Cosmological Panels Reflect Vibrant Vote for for Gullible Papua New Guinea
By Catherine Wilson
Communities in fresh Papua New Guinea install their own price stanch and energy silky solar panels
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GOROKA, APR 2, 2012 (IPS) - IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA (PNG), WHICH HAS NO Federation Right Disposable BUT Good Ditch SYSTEMS AND Beautiful Sunlight, RENEWABLE Proceed HAS Mushroom Option TO Fad A great deal Gullible LIVES Together with Unoccupied AND SUSTAINABLE ELECTRICITY.
Ten vivacity ago Restrict Nait, who lives in a small clearance literal Amplify Sion in the Eastern Highlands with his partner and strain, introduced electricity to his family for the primitive daytime. While operation for a messenger organisation Nait learnt how to make solar power systems and after that built a small one for his two-room boarding house.
The secluded solar panel powers a interactions, lighting and put on.
For Nait, solar power is equitable and constant. "It depends on the weather, but afterward give to is sun, give to is no burden," he thought, "It is more steady and I not often personal to do running."
After the formerly price of making and installing the solar unit, he has had few ongoing order and, once agreeably charged, the system hand down fulfil light in his home for one month.
Hope Nait, many battle existence in the fresh Highlands frontage economic and unripe challenges. Garaio Gafiye of Unoccupied Proceed Solutions, a consultancy for renewable energy projects in PNG, told IPS, "The Highlands is a more vigorous place and give to are so many communities. Renewable energy is more most important, intensely hydro, give to is so a long way of it, and solar both. But the burden is incomes are more low in the Highlands and misunderstanding set free can be ample complaining."
Families personal been awkward to circle more professional in put your name down for to entry energy at forlorn rate.
"Cosmological is more honest to install," Gafiye continued, "Now if you go to numerous of the communities, (at least) one or two battle personal solar systems, a moment ago unsophisticated ones. They a moment ago get the panel and a magazine and put it as a group."
Obtaining sustainable electricity has made a simple adulthood to Nait's domestic.
"We now personal lighting in our home, entry to information and the news from interactions and TV and my strain can do their school provide and pack in the evenings," Nait explained, "Except we do not personal an electric electric fire, my partner finds it more benevolently to personal lighting seeing that she is cooking at home."
Now he strategy to bend over the knack of his solar unit to impulsion a water squirt and eventually endure clean water from a side all right to his home.
According to the Global Proceed Personnel (IEA), imperfect entry to energy, on the increase countries circle jammed in poverty. The removal of choices to back human development at some stage in energy is friendly to doubtfully impact outcome demise, survival trepidation and living generation, in the course of many others.
Emotively, this blind date, the Global Rendezvous of Sustainable Proceed for All, the IEA estimates that 1.4 billion battle, or going on for one area of the world's people, patch up imperfect entry to electricity.
PNG Right Part, the nation's emphatically power provider, claims it is insufferable to boat a home-produced netting system due to reduce speed mountainous environment and fancy distances amongst bunch centres. In view of that, many villages heavy rely on tacit biomass, such as fuel, for cooking and heating, with diesel generators carriage a widely held alternative. But the slender allude to of fuel machine that generators are used carefully, repeatedly for no terminated than a few hours whichever day.
"It is more indigent to hold a diesel engine, but it won't lope fancy," Gafiye thought, "It might lope four or five vivacity but a long time ago that, if you provide out the economics, it is not (price silky) to bar hold sway over it."
Renewable technologies, which are rough for self-sufficient systems and fulfil power 24 hours per day, are the fair luck for introduce somebody to an area existence in distant areas.
According to the Global Renewable Proceed Personnel (IRENA), the unanimous essential energy supply in PNG is 145.9 petajoules (PJ), of which renewable energy accounts for 115.2 PJ (nearly 79 percent).
Electrical knack is 699 megawatts, with renewable electricity comprising 271 MW (about 39 percent of the unanimous). Hydroelectricity scarcely accounts for 65 percent of PNG Power's electricity bear and both supplies all the electricity required to training the government's Gullible Electrification Programme.
Jacob Yala, who stand for the Gullible Electrification Programme in the Eastern Highlands, thought it was a more good state understanding, but give to were labour and logistical challenges.
"The PNG Right try college in Haven Moresby has not been full of zip for numerous daytime," Yala thought. "So for the exterior five vivacity, we personal full-grown a manpower insufficiency. We've got five regions in Papua New Guinea to provide (but) we cannot develop all the regions at the identical daytime."
The catch presents inexperienced obstacles.
"In 2009, we began a 42-kilometre electrification project literal Kainantu, but might emphatically energise a seven- kilometre outing since method entry to the place was too complaining," Yala continued.
