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CreateWV Kamenetz Keynote 2009
- 1. Beyond the Grid:AGreen Energy Economy Anya Kamenetz Fast Company Magazine
- 2. What Makes ThemSexy? • Business Models that give us more Creative Jobs • Good, high-paying, fulfilling work • Hard to outsource • These jobs also grow more anchored jobs
- 7. What’s a GreenEconomy? "A successful strategy to green the economy involves environmental and social full-cost pricing of energy and materials inputs, in order to discourage unsustainable patterns of production and consumption. In general, such a strategy is diametrically opposite to one where companies compete on price, not quality; externalize social and environmental costs; and seek out the cheapest inputs of materials and labor. A green economy is an economy that values nature and people and creates decent, well-paying jobs.‖ – UN Environment Programme, December 2008
- 9. Big Renewables: Red tape Lineloss ~10% NIMBY issues
- 10. Big Renewables: BLM hasreceived 400 applications for large solar and wind plants covering 2.3 million rural acres. Only a few have undergone environmental assessments—step 1 in a multiyear process.
- 11. The microgrid isall about consumer control -- aligning $ incentives, with the help of IT, to make renewables and efficiency pay off for the average homeowner, commercial developer, or even a town.
- 12. Smart Grid Cisco, Google,GE, and IBM are investing billions in the software and appliances to let consumers and producers make intelligent, efficient electric-power decisions. The killer app comes when you, the consumer, can actually profit by using power intelligently.
- 13. Distributed Energy Energy producednear point of use. ―1000 points of light.‖
- 14. Because the scalelowers capital risk, the economic benefits of a dollar invested in distributed renewables can be an order of magnitude (factor of 10) greater than the same dollar invested in conventional power plants. Amory Lovins, Small is Profitable
- 15. Net Metering The rightto sell your power back to the grid at retail price.
- 16. Feed-In Tariff Feed-in tariffsoffer a premium over retail price--the same financing deal to citizens at large that utilities get on any power plant they build.
- 17. Feed-in Tariff: Germany Introducedin 1999, increased in 2004 Small rooftop-solar producers get 4x market rate for 20 years for power Installations of solar panels jumped from an average of less than 6 MW to 600 MW. Germany has 5.4 GIGAwatts – 1/3 of world! World- leading industry with 250K jobs. 1 extra Euro on the average monthly bill.
- 18. Feed-in Tariff: Gainesville,FL First in US: March 2009 4 MW of solar a year for the next 10 years. City reached its 2009 cap in just three weeks; now full through 2016. Entrepreneurs are moving in to finance, install, and maintain solar panels across the city on private and commercial property.
- 19. Feed-in Tariffs SweepingUSA Vermont first statewide program. Oregon pilot program in effect April 1, 2010 Sacramento pilot Washington State & Hawaii have introduced it South Dakota, California, Indiana, Minnesota and Michigan have considered it…
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- 28. "It's inevitable thatconsumers will continue to want to exercise more involvement in energy decisions," says Allan Schurr at IBM. "Our research shows that only 30% of consumers are satisfied with the passive ratepayer role...The force is very strong."
- 29. ―The charm ofthe feed-in tariff is solid, take-it-to-the-bank security and confidence for the investing community.‖ --Rep. Jay Inslee (New York Times 08/03/09)
- 30. Harnessing the forceof the American consumer to save the planet. The Microgrid