This document summarizes a presentation given at the 2014 Focused Energy Summit. It discusses opportunities for residential solar installers due to increasing utility changes and growth in rooftop solar installations in the United States. Specifically, it notes that by 2017 over half of residential rooftop PV systems could cost less than retail electricity prices. It also outlines trends toward system design optimization, streamlined permitting processes, and declining balance of system costs that will further drive the residential solar market.
Smart Grid to Smart Consumers (ICS 690)Robert Brewer
The document discusses strategies for empowering consumers to make "smart" energy choices through increased transparency and access to usage and pricing data. It proposes developing simulations of energy generation and usage on Oahu, as well as interfaces to provide consumers with personalized feedback and recommendations. Initial work focuses on collecting residential and campus building energy data and comparing usage under different incentive programs to understand how communication and social influences can motivate conservation.
Schneider Electric is committed to promoting access to energy for all through its BipBop program, which takes an integrated approach to business, innovation, and developing people's skills. The program partners with investment funds to create companies providing electrical solutions tailored to those living at the base of the pyramid. It also trains young people in electrical skills and sponsors them. This holistic approach aims to create virtuous dynamics by linking business opportunities, responsible innovation to meet local needs, and skills development.
How building owners, developers and tenants are working together with technology providers to develop high-performance, net-zero, and positive-energy buildings.
Regulatory Update: Introduction to Bill 135 and Environmental Policies Impact...Enercare Inc.
Enercare’s 3rd annual Thought Leadership event series, Energy Management: What’s New and What’s Next, explores energy conservation opportunities, the latest technologies and regulations shaping the multi-residential and commercial building management space.
Significant new regulations are moving to be implemented in Ontario, and each one may shape the way your property uses energy for years to come. The three major drivers of this change will be the Ontario's Climate Change Action Plan, Carbon Cap and Trade, and Energy Performance Disclosure regulations.
An explanation to: How will your day-to-day activities change? What preparation is needed to manage costs and risks to your business? How can you take advantage of upcoming opportunities?
Presented by: David Stevens, Partner, Aird & Berlis LLP
2013 – 2014 Strategy and Sustainability Highlights ReportSchneider Electric
Since sustainable development is an integral part of Schneider Electric’s strategy, our Group is publishing a combined Business and Sustainable Development document (Key figures, interviews with stakeholders, actions in favor of new behaviors, …).
This document presents a 5-step approach for cities to become more efficient and sustainable through smart systems. It argues that critical systems like energy, transportation, and buildings must be improved and integrated using both bottom-up and top-down approaches. The document outlines challenges of rapid urbanization, noting that 70% of the world's population will live in cities by 2050, necessitating expansion. It advocates making cities more efficient, livable, and sustainable to attract residents and businesses through technologies available today to monitor systems and manage resources.
Energy Management Strategies for MURB & Commercial BuildingsEnercare Inc.
Enercare’s 3rd annual Thought Leadership event series, Energy Management: What’s New and What’s Next, explores energy conservation opportunities, the latest technologies and regulations shaping the multi-residential and commercial building management space.
You can’t manage what you don’t measure. This presentation by PL Consulting Corp will cover the use of energy audits and hydro bill analysis to understand the equipment and energy usage in your building. Energy audits, which include financials such as cost savings, incentives and estimated capital costs, equip building operators to make informed decisions on equipment replacement and operational adjustments. In addition to better understanding your building, this presentation will cover conservation measures such as intuitive automated controls which can effectively and significantly reduce overall consumption and increase your bottom line.
Presented by: Konrad Seemann, CEM, CBCP, PL Consulting Corp
The document summarizes the recommendations of the Pecan Street Project working group regarding the evolution of Austin, Texas's energy system. The group envisions a future where Austin leads the country in renewable energy and smart grid technology by 2030. This includes two-way energy and data flows, time-based pricing, distributed generation, and more efficient customer energy use. The recommendations aim to help Austin Energy and the city accelerate this evolution and transition away from fossil fuels, capitalizing on opportunities but also mitigating risks of not adapting to changing energy and technology.
Smart Grid to Smart Consumers (ICS 690)Robert Brewer
The document discusses strategies for empowering consumers to make "smart" energy choices through increased transparency and access to usage and pricing data. It proposes developing simulations of energy generation and usage on Oahu, as well as interfaces to provide consumers with personalized feedback and recommendations. Initial work focuses on collecting residential and campus building energy data and comparing usage under different incentive programs to understand how communication and social influences can motivate conservation.
Schneider Electric is committed to promoting access to energy for all through its BipBop program, which takes an integrated approach to business, innovation, and developing people's skills. The program partners with investment funds to create companies providing electrical solutions tailored to those living at the base of the pyramid. It also trains young people in electrical skills and sponsors them. This holistic approach aims to create virtuous dynamics by linking business opportunities, responsible innovation to meet local needs, and skills development.
How building owners, developers and tenants are working together with technology providers to develop high-performance, net-zero, and positive-energy buildings.
Regulatory Update: Introduction to Bill 135 and Environmental Policies Impact...Enercare Inc.
Enercare’s 3rd annual Thought Leadership event series, Energy Management: What’s New and What’s Next, explores energy conservation opportunities, the latest technologies and regulations shaping the multi-residential and commercial building management space.