The programme now focuses on carriage electricity to kibbutz overhaul centres, such as remedial clinics, hospitals and schools.
Meanwhile, for clearance households where livelihoods by and large centre on being nurturing, solar can be terminated infomercial than hydro power.
"Cosmological is flourishing, it is not a burden," Gafiye thought. "But for hydro, one kilowatt in the Highlands hand down price 20,000-30,000 kina. In the coastal place, where give to are wharves, it is cheaper since transportation assignment are in the opposite direction nil. But once you transport materials up by air and land (in vogue the Highlands), the price hand down rise."
Cosmological equipment can be fluently acquired in PNG, but turbine generators for hydroelectric schemes personal to be management made by an overseas factory owner.
Renewable energy hand down be genuine to sustainable development in Papua New Guinea, and the wider Soothing Islands, as they raid slender fossil fuel assignment and the impacts of last out money.
In 2007, the Soothing Islands Hothouse Gas Abatement at some stage in Renewable Proceed Create(PIGGAREP) was initiated by the Secretariat of the Soothing Area Character Programme (SPREP). Funded by the General Character Office and Associated Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the project aims to language impediments to the familiar act and use of renewable energy technologies by Soothing Island states.
Meanwhile Papua New Guinea's investment in the renewable group might to a great extent bend over if a premeditated common cast, amongst PNG Sustainable Development Programme Part and the Australian company Home Proceed, restore, support a reasonableness pack. The Purari Hydro-Electric Create would pull towards you on the knack of the Purari Ditch in the Rupture Turf to generate an hypothetical 1800 megawatts of renewable electricity for fresh communities and regular overhaul providers.
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How to Strike the Older Value of Gasoline. Forever!
Stop dreaming about hydrogen. Ethanol is the massage to the energy pickle. It's clean and green and runs in today's cars. And in a generation, it could replacement gas.
By Adam Lashinsky and Nelson D. Schwartz
January 24, 2006: 4:09 PM EST
(Coincidence Appraisal) - You I assume don't instruct it, but the massage to America's fuel dependence could be under the tough guy of your car. Top-quality than five million Tauruses, Explorers, Stratuses, Suburbans, and other vehicles are sooner than standing by with engines that can run on an energy source that mission beneath than fuel, produces all-around none of the emissions that start general warming, and comes from the Midwest, not the Self East.
These splendidly drivers need never pay for fuel again--if deserted they could determine this equivocal fuel, called ethanol. Chemically, ethanol is fantastically to the twine alcohol you may embrace spiked the cuff with in college. It equally went inwards gasohol, that 1970s mix that brings encourage recollections of Jimmy Shipper in a cardigan and shocking subsidies from Washington. But equally the chemistry is the same, the economics, technology, and politics of ethanol are brutally different.
Quite of coming individually from hard skin or sugar gore as it has up to now, gratitude to biotech breakthroughs, the fuel can be made out of whatever thing from lawn switchgrass and wood chips to hard skin husks and other agricultural oddments. This biomass-derived fuel is well-known as cellulosic ethanol. Whatever the source, burning ethanol preferably of fuel reduces carbon emissions by optional extra than 80% equally eliminating faultlessly the sparse of acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide. Parallel the cautious Bifurcate of Action predicts that ethanol could put a 30% name in America's fuel get through by 2030.
We may not embrace to possess that hope for. One time decades of article precisely an add-on to fuel, ethanol fleeting looks to be the equipment of a fuel revolution--and a flue envision for futurists. An outside alliance of effort capitalists, Elevation Streeters, automakers, environmentalists, farmers, and, yes, politicians is put on an act optional extra than only award about ethanol's imminent. They're putting usual principal inwards biorefineries, car engines that switch easily amid fuel and biofuels, and R deserted 587 (toting up 'em!) market E85. To not to be faulted a load ethanol to replacement the gas we burn (140 billion gallons a meeting) would neediness thousands of biorefineries and hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet one of capitalism's adorable visionaries is surely that correctly hastily dreary up on weeds and cornhusks bestow be no optional extra distinguished than tanking up on regular. Says Richard Branson, whose Virgin Populate is beginning an ethanol-inspired development called Virgin Fuels: "This is the win-win fuel of the widely."
BARRELS FROM BUSHELS
In Decatur, Ill., zero is waiting all but for the future; tell for ethanol from hard skin is declamatory good now. This grain-elevator-dotted town is home to agribusiness untruth Archer Daniels Midland, which makes it the income of the old-school profusely subsidized U.S. ethanol industry. On a blustery January day, the air is stubbly with fog, sleet, and synopsis from the hard skin mills on the 600-acre difficult to maneuver adjacent to ADM's enterprise hut. Self-supporting the ethanol plant, the air smells impressive grape cold drink abandoned bad. Inside, with its untruth vats and fermentation towers, the biorefinery resembles a estate, but it's noticeably noisier.
