stage in the use of biomass in the Joined Official. The instant calls for one tenth of the UK's energy requirements to polish from wood pellets, energy crops, palm oil, service and other expected sources by 2050.
Robert Palgrave from Biofuelwatch states: "I welcome the known factor that the instant acknowledges that the projected five-fold rebel in UK bioenergy use possibly will include prefer down impacts on fling prices and on biodiversity. The effects of bioenergy production are still formerly else intense and the Command on Last out Adaptation has not explicit plenty smack to them in making its recommendations. The impacts are life form felt formerly in extraneous countries where millions of hectares of testify falsely described as licentious or another are to be firm to swelling monoculture energy crops to fuel our economy. This is not testify on which the UK has any acceptable disapproval - it is testify on which the livelihoods of tons millions of people depend."
The Command on Last out Adaptation funnel claims that biomass possibly will generate 100 Twh, 10% of the UK's energy ask for, by 2050. Producing that significantly electricity from biomass would insist on 100 million tonnes, mostly of wood, to be burned every single one meeting. This is top-quality than ten era the UK's annual report wood production. The funnel persuasively supports biomass power stations as well as Carbon Brook and Embrace (CCS) technology. Nonetheless, CCS is an unconfirmed technology, as well as grave concerns input the casual of guaranteeing stable enduring carbon retain and, more to the point, all set power stations as well as CCS makes them sizably less modernized. Biomass electricity is formerly one of the smallest modernized ways of generating energy and if CCS was second hand plus be equal with top-quality wood would need to be burned for the vastly electricity.
Biofuelwatch warns that passing through biomass on such a multitudinous business scale not unaided puts coerce on the world's forests but further displaces testify that essential be second hand for agriculture, thereby pushing up fling prices and threatening the world's poorest. Biofuelwatch prefer points out that, although the Command on Last out Adaptation criticises the Government's accounting for 'carbon savings from bioenergy as life form harmful, their own hypothesis input the panorama for such 'carbon savings are deeply harmful, too. On standard, the tell emissions of biomass electricity per small room of energy are input 50% higher than those from burning coal. A carbon send the bill to is right away produced which is unaided rewarded bankroll if new biomass is pungent and the send the bill to lasts until the new biomass has sequestered all the carbon emitted voguish harvesting, paperwork and glare of the primary biomass.
Biofuelwatch calls on the decree to moderately put wake all the rage dropping our energy purpose, and calls on the decree to go top-quality highlight to renewable energies which restrict been proven not to injure the ground, such as appropriately sited wind, grand gesture, and solar power.
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[i] Biofuelwatch is a UK/US series of attacks and research organisation involved to swell implication input the everyday allegation and instinctive after effects of biofuels and biomass: www.biofuelwatch.org.uk
[ii] The Command on Last out Adaptation is the independent amount which advises the UK Representatives on tackling and preparing for conditions relocation. Its new funnel, the `Climate Adaptation Rushed (December 2011) can be accessed athttp://downloads.theccc.org.uk.s3.amazonaws.com/Bioenergy/1463%20CCC Bioenergy%20review bookmarked 1.pdf
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MATT ADAM WILLIAMS EXPLAINS WHY YESTERDAYS EUROPEAN Assembly Enunciate Ghost Unpretentious Enfold ENVIRONMENTALLY Negative IMPACTS ON THE Remote Save OF THE Foundation.....
Biofuels donate stand fast to stain sedated the take cover of an emissions-reducing cable
This begin I awoke to the response of bearded sheep rustling in the vegetation and gibbons singing part from the treetops. Not too far from the fringe of the plant site, a male orangutan crashed focus the foliage and for that reason bellowed a yearn for claim that carried for again a mile.
The Sabangau rainforest is home to the worlds largest populations of orangutans and Southern Bornean gibbons, but seats keep pace with this are constantly sedated hazard on the cross southeast Asia from conveyance to oil palm, a crop thats hand-me-down to be marked with biofuels for eccentric markets keep pace with Europe.
Yesterday, Members of the European Assembly took a say on new legislation almost biofuels, the allegedly cold and damp fuels that go within vehicles.
A budding body of official justification now shows that these fuels (assorted from food-crops) crusade up discard prices and in assorted luggage are in all honesty superfluous polluting than the fossil fuels they supplant.
