OERC Seminar April 2018 presented by Prof Ulrich Nissen
Professor of “Energy Management” and “Management Accounting” Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Moechengladbach, Germany
In many countries owners of renewable energy systems principally have to choices to take advantage out of the energy yields that are generated by them: They can either use the electricity by themselves (direct consumption) or feed it into the electricity grid. In former times – not very long time ago – direct consumption was not relevant for most owners as the feed-in tariffs were higher than the electricity cost per kWh. So, it was more profitable to feed the electricity into the grid. At that time investment appraisals for such systems were quite easy to set up because the required data was relatively easy to get: Capex, opex, annual energy yields, and the feed-in tariff.
This situation has – however – totally changed. Since in many countries the feed-in tariffs have dramatically declined (if there were any) and the electricity prices have risen, self consumption has become the first choice for the owners of renewable energy systems. And as the amount of energy that can be used for self consumption depends on the energy consumption behaviour (self consumption requires that there has to be a coincidence of the demand for electricity and the supply) this consumption behaviour has to be considered in the investment appraisal of such systems. In my presentation/seminar I would introduce the audience to the problem, would offer solutions and exemplify them by using practical examples.
The initial presentation give to those interested in Ashburton Community Energy project on 18 January 2011. Details in this presentation are not the final project ideas, but outline how the project might develop.
Michael Reese - Electric and Thermal Energy Strategies for Minnesota Swine FarmsJohn Blue
Businesses Decision on Electric and Thermal Energy Strategies for Minnesota Swine Farms - Michael Reese, University of Minnesota, from the 2017 Minnesota Pork Congress, January 17 - 18, 2017, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
More presentations at http://www.swinecast.com/2017-minnesota-pork-congress
ILSR's Energy Self-Reliant States and Communities programJohn Farrell
An "about us" slideshow for the Energy Self-Reliant States and Communities program at the almost 40-year strong Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
http://www.newrules.org/energy/
Rooftop solar helps you reduce operating expenses for your business. You can reduce your power bill by 50-75% with solar power. Solar pays back by: 1.Producing energy from sunlight; 2.Cash incentives (SRECs and smart inverter incentive) worth 35-90% of the project; 3.Tax incentives (ITC - Investment Tax Credit; 30%); and 4.Accelerated depreciation (20-23%).
The fuel sunlight is free and abandon
No running / maintenance or
Almost free of maintenance
Very high warranty periods for the equipments
Supports green concepts directly
Other important benefits
Electricity Tariff can be fixed for the next 25 years
Ease of financial planning
Saving in electricity
Reduced carbon footprint and gain in green credits
Added marketing values for both local and foreign markets
OERC Seminar April 2018 presented by Prof Ulrich Nissen
Professor of “Energy Management” and “Management Accounting” Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Moechengladbach, Germany
In many countries owners of renewable energy systems principally have to choices to take advantage out of the energy yields that are generated by them: They can either use the electricity by themselves (direct consumption) or feed it into the electricity grid. In former times – not very long time ago – direct consumption was not relevant for most owners as the feed-in tariffs were higher than the electricity cost per kWh. So, it was more profitable to feed the electricity into the grid. At that time investment appraisals for such systems were quite easy to set up because the required data was relatively easy to get: Capex, opex, annual energy yields, and the feed-in tariff.
This situation has – however – totally changed. Since in many countries the feed-in tariffs have dramatically declined (if there were any) and the electricity prices have risen, self consumption has become the first choice for the owners of renewable energy systems. And as the amount of energy that can be used for self consumption depends on the energy consumption behaviour (self consumption requires that there has to be a coincidence of the demand for electricity and the supply) this consumption behaviour has to be considered in the investment appraisal of such systems. In my presentation/seminar I would introduce the audience to the problem, would offer solutions and exemplify them by using practical examples.
The initial presentation give to those interested in Ashburton Community Energy project on 18 January 2011. Details in this presentation are not the final project ideas, but outline how the project might develop.
