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24 Hours of Reality: 24 Reasons for Hope
By: AGelbert Date: August 30, 2014, 2:10 pm
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24 Hours of Reality: 24 Reasons for Hope
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: September 1, 2014, 7:40 pm
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Germany Has Obtained 31% Of Its Electricity From Green Sources
This Year (Through July) ;D
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: September 8, 2014, 2:21 pm
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Above please observe the Fossil Fueler "concept" of "doing the
math"
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CENTRALIZED
ENERGY "efficiency".
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World Is Moving to Distributed Energy: 165 GW by 2023
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SustainableBusiness.com News
Whether utilities, ALEC (and their coal/oil backers) like it or
not, the world is moving to decentralized electricity. ;D
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Because of Western Europe's supportive renewable energy
policies, utilities there have been struggling the most, losing
hundreds of billions of dollars in market capitalization. In the
US, a battle is underway from the threatened industry trying to
hold onto its centralized business model.
But change is underway, with distributed energy installations
expected to grow from 87.3 gigawatts (GW) in 2014 to 165.5 GW in
2023, according to Navigant Research, with worldwide revenue
growing from $97 billion in 2014 to more than $182 billion by
2023.
"One of the most important issues for the energy industry is
striking a balance between distributed generation growth and
fairly compensating utilities for the ability to effectively use
the existing electrical grid as a backup service for onsite
power at higher concentrations in the future," says Dexter
Gauntlett, senior research analyst with Navigant Research.
"Utilities that proactively engage with their customers to
accommodate distributed generation - and even participate in the
market themselves - limit their risk and stand to benefit the
most."
By 2018, Navigant expects new distributed capacity additions
worldwide to surpass new centralized ones, and by 2023, it will
eliminate the need for at least 321 GW of new large-scale power
plants. Extremely efficient diesel engines will dominate in the
short term, followed by solar PV and natural gas.
Distributed Energy (Graphic at link)
Credit: Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of
Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
That's What NRG is Doing
NRG Energy's latest initiative is a joint venture with another
leader, Green Mountain Power of Vermont. They plan to make the
city of Rutland an "Energy City of the Future," with intentions
to spread the innovations state-wide.
Starting next year, they will begin "transforming the
distribution grid from a 100-year-old electric delivery model to
a market-based platform that creates efficiencies and
distributed energy solutions through renewable technologies and
energy storage," they say.
"Our customers consistently tell us they want tools to save
money and move to renewable energy, and we can show the rest of
the country how to get there," says Mary Powell, CEO of Green
Mountain. ;D
"We hope to demonstrate that investing in a 21st century energy
ecosystem is more sustainable, resilient, affordable and
individually empowering than pouring more investment into the
creaky old grid infrastructure from the 20th century," remarks
David Crane, NRG's CEO. "In the course of so doing, we will
prove the concepts of 'electric utility', 'renewables' and
'personal choice' are not mutually exclusive."
Their offerings aren't new but combined, they make it easier for
customers to generate and use renewable energy ... and provide
revenue opportunities for the two utilities.
•comprehensive personal energy management allows subscribers to
track and remotely manage energy use in homes;
•expand and connect a network of electric vehicle charging
stations across Vermont using NRG's eVgo technology. Subscribers
will find them at workplace and commercial locations;
•NRG is financing community solar arrays - its first, in
Rutland, credits residential and business subscribers on their
Green Mountain utility bill for their portion of electricity
produced by solar - in exchange for a small fee.
•micro-generation solutions, such as NRG's Beacon 10, which
generates up to 10 kilowatts of electricity, provides water and
space heating, and battery storage for onsite solar systems.
NRG leads on solar and wind, and recently spun off NRG Yield.
Green Mountain Power's "Cow Poop to Cow Power" is expanding
across Vermont.
New York State is on the same track with its Reforming Energy
Vision program, announced in May. No longer will utilities make
money by selling more energy. Rather, revenue will come from
helping customers use less energy, while "directing traffic" and
"coordinating" thousands of small inputs to the grid.
Read our article, With Renewables Rising, Business Model
Changing for Utilities.