Significant new regulations are moving to be implemented in Ontario, and each one may shape the way your property uses energy for years to come. The three major drivers of this change will be the Ontario's Climate Change Action Plan, Carbon Cap and Trade, and Energy Performance Disclosure regulations.
An explanation to: How will your day-to-day activities change? What preparation is needed to manage costs and risks to your business? How can you take advantage of upcoming opportunities?
Presented by: David Stevens, Partner, Aird & Berlis LLP
2013 – 2014 Strategy and Sustainability Highlights ReportSchneider Electric
Since sustainable development is an integral part of Schneider Electric’s strategy, our Group is publishing a combined Business and Sustainable Development document (Key figures, interviews with stakeholders, actions in favor of new behaviors, …).
This document presents a 5-step approach for cities to become more efficient and sustainable through smart systems. It argues that critical systems like energy, transportation, and buildings must be improved and integrated using both bottom-up and top-down approaches. The document outlines challenges of rapid urbanization, noting that 70% of the world's population will live in cities by 2050, necessitating expansion. It advocates making cities more efficient, livable, and sustainable to attract residents and businesses through technologies available today to monitor systems and manage resources.
Energy Management Strategies for MURB & Commercial BuildingsEnercare Inc.
Enercare’s 3rd annual Thought Leadership event series, Energy Management: What’s New and What’s Next, explores energy conservation opportunities, the latest technologies and regulations shaping the multi-residential and commercial building management space.
You can’t manage what you don’t measure. This presentation by PL Consulting Corp will cover the use of energy audits and hydro bill analysis to understand the equipment and energy usage in your building. Energy audits, which include financials such as cost savings, incentives and estimated capital costs, equip building operators to make informed decisions on equipment replacement and operational adjustments. In addition to better understanding your building, this presentation will cover conservation measures such as intuitive automated controls which can effectively and significantly reduce overall consumption and increase your bottom line.
Presented by: Konrad Seemann, CEM, CBCP, PL Consulting Corp
The document summarizes the recommendations of the Pecan Street Project working group regarding the evolution of Austin, Texas's energy system. The group envisions a future where Austin leads the country in renewable energy and smart grid technology by 2030. This includes two-way energy and data flows, time-based pricing, distributed generation, and more efficient customer energy use. The recommendations aim to help Austin Energy and the city accelerate this evolution and transition away from fossil fuels, capitalizing on opportunities but also mitigating risks of not adapting to changing energy and technology.
There are few things more political than energy and energy prices. Ontario's markets have been changing, and there are new realities for Realtors to be aware of: some things that have changed, and some that will soon change.
This presentation is both for Commercial and Residential Realtors, and will provide an update on how changes in the energy markets will affect your clients, and how Realtors can help / benefit.
Slides discuss:
- what's changing in the markets: pricing and more (ie: truth and facts);
- what the governments are doing (presently and planned);
- what products we're seeing for Commercial or Residential facilities, and what Realtors are likely to see more of in the coming years;
- what the opportunities are for Realtors;
- Energy Audits: help and grants available to help your clients save money on energy, and ways Realtors can be involved;
- things that affect value: buying or selling a building with solar panels;
- things that affect investment properties and rental income;
- SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: a new tool/app that you can offer, as a Realtor, to your clients, to help them manage their energy use. Contact us at info@mi-group.ca if interested!
Municipalities today are constantly challenged while trying to improve the level of service to their citizens. In this session we will introduce the concept of Smart Water and show how we can lead the charge in providing value to citizens.
This document discusses the benefits of electrifying America and the world using EDIX systems. EDIX can generate electricity for residential, commercial, industrial, and other applications with up to 99% efficiency. It argues that achieving 20% electricity generation from EDIX by 2030 in the US could reduce annual CO2 emissions by over 800 million metric tons and save over 5 quadrillion BTUs of fuel annually. EDIX is presented as a renewable and effective energy option that can help address current and future energy needs in the US and globally.
In less than 40 years, 70% of the world’s population will reside in our cities. This rapid
migration will push both current and future urban centres to their seams and expand industrial
and residential infrastructures beyond their breaking points.
This eye-opening fact raises important questions that must be considered by cities around the
world. Can this growth be done in a sustainable way? Will cities be able to reduce their
environmental impact and carbon emissions? Will we be able to meet the sustainability
challenges brought on by regulation and the impact of this massive growth? And, will we
expand in ways which ensure communities are enjoyable places to live and promote social
equality?
We can answer affirmatively to these concerns, and re-design our cities with these thoughts
in mind. With the movement towards smart cities, the urban centres we live in can become
more efficient, livable, and sustainable in both the short and long term, thanks to involvement from city, citizens, and businesses.
ICT4S - Designing for Sustainability: Breakthrough or suboptimisationSURFsara
This document discusses the sustainability impacts of switching to OLED screens. It questions whether this is a "little" change or a "big" change, and a stepping stone or a distraction. It notes that OLED screens could provide energy savings when displaying black, but these savings may be negated when displaying white or evaporated based on current webpage designs. A pilot study found people preferred screens with black backgrounds, but not primarily for energy reasons. The document argues that looking only at screen technology itself versus the larger ecosystem and user behaviors is short-sighted. It also notes that while interventions can provide savings, they always incur costs, and the energy saved by a screen is small compared to lifetime energy used by other systems like networks and
This document discusses solar technologies for homes, including solar domestic hot water and photovoltaics. It notes that solar ready homes allow for the easy future installation of these technologies at minimal additional cost. Several case studies are presented that show solar ready programs and policies in places like New Mexico, California, and Maine. Solar thermal and photovoltaic technologies are described along with typical system configurations. The document argues that solar ready homes can help increase renewable energy adoption and reduce energy costs for homeowners over the long term.