Michael Reese - Electric and Thermal Energy Strategies for Minnesota Swine FarmsJohn Blue
Businesses Decision on Electric and Thermal Energy Strategies for Minnesota Swine Farms - Michael Reese, University of Minnesota, from the 2017 Minnesota Pork Congress, January 17 - 18, 2017, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
More presentations at http://www.swinecast.com/2017-minnesota-pork-congress
ILSR's Energy Self-Reliant States and Communities programJohn Farrell
An "about us" slideshow for the Energy Self-Reliant States and Communities program at the almost 40-year strong Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
http://www.newrules.org/energy/
Rooftop solar helps you reduce operating expenses for your business. You can reduce your power bill by 50-75% with solar power. Solar pays back by: 1.Producing energy from sunlight; 2.Cash incentives (SRECs and smart inverter incentive) worth 35-90% of the project; 3.Tax incentives (ITC - Investment Tax Credit; 30%); and 4.Accelerated depreciation (20-23%).
The fuel sunlight is free and abandon
No running / maintenance or
Almost free of maintenance
Very high warranty periods for the equipments
Supports green concepts directly
Other important benefits
Electricity Tariff can be fixed for the next 25 years
Ease of financial planning
Saving in electricity
Reduced carbon footprint and gain in green credits
Added marketing values for both local and foreign markets
Which Costs Less? A Surprising Comparison of Utility-Scale, Community, and Ro...John Farrell
Electric utilities often misrepresent the cost of solar energy to serve their own profit interests. The truth? Costs are comparable for utility-scale, rooftop, and community solar––and local solar offers benefits aside from clean electricity, from reducing energy burdens for electric customers to providing resilience in the face of natural disaster. State legislatures should create policies to capture the benefits of all sizes and ownership methods of building more solar energy, but should especially work to undo years of utility misdirection by promoting local solar.
Interested in installing a solar system on your home or business, but unsure about the details? This presentation covers the following topics:
- Solar System cost/benefit analysis basics
- Financing basics
- Tax Incentives
This presentation is focused towards Iowa residents, but the details can easily be adjusted using your own situation.
Includes PEV best practices from various cities and states from Canada, the US and California. Also includes the results of the PEV readiness survey given to regional municipal staff.
The San Joaquin Valley PEV readiness assessment is designed to enhance local PEV planning efforts by evaluating the current state of PEV readiness and identifying potential areas of improvement as well as tangible best practices developed throughout the San Joaquin Valley, California and abroad.
Includes PEV best practices from various cities and states from Canada, the US and California. Also includes the results of the PEV readiness survey given to regional municipal staff.
Matthew Porrecca, Associate Principal, BNIM Architecture
Revitalizing Communities By Design
Regenerative design and development could be incredibly simple. It merely requires taking time in a place to uncover stories, discover patterns, find essence, and then add value in any way that improves the capacity of a place to be whole, vital and evolving. Together with our clients and collaborators, we are taking steps to maximize social health, invigorate a sustainable economy and restore natural systems. This workshop explores essential questions that hold the keys to a broad-based shift toward regenerative practice. We’ll share our observations, process, projects, and metrics while drawing participants into a rich dialog of discovery.
Howard Blackson - Placemakers, LLC
In the 20th century, we have spent a lot of money and resources to build cultural wastelands that adversely affects our quality-of-life. With the demise of redevelopment in California, in conjunction with the demonization of Smart Growth, the future relevancy of these places rests upon our ability repurpose these miles and miles of regrettable and devalued strip centers, office parks, and housing tracks. Unfortunately, most citizens oppose any new development due to its potential conflict with their existing community character. Applying an urban design technique that purposely codes for a specific community character, this presentation will outline 21st century urban design tools to build towards walkable, mixed-use neighborhood centers.
With 20 plus years of professional urban design experience, Howard is the Director of Planning for PlaceMakers, LLC, a new economy company of seven (7) principals located across the United States and Canada. Howard has designed and managed a variety of projects both internationally and in the United States having worked in Asia, Europe and North America. He holds a Master degree in Urban Design from the University of Westminster, London, and a Bachelor degree in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin. Howard is an Accredited Member of the Congress for the New Urbanism and is a member of the U.S. General Services Administration Design Excellence Peer Review Committee. He is an adjunct lecturer at San Diego’s NewSchool of Architecture and Design and on the faculty of University of California San Diego Urban Studies Program.
