Inspired by report from Advanced Energy Economy, learn the basics of 52 different and advanced energy technologies in use today that are changing how we produce, transmit, consume, and conserve energy. Note- presenter has no affiliation with AEENET

1. 52 Advanced Energy
Technologies
Inspired by report from Advanced
Energy Economy @aeenet
Presentation by Abhilash Kantamneni (no affiliation with @aeenet)

2. 2
Energy
Goals
Reliable
National
Security
Resilient
Infrastructure
Affordable
Economic
Development
Job Creation
Sustainable
Self-reliance
Community
development

3. Image source- MISO
Image source- EIA
MISO Regional Energy Markets

8. Anaerobic Digestion
✔ On site electricity
✔ Purified, substitute
for natural gas
✔ Prevent diseases from
reaching groundwater
✔ Cost-neutral water
treatment
✔ Cost savings for
municipalities
✔ Reduced municipal
waste streams

9. Biomass Power
✔ Retrofit old coal
plants
✔ Used alongside coal
✔ Baseload
✔ CHP
✔ Supports rural
economic activity
✔ Waste management
✔ Land use policy
✔ Reduce forest fires
US Grid Deployment– 0.4%

10. CHP ✔ Recovers waste heat
✔ Increases efficiency
✔ District heating
✔ Nearly a century old!
✔ University campuses
during grid outage
✔ 75%-85% fuel
efficiency
US Grid Deployment– 8%

11. Fuel Cells ✔ Distributed generation
✔ 60% fuel efficiency
✔ Ancillary grid services
✔ Onsite reliable power
✔ Quiet, no emissions
✔ Peak power

12. Gas Turbines
✔ Combined cycle
✔ 60% fuel efficiency
✔ Reuses waste heat
✔ Baseload
✔ Intermediate & variable
✔ Transition fuel
US Grid Deployment– 35%

13. Geothermal
✔ Binary improves access
✔ Clean power
✔ Baseload
✔ No fuel cost
✔ High capacity factor
✔ Cheapest LCOE
US Grid Deployment– 0.2%

14. Hydro
✔ Pumped hydro is grid
scale energy storage
✔ Largest renewable (51%)
✔ Oldest renewable
✔ 300,000 jobs
✔ Baseload & variable
✔ Black start capable
US Grid Deployment– 7%

15. Landfill Gas
✔ Naturally produced fuel
✔ CHP capable
✔ Oldest renewable
✔ Baseload
✔ Reliability and peaking
✔ Additional revenue
streams
✔ Land use policy

16. Marine Power
✔ Variable, but predictable
✔ Easy grid integration
✔ No fuel cost
✔ Located near population
centers

17. Large Nuclear
✔ Largest generation
✔ Baseload
✔ Mature tech
✔ US is 30% world’s nuclear
electricity production
✔ Existing nuclear plants
cheap
✔ Gen III 120+ year lifetime
US Grid Deployment– 20%

18. Small Nuclear
✔ Reuse spent nuclear fuel

19. Distributed PV
✔ Electricity near point of
use
✔ #1MillionStrong
✔ Small business jobs
✔ Local ownership
✔ Prosumers
✔ Avoided capex
✔ Avoided transmission
congestion

20. Utility PV
✔ Tracking increases efficiency
✔ 20% job growth per year
✔ Cheaper
✔ No fuel costs
✔ Minimal operating casts
✔ Forecasts facilitate
integration

21. Solar Thermal
✔ More efficient than PV

22. Onshore Wind
✔ Mature technology
✔ 1000 farms in nearly 40
states
✔ LCOE cheaper than fossil
fuels
✔ Land use policy
✔ Investment to rural
communities
✔ Additional value-stream to
farmers
✔ 35% of new generation in
2015US Grid Deployment – 5%

23. Offshore Wind
✔ Stronger reliable winds
✔ Larger capacity and size
✔ Investment to coastal
communities

24. Waste to Energy
✔ Municipal Solid Waste
✔ Community owned
✔ Reduces waste to landfills
✔ Reduces transport waste
✔ Baseload
✔ Managing non-recyclables
✔ Recovers metals
✔ Savings and local economy