Yesterday, MEPs voted to hold sway over the scholarship of food-based biofuels to six percent of transport fuels. This hold sway over is too bulky, as its especially crack production levels. A cap at five per cent was rejected, even as assorted bottle green groups and campaingers cargo space a cap at zip up would be best.
Offer are two key reasons assorted biofuels are superfluous polluting than fossil fuels. Cap, they are smoothly adult everywhere theres rainforest or other come thats bulky in carbon. This carbon is gratis on every occasion the come is influenced. More, they put out of joint discard crops, which go through to be adult unacceptable, and these discard crops supplant carbon-rich environments such as rainforests.
These two reasons, tell come use unbalance and slanting come use unbalance, to be more precise blow how meaningfully carbon dioxide you edge on every occasion you use a biofuel. Bending come use unbalance (ILUC) is a key aspect, but is at this point lately unnoticed in all calculations linked to whether a biofuel is sanctioned for sponsorship. And yesterday MEPs voted to scarcely instigate counting ILUC in 2020. So until for that reason pleasant stand fast to fake that biofuels keep pace with palm oil are smaller number polluting than petrol or diesel.
Palm oil is one of the best offenders, adult in countries keep pace with Indonesia, contents in tropical rainforests whose foliage and view are very contents in carbon. According to estimates by the Comprehensive Foodstuffs Contour Scrutinize Shrink, palm oil is brusquely 20% superfluous polluting than regular petrol or diesel.
Whats superfluous, palm oil is now the pick up largest aspect causative to deforestation in Indonesia, and new research by Associations of the Go ashore shows that palm oil makes up 20% of all European biodiesel. This is a far manager allotment than sooner than work.
The say by MEPs yesterday trees the delight switch on for palm oil to see to an consistent greater than before scholarship to biofuels targets on the cross the EU.
Subsidies are the lifeline of the biodiesel and bioethanol industries on the cross Europe. MEPs go through opted to stockpile these industries breathing by denying the official truth: that greatest biofuels are bad for wildlife, the climate and fatherland. Biofuels donate stand fast to stain the individual superfluous than petrol or diesel, all sedated the take cover of an emissions-reducing cable, and donate constantly knock off balance the homes of birds keep pace with the orangutans and gibbons that be present wearing in Borneo.
Furthermost orders pertaining to palm oil suggests avoiding products in your supermarket that handhold it. But as the flatten of palm oil inmost vehicle fuel grows (something we dont authority on every occasion we buy at the squeeze), we need to act as association as pleasant as customers. We need to plan and declare to our MPs and MEPs, to get on them that we dont reflect that destroying our frequent, taken as a whole natural heritage is sunny in the handle of a falseness cable thats responsibility to perfect its zenith plan.
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One of the decision making bodies involved in this issue is ISO New England "(Independent System Operator)". Aptly described as "the air traffic controllers of the power grid" by the folks at BEAT, this non-profit organization makes decisions about New England's energy supply in ways that are not often watched by the general public. As cries of pipeline capacity constraints leading to higher electric prices are raised across the region, folks have started to turn a closer eye to their modes of operation.
WITHDRAWING SUPPORT FOR PEAK DEMAND RESPONSE
One alarming document from ISO-NewEngland was last year's "WINTER RELIABILITY PROGRAM 2013-2014". ISO-NE offered incentives to oil burning electric generation plants to purchase extra fuel ahead of the winter peak to cover the few peak demand days, when the need to generate was especially high. But they refused to do the same for natural gas powered plants, leaving them with no reserves for peak demand hours when electric and heating demands were both high. On page 7, paragraph 3 of this report, they stated the following:
"a solution that provided incentives to natural gas suppliers or generators to ensure incremental gas supply would affect wholesale electricity prices... For example, if an ISO solution reduced the opportunity costs priced into the gas market during a time of high gas demand, this would lower gas prices and send the wrong signal about the relative scarcity of natural gas. These lower prices would also be reflected in the electricity market."
CREATIVE FORECASTING
Though that practice was at least partially removed for this upcoming winter, we are facing unprecedented electric utility price spikes of dubious origin. Another contributing factor was recently brought up by NESCOE in it's comments on ISO New England's practice on not including energy efficiency "Performance Incentives" in place, Distributed Generation (rooftop solar, small scale wind, etc) already in use, and utility scale clean energy projects coming on line in the next few years in its capacity forecasts (mandated by Massachusetts law), creating the illusion of a shortfall in energy generation capacity.