Kaid Benfield, Dir. Sustainable Communities - NRDC
Kaid will discuss the opportunities and advantages of creating a sustainable energy future.We once thought of cities as the antithesis of sustainability - but we now know that cities can be the solution to, not the cause of, our environmental threats. To take advantage of the opportunities before us in an increasingly urban society, we must be thoughtful, shaping our metropolitan regions to reduce our environmental footprint while creating beautiful, green, inclusive neighborhoods within them. As people concerned about the health and future of the planet, we must approach this task with energy and humility, paying every bit as much attention to nurturing great people habit as we do to conserving the habitats of other species.
Michelle Kaufmann will talk about a quest for simplicity as a core component to a mission of making thoughtful, sustainable design accessible.
She will talk about her work in prefabrication, design-build, green homes and sustainable communities. Rethinking not only what we make and how we make it, but also redesigning the design process itself is key to the future of architecture and sustainability. Innovations in this category are abundant and exciting, and with strategic focus can help us all to have more quality, less clutter and simpler lives.
The upcoming 2013 Title-24 Building Efficiency Standards were approved by the California Energy Commission on May 9, 2012. The new Title-24 energy code incorporates significant changes that will affect architects, builders, contractors, energy consultants, and solar PV installers. This class will review the upcoming changes to the energy code and the impact on building design along with compliance strategies that will allow you to comply with the new, stricter energy code cost effectively.
Mark Madison is a Certified Energy Plans Examiner, Certified Energy Analyst, HERS rater, and serves on the board of directors of the California Association of Building Energy Analysts (CABEC).
We will discuss some strategies for incorporating water harvesting into sustainable landscaping, using example projects to illustrate our points. We will focus on residential systems for outdoor usage but will also touch on commercial applications and non-potable indoor use.
Many building owners have the desire to upgrade their commercial
properties, but in the current state of the economy they are at a loss as to how to financial such upgrades. The presentation will also review current trends in rebates, public sector financing and private sector financing that make such upgrades possible.
Target Audience:
I think the target audience for this presentation will be building industry
professionals, developers, building owners, property managers and
commercial real estate brokers, as well as educators from real estate
development programs such as San Diego State’s.
How the people of a small town on the cross road to the silk road in Persia used micro-climate and their local materials to create energy-efficient buildings.
- Assess how they have used sun, wind and water
- Passive solar design
- Landscape and thermal mass to transform a harsh natural environment into comfortable spaces
- Evaluate innovative uses of local material in their buildings
- Santa Fe architecture and similarities to Persian architecture
- Observe the use of these techniques in modern architecture
Storm windows, insulating shades, sash replacements, awnings - The good news is that we have so many ways to improve the performance of our windows. The bad news is...there are so many ways to improve the performance of our windows! How in the world can we objectively compare them on price, thermal performance, ease of installation, ease of use, solar control, privacy, and durability?
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories and BuildingGreen are working on simple and easy-to-use resources for selecting window retrofit options. With input on climate, existing window attributes, and performance priorities, anyone can cut through the difficulties of deciding how to improve the overall performance of existing windows.
Using resources from www.windowattachments.org, webinar participants will work through window attachment selection scenarios with the instructor and learn how to use these resources with their clients and on their own projects.
The new 2008 Title-24 Building Efficiency Standards became effective January 1, 2010. One of the most sweeping changes involve residential indoor and outdoor lighting requirements, particularly kitchen lighting and the new adoption of ASHRAE 62.2 indoor air quality code.
Kitchen Lighting, Title-24
New restrictions, control requirements, high efficacy fixture requirements and incandescent allowances, and interior lighting worksheets will add an additional layer of complexity to residential lighting design. This class will bring you up to speed on the new changes and address the underlying principles, calculation methods, strategies to assist you in complying with the new code changes and take you step by step thru the new CF-6R-LTG-1 lighting certificate of installation which must be filled out before the final certificate of occupancy will be issued.