Preparing for Zero Net Energy BuildingsEnercare Inc.
Enercare’s 3rd annual Thought Leadership event series, Energy Management: What’s New and What’s Next, explores energy conservation opportunities, the latest technologies and regulations shaping the multi-residential and commercial building management space.
Commissioned by the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA), the Zero Net Energy Buildings research project examined strategies and technologies applied in large commercial and multi-unit buildings, to identify zero net energy (ZNE) best practices. Building automation systems and energy information systems in ZNE buildings were characterized and building occupants and owners were surveyed on the functionality and utilization of these systems. The results of this research can be used to value the system in relation to a ZNE outcome.
Presented by: Greg Walker, Research Director, Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA)
How Upcoming Regulation Will Affect YouEnercare Inc.
Enercare’s 3rd annual Thought Leadership event series, Energy Management: What’s New and What’s Next, explores energy conservation opportunities, the latest technologies and regulations shaping the multi-residential and commercial building management space.
Significant new regulations are moving to be implemented in Ontario, and each one may shape the way your property uses energy for years to come. The three major drivers of this change will be the Ontario's Climate Change Action Plan, Carbon Cap and Trade, and Energy Performance Disclosure regulations.
An explanation to: How will your day-to-day activities change? What preparation is needed to manage costs and risks to your business? How can you take advantage of upcoming opportunities?
Presented by: Eric Chisholm, P.Eng., CEM, LEED AP, Technical Lead, Energy and Sustainability, WSP Canada
The document discusses Pecan Street Project Inc., a non-profit organization focused on designing an electric grid for the future through a smart grid demonstration project. It provides details on Austin, Texas' leadership in clean energy and technology through organizations like Austin Energy and the Clean Energy Incubator. It outlines Pecan Street Project's plans to test smart grid technologies through a demonstration at Mueller, a sustainable mixed-use development in Austin.
Duke Energy is transitioning from a traditional utility model focused on delivering electricity to becoming a more customer-centric energy service provider. Technological disruptions, regulatory changes, and empowered customers are driving changes in the energy industry. Duke Energy aims to empower customers by providing information and services to help customers manage their energy use and become trusted energy advisors. Tendril discusses how utilities can become consumer-centric energy service providers by engaging customers through multiple channels, personalizing energy offerings, and providing convenience, comfort and control tools.
Lessons from India on how companies, utilities and government can work together to power industry with affordable clean energy. Learn more at https://www.wri.org/events/2017/03/webinar-how-companies-are-buying-clean-energy-india
The document discusses the vision and enablers of transitioning to an all-renewable electricity system. It outlines that renewable energy sources like wind and solar have become more affordable and production is increasing annually. The vision is for electricity to become the primary energy source by increasing electrification of sectors like transport and industry. This would require enabling affordable renewable electricity production, power-to-X technologies for energy storage and conversion, digitalization to create a smart grid, and empowering citizens as energy producers. Examples provided demonstrate how solutions like online capacity forecasting tools, flexibility marketplaces, and energy efficient buildings can help realize this renewable-based dynamic electricity system.
9. Pasi Hurri (BaseN) - Data Gathering for a Clean Energy FutureCassandra Project
The document discusses a sustainable urban living project in Finland that utilizes BaseN's real-time energy monitoring technology. BaseN monitors energy usage from solar panels on the building's roof that provide electricity for common areas and electric vehicle charging. BaseN also monitors each apartment's electricity, water, and heating usage, allowing residents to track their consumption online. The goal is to minimize the building's net energy usage and provide residents transparency into their energy habits.
The document discusses a 858kWp solar carport system installed at Garden City Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. The system includes 3,364 solar panels and provides shade for 454 parking spaces. It generates approximately 1,450 MWh of clean solar electricity annually and cuts carbon emissions by around 750 tonnes per year. The dual-mode system provides solar power during the day and switches to generators during outages to provide reliable power. Garden City Mall is the first mixed-use development in East Africa to receive LEED green building certification.
This document discusses smart grids and consumer engagement. It defines smart grids as electricity networks that can intelligently integrate the behavior of generators, consumers, and prosumers to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic, and secure electricity. The document discusses how changing energy usage and generation requires more intelligent energy systems. It also summarizes strategies used in Vaxjo, Sweden to engage consumers and encourage energy efficient behavior through tools like EnergiKollen that gamified energy usage data. The document concludes that smart grids can help consumers manage costs as energy systems transition to being more low-carbon and distributed.
Dragonfly Solutions, Inc manufactures a demand-side solution to help control energy costs and demand charges for public and private sector clients. Dragonfly has integrated real-time energy monitoring, peak demand management and smart building controls over the internet. Harmonic resonance filtering, automatic Power Factor correction, voltage regulation and dual-level surge protection provide maximum efficiency and increase the effectiveness of solar PV systems
Greentech Lead is the single platform for covering the entire green technology aspects and specifically renewable energy like Solar power. It focuses on green technologies such as wind, solar power, biogas, e-vehicles, smart grid, etc
This document summarizes a large solar carport system installed at Garden City Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. The 858kWp solar carport system, completed in 2015, is Africa's largest and generates 1250 MWh of electricity annually. It provides shade for 454 parking spaces and will save over 6,250 tonnes of CO2 emissions over its lifetime. The system uses an innovative dual-mode technology to provide solar power during the day and switch to backup generators when solar is insufficient or the grid is down.