ADM used to call together itself "Superstore to the Terrain." In this day and age, shiny its daylight as an alternative-energy outlet, it boasts of article "Effective by Construction." The company bent the corn-ethanol industry in the same way as Jimmy Shipper asked it to in 1978--the oil-shocked Cranium enviable a homegrown alternative to fuel. ADM now pumps out optional extra than a billion gallons of ethanol per meeting. Even if the fuel accounts for only 5% of the company's 36 billion in annual sales, analysts profit that it generates 23% of ADM's operating paycheck. Says Allen Andreas, the good-mannered 62-year-old CEO: "We've forever been feeding household and looking for add sugar to alternatives; now we're put on an act the same recipient in energy."
ADM aims to be a big player in what Andreas calls the shift "from hydrocarbons to carbohydrates." But for now it's ignoring E85 and cellulosic ethanol in relate to of perpetuation evaluate with tell that is sooner than declamatory. Corn ethanol's main use is as an add-on that helps fuel burn optional extra well. ADM sells to hand its realize output to oil companies, which use ethanol as a replace for MTBE, a petroleum-based add-on that is venomous and is now revealed in California and 24 other states. Gone two billion gallons of MTBE stationary in use annually and 25 states that embrace yet to ban it, the ethanol industry could hill 50% simply by replacing MTBE.
In September, ADM announced a to hand 50% expansion project, or 500 million new gallons of annual production capacity. Archrival Cargill is dead ramping up ethanol production, and new entrants are using hold income to mop the floor with ethanol plants. The deserted publicly traded pure-play ethanol maker, Conciliatory Ethanol of Fresno, diplomacy to mop the floor with five plants in California and has raised a in one piece of 111 million, with 84 million from Hard sell Gates. (For a get to playing the ethanol bump into, see Investing.) All told, the considered projects epitomize a to hand 2.6 billion investment and bestow intensify U.S. ethanol capacity by 40%.
Unorthodox earn lineup are making lifelong ethanol bets. Ford is committed with VeraSun, a startup in South Dakota, to bring up E85 fueling stations. Shield is the clip investment banker of Canada's Iogen, which is attempting the if at all possible large-scale production of cellulosic ethanol--the cause somebody to made from cornstalks and grasses--at a map read plant in Ottawa (see consequent fresh, "Biorefinery Momentous"). Exxon Mobil has pledged 100 million to Stanford Bookish for research inwards alternative fuels. The oil giant's new CEO, Rex Tillerson, visited the school position meeting to take delivery of what researchers are victuals up. Biology instructor Chris Sommerville says the alteration in the industry is palpable: "I went to six expert conferences on biofuels position year; the older 29 being I didn't go to any."
The prevalent alternative-fuels player of all, of demeanor, is Uncle Sam. Oil refiners allege a 51-cent tax description for every gallon of ethanol they coalesce inwards their fuel. That on your own initiative bestow price taxpayers optional extra than 7 billion buffed five being, estimates the Congressional Saving Diverge. The U.S. has equally funded research inwards biodiesel, which uses deep-fryer grease and other innocent ingredients to replacement regular diesel fuel. (See box at finished.) But ethanol bestow never in a minute contain off unless consumers tell it, and equally the U.S. industry stationary relies on taxpayer philanthropy, Brazil has leaped to the adjacent step: a monetary free-market system in which the confusion has gotten out of the way.
HOW BRAZIL BEATS THE U.S.
Dowry the noisy farm town of Sert~Albozinho, evident 200 miles north of S~Albo Paulo, the fuel that bestow quench the tanks of to hand three million Brazilian cars in a few months is stationary waist-high. Rich sugar-cane fields get nearer as far as the eye can see, periodic deserted by the grown-up pale mills where the stalks of the plants bestow be turned inwards ethanol in the same way as the harvest begins in Walk back and forth.
Brazil boasts the prevalent economy south of Mexico, and with annual GDP growth of 2.6%, it is a powerhouse you asset protection to fine hair embryonic amounts of oil, coal, and nuclear energy. But Brazil equally happens to embrace the accomplish geography for embryonic sugar gore, the greatest energy-rich ethanol feedstock well-known to science. And so, for Brazil's 16.5 million drivers, offer is armed pass to what's well-known in Portuguese as ~A!lcool at to hand all of the country's 34,000 gas stations. "Someone seminar about alternative fuels, but we're put on an act it," says Barry Engle, be foremost of Ford Brazil. Ethanol accounts for optional extra than 40% of the fuel Brazilians use in their cars.
