Please...Go Back Up and Re-read this Blog Post Heading Again...Repeat it three times
to yourself._Al Boek
Friday, January 30, 2009
AECG/ Foster City, CA./WS Stallings Dev/St. Louis, Mo. Sign $3-$5 Million Conservation,Solar,Wind Audit/License Agreement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date Line..SAN FRANCISCO/FOSTER CITY, CA. January 30th. 2009
Al Boek, Founder of American Energy Conservation Group, est. 1981, in
Redding, CA., with offices soon in Foster City,CA. has just entered
into a estimated, $5 Million dollar Right of Entry, Renewable Energy
Audit/License To Operate Agreement, with Strip Center Developer,
W.S. Stallings Dev. of St. Louis, Mo.
AECG, pioneers in Conservation, Solar DHW, Solar PV, Wind, Consultants,
with extensive background in Marketing, Energy Auditing, Planning, Install-
ing, Financing and Operating, (MDU), Multi-Dwelling Units, have several
thousand existing conservation and solar generation projects through-out
California and Hawaii, still operating now, nearly 3 decades, trouble-free.
"These projects and measures have saved Californian customer many hundreds-
of thousands of dollars and have stood the test of time, few companies in
the California market have a record like ours." commented Mr. Boek from
from his Northern California offices.
"As early is 1981 we were telling our customers we would one day be trading
American blood for oil, sadly we were correct." "Through our efforts and
the efforts of our patriot customers, who took conservation and solar measures
before GREEN was in fashion, we have saved America thousands of barrels of
oil, therms of Natural Gas and Watts of electricity. We have taken action
and responsibility for our carbon footprints, our families energy use, our
local, state and national economies and did the right thing for our planet,
our children and our children's children." _ Al Boek
Al Boek is a nearly 30 year pioneer in conservation and solar energy generation.
http://negawattsite.com.p2.hostingprod.com/ and a radio talk show host
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/AlternativeEnergyCom, hosting a weekly alternative
energy show, called FED Radio, Funding Energy Developments, airing on BlogTalk
every Thursday at 1 PM, PST. He is a licensed real estate lending agent in
good standing, in the State of California for US Home Funding of Aniheim, CA.
http://www.ushomefunding.com/index.html, with renewable energy funding back-
ground going back to 1981. He has successfully funded multi-millions of dollars
worth of renewable and alternative energy measures and projects, and is currently
involved in leasing renewable energy equipment nationwide:
http://www.equileaseone.com/carenewables.html., He is the founder and creator
of several Political and Energy Groups, using the name yeswecansolveit, now with
over 11,000 links on Google. He is the founder of:
http://yeswecansolveit.blogspot.com/, also My Barack Obama site:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/YESWECANSOLVEIT, and the Picken' Plan site:
http://push.pickensplan.com/group/YESWECANSOLVEIT...He is affiliated with the
San Francisco, New York based energy consultant group: http://separtners.com/
Contact Information:
Al Boek, Founder
AECG, Producing NegaWatts...Since 1981
530-549-4315
WWW.americanenergy@frontiernet.net
Date Line..SAN FRANCISCO/FOSTER CITY, CA. January 30th. 2009
Al Boek, Founder of American Energy Conservation Group, est. 1981, in
Redding, CA., with offices soon in Foster City,CA. has just entered
into a estimated, $5 Million dollar Right of Entry, Renewable Energy
Audit/License To Operate Agreement, with Strip Center Developer,
W.S. Stallings Dev. of St. Louis, Mo.
AECG, pioneers in Conservation, Solar DHW, Solar PV, Wind, Consultants,
with extensive background in Marketing, Energy Auditing, Planning, Install-
ing, Financing and Operating, (MDU), Multi-Dwelling Units, have several
thousand existing conservation and solar generation projects through-out
California and Hawaii, still operating now, nearly 3 decades, trouble-free.
"These projects and measures have saved Californian customer many hundreds-
of thousands of dollars and have stood the test of time, few companies in
the California market have a record like ours." commented Mr. Boek from
from his Northern California offices.
"As early is 1981 we were telling our customers we would one day be trading
American blood for oil, sadly we were correct." "Through our efforts and
the efforts of our patriot customers, who took conservation and solar measures
before GREEN was in fashion, we have saved America thousands of barrels of
oil, therms of Natural Gas and Watts of electricity. We have taken action
and responsibility for our carbon footprints, our families energy use, our
local, state and national economies and did the right thing for our planet,
our children and our children's children." _ Al Boek
Al Boek is a nearly 30 year pioneer in conservation and solar energy generation.
http://negawattsite.com.p2.hostingprod.com/ and a radio talk show host
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/AlternativeEnergyCom, hosting a weekly alternative
energy show, called FED Radio, Funding Energy Developments, airing on BlogTalk
every Thursday at 1 PM, PST. He is a licensed real estate lending agent in
good standing, in the State of California for US Home Funding of Aniheim, CA.
http://www.ushomefunding.com/index.html, with renewable energy funding back-
ground going back to 1981. He has successfully funded multi-millions of dollars
worth of renewable and alternative energy measures and projects, and is currently
involved in leasing renewable energy equipment nationwide:
http://www.equileaseone.com/carenewables.html., He is the founder and creator
of several Political and Energy Groups, using the name yeswecansolveit, now with
over 11,000 links on Google. He is the founder of:
http://yeswecansolveit.blogspot.com/, also My Barack Obama site:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/YESWECANSOLVEIT, and the Picken' Plan site:
http://push.pickensplan.com/group/YESWECANSOLVEIT...He is affiliated with the
San Francisco, New York based energy consultant group: http://separtners.com/
Contact Information:
Al Boek, Founder
AECG, Producing NegaWatts...Since 1981
530-549-4315
WWW.americanenergy@frontiernet.net
$5 Million, Solar Business Plan Copy, Now Being Offered, First Time..
