2. Outline
• Who We Are
• Research Strategy Programs & Infrastructure
Strategy,
• Industrial Collaboration, Economic Impact, and
Technology Commercialization
• New program Development
• Education and Outreach
• Summary
3. Legislative Mandate and Vision
• Legislative Mandate
– Promote collaboration among experts in the SUS for the
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purposes of sharing energy-related expertise and assisting
in the development and implementation of a comprehensive,
long-term, environmentally compatible, sustainable, and
efficient energy strategic plan for the state
state.
– Focus on the research and development of innovative
energy systems that will lead to alternative energy
strategies, improved energy efficiencies, and expanded
economic development for the state.
– Develop education and outreach programs to prepare a
qualified energy workforce and informed public.
• Focus on college-level degrees, technician training, and
public and commercial sectors awareness.
4. Leadership Structure
Oversight Board
University Research VP’s
VP s
Director
Advisory Board
Tim Anderson
Steering Committee
Industry Collaboration & Tech
Education & Outreach
Commercialization
Principal Investigators Program Development
FESC Systems Goals
5. Leadership Team
Tim Anderson; Director
– Experienced administrator - UF College of Engineering Associate Dean for
Research & Graduate Programs; Director of SUCCEED NSF Engineering
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Education Coalition
– 204 refereed publications & 301 conference presentations.
– Distinguished Professor at UF, Elected Fellow of the ASEE and the AIChE.
Canan Balaban; Associate Director of Director of Industrial Collaboration &
Commercialization
– 25 years in industry as a research scientist, engineer, & manager in rechargeable
batteries, bi
b tt i bio-mass, coal d
l desulfurization / gasification, sol-gel t h & sintering
lf i ti ifi ti l l tech, i t i
– Managed $10M NASA funded Hydrogen Research Program & assisted in
establishment of the Energy Technology Incubator - Center of Excellence.
– Associate Director of Florida Institute for Sustainable Energy.
6. Oversight and Guidance
• Oversight Board
– Vice President for Research or other representative appointed
by each university president
– Responsible for technical performance & financial
management
• Advisory Board
– Facilitates collaboration with industry and other parties
– Ensures input from the external stakeholders
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• Steering Committee
– Provides guidance on vision and direction to the Director
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– Facilitates communication with each member university
– Recommends future efforts of FESC
– Conducts comprehensive performance evaluation and
accountability measurement and assessment.
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7. Steering Committee
Dr. Camille E. Coley; Assistant Vice Dr. Yogi Goswami; John and Naida Ramil
President; Interim Director of Professor, College of Engineering,
Sponsored Research; Associate
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Director of the Center for Ocean
Energy Technology; Florida Atlantic Dr. George Philippidis; Associate
University Director, Applied Research Center,
Florida International University
Dr. David Block; Director Emeritus and
Professor of Engineering, Florida Solar Dr. David Norton; Associate Dean of
Energy Center, University of Central Research and Graduate Programs
Florida/FSEC Professor, Materials Science and
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Engineering, College of Engineering,
Dr. David Cartes; Interim Director, University of Florida
Institute for Energy Systems,
Economics and Sustainability;y; Dr. Nassar Kutkut; Ph.D., MBA
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Associate Director, Center for Director, UCF Florida Energy Systems
Advanced Power Systems; Associate Consortium Center
Professor, Department of Mechanical
Engineering; Florida State University
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8. Advisory Board
Institution Representative
Florida Crystals Corp.
Florida Crystals Corp Gustavo Cepero, Vice President
Gustavo Cepero Vice President
FPL Buck Martinez, Sr. Director of Project Development
Holland & Knight, LLP Tommy Boroughs, Partner
Milcom Venture Partners Chris Fountas, Partner
Ocean Renewable Power Christopher Sauer, President & CEO
Orlando Utilities Comm. Byron Knibbs, VP Sustainable Services
Pratt & Whitney Randy C. Parsley, Director, Global Program Development
Progress Energy Rob Caldwell, VP Efficiency & Innovative Tech.
Scripps Research Inst.