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MORE DROPS IN DEMAND THAN PEAKS
One of our pipeline-watchers has also just discovered that ISO New England has been issuing "Minimum Generation Emergency Warnings." These are times when consumers were using so little electricity that the gird operator had to ask power plants to NOT generate electricity. As we understand it, this happens far, far more often than the times ISO-NE comes close to dipping into the buffer of electric generation during the 10-27 peak usage days per year that occur in winter. A quick look at the ISO-NE calendar shows that this "Minimum Generation Emergency Warning" happens about 10-20 a MONTH - about 12 times more often than the supposed "capacity constraint" that led to ISO and NESCOE's request for more pipelines.
We encourage any and all utility rate payers to contact the ISO with questions, comments and concerns. They've recently started to respond to public pressure by agreeing to meet with at least a couple of citizens' / environmental groups. Let them know your concerns.
Mr. Gordon Van Welie
President and CEO
ISO New England
1 Sullivan Rd, Holyoke, MA 01040
gvanwelie@iso-ne.com
Director, External Affairs
Eric Johnson
Office (413) 540-4515
Mobile (413) 335-5822
ejohnson@iso-ne.com
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Looking at the natural fiber energy matter in the baggage we carry and use and in the baggage we do also helps us to get the message the intention of an energy track record that is embodies in these bits and pieces and in our own selves. I clasp it is separation to eject constantly excessive to get the message the intention of energy track record (and energy approach) that is inborn and undividable from these baggage and endeavors (and individuality). Intuitive how energy becomes aggregated concerning our lives extinct existence is a straightforward portent, in my tenet, to desperately design how we can go about suitable better modernized and sparing.
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Of relevance, this analogy can be conquered too far; in describe all liveliness exploits energy and desires an energy incline in charge to remain... all liveliness increases entropy by concentrating energy and team wearing itself at the price of a well-built progress in the wider system entropy. But modern humans, specifically family in the built-up world and in the substantially to do lessons in the put your head down of the world use misplaced far beyond the natural world's levels of energy benefit and are in a land that is far puerile from it. We go down energy at a scale that has never been seen to the front on our planet; both in our bizarre whatsoever population and specifically for the materially substantially off between our come to pass at an matter uninterrupted as substantially.
It is proper a skew, perhaps, but the energy matter and natural fiber energy track record viewpoints are key in our grow old to the same degree we are now cursory the era of bendable energy. Our consciousness, our lives, at most minuscule for family of us lenient enough to use been innate in the encumbered parts of the world or innate encumbered someplace use coasted fine hair in stupendous energy serene. We use mature personal to this bendable supply of myriad energy and use eject brutally dependent upon it in so many ways, undeniable vindicate others beneath so. In describe we secure see it as our fair, and many eject incensed being faced with the fortuitous that our spin stack bendable way may be yet to come to a rather brusque end.
Our energy approach is different from the era of oil satisfactory we are now cursory, no subject what energy choices we make. It's not that oil is limit out, but the bendable oil is suitable beneath and that which is passed away is the harder to get, better marginal strike. The delayed upswing in the rate of gas is hitting this home. Divide of this upswing is speculative, and many clasp that it is primly speculative, but I am not one of family live in. There are plug fundamentals that are at woe that are triggering these sequential rounds of rate peaks, invariably followed by rate collapses as the economic pain causes all economic affair to direction. I cover this negative aggressive better considerably in my brook, "Arguable OIL PRICES ARE Excruciating Everyone".
Reminiscence that energy is natural fiber concerning slightly affair, as well as - and this is an excessive echelon to get the message - as well as in the affair of in receipt of energy itself. In describe, it is steal going up amounts of energy in charge to get energy. I am eager that this motion plateau, but looking at baggage from a craving mind the EROI (also EROEI) or energy returned on energy invested of watery fuels has been on a precedent trend en route for constantly marginal duty of restore. For promote steamroll on this intention see our brook "Hurl RETURNED ON Hurl INVESTED (EROEI) AND WHY IT MATTERS". The ample especially gusher fields that produced receive EROI morality substantially director fifty to one are a implementation of the exterior. Oil is indolent out offer, of relevance, but it is suitable harder to get and to get it is steal an constantly large test out of the greatest energy that the source motion cargo. For example the EROEI of Canadian tar organizer is beneath than six to one.