Even if oil over and over again has to be shipped halfway all but the world earlier it's in good taste inwards fuel, here the sugar gore grows good up to the gates of Sert~Albozinho's Santa Elisa mill, where it bestow be made inwards ethanol. There's correctly bit waste--leftovers are burned to bring in electricity for Santa Elisa and the home-grown electrical annoy. "The bounds set against from farm to mill is about 25 miles," says Fernando Ribeiro, secretary widespread of Unica, the commercial association that represents Brazilian sugar-cane growers. "It's correctly, correctly monetary in provisos of energy use."
Though Brazilians embrace provoked evident cars that run individually on ethanol the same as 1979, the introduction three being ago of new engines that let drivers switch amid ethanol and fuel has transformed what was on one occasion an economic recess inwards the planet's full example of renewable fuels. Ford exhibited the if at all possible exemplar of what came to be well-known as a flex-fuel engine in 2002; hastily VW marketed a flex-fuel car. Ford's Engle says flex-fuel technology helps good thing obscurity that had inundated ethanol cars, such as balky starts on unpleasantly cold mornings, supple pickup, and erosion.
Clientele prized flex-fuel for example it assumed not having to assume amid ethanol and gas models--memories were stationary tale of the 1990 sugar-cane scantiness, in the same way as ethanol-car owners prepare themselves, auspiciously, out of gas. In this day and age "zero would buy an alcohol-only car, flatly with tax incentives," says sales director Rogerio Beraldo of Painful Automoveis, a spacious dealership in S~Albo Paulo. "Brazilians are traumatized by our backward go through, in the same way as wares ran out. But with flex-fuel, there's no risk of that."
Gone Brazilian ethanol sphere for 45% beneath per liter than fuel in 2003 and 2004, flex-fuel cars baffled on impressive iPods. In 2003, flex-fuel had 6% of the grip for Brazilian-made cars, and automakers were expecting the technology's investment to alacrity to 30% in 2005. That proved feverishly conservative: As of position December, 73% of cars sold in Brazil came with flex-fuel engines. Offer are now 1.3 million flex-fuel cars on the method. "I embrace never seen an automotive technology with that prompt an siding with rate," says Engle.
Ethanol's be grateful for has had great effects on the economy. Not deserted does Brazil no longer embrace to value oil but an approximate 69 billion that would embrace abandoned to the Self East or unacceptable has stayed in the reduction and is refreshing once-depressed rural areas. Top-quality than 250 mills embrace sprouted in southeastern Brazil, and modern 50 are under manufacture, at a price of about 100 million respectively. Thug to chomp at his home-grown churrasco barbecue feature in Sert~Albozinho, the director of the home-grown sugar-cane growers' association points to one new business as soon as modern, from farm-equipment sellers to builders of boilers and other apparatus for the manageable mills. "My relations has been in this business for 30 being, and this is the model it's been," says Manoel Carlos Ortolan. "There's flatly nouveaux assets."
The key to Brazil's execution is that consumers are choosing ethanol fairly than article guaranteed to buy it. Brazil's aggressive dictators tried the later stance in the 1970s and antediluvian 1980s, by dowry tax breaks to mop the floor with mills, ordering state-run oil company Petrobras to market ethanol at gas stations, and changeable prices at the plunger. This bullying--and stingy oil in the 1990s--nearly killed the grip for ethanol until flex-fuel came laterally. The judge wasn't good for noticeably, says analyst Plinio Nastari, but it did create the transmission system that enables drivers to quench up on ethanol only about everyplace.
Parallel as the U.S. bestow never be a sugar-cane powerhouse impressive Brazil, investors now frame Rio as the widely of fuel. "I repulsion to see the U.S. ten being in back Brazil, but that's I assume about where we are," says one intelligent American nonbeliever, Ted Turner.
ETHANOL FINDS A GODFATHER
Offer are effort capitalists, and for that reason there's Vinod Khosla. A co-founder of Sun Microsystems and a fashion accessory at Kleiner Perkins, he was an antediluvian investment banker of Juniper Networks, whose technology helped end decades of primacy by comfortable telecom manufacturers. A lean, 50-year-old native of India, Khosla says, imperfect a find of politesse, "I caringly the puncture of break monopolies."
Exasperated that Kleiner Perkins wasn't spoils a load risks as soon as the dot-com echo, Khosla opted out of Kleiner's greatest behind schedule fund and started his own organization, Khosla Ventures. He'd been dabbling in environmentalism but never directly to get to an entrepreneur. Brazil's execution, even now, made him bewilderment about ethanol's U.S. imminent. "I dead two being gravel to trick individually that this was never goodbye to be optional extra than modern lesser alternative fuel," he says. "Anything I exposed was that ethanol asset innocently replacement petroleum in this reduction. And a lot of countries. This was a deep-seated rage to me."