Scripps Research Inst Roy Periana, Director Scripps Energy Laboratories
Ro Periana Director Scripps Energ Laboratories
Siemens Power Frank Bevc, Director Technology Policy
SUS Board of Governors Sheila McDevitt, Chair
TECO Greg Ramon, Director Regulatory Policy & Compl.
9. Florida Renewable Energy Potential by 2020
Source: Navigant Consulting; Florida Renewable Energy Potential Assessment; 2009
10. Strategic Research Thrusts
• Overarching - Understanding Florida’s
Energy Systems
• Developing Florida's Biomass Resources
• Harnessing Florida's Solar Resources
• Ensuring Nuclear Energy & Carbon Constrained
Technologies for Electric Power in Florida
• Exploiting Florida’s Ocean Energy Resources
• Securing our Energy Storage and Delivery
Infrastructure
I f t t
• Enhancing Energy Efficiency & Conservation
12. Integrated PV/Battery/Lighting Module
Objectives
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Integrating a transparent
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Sun light organic PV device, lithium ion
Top transparent batteries and organic light
electrode
emitting device into a solar
solar-
PV absorbing PV powered lighting panel
layer
PV electrode
PV l t d • Development of both organic
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OLED PV cells and organic LEDs
with transparent electrodes
ITO layer
ITO layer
Transparent Batteries
• Development of high
substrate
volumetric energy density
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lithium
lithi m batteries
F. So, S. Meng and J. Xue, UF
13. Strategic Research Thrusts
• Overarching - Understanding Florida’s Energy Systems
• Developing Florida's Biomass Resources -
Florida s
Production of liquid fuels & other chemical intermediates
(cellulosic ethanol, biodiesel) & gaseous fuels & feed
stocks (gasification, anaerobic digestion), efficient
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conversion of biofuels to electric power (SOFCs,
turbines), energy intensive crops, solid waste as a
biomass resource
• Harnessing Florida's Solar Resources
• Ensuring Nuclear Energy & Carbon Constrained
Technologies for Electric Power in Florida
• Exploiting Florida’s Ocean Energy Resources
• Securing our Energy Storage and Delivery Infrastructure
• Enhancing Energy Efficiency & Conservation
14. Developing Florida Biomass Resources
• Florida has ~7% of US
biomass resources
15 million acres of forest land
• 53% statewide tree 10 million acres of farm land
coverage • #1
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in sugarcane and citrus
# 1 in forest residues
• Florida Ethanol Potential •
•
# 1 in urban wood waste
# 2 in vegetable (waste)
– Current: 2-3B gallons/yr
– Future: 5B+ g
5 gallons/yr
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15. Strategic Research Thrusts
• Overarching - Understanding Florida’s Energy Systems
• Developing Florida's Biomass Resources
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• Harnessing Florida's Solar Resources -
Photovoltaics, solar concentrators (fuel production,
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gasification), outreach and education in broad solar
technologies
• Ensuring Nuclear Energy & Carbon Constrained
Technologies for Electric Power in Florida
• Exploiting Florida’s Ocean Energy Resources
• Securing our Energy Storage and Delivery Infrastructure
• Enhancing Energy Efficiency & Conservation
16. Harnessing Florida's Solar Resources
Sunshine State has more than twice the solar
resources of the world’s leading PV market
world s
17. Strategic Research Thrusts
• Overarching - Understanding Florida’s Energy Systems
• Developing Florida's Biomass Resources
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• Harnessing Florida's Solar Resources
• Ensuring Nuclear Energy & Carbon
Constrained Technologies for Electric
Power in Florida - Nuclear and electric power
workforce training, partnerships with i d
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critical research needs, power systems, power
electronics & conditioning, carbon sequestration
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• Exploiting Florida’s Ocean Energy Resources
• Securing our Energy Storage and Delivery Infrastructure
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• Enhancing Energy Efficiency & Conservation
18. Carbon Capture and Sequestration Projects
Geological Sequestration: Cedar
Keys/Lawson F
K /L Formation (deep
ti (d
saline aquifer
Optimize: Transportation,
Energy Consumption, and
Land Use
Total Soil Organic Carbon Stock
2.26
2 26 giga ton
FL CO2 Production
0.26 giga ton/yr
19. Strategic Research Thrusts
