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- This high-speed internet can enable smart grids to reduce energy usage, video conferencing to reduce transportation emissions, and cloud computing at renewable energy sites.
- ICT has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions through applications like smart grids, transportation systems, and buildings - potentially reducing emissions five times more than ICT's own carbon footprint.
- International collaboration on green ICT, such as linking Australia, US, and
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Mike Kaluzniak: Director, Minnesota Regulatory Affairs. 20 years experience; leads Minnesota
regulatory strategy and proceedings.
Attorneys: Fredrickson & Byron: Lead outside counsel for Minnesota regulatory matters.
Consultants: Brubaker & Associates: Lead regulatory consultant for Minnesota proceedings.
Colorado
Measures to reduce the energy consumption have been suggested in a separate document. After the adoption of the ones that
the management thinks appropriate, the moment will be for the centre to think of a more economic and environmental friendly manner to generate its own energy.
Energy East Corporation achieved several goals in 2007 that positioned it for long-term success and sustainability. It exceeded earnings targets, increased its dividend for the 10th straight year, and maintained high customer satisfaction ratings. Energy East also made progress on key infrastructure initiatives and acquired more fuel-efficient vehicles. Most significantly, Energy East agreed to be acquired by Iberdrola, one of the world's largest renewable energy producers, a deal that will provide expertise and funding to achieve Energy East's sustainability goals over the coming decades.
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The document analyzes the potential for renewable energy sources to meet electricity and total energy demand in peninsular Spain by 2050. It finds that renewable sources could generate over 56 times the required electricity and over 10 times the total energy demand, with solar and wind providing most of the potential. A 100% renewable mix is technically feasible with widespread distribution of resources. While challenging, transitioning to renewables could solve climate change by substituting them for fossil fuels.
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- This high-speed internet can enable smart grids to reduce energy usage, video conferencing to reduce transportation emissions, and cloud computing at renewable energy sites.
- ICT has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions through applications like smart grids, transportation systems, and buildings - potentially reducing emissions five times more than ICT's own carbon footprint.
- International collaboration on green ICT, such as linking Australia, US, and
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Mike Kaluzniak: Director, Minnesota Regulatory Affairs. 20 years experience; leads Minnesota
regulatory strategy and proceedings.
Attorneys: Fredrickson & Byron: Lead outside counsel for Minnesota regulatory matters.
Consultants: Brubaker & Associates: Lead regulatory consultant for Minnesota proceedings.
Colorado
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- The integrated project team includes Alstom, WorleyParsons, Battelle, and The Geologic Experts Team who are providing technology, engineering, storage, and advisory support.
- The FEED study involves technical evaluations of integrating the capture process and compressed CO2 transport, and
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2) Individual actions like energy efficiency upgrades and switching to renewable energy or electric vehicles can significantly reduce emissions cost-effectively.
3) Innovation will further reduce costs over time as low-carbon technologies improve. A carbon price provides an incentive to develop solutions without hugely impacting the economy.
This was a project for our environmental science class in the Bren School of Environmental Science. You miss a lot of the presentation online as the transitions really made this one slick. Try running it in Keynote.
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Yokogawa is committed to sustaining your business, the environment, and the society that we all are a part of.
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carbon footprint, and building rock solid products that protect our environment from contaminants.
Sustainability is not just a job for Yokogawa but for all industry.
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2. Examples of decentralized energy projects in locations like Malmo, Sweden and London that provide renewable energy sources while improving energy efficiency.
3. Ways that energy service companies (ESCos) can help businesses implement energy efficiency and renewable energy projects through innovative funding models and acting as a long-term partner.
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1. Customers hire products and services to fulfill jobs or tasks that need to be done. How the job is defined impacts innovation opportunities.
2. Customers determine what defines success or failure for the job based on their outcome expectations.
3. Properly scoping the job to be done, either by broadening or narrowing the focus, helps ensure innovation efforts target the right problem.
4. Understanding customer outcome expectations, like wanting something faster or cheaper, helps provide solutions customers truly value.