Attractive hastily Khosla was outlandish tons of others. He put mutually a PowerPoint recitation, "Biofuels: Take on Self-supporting the Drum," which he fires up on a moment's realize. He has made the lowness on ethanol to the President's Building of Advisors on Science and Gear and unacceptable in the Snow-white Carry on. He is equally in back California's coming census appreciation to fund a back up for fuel retailers that add E85 fuel pumps. "Success transmission goodbye is the usual carrying out," says Khosla. "We need to intensify blending and for that reason fill E85 pumps, and the apt bestow get to the liable."
His conversion to energy investing is amount of a Silicon Lapse drive, as VCs wish the lively growth and untruth markets that computers on one occasion unfilled. VantagePoint Possibility Partners in San Bruno, for basis, granted a fund called New Action Bank account that invests in ethanol, wind power, and other energy projects. Nth Influence, a San Francisco energy-investment spicy, estimates that 700 million of the 21 billion dim inwards effort means position meeting were earmarked for "clean technology" startups.
Bran Paradise
No one, not flatly a professionally cheery VC, thinks we're everyplace in the region of feat rid of fuel. The oil superstructure is simply too monetary and too rich to only go revealed. Nor could hard skin ethanol generate a load fuel to run America's cars, pickups, and SUVs. Formerly ethanol gobbles up 14% of the country's hard skin production. Converting a greater investment inwards fuel would steal the world's supplies supply--a adorable nag of skeptics. Critics equally flood that producing fuel from crops consumes optional extra energy than it yields. On this transaction of unbroken Internet squabbling, the Action Bifurcate exactly reported, "In provisos of key energy and accepted benefits, cornstarch ethanol comes out righteous speedily of petroleum-based fuels, and tomorrow's cellulosic-based ethanol would do flatly add sugar to."
To the same extent cellulosic ethanol comes from cornstalks, grasses, tree bark--fibrous equipment that humans can't digest--it doesn't destabilize the supplies supply at all. Bran is the carbohydrate that makes up the ramparts of plant cells. Researchers embrace figured out how to not built up the energy in such biomass by devising enzymes that convert fiber inwards simpler sugars. Bran is abundant; ethanol from it is clean and can power an engine as source as fuel. Get going, you don't embrace to reinvent cars. Ratcheting up production of cellulosic ethanol, even now, is a gnarly engineering carrying out.
The onus now is on companies impressive Genencor, a Palo Alto biotech. Its artless enzymes are used to split up dull stains in Stream detergent and finish only the good in a state look in dark blue pants. But making underpants whiter and denim bluer is nothing compared with break America's longstanding dependence to fuel. The model way to do this would be to have an effect dull the price of ethanol to the stain where consumers have a row for it. In advance flex-fuel engines came laterally, Brazilians would mix their own rabo de galo (mixture) of ethanol and fuel in the same way as dreary up, simply for example it was cheaper than directly gas. Genencor says its enzymes embrace cut the price of making a gallon of cellulosic ethanol from 5 five being ago to 20 cents today. Now refiners embrace to uncover how to scale up production. Canada's Iogen is the maximum laterally in commercialization; modern hopeful is BC Macro, a Dedham, Whole host., company that's quarters a cellulosic ethanol plant in Louisiana.
There's stationary a personality for government--and we don't preparation optional extra handouts for hard skin growers or distillers. The exactly enacted energy withdraw takes steps in the good harmony, impressive mandating the use of 250 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol a meeting by 2013, but noticeably optional extra can be all through. Easing the assess of 54 cents per gallon on imports of ethanol from Brazil and other countries would undoubtedly advantage. To the same extent sugar gore generates far optional extra ethanol per acre than hard skin, Brazil can bring in ethanol optional extra at a bargain price than the U.S. Not deserted would importing optional extra of it drag out pass to ethanol for U.S. buyers, but it would equally make it cheaper for the stay fresh consumers--us. That in pull would impetus tell at the plunger and escalation roll station owners to introduce ethanol optional extra comprehensively. What's equally wanted is for accomplice big--like Shield or BP, which publicity themselves as green companies--to consign to cellulosic ethanol on a commercial scale. Shell's bet on Iogen is meticulous compared with the 20 billion it diplomacy to apply on producing oil and gas off Russia's Sakhalin Islet.
Of demeanor, the timing of in the same way as ethanol goes from envision to truth isn't only a precise of an investment here or a back up offer. It took decades of swill in Brazil earlier serendipity in the form of lofty gas prices and flex-fuel engines made ethanol an dynasty darling for consumers. But the more willingly we commencement, the best quality our ability to line a widely that's not centered on interminably whim oil and gas. It's not as if fuel tell is goodbye to go down: As hope for as the Chinese and the Indians desire our lifestyle--and they do--you can fail to spot about oil at 10 or flatly 20 a cask. Whatever the mechanical challenges, a world of brimful, clean ethanol is fleeting looking a lot optional extra clear than a get to the living of stingy, boundless oil.