• Overarching - Understanding Florida’s Energy Systems
• Developing Florida's Biomass Resources
Florida s
• Harnessing Florida's Solar Resources
• Ensuring Nuclear Energy & Carbon Constrained
Technologies for Electric Power in Florida
• Exploiting Florida’s Ocean Energy
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Resources – Ocean and thermal differential energy
harvesting
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Securing our E
i Energy St
Storage and D li
d Delivery I f t t
Infrastructure
• Enhancing Energy Efficiency & Conservation
20. Exploiting Florida’s Ocean Energy Resources
• Harness ocean currents & thermal gradients
• Develop, fabricate & deploy 20 kW
underwater turbine
Verdant Power
Deliverables
• 10-year program potential is as much as 5 GW
of capacity generated from the Gulf Stream and
up to 2 GW of equivalent cold-water-based AC
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• Estimated 10,000 engineering / tech. jobs
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http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/
• New high-tech Florida-based sector
21. Strategic Research Thrusts
• Overarching - Understanding Florida’s Energy Systems
• Developing Florida's Biomass Resources
• Harnessing Florida's Solar Resources
• Ensuring Nuclear Energy & Carbon Constrained
Technologies for Electric Power in Florida
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• Exploiting Florida’s Ocean Energy Resources
• Securing our Energy Storage and Delivery
Infrastructure - Transmission & distrib tion
distribution,
grid reliability and resiliency, continuous energy
delivery, integrated renewable systems,
customer owned microgrids, power quality,
t d i id lit
energy storage, location aware systems, and
efficiencyy
• Enhancing Energy Efficiency & Conservation
23. Strategic Research Thrusts
• Overarching - Understanding Florida’s Energy Systems
• Developing Florida's Biomass Resources
Florida s
• Harnessing Florida's Solar Resources
• Ensuring Nuclear Energy & Carbon Constrained
Technologies for Electric Power in Florida
• Exploiting Florida’s Ocean Energy Resources
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• Securing our Energy Storage and Delivery Infrastructure
• Enhancing Energy Efficiency &
Conservation - Improvement of existing & new
building efficiency, industry energy auditing &
efficiency,
efficiency outreach & education
education.
24. Enhancing Energy Efficiency & Conservation
• In the U. S., buildings account for 39% of our primary
energy use and 72% of our electrical use.
• 2008 Florida Energy Act calls for new homes to use only
50% of 2007 code minimum within 10 years
• Home retrofits must also be addressed – existing stock
outnumbers new homes by 50 to 1 1.
• Demonstration homes at multiple campuses - UCF, UF,
FSU, USF, FIU, UWF: Used for research, training,
outreach.
outreach
Efficiency First
$1800 at $0.12/kW h
$2400 at $0.12/kW h
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25. Industrial Collaboration Goals
• Industry involvement in planning & execution of research, education &
technology commercialization programs
• Active collaboration among faculty & industry partners from conceptual
stages of research, education, & outreach programs
• Relevant information provided to industrial academic and government
industrial, academic,
partners in a timely fashion
• Facilitation of networking among academic, government, and industrial
partners for pre-competitive research
pre competitive
• Education of a new breed of student leaders for industrial employment in
myriad energy fields
• Strong commercialization programs that foster industrial collaboration &
deliver a pipeline of energy technologies for commercialization
27. Industrial Collaboration Key Elements
• Highly involved Advisory Board – Utilities,
entrepreneurs, investors; MNC’s, SME’s,
incubator / research park managers
i b t h k
• Energy Summit
– Highlight Florida university energy research,
education, & outreach programs
– Guidance from industry & academic leaders
• Focus on large block funded grants in
collaboration with Florida industry
• Energy industry database segmented by RE
areas
28. Industrial Collaboration & Technology
Commercialization Key Partnerships
• SUS Technology Transfer Directors – Currently structuring energy
technology marketing and commercialization program
• Florida Research Consortium – High level and broad industrial
guidance
• Florida Institute for Commercialization of Public Research - Support
development & funding of energy startup companies from
technologies to entrepreneurs & investors.