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: September 9, 2014, 7:25 pm
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HUGE Renewable Energy BIO MACHINES POTENTIAL HERE!
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: September 13, 2014, 11:16 pm
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Ontario Gets 35% of Energy From Renewables As Coal Plants Shut
Down ;D
CleanTechnica reports that, with 2,312 megawatts (MW) of wind
power, 4,091 MW of hydro and 159 MW from other sources,
renewables hit 35 percent of all the energy going into the grid
one day this week. That amount will vary, of course, depending
on how windy it is on a given day.
“Ontario is now the first jurisdiction in North America to fully
eliminate coal as a source of electricity generation,” a press
release from its Ministry of Energy said when Thunder Bay
closed.
Full article at link below:
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We Can Run the Planet on 100% Renewable Energy
By: AGelbert Date: September 13, 2014, 11:53 pm
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We Can Run the Planet on 100% Renewable
Energy
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[font=times new roman]Josh Fox[/font]
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September 10, 2014 3:30 pm
I have to write you a very deeply personal letter right now and
I hope it is met with an open mind.
I have a secret to confess.
Well, it’s actually not a secret at all, it’s a very easy thing
to find out if you just Google me, but I am not sure that many
of you who are fans of my two documentaries GASLAND and GASLAND
Part II know it.
It is this: I was not always a documentary filmmaker and I was
not always an environmentalist. In fact, before the gas industry
made a maelstrom out of all of our lives, I had a job that I
deeply deeply loved: I was a theatre director and playwright.
I made more than 25 new works for the stage with my theatre
troupe the International WOW Company. These plays would premiere
in amazing places all over the world, hence our name. We
performed in Thailand and Japan and the Philippines, we
performed in Germany and France, we performed in New York City
and in upstate New York. We made huge, fantastical, epic plays
with large casts, striking imagery and powerful politics.
The theater is a kind of collective action. The theater is a
motivator. A great theater production is something that you
never forget about all your days.
So here is the news: I am making a new play, for the first time
in five years, and I want you to come see it. I want you to be a
part of this very special new kind of action. I am calling it
The Solutions Grassroots Tour and it is a very different and
unique kind of play that prompts a very different and unique
kind of action.
Full article at link below:
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: September 14, 2014, 8:32 pm
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Which Country Generates all of its Electricity With Renewables?
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Iceland is the only country that generates 100% of its
electricity through renewable sources, with 81% of total energy
use coming from renewables. The country uses both hydro (75%)
and geothermal (25%) sources to generate electricity and heat.
For primary energy uses, such as transportation and heating,
fossil fuels account for only 21% of energy use. The country's
renewable energy sources are largely due to the island sitting
on a very active spreading zone, where the Eurasian and North
American tectonic plates are moving away from each other.
More about renewable sources:
•Renewable energy is used from four main sources: sun, wind,
water, and geothermal heat.
•By 2012, 80 countries operated wind farms totaling to over
225,000 wind turbines in use.
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•in 1904, Larderello, Italy was the first community to produce
electricity through geothermal energy.
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: September 16, 2014, 7:53 pm
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100% of power for Vermont city now renewable
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By Wilson Ring
Associated Press September 15, 2014
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Vermont’s largest city has a new success to
add to its list of socially conscious achievements: 100 percent
of its electricity now comes from renewable sources such as
wind, water, and biomass.
With little fanfare, the Burlington Electric Department crossed
the threshold this month with the purchase of the 7.4-megawatt
Winooski 1 hydroelectric project on the Winooski River at the
city’s edge.
When it did, Burlington joined the Washington Electric
Co-operative, which has about 11,000 customers across central
and northern Vermont and which reached 100 percent earlier this
year.
‘‘It shows that we’re able to do it, and we’re able to do it
cost effectively in a way that makes Vermonters really
positioned well for the future,’’ said Christopher Recchia, the
commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Service.
It’s part of a broader movement that includes a statewide goal
of getting 90 percent of Vermont’s energy from renewable
resources by 2050, including electricity, heating, and
transportation. Across the state, Vermonters are urging their
electric utilities to provide them with renewable sources of
power, and the utilities are listening, Recchia said.