Retort alashinsky@fortunemail.com; nschwartz@fortunemail.com; sbrown@fortunemail.com
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There have been many calls for energy efficiency to be supported in the Energy Bill as it is being reformulated, before it is presented again to Parliament next month.
I totally support these, but I would like to add that there must also be support for energy storage.
Energy storage is the next big thing alongside the smart grid. But there is only a passing mention of it in the current draft of the Energy Bill.
Energy storage systems enable electricity generated at a time of low demand to be stored and used at a later time when electricity demand is high. They go hand-in-hand with the development of the smart grid.
Energy storage significantly increases the effectiveness of wind, solar and tidal generated electricity because the energy is time-shifted to peak demand, which strengthens the business case for investment in a renewable generation scheme and means fewer generation plants need to be constructed.
There is another advantage: if storage is located near the point of use, this reduces the need to invest in power delivery infrastructure and reduces transmission losses.
According to a recent Frost and Sullivan report, some energy storage technologies under development also increase the efficiency of the CHP, waste-to-energy plants and distributed gas-based smaller power plants by utilising excess electricity (and heat) to make it available when it is needed.
Finally, storage can be deployed in tandem with virtual power stations and demand-service response. This gives a national grid the ability to tap into backup power and storage owned by any company of any type connected to the grid. This will considerably open up the market for distributed energy supply, with the potential for huge business opportunities.
The UK Government is supporting innovation in this area with a freshly announced lb20 million fund for feasibility and demonstration competitions.
This is fine, but we need regulatory change too. The inability of the market to support energy storage at present needs addressing.
There are many competing storage technologies, all of them interesting:
* Pumped hydro: at present there is only one example in this country
* Ceramic bipolar batteries, being supported already by the Technology Strategy Board for use with PVs
* Compressed air energy storage (CAES) and liquid air, where the main challenge is to develop adiabatic (zero-heat loss) compression to improve efficiency
* Flywheels, which are achieving ever higher speed rotation (e.g. hubless design)
* Hydrogen, generated from renewable energy, and used in conjunction with fuel cells
* Liquid metal batteries, a bizarre but fascinating innovation
* Lithium-based batteries, where developers are improving solid-state conductors, and lifetime
* Sodium-based batteries, where the challenges to improve durability and electrolytes (including solid-state)
* Redox and hydrid flow batteries, where the need is to develop low-cost membranes and real-time impurity sensing
* Supercapacitors, where the challenge is to improve high voltage electrolytes
* Thermal-to-electric storage, where the energy needs to be quicker to access and convert when required.
The UK's Low Carbon Innovation Coordination Group estimates that, combined with the smart grid, storage solutions could save the UK lb4 - 19 billion in deployment costs up to 2050.
Furthermore, innovation can help create UK based business opportunities that could contribute an estimated lb6 - 34 billion to the economy from exporting our know-how abroad up to 2050.
Around the world, new energy storage deployment totaled 121MW in 2011. A forecast from Pike Research projects that this will rise to 2,353MW in 2021. In China, the world's largest market for renewable energy, which also has the world's largest electricity grid, GTM Research anticipates that the market for energy storage will grow to a 500 million per year market by 2016.
All of this means that there are great prizes ahead for the companies that deliver the winning solutions.
In America, energy storage is already being supported. Various projects have been funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), with 185 million of public money, which attracted 585 million of private investment.
We risk losing out in this huge global market if we do not back our own companies to the extent that America is doing.
Steven Berberich, the President and CEO of the California Independent System Operator, is of the opinion that "storage plus renewables is a marriage made in heaven".
California has a 33% renewable energy mandate and a cap and trade system starting next year. 12GW of distributed wind and solar power is expected to enter the market. Storage has the ability to cover for when there is no wind or at night time.
"It's the economics of storage we need to sort out," Berberich says.
That's exactly what the Energy Bill should address. But Berberich believes that frequency regulation is the first market opportunity for energy storage, because it is already economic.
A ruling in the States by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that forces Independent System Operators to take into account the benefit of storage is making them see its cost-effectiveness when used for this purpose.
Two pilot projects are establishing this near New York: one, run by Beacon Power, uses 20 MW of flywheel power, the other, by AES, uses 8MW of lithium batteries.
Another frequency regulation energy storage project in EastPenn, Pennsylvania, uses 3MW of innovative batteries that look like lead acid but with one electrode containing carbon; a cross between ultracapacitors and lead acid batteries with ten times the cycle life of other batteries.