• Florida High Tech Corridor – Central Florida economic development
community; Private sector impact. Workforce development.
Matching grants research program funds.
• Florida Incubator and Research Park Ecosystem – Energy company
spin-outs
• National Partnerships
29. Key Activities – Tech Commercialization
• Two Tiered Model
– Early vetting of technologies for path to market
– Proven model for spawning long-term collaborative R&D
– Engage industry in development process in the university
– Provides 2X leveraging of FESC funds on each project
– Natural pipeline of technology deployment to private sector
• Early Stage Market Research / Business Plans – Fund
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up to 15 business plans or market research studies at
$7.5k each for FESC funded later stage technologies.
• Matching Funds R&D Program – Up to $50k / project
for 5 later stage projects with a 2:1 industry match
30. Education – Focus on Workforce Development
• Three Focus Areas
– Community College Training
• AS degree
• Certificate Program
– Nuclear Engineering Education
– Masters Level Education
• Close integration with Outreach and Industrial Collaboration
• Program implementation with Florida Advanced Technological
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Education Center (FLATE). Mission elements:
– Create State-wide technician educational
delivery system
– Provide curriculum development, best practice
demonstrations, student involvement and
outreach activities necessary to meet the
workforce capacity in target sectors
31. Outreach – Focus on Energy Efficiency
• Targets the general public & built
environment
• Utilizes Florida’s extension education
system and FESC partners
• Collaborates with the home builders
and construction industry
• Create an online compendium of current, accurate publications
• Develop / conduct technical & continuing education programs
• Produce public service pieces (NPR PBS public access )
(NPR, PBS, access…)
• Partner with utilities to implement performance-based demand side
management programs
• Work with “green” certification (FGBC, USGBC, GBI…)
33. New Program Development
Goal: Significantly impact energy-related research,
education, and outreach programs within the SUS
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Strategies
• P id exploratory research f di
Provide l t h funding
• Facilitate competitive responses to solicitations
• Serve as communications hub
• Initiate larger-scale, longer-time planning
34. New Program Development
• More than 130 funding opportunities from various
agencies distributed to faculty.
• Competitive Contracts & Grants: 11/1/08-9/30/09
252 Applications with $357M total request
419 Awards in the amount: $97M
Major Proposal Examples:
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– Participated in $122M Sun Fuel Hub, $129M Building
Efficiency Hub, and $122M Nuclear Hub Proposal
– 36 White Papers developed f ARRA
Whit P d l d for
– Current efforts: Energy security, PV manufacturing
35. New Program Development
• White Papers for ARRA Projects:
36 White Papers Total ( WP in Demonstration)
p (10 )
– Energy Efficiency (3 WP)
– Biomass, Biofuels, Energy Crops, LCA (10 WP)
– PV Solar Thermal CSP (9)
PV, Thermal, CSP,
– Carbon Sequestration (1 WP)
– Ocean Energy (1 WP)
– Smart Grid, Energy Storage , Power (6 WP)
– Energy Security (1 WP)
– Wind (2 WP)
( )
– Education & Workforce (3 WP)
36. New Program Development
• Faculty teams to respond to competitive calls
– Battery Team meeting 5/5/09 (24 members)
– Algae Team meeting 6/3/09 (25 Members)
– Small Molecule Chemistry & Energy Team 6/15/09 (20
members)
– PV Team meeting, 9/21/09 (30 members)
– Team meetings at Sept 2009 FESC summit (above mentioned
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teams and t
d teams i S l Th
in Solar-Thermal, Bi
l Biomass, C b C t
Carbon Capture,
Efficiency, Energy Delivery, Ocean Energy)
37. FESC: Impacting the Florida Economy
• Take Systems Approach
– Leverages component research
– C
Connects research t commercial product
t h to i l d t
• Provide Objective Policy Guidance
– C t market pull
Create k t ll
• Improve Climate for Energy Industry
– B tt prepared workforce
Better d kf
– Accessible research enterprise
• Facilitate Technology Transfer
• Enhance Energy Efficiency
38. Why Florida Should Lead in Sustainable Energy
It has the most to lose if we don t
don’t
Source: NASA -Melting of West Antarctica or Greenland ice sheet