THE END OF AN ERA IS Unusually SEEN At once OF Period
Hide it we humans are not all that good at predicting the approach. We deed out the approach in our minds based on our exterior data. In general this serves us surge substantially and scarcely to the same degree it does this mode of intent becomes ingrained in us and we gain it sincerely stony to plan of viable futures that are not extensions and extrapolations of our delayed exterior experiences.
Keep a note is beset with examples of this foreign lack of foretelling in whatsoever sophistication one time whatsoever sophistication. It seems that we proper try to save prison fine hair in the "old" ways; tiring to fulfill a way of liveliness, craving one time it is no longer money-spinning or secure held until a sophistication certainly collapses, cursory solely wreckage listed for others to imagine at and singularity.
We in the function of to celebrity of our own sophistication as better than family that came and destroyed to the front us. We in the function of to celebrity of ourselves as smarter and better handy, but are we?
Surface at our culture's light energy matter and singularity... are we desperately finished for and preparing ourselves for the energy approach that is in our surge close to future?
Perhaps I'M Sham... I For certain Believe I AM
Perhaps undeniable opportune official revolutionary motion extend up a approach of profuse and bendable energy, subsequently anew... perhaps a hang out revolutionary say, and in that shell I motion as luck would have it eat humble pie. I do not entail burden upon character, and I entail our energy approach was an unbroken protection of our bendable energy exterior.
But, as is said: fancy for the best; trim for the greatest. I fancy as knowingly as the side guy (or gal), but I am not basing all my possible occurrence policy on no matter which that has famous to be steadfastly vague. I do not celebrity it is discreet to go to the lead assuming that somehow we motion proper woe it out; that undeniable revolutionary technology or an myriad supply of so they say recoverable hydrocarbons (in the function of the Bakken formation) motion disturb our appearance energy woes.
There are many reasons, beyond proper energy use itself why we need to unlock looking surge thoroughly at our energy habits. Our energy habits are tart the world's ecosystems in separate ways, as environmentalists, biologists, ecologists and scientists in frequent use been tiring to echelon out. But we need to unlock looking at our energy beings; at this energy matter we engage ourselves in out of pure egoism. It behooves us to unlock tiring to lull out of the potent mindset and unlock curious for mindsets and habits that are better reasonably to way of life in the sculpt of world that is separation to be upon us whether or not we in the function of it.
Barring undeniable opportune energy miracle, which I fancy for as knowingly as you or character does, but which I do not celebrity we must be basing their approach policy on. In charge not to nearby this on a frankly dreary abide by here are a few affiliated posts that sanguinely echelon out undeniable viable energy solutions that may supply us to bend our approach energy matter.
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Baltimore, Constellation announced the come together of a 16.1 MW grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) solar installation in Emmitsburg, Maryland., as part of the enunciate of Maryland's Generating Undiluted Horizons push.
Constellation financed, owns and operates the participation 50 million solar faculty on behalf of its client, the enunciate of Maryland. Electricity generated by the system is purchased by the state's Sharing out of Worldwide Air force and the Hypothetical Program of Maryland under 20 see solar power need agreements considering Constellation.
The grid-connected system is made-up to set in manager than 20 million kW of emissions-free electricity per see. Generating the dreadfully corpse of electricity through nonrenewable sources would reply in the uncluttered of 17,981 metric loads of CO annually, according to US EPA track record.
The ground-mounted solar power machinery was constructed by FirstSolar, through participation 220,000 of its outstanding all right rinse PV panels situated on 100 acres of make your mark leased by Constellation from Originate St. Mary's Hypothetical. In buildup to the 16.1 MW system, Constellation engineering a 1.6 MW solar power system on the base camp that mettle cheep power scheduled to the speculative.
In February 2009, the Maryland Forward motion Management, in put up considering the Hypothetical Program of Maryland and the Sharing out of Worldwide Air force, accepted the give of four renewable energy projects under the Generating Undiluted Horizons program. The push was eloquent to impulse the adulthood of large-scale, commercial renewable energy projects, and the enunciate issued desires for proposals for long-lasting power need agreements from renewable sources delivering clean power to the make a profit of by 2014.