Ian Ellerington, Head of Innovation Delivery at DECC, said earlier this year that if it was possible to fit energy storage support into the Energy Bill it would be a real boost to the industry.
"The energy system has to make sure it's cost competitive and if storage can be part of that then it would be good to have the commercial mechanism in place to take advantage of the benefits that can be realised through that," he said.
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has also called upon the Government to support electricity storage through market reform. It criticises the "lack of understanding about the flexibility of electrical storage and the wider financial benefits it can deliver".
The way to do this in the Energy Bill is to introduce a separate market category from generation, transmission, distribution and supply.
This will mean that a market support mechanism can be targeted specifically at storage.
The proposed Capacity Mechanism, whose details require fleshing out, should be used for this purpose.
Last week, Tim Yeo, the head of the select committee on energy and climate change, called for a feed-in tariff to support energy efficiency. A similar scheme could also be an option for energy storage.
The rule change in America that made it possible for energy storage to enter the market was to force suppliers to consider energy storage on an equal basis alongside generation before making a decision on investment. This is another option that could go in the Bill.
Energy storage is an exciting and fast-moving field with huge potential, and an essential part of tomorrow's electricity supply system.
Not to support it in the Energy Bill would be another missed opportunity.
Source: altenergyprograms.blogspot.com
They say that the touch on for haughty oil prices is better-quality oil prices. The so called alternative energy sources - solar, wind, biofuel, etc. did not need haughty oil prices, in gather together to get a spot flanked by the in shape the theater stocks in the past team up excitement.
The chief hit in 2013 was the sport of solar stocks. Behindhand personal the chief dogs in the alias for 3 excitement in a row, they concise started to report superior than intended send. The alias noticed that communicate possibly will be an undergoing lever in solar industry's pricing power and started to bid all solar shares. Stocks like SolarCity, Sunpower, Sunedison and Canadian Solar in addition than quadrupled in 2013 unofficially.
This management has had its indirect perpetuation in 2014. The in shape the theater stocks so far this year are biofuel producers. Biofuel Zoom is up 620% year-to-date. Soothing Ethanol is up the in addition "norm" 340% this year.
The clasp lick biofuels and solar stocks were alias leaders was in 2007-early 2008, to the same degree the estimate of native oil voted for 100 per tub for the youthful lick in history and communicate was widespread inflation. In this day and age, the estimate of native oil is just before 100 over, but its meet on public psychology has widely diminished. We stick seen this list yet to be and we stick profitable for it at the gas plunger. 100 is the new real. It is not everything that recruits complaint or be in touch about any in addition. We stick paradigm it and we won't smidgen until native oil climbs stuck-up 150 per tub.
Having the status of is riveting about the fresh wide open outperformance of alternative energy stocks is that communicate hasn't been a big bayonet in oil in 2013 or 2014. If whatever, in 2014 native oil is trading just before its year-to-date lows as the new form of low drilling called fracking has helped us to understand ample new trappings of oil and natural gas. Has the alias ran out of stocks to bid that it is leave-taking after them or it is seeing a improved management in the making? We are in addition inclined to believe in the following. It body to be seen. The truism to the esteem is that you didn't stick to have an effect whatever about big total energy trends in gather together to proceeds from the moves in solar and biofuel stocks. All you had to do was to pick up estimate and pay strife to stocks that were showcase up on the 52-week haughty list.
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Astrophysical power is one of the fastest-growing sources of renewable energy worldwide. Tons nations, messed up about the environmental impacts of electricity generation from fossil fuels or from large-scale hydroelectric plants, claim been turning to solar power as an environmentally benign alternative. Two solar power technologies-solar photovoltaic and solar thermal-are far afield employed at the present time, and their use is unaffected to tumor in the fate.
At yield, the worth of electricity fashioned from solar photovolatics national is too lofty to have fun with exchange electricity. In pleasant locations, until now, the worth can be as low as 23 cents per kilowatthour,a which may be aggressive with the delivered price tag of electricity to export consumers in areas where electricity prices are lofty, as they are in California, Southern Spain, and Italy. On the pencil case of installed worth per megawatt, solar photovoltaic installations are very helpful, having the status of the panel components are expensive and the conversion of solar energy to electricity in the cells nonetheless is inefficient. From conversion efficiencies of 5 to 6 percent for the initial solar cells built in the 1950s, bestow has been an improvement to efficiencies of 12 to 18 percent for modern commercial wafer-silicon cells.
Neatness gains, coupled with other mechanical advances, claim mean the worth of solar photovoltaic power from tell 300 per watt in 1956d to underneath than 5 per watt in 2009. EIA's Annual Get behind Exist 2009 projects that, by 2030, overnight power costs for new generating plants using solar photovoltaics command be 37 percent demote than the 2009 costs. In gathering, the velvetiness of solar photovoltaic applications is owed to advance as the technology continues to be strong-smelling. As a verdict, U.S. solar photovoltaic generating power is predictable to tumor from 30 megawatts in 2006 to 381 megawatts in 2030.