It’s also a growing movement across the country, as governments
and businesses seek to liberate themselves from using power
produced by environmentally harmful fossil fuels.
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Diane Moss, the founding director of the Southern
California-based Renewables 100 Policy Institute, said that she
wasn’t sure if any other communities as large as Burlington — a
city of 42,000 — have reached 100 percent but that many are
working on it.
‘It shows that we’re able to do it, and we’re able to do it cost
effectively in a way that makes Vermonters really positioned
well for the future.’
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‘‘It’s these front-runners that are showing that it’s
possible,’’ Moss said.
Nearly 1,000 businesses both large and small and many
communities have also committed to 100 percent, she said.
Greensburg, Kan., almost wiped out by a 2007 tornado, rebuilt
with energy efficiency in mind. A 12.5-megawatt wind farm went
online in 2009, producing electricity in excess of that consumed
by the community of 850, said Administrator Ed Truelove.
For both Burlington and Washington Electric, reaching 100
percent was the result of a years-long strategy to wean
themselves from traditional sources of power.
Utility officials in the lakefront city known for its liberal
politics and extensive social service network began discussing
becoming 100 percent renewable a decade ago. Four years later
they realized it could be done.
‘‘The transition in thought from 2004 to 2008 was ‘We want to do
this’ to ‘This actually makes economic sense for us to do
this,’’’ said Ken Nolan, the manager of power resources for
Burlington Electric.
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Neither utility claims that each of their customers’ lights
comes from renewable sources all the time. When the wind isn’t
blowing and the rivers are low, they will buy power from
traditional sources that include electricity generated from
fossil fuels.
When the resources are right, though, they get more than they
can use, and the difference is sold to other utilities. Over
time, they sell more than they buy.
Another caveat that, to some, minimizes the 100 percent
achievement is that both Burlington and Washington Electric sell
renewable energy credits for the renewable power they produce to
utilities in southern New England, where their value is highest.
In turn, they buy less expensive credits from other sources to
offset the credits they have sold.
Sandy Levine, of the Vermont office of the Conservation Law
Foundation, commended Vermont utilities for seeking renewable
sources of power but questioned the credit trading.
‘‘They are selling the renewable energy credits to customers in
other states. Those customers have the renewable and clean
energy benefits of that power,’’ Levine said. ‘‘Simply using
accounting measures to make claims about clean energy doesn’t
get us there.’’
Taylor Ricketts, the director of the Gund Institute for
Ecological Economics, an interdisciplinary research center that
works on sustainability issues at the University of Vermont,
said reaching 100 percent was a big achievement.
‘‘It definitely makes me feel better here at UVM to know that
every time I turn on a light switch or fire up my computer or
anything else, to know that it’s 100 percent renewable,’’ he
said.
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Agelbert NOTE: Vermont is going to get off stinking, polluting,
war sponsoring, elite welfare queen feeding fossil fuels before
any other state does!
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Do you know what that means? It means NO COLLAPSE from lack of
energy HERE!
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: October 13, 2014, 12:53 pm
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October 13, 2014
China Finally Tackles Solar Support 8)
China to sharply lower solar tariffs by 2020
Lofty targets contained in a new report show that China intends
to push ahead with ambitious plans to build up its renewable
energy sector. But perhaps the most interesting thing about this
new report is word that Beijing finally intends to sharply
reduce the inflated state-set fees now paid for solar and
wind-produced power, in one of the sharpest indicators that it
expects the industry to stop depending on government support and
become commercially viable on its own. Such state support
through a wide array of measures, which also include export
credits and low-interest loans, have become a huge sticking
point that has led to a series of trade wars between China and
the west.
All that said, let’s jump right in and look at the latest
aggressive targets now being finalized by Beijing under its
upcoming 5 year plan for the sector between 2016 and 2020. China
makes such 5 year plans for all major sectors, a relic of a
Soviet-era practice for centrally planned economies. Under
revised figures for its current 5-year plan, Beijing announced
late last year it was aiming for national solar power-generating
capacity of 35 gigawatts by the end of 2015, a very ambitious
target for a country that had virtually no such capacity just 3
years earlier. (previous post)
Anyone who thought that figure looked ambitious will probably
think the newest plan looks even more aggressive, aiming to
build up solar generating capacity to 100 gigawatts by 2020.