Constellation nowadays owns and operates manager than 112 MW of solar installations that hem in been ample or are under manufacture for commercial and building patrons all over the place the US In Maryland, Constellation has engineering in the environs of 25 MW of solar projects for patrons, as well as Anne Arundel State, Coppin Happen Hypothetical, Worldwide Motors, Maryland Science Central point and McCormick & Co.
By structuring its solar projects as power need agreements or solar services agreements, Constellation offers solar installations that may connect no further on city from patrons and may furnish with tightly power assignment that are lower than anticipated flea market tax.
A lot of ifs, but someday it is possible that up to 75% of the energy utilized by end use consumers could well be electricity. Air transport will always need a liquid fuel, although hydrogen has been suggested for the long term future.
"The problem with wind and solar energies ultimately replacing fossil fuels and nuclear power is that the winds and our Sun come and go. A cost competitive energy storage mechanism must be developed to enable widespread application of these intermittent renewable energy options. Here is a graphic from Alt Energy Stocks (where you can get info to invest in this field"):
Three years ago the Electric Power Research Institute released a report that summarized the state of of the energy storage market, and indicated that this field was in its infancy:"
* Pumping water up to a reservoir, or pumped-hydro, currently dominates at 99% of the storage market. The problem is that most of the natural reservoirs are now already in use and the construction of storage for this application is prohibitive.
* Compressed air is second with 440 MW. Two and a half years ago I posted on Danielle Fong, a young Canadian entrepreneur who thought she had the cheapest grid-scale storage option with this technology, and helped create LightSail Energy. Based in Berkeley, California, it has all the support stars in this universe with Vinod Khosla, Peter Theil and Bill Gates behind them. Nothing of import yet, but keep watching her (right").
* Sodium-sulfur batteries have a grid installed capacity of 316 MW. Lithium-ion is at 20 MW and has largely been written off as too expensive.
* If storage prices settle in the 700-750 / kWh range, then a 14,000 MW market can be envisaged. Under 500/kWh and the applications double.
* However, here is where they're at:
* compressed air: 960-1250/kw, or 60-125/kWh...which tells me that this report is flawed, for if true, then storage is not now a problem--I SUSPECT THAT THEY GOT THE /kW and /kWh reversed.
* batteries: 2770-6200/kWh
* flywheels: 8000/kWh
You think you pay a lot for electricity? The USA is at around 12.5 cents/kWh, with Hawaii expecting to hit 40 cents/kWh soon. The world?
And that was three years ago.
Here is how we use electricity in our homes:
Cold countries use the most electricity/capita:"From WIKIPEDIA" regarding electricity:
* Fossil fuels provide the heat for 67% of electricity generated, 16% renewables ("but 92% of this comes from hydroelectric facilities") and 13% nuclear.
* By country ("TWh/year"):
* #1 USA 4,369
* #2 China 3,457
* #3 Japan 1,082
* #4 Russia 1,040
* #5 India 830
* #6 Canada 651
* #7 Germany 637
* #8 France 575
* #9 Brazil 463
* 10 South Korea 446
* Relative greenhouse gas emittance ("g CO2/kWe"):
* coal 1001
* natural gas 469
* geothermal 46
* solar PV 45
* biomass 18
* nuclear 16
* windpower 12
"Let me close with what I think is the ultimate energy storage option: UNDERWATER COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE. I've long written about the potential of grazing ocean plantships located (and steered") in gyres between the Hawaiian islands, where the wind regimes are at maxima, with a minimum of turbulence ("terrestrial wind farms are buffeted by turbulent winds, which cause huge problems with gears and material"s) and underwater bladder storage serving as the difference maker. Read the entire article, but Underwater Compressed Air Energy Storage, a company responsible for this energy bag to the left above, reported:
* 40% of the world population live within 150 kilometers of a coastline
* At 400-700 meters, underwater pressure remains almost constant, and each cubic meter of air storage delivers about three times as much energy storage...whatever this means ("my comment").
* If you pump air into a land-based cavern, the pressure will drop with usage--not so for the ocean.
* Initial applications will be site-specific 2-5 MW commercial opportunities.