Business Unusual: Strategic Perspectives on the Utilities Consumer Marketplaceaccenture
A major transformation of utilities market is challenging traditional business and operational models. Accenture analysis of the likely demand disruption scenario points to a significant financial impact on the traditional utility model by 2025. Leading utilities are adapting to the chaining marketplace.
The document summarizes a webinar session about working with utilities. It provides details about three speakers from major utilities: Mananya Chansanchai from PG&E, Robyn Zander from SCE, and Tom Coughlin from National Grid. The webinar covered various utility programs and opportunities for emerging clean technologies to engage with utilities, including submitting technologies for consideration, useful information to provide, and testing programs.
There are few things more political than energy and energy prices. Ontario's markets have been changing, and there are new realities for Realtors to be aware of: some things that have changed, and some that will soon change.
This presentation is both for Commercial and Residential Realtors, and will provide an update on how changes in the energy markets will affect your clients, and how Realtors can help / benefit.
Slides discuss:
- what's changing in the markets: pricing and more (ie: truth and facts);
- what the governments are doing (presently and planned);
- what products we're seeing for Commercial or Residential facilities, and what Realtors are likely to see more of in the coming years;
- what the opportunities are for Realtors;
- Energy Audits: help and grants available to help your clients save money on energy, and ways Realtors can be involved;
- things that affect value: buying or selling a building with solar panels;
- things that affect investment properties and rental income;
- SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: a new tool/app that you can offer, as a Realtor, to your clients, to help them manage their energy use. Contact us at info@mi-group.ca if interested!
Municipalities today are constantly challenged while trying to improve the level of service to their citizens. In this session we will introduce the concept of Smart Water and show how we can lead the charge in providing value to citizens.
This document discusses the benefits of electrifying America and the world using EDIX systems. EDIX can generate electricity for residential, commercial, industrial, and other applications with up to 99% efficiency. It argues that achieving 20% electricity generation from EDIX by 2030 in the US could reduce annual CO2 emissions by over 800 million metric tons and save over 5 quadrillion BTUs of fuel annually. EDIX is presented as a renewable and effective energy option that can help address current and future energy needs in the US and globally.
In less than 40 years, 70% of the world’s population will reside in our cities. This rapid
migration will push both current and future urban centres to their seams and expand industrial
and residential infrastructures beyond their breaking points.
This eye-opening fact raises important questions that must be considered by cities around the
world. Can this growth be done in a sustainable way? Will cities be able to reduce their
environmental impact and carbon emissions? Will we be able to meet the sustainability
challenges brought on by regulation and the impact of this massive growth? And, will we
expand in ways which ensure communities are enjoyable places to live and promote social
equality?
We can answer affirmatively to these concerns, and re-design our cities with these thoughts
in mind. With the movement towards smart cities, the urban centres we live in can become
more efficient, livable, and sustainable in both the short and long term, thanks to involvement from city, citizens, and businesses.
ICT4S - Designing for Sustainability: Breakthrough or suboptimisationSURFsara
This document discusses the sustainability impacts of switching to OLED screens. It questions whether this is a "little" change or a "big" change, and a stepping stone or a distraction. It notes that OLED screens could provide energy savings when displaying black, but these savings may be negated when displaying white or evaporated based on current webpage designs. A pilot study found people preferred screens with black backgrounds, but not primarily for energy reasons. The document argues that looking only at screen technology itself versus the larger ecosystem and user behaviors is short-sighted. It also notes that while interventions can provide savings, they always incur costs, and the energy saved by a screen is small compared to lifetime energy used by other systems like networks and
This document discusses solar technologies for homes, including solar domestic hot water and photovoltaics. It notes that solar ready homes allow for the easy future installation of these technologies at minimal additional cost. Several case studies are presented that show solar ready programs and policies in places like New Mexico, California, and Maine. Solar thermal and photovoltaic technologies are described along with typical system configurations. The document argues that solar ready homes can help increase renewable energy adoption and reduce energy costs for homeowners over the long term.
Preparing for Zero Net Energy BuildingsEnercare Inc.
Enercare’s 3rd annual Thought Leadership event series, Energy Management: What’s New and What’s Next, explores energy conservation opportunities, the latest technologies and regulations shaping the multi-residential and commercial building management space.
Commissioned by the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA), the Zero Net Energy Buildings research project examined strategies and technologies applied in large commercial and multi-unit buildings, to identify zero net energy (ZNE) best practices. Building automation systems and energy information systems in ZNE buildings were characterized and building occupants and owners were surveyed on the functionality and utilization of these systems. The results of this research can be used to value the system in relation to a ZNE outcome.
Presented by: Greg Walker, Research Director, Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA)
How Upcoming Regulation Will Affect YouEnercare Inc.
Enercare’s 3rd annual Thought Leadership event series, Energy Management: What’s New and What’s Next, explores energy conservation opportunities, the latest technologies and regulations shaping the multi-residential and commercial building management space.