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- AEP is conducting the FEED study with support from the US Department of Energy to evaluate retrofitting the plant with Alstom's chilled ammonia carbon capture process.
- The integrated project team includes Alstom, WorleyParsons, Battelle, and The Geologic Experts Team who are providing technology, engineering, storage, and advisory support.
- The FEED study involves technical evaluations of integrating the capture process and compressed CO2 transport, and
Alan Pears - slides - price on carbon forum Aug 2011simon5678
This document discusses carbon pricing and actions individuals can take to reduce emissions. It summarizes a report on equitable emissions reductions and current emissions levels by country. It then provides three concise summaries of the key points:
1) Carbon pricing will have minimal direct impact on most individuals and the economy. Only large emitters need to directly comply, and most costs will be offset through tax reductions or passed on in minor ways.
2) Individual actions like energy efficiency upgrades and switching to renewable energy or electric vehicles can significantly reduce emissions cost-effectively.
3) Innovation will further reduce costs over time as low-carbon technologies improve. A carbon price provides an incentive to develop solutions without hugely impacting the economy.
This was a project for our environmental science class in the Bren School of Environmental Science. You miss a lot of the presentation online as the transitions really made this one slick. Try running it in Keynote.
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Yokogawa is committed to sustaining your business, the environment, and the society that we all are a part of.
We are doing this by developing more energy-efficient technology, helping operations produce a smaller
carbon footprint, and building rock solid products that protect our environment from contaminants.
Sustainability is not just a job for Yokogawa but for all industry.
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The document discusses energy challenges and solutions for businesses in three main areas:
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2. Examples of decentralized energy projects in locations like Malmo, Sweden and London that provide renewable energy sources while improving energy efficiency.
3. Ways that energy service companies (ESCos) can help businesses implement energy efficiency and renewable energy projects through innovative funding models and acting as a long-term partner.
Electric heating loads, especially from electric fan heaters, electric stoves, and VRF heat pumps, contribute significantly to winter peak loads in Korea. While VRF heat pumps can be efficient, their performance is greatly reduced at low temperatures like -15°C. Mandatory energy labeling and minimum performance standards have been implemented for various appliances and are improving efficiency over time, with refrigerators seeing a 59% reduction in energy use and air conditioners improving by 20%. Further policy measures could help limit electric heating loads during winter.
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Doug Webber presented on green building and sustainability. He discussed Architecture 2030's goal of making all new buildings carbon neutral by 2030. He highlighted the Evergreen at Brickworks project in Toronto as an example of exploring options to make a development carbon neutral. Webber noted that while best practices can reduce emissions by 55-65%, renewable energy sources would need to fill the remaining gap to meet 2030 targets.
Richard Smith discusses how future transmission networks will need to more than double their capacity by 2050 to support increasing electrification of heat and transport. Distribution networks will see two-way power flows and more distributed generation like solar PV. Smart network initiatives will interconnect grid supply points and allow local dispatch to control flows. Transmission is already largely smart but will need new automation, monitoring, and control technologies to dynamically optimize asset utilization as generation and demand patterns change rapidly over short timescales.
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The document summarizes the key aspects of the German Renewable Energy Act of 2009, including:
1) It sets a goal of renewable energy sources accounting for 30% of energy production in Germany by 2020.
2) It establishes a system of feed-in tariffs where renewable energy producers are guaranteed prices for the electricity they provide to the grid over 20 years.
3) The costs of these tariffs are passed on to consumers through a renewable energy surcharge added to electricity bills.
This document provides an introduction to foundational concepts of innovation including:
1. Customers hire products and services to fulfill jobs or tasks that need to be done. How the job is defined impacts innovation opportunities.
2. Customers determine what defines success or failure for the job based on their outcome expectations.
3. Properly scoping the job to be done, either by broadening or narrowing the focus, helps ensure innovation efforts target the right problem.
4. Understanding customer outcome expectations, like wanting something faster or cheaper, helps provide solutions customers truly value.