25. Electricity Delivery
& Management

26. FACTS
✔ Increase transmission
efficiency
✔ Maintain power quality
✔ Respond quickly to
disruptions
✔ Maintain reliability
✔ Increase carrying capacity
✔ Route power efficiently
✔ Frequency response
✔ Replaces backup reserves
✔ Reduces grid expansion

27. HVDC Transmission
✔ Underwater projects
✔ Narrower right of way
✔ Land use policy
✔ Lower line losses
✔ Fewer substations
✔ Lower power quality issues
✔ Interconnectionbetween
incompatible asynchronous
power networks

28. HTS Transmission
✔ 10 times power at same
cable thickness
✔ No losses
✔ Conserve space in urban
areas
✔ No interference, can be
placed in close proximity
✔ Tight underground packing
✔ Relieve transmission
bottlenecks
✔ Efficient generator dispatch

29. Syncophasors
✔ Measure grid conditions at
high speed and accuracy
✔ Detect grid shifts in real time
✔ Improves management
✔ Improve grid reliability &
resilience
✔ Fault isolation and
restoration
✔ Improve accuracy of system
modeling
Image credit – FIU.edu

30. Energy Storage
✔ Increasingly deployed behind
the meter
✔ Peak shaving
✔ Microgrids
✔ Reduce peak demand
✔ REVOLUTIONARY!
Image credit – Stanford.edu

31. EV Charging
✔ Smart-charging
✔ Peak shaving
✔ Load shifting

32. Distribution Automation
✔ Improve reliability at
distributionend
✔ Localized automation +
centralized control
✔ Integrate more distributed
generation like rooftop solar

33. Advanced Metering
✔ Two-way communication
between utility and
customer
✔ Enables smart homes and
active energy management
✔ Smart grid development
✔ New product development
✔ Demand side management

34. ADMS
✔ Integrated software
platform
✔ Automating fault
identification,isolation &
restoration
✔ Leverage advanced IT
controls and management

35. Microgrids
✔ US is world leader
✔ Increase resilience and
reliability
✔ Independent of the grid
✔ Third party MAAS

36. Demand Response
✔ US is world leader, 2/3 of
world’s market
✔ Increase resilience and
reliability
✔ Moderates rates for
everyone
✔ Lowers demand at critical
times
✔ Replaces peak generation

37. VAR Optimization
✔ Maintain lower overall
voltage
✔ No impact on service
✔ Intelligent, efficient and
stable distributionsystem
✔ Reduce line losses
✔ Reduces demand
✔ Defers capex

38. Building Efficiency

39. Behavioral EE
✔ Engage and focus on EE
✔ Personalized EE tips
✔ 1% residential reduction = $2
billion nationally!
✔ Targeted outreach to
vulnerable members of our
communities
✔ Cheapest, cleanest ‘energy’
spending for utilities

40. Energy Data Analytics
✔ Integrate multiple advanced
energy solutions
✔ REVOLUTIONARY!!

41. EBES
✔ Lowering heating and cooling
loads by roughly 40%
✔ 20% reduction = $80 billion
across the country!
✔ Reduce upfront costs for
HVAC
✔ Improve comfort

42. Advanced HVAC
✔ Sophisticated controls
✔ Communicate with smart
metering infrastructure
✔ NEST etc
✔ Improve comfort, reduce
costs

43. Advanced Water Heating
✔ Tankless,
✔ Instantaneous heat on
demand
✔ Energy savings 10%-50%
compared to standard
models
✔ Solar heaters no fuel cost

44. Intelligent Lighting
✔ Dimmable LED
✔ Efficient, long life
✔ Every home replacing 1 bulb
with LED = $460 million!
✔ Smart grid integrated
✔ Flexibility and comfort
✔ Employee satisfaction
✔ Minimize glare
✔ Balance surface brightness