Significant new regulations are moving to be implemented in Ontario, and each one may shape the way your property uses energy for years to come. The three major drivers of this change will be the Ontario's Climate Change Action Plan, Carbon Cap and Trade, and Energy Performance Disclosure regulations.
An explanation to: How will your day-to-day activities change? What preparation is needed to manage costs and risks to your business? How can you take advantage of upcoming opportunities?
Presented by: Eric Chisholm, P.Eng., CEM, LEED AP, Technical Lead, Energy and Sustainability, WSP Canada
The document discusses Pecan Street Project Inc., a non-profit organization focused on designing an electric grid for the future through a smart grid demonstration project. It provides details on Austin, Texas' leadership in clean energy and technology through organizations like Austin Energy and the Clean Energy Incubator. It outlines Pecan Street Project's plans to test smart grid technologies through a demonstration at Mueller, a sustainable mixed-use development in Austin.
Duke Energy is transitioning from a traditional utility model focused on delivering electricity to becoming a more customer-centric energy service provider. Technological disruptions, regulatory changes, and empowered customers are driving changes in the energy industry. Duke Energy aims to empower customers by providing information and services to help customers manage their energy use and become trusted energy advisors. Tendril discusses how utilities can become consumer-centric energy service providers by engaging customers through multiple channels, personalizing energy offerings, and providing convenience, comfort and control tools.
Lessons from India on how companies, utilities and government can work together to power industry with affordable clean energy. Learn more at https://www.wri.org/events/2017/03/webinar-how-companies-are-buying-clean-energy-india
The document discusses the vision and enablers of transitioning to an all-renewable electricity system. It outlines that renewable energy sources like wind and solar have become more affordable and production is increasing annually. The vision is for electricity to become the primary energy source by increasing electrification of sectors like transport and industry. This would require enabling affordable renewable electricity production, power-to-X technologies for energy storage and conversion, digitalization to create a smart grid, and empowering citizens as energy producers. Examples provided demonstrate how solutions like online capacity forecasting tools, flexibility marketplaces, and energy efficient buildings can help realize this renewable-based dynamic electricity system.
9. Pasi Hurri (BaseN) - Data Gathering for a Clean Energy FutureCassandra Project
The document discusses a sustainable urban living project in Finland that utilizes BaseN's real-time energy monitoring technology. BaseN monitors energy usage from solar panels on the building's roof that provide electricity for common areas and electric vehicle charging. BaseN also monitors each apartment's electricity, water, and heating usage, allowing residents to track their consumption online. The goal is to minimize the building's net energy usage and provide residents transparency into their energy habits.
The document discusses a 858kWp solar carport system installed at Garden City Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. The system includes 3,364 solar panels and provides shade for 454 parking spaces. It generates approximately 1,450 MWh of clean solar electricity annually and cuts carbon emissions by around 750 tonnes per year. The dual-mode system provides solar power during the day and switches to generators during outages to provide reliable power. Garden City Mall is the first mixed-use development in East Africa to receive LEED green building certification.
This document discusses smart grids and consumer engagement. It defines smart grids as electricity networks that can intelligently integrate the behavior of generators, consumers, and prosumers to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic, and secure electricity. The document discusses how changing energy usage and generation requires more intelligent energy systems. It also summarizes strategies used in Vaxjo, Sweden to engage consumers and encourage energy efficient behavior through tools like EnergiKollen that gamified energy usage data. The document concludes that smart grids can help consumers manage costs as energy systems transition to being more low-carbon and distributed.
Dragonfly Solutions, Inc manufactures a demand-side solution to help control energy costs and demand charges for public and private sector clients. Dragonfly has integrated real-time energy monitoring, peak demand management and smart building controls over the internet. Harmonic resonance filtering, automatic Power Factor correction, voltage regulation and dual-level surge protection provide maximum efficiency and increase the effectiveness of solar PV systems
Greentech Lead is the single platform for covering the entire green technology aspects and specifically renewable energy like Solar power. It focuses on green technologies such as wind, solar power, biogas, e-vehicles, smart grid, etc
This document summarizes a large solar carport system installed at Garden City Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. The 858kWp solar carport system, completed in 2015, is Africa's largest and generates 1250 MWh of electricity annually. It provides shade for 454 parking spaces and will save over 6,250 tonnes of CO2 emissions over its lifetime. The system uses an innovative dual-mode technology to provide solar power during the day and switch to backup generators when solar is insufficient or the grid is down.
Business Unusual: Strategic Perspectives on the Utilities Consumer Marketplaceaccenture
A major transformation of utilities market is challenging traditional business and operational models. Accenture analysis of the likely demand disruption scenario points to a significant financial impact on the traditional utility model by 2025. Leading utilities are adapting to the chaining marketplace.
The document summarizes a webinar session about working with utilities. It provides details about three speakers from major utilities: Mananya Chansanchai from PG&E, Robyn Zander from SCE, and Tom Coughlin from National Grid. The webinar covered various utility programs and opportunities for emerging clean technologies to engage with utilities, including submitting technologies for consideration, useful information to provide, and testing programs.
Pathway Lending is a nonprofit economic development lender that provides loans for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Tennessee. It launched a new Energy Education Initiative funded by the Department of Energy to provide training workshops around the state on topics like industrial energy efficiency, sustainability, and electric vehicles. The initiative will also create an online resource center for materials from the events.