(English article) The country has even more ambitious plans for
the wind power industry, with a target of 200 gigawatts of
capacity by 2020. ;D
At the same time, officials who are leaking details of the
upcoming plan are also making it clear that state support will
be phased out over the next 6 years for makers of solar panels
and wind generation equipment. One of the biggest forms of
support comes via artificially high state-set prices for
renewable energy, which force big power companies to buy such
clean energy at rates that are well above the cost of power from
more conventional fossil fuels. The use of such high, state-set
fees is also common in the west, used as a policy tool to
promote the clean energy sector’s development.
Under the new 5 year plan, China’s tariffs for solar generated
power will be reduced by a hefty 50 percent by 2020, falling
from the current 0.9 yuan per kilowatt-hour to 0.6 yuan,
according to an unnamed government energy official. Wind power
tariffs will also be cut sharply, falling to 0.4 yuan per
kilowatt-hour from the current 0.6 yuan. Equally interesting is
a more general quote from the official saying the solar panel
and wind equipment makers should improve the efficiency of their
products “instead of depending on government subsidies.”
This is one of the first times I’ve seen a government official
openly acknowledge what western governments have been saying all
along, namely that Chinese solar panel makers like Trina (NYSE:
TSL), Yingli (NYSE: YGE) and Canadian Solar (Nasdaq: CSIQ) get a
big advantage over their western rivals due to extremely strong
state support through a wide range of favorable policies from
Beijing. Such support led Washington to slap anti-dumping
tariffs on Chinese solar panels last year, and the European
Union has also considered taking similar action.
So what does this flood of new information mean for the Chinese
panel industry? The ambitious construction target means that
Beijing will continue to push for construction of new solar
power plants, even if such plants aren’t economically viable.
That problem could become worse as solar power prices are
lowered, leading to a bumper crop of unusable solar and wind
power plants by 2020. That means that the big Chinese solar
panel makers could see strong business over the next 5 years
from a domestic building boom, but could then see a sharp
slowdown if many new projects prove to be economically unviable.
Bottom line: China’s aggressive new energy power goals and
determination to reduce state support could result in a building
boom of economically unviable solar and wind power generation
plants.
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Re: The Big Picture of Renewable Energy Growth
By: AGelbert Date: October 13, 2014, 1:08 pm
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Stefan Nicola, Bloomberg
October 13, 2014
BERLIN -- Norway approved the construction of the first direct
electricity cable to Germany and granted a license for a link to
the U.K. to aid power trading between the nations.
Norway’s government granted power-grid operator Statnett SF the
necessary licenses for the country’s portion of the Nord.Link
project today, the German Economy Ministry said in an e-mailed
statement. DC Nordseekabel GmbH, which is owned by TenneT TSO
GmbH and KfW Group, will carry out construction on the German
side, it said.
“This means the way is clear for the new sea-cable link,” German
Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said in the statement.
“Nord.Link will help increase supply security on both sides.”
Germany has already granted all necessary permits.
The cable would be the first direct power link between the
nations and have a capacity to transmit 1.4 gigawatts starting
in 2018 or 2019, the ministry said. It would allow the countries
to trade hydropower from Norway and wind electricity from
Germany.
Norway today also granted a license to Statnett for a 1.4-
gigawatt interconnector to the U.K. that’s scheduled to be
completed in 2020, London-based National Grid Plc said in an e-
mailed statement. The cable would link Kvilldal in Norway to
Blyth in Northumberland and may bring low-cost renewable energy
to the U.K. for an investment of more than 1 billion pounds
($1.6 billion), it said.
Norway is already linked with the Netherlands through NorNed, a
700-megawatt subsea cable that began operating commercially in
2008. It also has connections with Denmark and Sweden.
Copyright 2014 Bloomberg
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