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1. The Environmental Benefits of Peak Energy Efficiency
Strategies for a Zero Carbon Solution
10TH003
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2. The Environmental Benefits of Peak Energy Efficiency:
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3. Session Title: The Environmental Benefits of Peak Energy Efficiency
Strategies for a Zero Carbon Solution
Conference Subtheme: Building Design for the New Decade
Core Areas: Building Performance
AIA Member Communities: COTE/Sustainability
Presentation Format: 60 Minute Seminar
Session Code/Number: 10TH003
Program Abstract: Program Abstract:
Architects and designers have a unique opportunity to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions through peak energy efficiency strategies. Emissions
associated with electrical power for occupied buildings account for more than 40% of all Green House Gas (GHG) emissions and lighting along with air-
conditioning account for more than 80% of total electrical load during the afternoon peak. Additionally, peak afternoon generation emissions contain twice the
carbon content of nighttime power. Throughout the United States and the world, the need for additional electricity, generation, transmission and distribution
capacity, is driven by the demand to serve the peak afternoon load. Department of Energy, Energy Administration Agency growth forecasts indicate capacity
demand exceeding total energy growth in the foreseeable future. Consequently, there is an unnecessary increase in demand for new under employable
generator plant construction with associated environmental impacts. Accelerating the expansion of zero-emission renewable solar Photo Voltaic (PV) and wind
power generation increase the amount of clean energy available but is ineffective in serving peak daytime loads. Peak energy efficiency technologies enhance
the value of renewable generation by decreasing energy use during the most polluting electrical generation period while reducing building heat loads that must
be met by peak air-conditioning systems. Increasingly designers and owners of sustainable building programs recognize the collaboration of energy efficiency,
peak reduction, and renewable generation strategies as the most cost effective approach to reducing their carbon footprint. This presentation will explore and
quantify GHG emissions rates for peak and off-peak energy, quantify emissions savings attributable to peak reduction technologies, and demonstrate the most
cost effective approaches peak demand reduction.
4. The Environmental Benefits of Peak Energy
Efficiency:
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5. Buildings Dominate Power Plant Emissions
Half of all Energy related
emissions are from buildings
Most electrical energy generated
in the US is consumed by
building systems
Source: United States Energy Information Administration & Architecture 2030
http://www.architecture2030.org/current_situation/building_sector.html
#note
6. Air Conditioning & Lighting Define Peak
Demand (GW) Typical Summer Day Load Profile
50
45 Residential A/C
A/C is 35% of
total energy
40
Commercial A/C
Lighting is 25%
The cause of rolling 35
blackouts and forced Commercial Lighting
interruptions 30
25
Base load
Drives the need to build 20
new power plants
15
10
6 a.m. 12 noon 6 p.m.
Source: California Energy Commission
Peak average, autility,degreetoincrease in Grid Capacity MW increase in peak
“..on Demand Drives temperature resulted in a 317
demand for the
one
a 1.5 2.5 percent total load increase per degree.” California Energy
Commission Proposed Load Management Standards Nov. 2008 http://www.energy.ca.gov/2008publications/CEC-400-2008-027/CEC-400-
2008-027-CTD.PDF
7. Air Conditioning Use Sets the Summer Peak
U.S. Increase in Air Conditioning
Year Number of Percentage Electricity
Households Households Consumption
with Air with Air for Air
Twice the Capacity to serve less than
Conditioning Conditioning Conditioning
200 Hrs of load
(million) (%) (billion kWh)
350
1978 42.7 56% 91
40 GW 300 1980 46.7 57% 94
250
1981 48.4 58% 97
1982 48.7 58% 89
20 GW
Demand (MW)
200
1984 51.5 60% 94
150
1987 57.6 64% 130
100
1990 63.7 68% 142
50
1993 66.2 68% 136
0 1997 73.6 73% 124
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Jan Jul Dec
2001 80.8 76% 183
2005 93.3 84% 260
Source: Energy Information Administration
Source: Unitil
8. Increasing Peak Demand & Generation Resource Use
“…while energy usage in the state is growing at 1.25 percent per year, peak
demand is growing even faster, at 1.35 percent annually.” California
Energy Action Plan 2008 Update
Peak demand grows
Power plant
utilization declines
Source: California Energy Commission California Energy Demand 2008–2018, CEC-200-2007-015-SF
Driving construction of under-utilized power plants!