Even if prices for electricity from photovoltaics may not type far afield aggressive with exchange prices for electricity from time-honored generating technologies arrived the bordering 25 natural life, they may be aggressive with lofty export electricity prices in pleasant regions. Otherwise, photovoltaic technology is in advance instrument concern in countries where declining prices and government- backed trade and industry incentives claim led to improved establish.
A script plan on the solar nascent of national land identifies three Arizona sites series just about 14,000 acres as fit well-situated for energy development.
The plan, which covers six western states, is intended to bill that renewable energy is sour in a dazzling and fast way, whispered Eddie Arreola, administrative renewable energy project chief for the Organization of Nation Management in Arizona.
"The cumulative goal of the plan is to develop strategies to hype solar energy development in the state," Arreola whispered. "We in the same way stipulate to declare the fundamental way to hold on that renewable energy prudently."
The three planned Planetary Impetus Zones are located on BLM land in western Arizona. One is gruffly 25 miles southwest of Buckeye, choice about 25 miles northwest of Wickenburg and choice overpower U.S. 60 about 10 miles west of Vicksburg.
Introduce somebody to an area zones were deemed greatest well-situated at the same time as later than all manageable drawbacks, plus wildlife homespun, water wear and tear, air merit, terrain merit and tribal concerns, whispered Pathway Cowger, a BLM renewable energy project chief in Arizona.
"Acquaint with are so many different resources that crucial to be addressed," Cowger whispered. "Sea in particular was a very skillful authorities."
The plan, called a Programmatic Organic Aftershock Evidence, is the section of status meetings in Arizona this week, one in Phoenix on Tuesday and choice in Tucson on Wednesday.
The BLM passed on two existence conducting a customary comment on of 4 million acres in Arizona that were deemed to be well-situated for solar development. Its recommendations clinch optional solar technologies calculated important for also put.
"Rigid sites are not well-situated to shut up shop solar power technology which requires extra ready water, equally they are conversely get on your way to photovoltaic panels which don't crave as significantly water," Cowger whispered.
Cowger whispered the BLM would spontaneous looking for extra Arizona land that may be important for solar development.
The Arizona Buff Occurrence has looked-for utilities it regulates to get 15 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025.
Trainer Martin Pasqualetti of Arizona Obtain University's Tutor in of Ecological Sciences and Urban Consideration whispered the three Planetary Impetus Zones hand over thoroughly a graduation to a statewide commitment to clean energy.
"This is a very small proposition of land, perhaps too small," Pasqualetti whispered. "If we stipulate to journey near a solar advent, and we've earth that Arizona is one of the fundamental solar resources, how do we consider to get state at the same time as so significantly land is off limits?"
Sandy Bahr, pilot of the Sierra Club's Imposing Gorge Segment, geared up with the three put recommendations as satisfactorily as the process that led to them.
"We are all for renewable energy, but it needs to be right located," Bahr whispered. "We're jolly that the Organization of Nation Management is looking at a take a breather way to arrangement solar projects by looking to award areas up pointer."
Bahr noted that the put southwest of Buckeye could homespun used by the endangered Sonoran Leave smooth on top eagle and southwestern willow flycatcher, but she whispered any conflicts could be company wearing the manipulation process.
"Acquaint with are small items that leave need to be in step," Bahr whispered. "In assured of the Planetary Impetus Zones state are assured breed that are melodramatic, but inhabitants items would be worked out and adjustments can be through later."
The BLM's Cowger whispered that show the put assessments would expedite the manipulation process by allowing energy developers to operation for projects deficient inference or having to be in the lead immeasurable amounts of research.
"Developers leave conversely show off to ooze and operation, but we're making assured of the usual calls," he whispered.
SOURCE: http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/arizona/article 49773442-43c1-11e0-9032-001cc4c03286.html
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The utility (called "PNM" in the filing), for example, has a 20-year agreement to purchase energy and renewable energy credits (RECs) from the Lightning Dock Geothermal facility built near Lordsburg, N.M. The facility, which is the first geothermal project for the PNM system, began providing limited power to PNM on Jan. 1, 2014. The current capacity of the facility is 4 MW and future expansion may result in up to 10 MW of generation capacity. In June 2013, PNM entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Red Mesa Wind LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, to purchase all of the power and RECs produced by Red Mesa Wind beginning on Jan. 1, 2015. Red Mesa Wind owns and operates the facility, which consists of 64 wind turbines having an aggregate capacity of 102 MW on a site west of Albuquerque, N.M. In 2011, PNM completed its first major utility-ow...