45. Advanced Appliances
✔ Smart grid compliant
✔ Respond to price signaling
✔ Peak shaving and demand
response

46. BEMS
✔ NEST for college campuses!

47. ESCO Services
✔ MUSH is 84% of ESCO
market

48. Utility EO Programs
✔ Mandated through state law
✔ Energy poverty
✔ Energy security
✔ Weatherization
✔ Helps the most vulnerable
members of our
communities
✔ Successful with “low-
hanging fruit”

49. Waste Energy Recovery
✔ Similar to CHP and EBES
✔ Greenhouses

50. Water Efficiency

51. EE in Water
✔ Reduce municipal energy use
30%-40%
✔ Demand response
✔ Municipal cost savings

52. Transportation

53. Clean Diesel
✔ Improve fuel efficiency
✔ Significant cost savings over
lifetime
✔ Reduce dependence of
foreign oil
✔ 1.3rd cars with diesel = oil
imported from SA

54. Hybrid EV
✔ Regenerative breaking
✔ Engine turns off at low
speeds, downhill, idling
✔ 3% of US vehicle market-
share
✔ 35% improvement in fuel
efficiency

55. Plug-in EV
✔ TESLA!!

56. Hydrogen Vehicles
✔ Fuel Cells
✔ 10 minute refilling
✔ 300 mile range = approx ICE
vehivles
✔ Water by product
✔ Ideal for manufacturing floor
forklifts, no wired no fumes

57. Advanced ICE Engines
✔ LTC – flameless ignition at
lower temp.
✔ Less fuel
✔ Recycle exhaust fumes
✔ Direct fuel injection

58. Natural Gas Vehicles
✔ Dedicated LNG most
efficient
✔ City transit vehicles, bus
fleets
✔ Lower fuel costs
✔ Increases fuel-diversity
✔ National Security

59. Transportation
✔ Energy Security
✔ Protecting against global oil
price volatility
✔ Diversify marketplace
✔ Job creation
✔ Economic growth
§ Ethanol
§ Bio-Diesel
§ 2nd & 3rd Gen Bio-Fuels
§ Pyrolysis
§ Bio-NG
§ CNG
§ LNG
§ Hydrogen

60. Did you notice?
✔ Throughout the discussionof benefits of these advanced energy
technology, I never mentioned climate change or ‘green’ energy
✔ Advanced energy technologies are changing how human interact
with energy
✔ No longer just the ‘right’ thing to do. Today, it is the ‘smart’
thing to do

61. •Anaerobic
Digestion
•Biomass
Power
•Combined
Heat & Power
•Fuel Cells
•Gas Turbines
•Geothermal
•Hydroelectric
•Landfill Gas
•Flexible AC
•High Voltage DC
•High Temp.
Superconductors
•Syncophasors
•Energy Storage
•EV Charging
•Distribution Automation
•Advanced Metering
•Advanced Distribution
•Microgrids
•Demand Response
•Voltage Optimisation
•Behavioral Efficiency
•Data Analytics
•Efficient Building
Systems
•Efficient HVACs
•Efficient Water
Heating
•Intelligent Lighting
•Efficient Electronics
•Building Management
•ESCO Services
•Utility Efficiency
Programs
•Waste Recovery
•Conservation
•Infrastructure
Efficiency
•Clean Diesel
•Hybrid EV
•Plug-in EV
•Hydrogen
Vehicles
•Advanced
Gasoline ICE
•Natural Gas
Vehicles
•Ethanol
•Biodiesel
•Compressed
Natural Gas
•Hydrogen
Generation
Delivery &
Management
Building
Efficiency
Water
Efficiency
Transport
•Marine &
Hydrokinetic
•Large-Scale
Nuclear
•Modular Nuclear
•Distributed Solar
•Large-Scale Solar
PV
•Solar Thermal
•Onshore Wind
•Off-Shore Wind
•Waste to Energy
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62. Abhilash (Abhi) Kantamneni
akantamn@mtu.edu
www.Abhilash.me
@akantamn
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