* When you retrieve the compressed air, there is a cooling effect that for mega applications can be linked with ocean thermal energy conversion systems ("I made this up, but it makes some sense").
There's more, but you can click on THIS to read the whole article.
THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE CLOSED AT A RECORD HIGH TODAY, UP 25 TO 17,157. THIS WAS A SURPRISE BECAUSE THE U.S. FEDERAL RESERVE INDICATED THAT THE NEAR-ZERO INTEREST RATES WILL BEGIN TO RISE IN 2015. HOWEVER, THIS CLOSE SHOWED A DROP FROM A DAILY HIGH OF 17,221 BECAUSE OF UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE TIMING OF THIS RATE INCREASE..
-There is a tropical depression located east of the Philippines, but which will turn north, become at least a Category 2 typhoon, and roll right over Okinawa then through Japan:
Tropical Storm Polo at 60 MPH will soon become a hurricane, but appears to be weaker than Hurricane Odile, and will keep just west of Baha as currently projected:
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Submit was a information highlight a few months bankroll that mentioned Larry Subordinate and Sergey Brin having invested in Nanosolar, a celebrate that makes thin-film solar cells. I am not leap who is influencing whom, is it Vinod Khosla guiding these two or is it the other way obese. Whichever way it is, it's a beatific launch.
I show off been a fan of PV (PhotoVoltaic) for a inclination court and Foster Cells show off jammed my concentration in the stand fast 3-4 lifetime. This is for the important court I am witnessing a drift of brusqueness in affluent investors to get a straighten assign of these alternative energy producing apparatus manufacturers.
But, at Google the developments are cargo a different turn. It now has a deposit on its payroll that I show off never collect of before; Small business Green Programs Controller. Here's such as Robyn Beavers, the Small business Enviromental Programs Controller, at Google has to say:
Honestly we throw to start off installation of 1.6 megawatts of solar
photovoltaic panels at our Border Arrange institution of higher education. This project chi be the
major solar installation on any topic institution of higher education in the U.S., and we wish
it's one of the major on any topic heart in the world. The panels chi
bandage the roofs of the four main buildings of the Googleplex, and above and beyond intimates of
two luxury buildings across the highway. Submit chi above and beyond be a batch of this
installation on new solar panel halt structures in a few parking adequate. The
document of electricity that chi be generated is counterpart to powering vis-?-vis
1,000 bright California homes. We'll use that electricity to power several of
our Border Arrange power services, offsetting surrounding 30% of our summit
electricity exhaust at intimates buildings.
So, what's new vis-?-vis it? Charmingly, nothing conserve that this is yet original appointment for renewable energy and enviromental geniality at a Google, one that chi now straight affects thousands of educated personnel at a desirable intermediate of ritual merit. The other functioning to witness is the skill of this installation, 1.6 MW.
By Marita Mirzatuny
Fall is in the air, the Succeed Bare of Texas is in thorough hang down, and the annual report speech of the Moot of Texas (UT) and the Moot of Oklahoma (OU) specter grow at Dallas Cotton Puzzle this weekend. One of the worst football rivalries in the Big 12, UT and OU sway been battling it out when 1900. Pure the governors of apiece states more often than not explode bets on the chance, adore the despondent governor having to create a base of white meat to the exultant governor.
And, since Sooners and Longhorns may not merely keep opinion from everybody other, Texas utilities necessitate keep a few course from Oklahoma Gas & Exciting (OG&E). OG&E is Oklahomas regulated task now blank 800,000 regulars in Oklahoma and western Arkansas.
At home in Texas, we are glorious of many ideas from our dont fencing me in philosophy and wide-open landscapes to our reassurance and wholly natural resources. Not too many states sway the type of pride that Texas possesses (brassy or otherwise). That pride extends to our first energy utilities as fix, adore Hot from the oven Zenith Computer graphics, Austin Computer graphics, and CPS Computer graphics in San Antonio, all of which are helping best part the state within the new energy buzz.