Kitchen Lighting, Title-24
You will also understand which fixtures will comply as high efficacy (not all LED fixtures are certified as high efficacy), the lighting control requirements for each room type and the new fixture and control requirements for residential outdoor lighting.
Title-24, Title-24
California has now adopted the requirements of ASHRAE 62.2-2007 which means that starting January 1, 2010, all low-rise residential buildings are required to install whole house mechanical ventilation and satisfy other requirements to achieve acceptable indoor air quality. Openable windows will no longer be an acceptable method for satisfying outdoor air requirements. This will involve calculations for determining the minimum ventilation cfm and designing a system to provide the necessary airflow with proper controls. You will learn the proper method for determining ventilation airflow, strategies for designing a cost effective ventilation system, and how to fill out the new ventilation Certificate of Installation.
Kitchen Lighting, Title-24
Learn from one of the leading experts in California’s Title-24 Building Efficiency Standards (Title-24), Mark Madison, a state certified Energy Plans Examiner and Certified Energy Analyst, HERS rater, Greenpoint rater with over 25 years experience with building energy code compliance analysis, enforcement and training.
Learn why sustainable real estate has become such a popular choice for individual and institutional investors. See what's driving the market and learn how you can leverage this opportunity in your business.
This beginning level seminar is designed for non-residential building owners/managers/consultants and real estate professionals who want to track and understand their building’s energy usage using a free online tool called ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager. Learn how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) benchmarking tool can guide investment priorities, identify under-performing buildings, verify energy-efficiency improvements, and how buildings can receive EPA recognition for superior energy performance. Portfolio Manager can also be used to comply with the California State law that requires disclosure of a building’s energy benchmarking score at the time of sale, lease, or refinancing.
Alice Liddell is a Senior Associate with ICF International. Ms. Liddell has twelve years of experience in energy efficiency as well as energy and environmental policy. Ms. Liddell provides support to utilities throughout the west for many EPA ENERGY STAR® programs, including lighting, commercial food service, consumer electronics, and the commercial and industrial building sector programs. In addition, Alice provides training for EPA’s ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager benchmarking tool.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
9. How does it works? Utility DC Disconnect AC Disconnect Home Sunlight strikes the cells. Cells convert sunlight into direct Current (DC). DC current flows into inverter. Inverter inverts DC into Alternating current (AC). AC is the electricity that powers your home or goes back to the utility.
41. Current Monthly Baseline Allowances Monthly Electric Baseline Allowances kWh per day (Based on a 30 day month) All Electric Home May 1 – Oct. 31 Nov. 1 – April 30 Coastal 294 498 Inland 348 573 Mountain 552 885 Desert 585 669 Monthly Electric Baseline Allowances kWh per day (Based on a 30 day month) Basic May 1 – Oct. 31 Nov. 1 – April 30 Coastal 306 324 Inland 354 345 Mountain 465 438 Desert 519 360
54. 2006 Rate Increase in SCE territory Note: Tier 1 & Tier 2 did not increase Tier 3 increased 34% Tier 4 increased 58%. Tier 5 increased 59% Tier 5 authorized to increase 145%!
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58. Do costs for electricity increase? Date Rate kWh $ Ave. kWh 1 Year % Increase Real Consumption Data in SDG&E territory! Data from real CSI Projects 5-Sep-06 DR 652 $102.79 $0.158 6-Sep-07 DR 663 $116.74 $0.176 11.7% 5-Nov-06 DR 1,315 $237.37 $0.181 6-Nov-07 DR 1,225 $262.84 $0.215 18.9% 6-Jan-06 DR 2,302 $440.95 $0.192 7-Jan-07 DR 2,323 $537.15 $0.231 20.7% 5-Sep-06 DR 2,215 $432.51 $0.195 6-Sep-07 DR 2,226 $548.59 $0.246 26.2%