9. Emissions are Highest during Peak in Gas Dominated Districts
Peak vs. Off-peak CO2 Emission Rate* (Tons/MWh)
*Southern California Edison Data
56% lower NOx emission rate during off-peak
40% lower CO2 greenhouse gas emissions
10. Environmental First Costs
Site Areas Required for Electric Generation Plants
Generation Area Required for Utility Weighted Average
Fuel Type
Technology/Site Site Operation Acreage per MW
Coal Typical U.S. Direct‐Fired 129 hectares/ 318.76 acres 165.19
Pulverized Coal Boiler plant
Natural Gas Integrated Gasification 40.5 hectares/ 100.08 acres 19.94
Combined Cycle Plant
Nuclear Pressurized Reactor Plant 1814 hectares/ 4482.39 982.54
acres
Source: Storm Van Leeuwen, Jan Willem Construction of a Nuclear Power Plant, 2006
Land Use for Transmission Line Right of Ways
• Average mileage required for a new electricity generating unit = 76 miles
• Average transmission right of way width = 156.25 feet
Source: U.S. Department of Energy, The Potential Benefits Of Distributed Generation and Rate-Related Issues That May
Impede Their Expansion: A Study Pursuant To Section 1817 Of The Energy Policy Act Of 2005, February 2007,
http://www.ferc.gov/legal/fed-sta/exp-study.pdf
12. Renewable Generation: Reduces Some Emissions
Wind is the most Cost Effective Renewable
Resource where available
Majority of wind generation is when demand is
lowest
Only ~ 5% of wind generation is available when
needed most
But is out of phase or -
14. Energy Management and Storage
The Holy Grails for a Renewable Powered World
Thermal Energy Storage:
• Utilizes off-peak efficient power
• Firms wind generation
• Reduces Demand for Additional Capacity
Granular Lighting Energy Management:
• Bridges the need for lighting and the controllability of
energy
• Enables individual controllability
Neither saves energy directly
15. Range & Potential of Lighting Controls Strategies
Strategy Employed Savings Expected
Smart Scheduling 10-40%
Daylight Harvesting 5-15%
Task Tuning 5-20%
Presence Detection 25-50%
Personal Control 5-15%
Demand Management 5%
Blended Total 40-70%
16. Wireless Addressable Lighting Controls System
• Luminary type agnostic
• Retrofitable with standard fixtures
• Installable in occupied spaces
19. A Solution to cleanly and efficiently curtail new power plants and accelerate
adoption of Clean Renewable Generation
Demand (GW) Gas Fired Peakers
50
45
40 Shifting the demand for
35 expensive, polluting peak
30
power to…
25
20
15 Demand (GW)
50
10
6 a.m. 12 noon 6 p.m. 45
40
35
…inexpensive, clean,
30
efficient renewable power 25
20
Wind Power
15
“The most efficient and
environmentally responsible plant 10
you can build is the one that you
don’t build” James E. Rogers, Chairman of
the Edison Electric Institute
6 a.m. 12 noon 6 p.m.
20. Standard Rooftop Air Conditioner
Refrigerant based, direct expansion air
conditioning:
• Over 55% of Commercial Buildings
• Over 90% of Residential
• 78% of all units are 4-5 ton capacity
500 watt + 6 kW compressor &
6.5 kW = blower fan
5 Ton SEER13 System
cool supply air warm return air
21. Hybrid Air Conditioning utilizing Ice Storage
• Effectively Lossless Distributed Energy Storage
• 1:1 Round Trip Efficiency
• Automatically stores energy off-peak and dispatches it on peak
• Industry standard integration, components and form factor
300 watt pump + 500 watt fan = 800 watts
(90% Savings)
“Factory installed”
Ice-Coil™
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23. Contact Information
Paul Kuhlman AIA
Director – Adura Technologies Inc.
Advisor – Ice Energy Inc.
pkuhlman@aduratech.com
t: 678-907-6815
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