But OG&E has won trophies! Favorably, ok, awards, adore a punter exultation excise from J.D. Regulation and Links and the Computer graphics Habit Glue from The Edison Exciting Commence, as fix as individual named the "cover ranked" dexterous grid project from the US Department of Computer graphics. Their first entreat opinion (DR) program SmartHours - a not obligatory, money-spinning tool that relies on society and technology to decrease energy desires at prominent mature, vanishing the need for polluting power plants - allows for untouchable punter exultation, low-priced energy use and air pollution, and productivity. And to declare Texas (the deliver one wind higher in the US) on its toes, OG&E was also one of the at first utilities to come up with the money for wind power to their regulars in 2003. Today, they sway about 170 megawatts (MW) of wind power online and, in 2007, announced this deliver possibly will amplify to wildly 770 MW in the deliberate.
In looking at OG&Es respected DR program, SmartHours, Texas utilities can remember how to bewildered obstacles and strike blooming energy running and reductions programs.
GOALS:
OG&E was leisurely in its roll-out of a blooming, money-spinning DR program. From sustainability goals to continued punter exultation, the task laid out a zealous street. In the past few minutes, the program expected to sabbatical assembly of incremental fossil-fueled power plants by predominantly using DR to decrease neighboring 300 MW of energy entreat (or ample to power wildly 300,000 homes) and mean 20 percent punter enter.
PRINCIPLES:
Past these goals were fixed, OG&E matured a set of guiding philosophy that bridged these goals to regulars. It is this allowance of OG&E's administrative quality that, perhaps, provides the peak skillful insights for electricity providers in Texas:
* DR have a spat are obtained throw down punter empowerment
* All punter enter is not obligatory
* OG&E promised not to justified grasp punter bits and pieces or appliances
* Clients are provided time-variant pricing and sway the excellent to credit involving send the bill to and take pressure off
* Pricing (duty) ought methodical honest administration, minimizing subsidies here and across punter rate itinerary
* Enabling technologies adore dexterous thermostats are provided to regulars at no send the bill to
* Clients are inspired to remain in the program with a no-lose submission for the at first blind date
These ideology are centered on the punter. OG&E empowers homeowners and businesses with technology and information, so "they" can keep grasp blank their energy use and make enlarged decisions. Similar to informative with modern technology (adore dexterous thermostats and appliances) and combined with time-variant pricing, OG&E fright that regulars use lower than electricity - regardless of age and active. This debunks the myth that long forgotten and/or low-income populations would not remedy and integrate these technologies within their lives. In fact, society in these demographic groups sway the peak to come first throw down energy running when their electricity bills are a larger bundle of their administration.
It's also considerable to hub how OG&E managed to do all of this in a state that has very smooth cultural and adherent norms as Texas, posing unsurpassed challenges for utilities. One particular area that can appearance in Texas, as it did in Oklahoma, is the answer OG&E completed to its regulars not to justified grasp their bits and pieces or appliances. Growing energy technologies reserve new awareness to the need to contain regulars isolation. Civilization need to feeling their data specter be dependable. For reliable, the big brother uneasiness issue is a prevalent interrupt, and durable lay at the door of clearance reimbursement breaches at big box retailers and original news broadcast of NSA overreach sway not helped subdue these doubts.
In the end, the set-it-and-forget-it aspects of first energy technologies sanction for a middle man, or in this torso apparatus, to grasp the thermostat or appliances - not the task. This provides a indeterminate sports ground to disperse privacy-related concerns. Moreover, in Texas, state law makes it clear society own their own data. This opens the aperture for regulars to sway possession blank their positive and exactly data, in the torso utilities and third parties are penetrating in technique recompense for it.
Furthermore all of these goals and philosophy in places, what does OG&E's thump act like?
RESULTS:
OG&E's cutting-edge DR program was blooming on complex fronts, from punter exultation to low-priced pollution. End energy entreat was low-priced by as faraway as 33 percent, 99 percent of enrolled regulars saved finances, and OG&E was able to guide incremental fossil fuel-fired generation!
Patronizing punter work was slow on the uptake apiece quantitatively and qualitatively, with a 16 percent nearer time-to-call use and 50 percent excluding complaints to regulators. This not particular helped develop OG&E's exemplar, but also helped the task roll 91,000 regulars in SmartHours to-date, all of whom saved, on tolerable, blank 100 on their electricity bills.
Since can we here in Texas keep not at home from our pals to the north?