Silicon Valley Bank Energy Efficiency Report: Key Sector TrendsSilicon Valley Bank
SVB's Energy Efficiency Report provides perspective on the key players and most compelling trends in the Energy sector. Topics covered include VC and government funding in the energy efficiency market; industry trends related to regulation, consumer demand and technology enhancements; and an overview of financing for energy companies.
The document discusses the motivation and challenges around developing smart grids and smart consumers in Hawaii. It outlines a vision of Hawaii having a more diversified and sustainable energy system through smart grids that provide consumers with information to make smart energy choices. It then summarizes several research projects aimed at developing infrastructure for energy data storage and analysis, simulating energy generation and usage data, and understanding how incentives and communication can influence consumer conservation behavior.
20161006 Szaro Power Matters Conference all slidesJennifer Szaro
SEPA is an educational non-profit organization that facilitates collaboration across the electric power sector to support utilities' integration of distributed energy resources like solar power. The document discusses several topics including SEPA's role and mission, trends in solar photovoltaic adoption, emerging utility strategies to integrate solar, rate design strategies, energy storage applications, and the future of the electric industry. It provides an overview of issues utilities are facing and strategies they are pursuing in adapting their business models to increasing distributed energy resources on the grid.
The document discusses EnergyDeck, a platform for energy and resource management in buildings. It aims to address inefficiencies caused by a lack of data sharing between landlords, facility managers, building managers and tenants. EnergyDeck crowdsources building and project performance data from all users to provide benchmarking and project validation. This positions it between traditional expensive energy management systems and generic Internet of Things platforms by offering an inexpensive and easy to use platform that facilitates flexible data inputs and sharing with automatic analytics.
This document provides an agenda and overview for a solar 101 training session. The agenda includes 7 sections that will cover topics such as solar technology, PV system equipment and performance, solar integration with the electric grid, solar markets and financing, market trends, and key federal and state policies. The training will be led by representatives from the Smart Electric Power Alliance and the Solar Energy Industries Association and aims to facilitate understanding of the utility industry's transition to clean energy.
Research Support Facility: Three years of net zero operations, occupants, and...Shanti Pless
October 8th, 2015 Center for the Built Environment Industry Advisory Board Keynote on our efforts to deliver long term net zero energy performance at NREL
20151022 SEPA Deora Slides for Deloitte Solar Growth DbriefTanuj Deora
This document discusses how utilities can make smart decisions regarding solar energy. It outlines key themes of transforming the electric grid to accommodate distributed energy resources, adapting utility business models for a more distributed grid, and engaging customers. It also summarizes opportunities and challenges for utility-scale solar, commercial and industrial solar, residential solar, and community solar. The implications are that solar growth will continue due to improving economics and the next challenges will be successful grid integration through engineering and economic solutions. Utilities can turn solar into an opportunity by including it as part of a clean energy portfolio.
The New Role of Data in the Changing Energy & Utilities LandscapeDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3PrxEx2
Energy companies - both producers and utilities - are facing a challenging and changing business and regulatory environment over the next decade or so. As governments around the world pledge to be 'net zero' by 2050, new regulations are putting pressure on energy companies to accelerate the move to renewable energy sources whilst at the same time gearing up for more widespread electrification as consumers move away from carbon fuels.
The growth of renewable energy sources has also changed the way that utilities manage demand response. The old way of bringing generating units (typically coal or gas-fueled generators) online for peak demand hours no longer works. The distributed utility infrastructure that is used today requires a lot more flexibility and planning to meet - and to shape - consumer demand.
At the heart of the energy company challenges is data. Data to better manage and optimize the generating resources. Data to better inform the consumers about their energy consumption. And data to deliver better services and new product offerings to those consumers.
In this webinar, we will look at how energy companies and utilities can liberate and democratize their data to better utilize the strategic data assets that they already own. We will look at how the Denodo Platform, powered by Data Virtualization, has helped energy companies around the world access real-time data to drive their operations and allow them to respond to the ever-changing business environment.
4D Energetics is developing low-cost, long-life energy storage solutions to provide reliable power for utilities and telecom infrastructure. Their technology uses a new electrolyte in a battery that can last over 10,000 cycles and costs under $200/kW-h for the complete system. 4D Energetics is seeking $5 million in funding to continue product development and testing with the goal of commercializing their technology and entering the growing $400 billion global energy storage market by 2020.
Presentation slides from the April 9, 2020 webinar featuring state and private sector leaders discuss shovel-ready infrastructure opportunities that can create jobs and stimulate economic growth in the short-term in the U.S.
Learn more: https://www.wri.org/events/2020/04/webinar-build-back-better-shaping-us-stimulus-package
The document provides an overview of a fuel cell company. It discusses the company's global manufacturing footprint, project development capabilities over 300 MW installed, and its integrated fuel cell solutions. The company aims to provide clean, efficient, and reliable distributed power generation globally to address power challenges. It sees a sizable $12 billion market opportunity and has partnerships in place to accelerate market adoption.
The document provides an overview of a fuel cell company. It discusses the company's global manufacturing footprint, project development capabilities over 300 MW installed, and its integrated fuel cell solutions. The company aims to provide clean, efficient, and reliable distributed power generation globally to address power challenges. It sees a sizable $12 billion market opportunity and has partnerships in place to accelerate market adoption.