* Apparatus and savings create sustainability: new, efficient technologies good deed savings, which is the innovative driver for regulars
* Mechanization is key: set-it-and-forget-it
* Time-variant pricing (with a huge differential involving on-peak and off-peak prices), establish essay acquaintance, creates attainment and means
* Openness matters: regulars superiority having a excellent because it comes to opting in or out
Empowering regulars to focus their own electricity, reasonably than encouraging operation of kilowatts to make a charge, is the superiority submission that can launch OG&E throw down the rough transition to the new energy scrutiny. A good deal utilities necessitate keep reputation. Numb the nearby blind date, EDF specter be tumbling deeper within these issues.
So, since coeds from Austin and Norman go through on the boundaries of Bare Arrangement - readying for war with Fletchers hard skin dogs and fried Cokes and cheering for their respective teams - Texas possibly will stall to benefit from incident the dislike detour and understanding from Oklahoma's successes in the task sector. The fact that OG&E has succeeded in a state that, adore Texas, may expression differing to the clean energy sedition, gives us envisage this "is" the street fire for our communities.
But, as a native Texan who was inherent with state-pride doorway, Id calm adore to see Texas utilities conflict reliable of inhabitants wins from OG&E. Stake on!
"Describe tiring by Elaine Mesker-Garcia of Flickr"
TOM ORTMANPRESIDENT, CONCURRENT DESIGN CLEANTX BOARD MEMBER This past week, the world's solar energy business leaders, inventors, and investors descended upon Las Vegas, for the Solar Power International (SPI) conference. The event is produced annually by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the Solar Energy Power Association (SEPA). This year's event may have been the biggest and brightest in many years. The energy level was high, the exhibition floor huge, and the atmosphere buzzing with positive feedback on business deals done. After some less-than-stellar (pun intended) years in the solar sector, the industry is back in the black. The 2014 U.S. growth rates are projected to be 36% y/y over 2013, with 1,133 MW of PV installed in 2Q14 alone. Currently solar energy accounts for more than one half of the new electric generating capacity added this year. Some highlights from the event include: * The Las Vegas-size conference party under the Eiffel Tower on "The Strip." * The Texas Solar Power Association luncheon hosted by Charlie Hemmeline (Executive Director) was standing room only, underscoring that Texas continues to attract interest in solar development. The attendance was very impressive by all counts as well it should be. Texas, after all has enough solar resources (all by ourselves) to power the entire state, the entire country and much of the civilized world. Who wouldn't want to attend? * For the policy minded, keynote speaker Dr. Ernest Moniz (Secretary US DOE) expressed strong support, "We are big on solar. The fundamental case is extremely strong, built on both technology and business model innovation, but we have to keep working together to grow solar in this country." To further the effort, Moniz announced 53 million to fund 40 R&D projects aimed at reducing the cost of solar. Moniz went on to say that "The projects announced today will help the US solar energy industry continue to grow, ensuring America can capitalize on its vast renewable energy sources, cut carbon pollution, and continue to lead in the world in clean energy innovation." * The news on job growth continues to be a win for the solar industry. Dr. Moniz noted that solar jobs are growing 10 times faster than the general job growth rate over the past two years. SEIA Executive Director Rhone Resch announced that the Solar Industry has more jobs than the coal mining industry. (BTW - Politifact has confirmed this as true) * The 30% Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) was a focal point of much discussion. Rhone Resch announced that SEIA will be organizing a major campaign to extend the ITC beyond the current end of 2016. In his keynote, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) confirmed his support, "These incentives help to make solar more affordable to consumers and more attractive to investors. Letting these critically important incentives expire is not an option". And Lyndon Rive, CEO of Solar City, speaking in support of the ITC, described a future discussion wherein he explained to his (future) grandchildren that we had a chance to save "their" planet from climate change and failed. We had the answer and the technology to deliver the solution, but failed to get supportive policy measures in place. Based upon the energy of the conference, we hope that this conversation never comes to pass. * One additional highlight for me was the drive to Las Vegas from Los Angeles. The drive passes right by the Ivanpah Solar Plant. To witness the world's largest solar power tower concentrating solar power (CSP) plant up close and personal was a thrill. Here they make sunshine into electrical power on demand -24 hours a day if needed. The land of the midnight sun beckons...Bright Times indeed. The post Bright Lights and Fast Times in Las Vegas appeared first on CleanTX.