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Perfect Timing: The Upcoming Wave of Opportunities for Residential PV Installers
1. Perfect Timing: The Upcoming Wave of
Opportunities for Residential PV Installers
FOCUSED ENERGY SUMMIT 2014
Charlie Gay
September 25, 2014
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 1
2. Agenda / Overview
• Unprecedented U.S. Utility Changes
• Growth in Residential Rooftop PV
• Opportunities for Expanding Customer Engagement
• Collaborating to Win
• Financing
• Software Optimization
• Hardware Optimization
• A New Product Approach: Continuously Customizable Optimization
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 2
3. The World is Using More and More Electricity
500 TWh / yr
11,300
12,600
14,500
1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
Source: US EIA, International Energy Outlook 2011
17,300
22,600
20,300
25,400 TWh
Global electricity
demand doubling
between 1995 and
2020 ~2-3% per year
4. The Old World Electric Utility
Generation Transmission Distribution
End
Customers
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 4
5. The Utility World
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
In the mainland US (outside of California), no utility has had their financial integrity
threatened by the amount of solar that their customers have installed.
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 5
8. The Emerging Electric Utility
Generation Transmission Distribution
End
Customers
Demand
Response
Make money with
your smart phone
$$$$
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 8
9. Agenda / Overview
• Unprecedented U.S. Utility Changes
• Growth in Residential Rooftop PV
• Opportunities for Expanding Customer Engagement
• Collaborating to Win
• Financing
• Software Optimization
• Hardware Optimization
• A New Product Approach : Continuously Customizable Optimization
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 9
10. 2013 Average Prices for Residential Electricity
US Average Increase
2013-2014 = 3.2%
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 10
11. By 2017 More Than ½ of Residential Rooftop
PV Can be Less Than the Retail Price of Electricity
Now 1 -3
Years
4+
Years
“value of solar,” based
on a study conducted
by Clean Power
Research
The residential market is immense: In the U.S. there are more than 90 million single
family homes and as many as 50 million more households in multi-family structures.
Source: UCSUSA.org/solarrevolution
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 11
12. How Much Distributed Solar Will Be Installed in 2016?
Source: GTM
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 12
17. Emerging New “Utilities”
Generation Transmission Distribution
End
Customers
New Regulatory Tools
How to allocate costs between users?
How to ensure Backup generation ?
How to integrate new technologies ?
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 17
18. Telecom Examples
AT&T spent $20.6 billion on new plant and equipment in 2013,
leading all non-financial corporations in U.S. capital spending for the third straight year.
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 18
19. The Wild Card
Energy Information
Energy Information Merge into New Businesses
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 19
20. Granular Information and Awareness
ZIPEnergyApp can also be used in customer
demonstrations to illustrate products, services and
energy use patterns in similar homes and zip codes.
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 20
21. The Smart Home
The Home Automation & Controls Market Will be Worth $48.02 Billion by 2018
August
Ecobee
EcoFactor
Haier
Honeywell
iDevices
iHome
Kwikset
Logitach
Lutron
Netatmo
PEQ
Philips
Schlage
Skybell
SmartThings
Sylvania
Yale
Zuli
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 21
22. The Smart Home : Philips Lighting
The Home Automation & Controls Market Will be Worth $48.02 Billion by 2018
Philips Hue Connected Bulbs
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 22
23. Recent Entrants : Google
The Home Automation & Controls Market Will be Worth $48.02 Billion by 2018
• Google nest
Acquired 2014
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 23
24. Recent Entrants : Apple
The Home Automation & Controls Market Will be Worth $48.02 Billion by 2018
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 24
25. Recent Entrants :Samsung
The Home Automation & Controls Market Will be Worth $48.02 Billion by 2018
Electric
Water Heater
Electric water heating
is ~18% of U.S.
residential electricity
use and consumes
~12 kWh/day
Steffes uses Microsoft’s
Azure cloud platform to
aggregate, creating a
“virtual power plant” out
of networked heating
units.
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 25
26. Recent Entrants : LG
The Home Automation & Controls Market Will be Worth $48.02 Billion by 2018
Google Nest
Apple HomeKit
Samsung SmartThings
LG HomNet
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 26
27. Added Value of PV
The Home Automation & Controls Market Will be Worth $48.02 Billion by 2018
Google Nest
Apple HomeKit
Samsung SmartThings
LG HomNet
A Lot More Than $50 Billion
Module Level
Power Electronics
Distribution
End
Smart
Phone
Customers
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 27
28. Agenda / Overview
• Unprecedented U.S. Utility Changes
• Growth in Residential Rooftop PV
• Opportunities for Expanding Customer Engagement
• Collaborating to Win
• Financing
• Software Optimization
• Hardware Optimization
• A New Product Approach : Continuously Customizable
Optimization
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 28
29. Finance
$$$
Loans
• Institutional
• Intermediaries
• Aggregation
• Referrals
Focused
Energy
Collaborating to Win
Installation
JIT Supply
• Adaptive
Standardization
• Quality
• Certification
Focused Energy
Partners
Support Operations
System Design
• Permitting
• Logistics
• Benchmarking
• Responsive BoM
Services
• Trade Assoc.
• Coop Marketing
• Training
• Accurate Costing
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 29
32. HERO PACE Program Is a Solar Financing Hero in California
HERO works in partnership with municipalities
to administer and manage lending capital
provided by private sources, and payments are
collected by the municipalities along with a
resident's property taxes.
PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) just keeps on growing.
$$$
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 32
33. System Design Optimization
Start with Site Map and Climate Data
• Module Orientation
• Tilt / Azimuth
• Module Configuration
• Portrait/Landscape
• Spacing
• Shadowing
• Inverter Topology
• Module Level Power Electronics
• Wiring Direction
• Source Circuit Conductors
• Inverter Load Ratio
• Combiner Size
• Combiner Layout
• Home Run Conductor
Supplier Options Have Expanded
• 7341 Module Types
• 691 Inverter Options
• 556 Structure Suppliers
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 33
34. System Design Optimization
Proposal Ready Design (plus options)
• Delivers Bill of Materials and Drawings
• Bankable Model (e.g. PVSYST)
• Cloud-based accessibility
http://www.mapdwell.com/en/boston/building/654023
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 34
35. Permitting
September 21, 2014: Governor Jerry Brown
signed Assembly Bill 2188, making California
one of the first states in the U.S. to streamline
permitting and inspection for small residential
solar systems.
Aim for a long-term relationship – including the AHJ
The most valuable asset is experience and relationships.
Treasure customer participation and feedback.
Nudge people to take a home audit.
• One was marketed to the environmentally minded and
featured "green" iconography.
• The other was marketed to "energy-efficiency skeptics" and
focused on making sure that the home was not wasteful.
"The call to action” is the same.
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 35
36. Module Manufacturing Trends
⅓ of module
assembly is OEM
Solar City + Silevo
Upstream
Vertically Integrated : so, module cost reduction benefits stay with producer
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 36
42. Overview of Module Level Electronics
High Value
Distributed Max
Power Point Trackers
μInverters
Expensive Inexpensive Control
Low Value
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 42
43. Global PV Electronics Supplier Taxonomy : 2014
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 43
47. Surface Mount Panelization
SURFACE MOUNT
SILICON INGOT WAFER CELL MODULE SYSTEM
PANEL
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 47
48. FlexStrap
Bonded Straps
~1.1 m
End View
.
.
.
.
~1.6 m
Module With
Front Side Loading
End View
Adhesive
Module
FlexStrap
Module allowed to flex –
eliminating high stresses
FlexStrap carries load in tension, while allowing module to Flex
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 48
49. Vertical Mounting Rail
Additional Cost Savings
Vertical rails reduced from
.
.
2/module
1/module
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to
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FlexStrap
Clamps
Module Module
50. Surface Mount Panelization
SURFACE MOUNT
SILICON INGOT WAFER CELL MODULE SYSTEM
PANEL
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Total Cost Savings
Module: $10.82/ea
Rail: $8.54
TOTAL: $0.21/W
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 50
51. Surface Mount Panelization
SURFACE MOUNT
SILICON INGOT WAFER CELL MODULE SYSTEM
PANEL
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Now We Install the Brains
MLPE
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10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 51
52. Site Specific BoM Delivered by Pod
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 52
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53. Agenda / Overview
• Unprecedented U.S. Utility Changes
• Growth in Residential Rooftop PV
• Opportunities for Expanding Customer Engagement
• Collaborating to Win
• Financing
• Software Optimization
• Hardware Optimization
• A New Product Approach : Continuously Customizable Optimization
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 53
54. Surface Mount Product Strategy
HUBCO : Customized Standardization
• Distributed BoM Packaging for Each Job Site
• Fulfillment Centers:
– e.g. Foxconn (Ciudad Juárez), Flextronics (Fremont, CA) or Jabil
• Module producer to ship unframed laminates without J-Boxes
• Higher packing density = lower transportation costs
• Optimize Module Level Power Electronics and Inverter for each site
• Truck a pod with an installation-ready system to the job site
• Evolve upstream to buying cells and extract additional cost benefits
• Annealed glass
• Meet new UL 2703 standard ahead of the industry for maximum insurability
• Anti-soiling AR Coated Glass
• Integrate Uniquely Branded Utility Interactive Metering and Controls
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 54
55. "A pessimist sees the difficulty in
every opportunity; an optimist sees
the opportunity in every difficulty."
-- Winston Churchill
10 October 2014 Focused Energy Summit 2014 55
Editor's Notes
World electricity demand is projected to double between 2000 and 2030, growing at an annual rate of 2.3% , consistent with the GDP per capita growth rate worldwide.
This growth in electricity demand, is faster than any other final energy source. (according IAEA)
It is strongest in developing countries, led by China and India, where demand will climb by over 4% per year, more than tripling by 2030
It is generally believed that the next three decades will see a shift in the generation-fuel mix away from coal, which is the most widely used fuel today
nuclear power is also expected to decline, as it it is likely few new reactors will be built and existing ones will be retired, as public acceptance for nuclear is diminished, as a result of the 2011 Japan earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
The make-up in electricity generation will come from increased natural gas-fired plants, and renewable energy sources, such as hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, and so forth.
It is expected that total generation from renewables will increase 3.1% annually, and that the share of world electricity generation grows from 19% in 2008 to 23%.
While hydroelectric and wind make up the majority of renewable energy additions in the near term, solar power is expected to continue its rapid adoption--in the next 10 years, there will be a 300% increase in solar electricity generation.
Let’s take a closer look at how solar is implemented globally, and what this dramatic increase in solar energy production in the future, means to Applied and its solar business.
Notes
1990 11,930 TWh
By 2020 27,000 TWh net electricity generation