So You want to enter the California Conservation, solar and wind markets...
But maybe your not quite sure where to even begin. AECG is offering you, for the
first time ever, a full copy of an actual Solar Company Business Plan, over 200
pages of never before seen, information. Once protected information, now available.
The package includes...............
A $5,000,000 Request Memorandum, Cover Letter
Exec Summary
Mission Statement
Shareholders Vision Statement
The Actual Offering
Competition
The Business Enterpirse Discription
Res.
Commercial Opportunities
Objectives
Organization
The California Market Review
Photovoltaic Shipments
Imports & Exports
Market Conclusions
Marketing Strategies
Niches
Image
Advertising
Pricing
Support
Competitive Analysis
Historical Financial, (Actual)
Historical Balance Sheets
Financial Projections
Income/Expense P&L's
3-Year Cash Flows
Balance Sheet
Income Statement
Income/Revenue Charts
Actual Install Photo's (40 Pages)
Software Diagrams & Solutions
Rebate Proceed Procedures
Rebate Reservations, Samples
Rebate Collectons (Forms & Examples)
Utility Generation Interconnection Agreements
(Examples and Forms)
Complete Copy of The Berkeley National Lab Study
Learning by doing
THE EVOLUTION OF STATE SUPPORT FOR
PHOTOVOLTAICS by Mark Bolnger & Ryan Wiser
Also a copy of the Sixth Edition of
The California Energy Commissions
Emerging Renewable Program & Guide Book
Never Before Offered, Maybe Never Again...
Limited Number of Copies Are Available
First Come, First Serve....
For the first five request for the Business Plan
I will include a actual copy of a 69 page Private
Placement Memorandum for an Actual California LLC
Private Offering you can use and follow to raise
capital for any legal enterprise. $595 Dollar Value
Included at No Charge with Your request for the Plan
60 DAY UNCONDITIONAL GUARANTEE
If your not completely Satisfied...
Contact Me At:
Al Boek, Founder
AECG
www.americanenergy@frontiernet.net
Please put CA BIZ PLAN in Subject Line
Can also contact me at 530-549-4315
But maybe your not quite sure where to even begin. AECG is offering you, for the
first time ever, a full copy of an actual Solar Company Business Plan, over 200
pages of never before seen, information. Once protected information, now available.
The package includes...............
A $5,000,000 Request Memorandum, Cover Letter
Exec Summary
Mission Statement
Shareholders Vision Statement
The Actual Offering
Competition
The Business Enterpirse Discription
Res.
Commercial Opportunities
Objectives
Organization
The California Market Review
Photovoltaic Shipments
Imports & Exports
Market Conclusions
Marketing Strategies
Niches
Image
Advertising
Pricing
Support
Competitive Analysis
Historical Financial, (Actual)
Historical Balance Sheets
Financial Projections
Income/Expense P&L's
3-Year Cash Flows
Balance Sheet
Income Statement
Income/Revenue Charts
Actual Install Photo's (40 Pages)
Software Diagrams & Solutions
Rebate Proceed Procedures
Rebate Reservations, Samples
Rebate Collectons (Forms & Examples)
Utility Generation Interconnection Agreements
(Examples and Forms)
Complete Copy of The Berkeley National Lab Study
Learning by doing
THE EVOLUTION OF STATE SUPPORT FOR
PHOTOVOLTAICS by Mark Bolnger & Ryan Wiser
Also a copy of the Sixth Edition of
The California Energy Commissions
Emerging Renewable Program & Guide Book
Never Before Offered, Maybe Never Again...
Limited Number of Copies Are Available
First Come, First Serve....
For the first five request for the Business Plan
I will include a actual copy of a 69 page Private
Placement Memorandum for an Actual California LLC
Private Offering you can use and follow to raise
capital for any legal enterprise. $595 Dollar Value
Included at No Charge with Your request for the Plan
60 DAY UNCONDITIONAL GUARANTEE
If your not completely Satisfied...
Contact Me At:
Al Boek, Founder
AECG
www.americanenergy@frontiernet.net
Please put CA BIZ PLAN in Subject Line
Can also contact me at 530-549-4315
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Al Gore, On Obama's Plan To Repower America, Energy, Solar, Wind, Renewable, Alternative, Leasing, Green Careers, Jobs, Audit, Eco-Consultants Wanted Nationwide
Posted by Al Boek, Founder
American Energy Conservation Group
Redding,CA. 96003
Producing NegWatts...Since 1981
http://negawattsite.com.p2.hostingprod.com/
Repower America
* The Plan|
* Press
Energy Efficiency
Energy Efficiency
+ Renewable Generation
Renewable Generation
+ Unified National Smart Grid
Unified National Smart Grid
= 100% Clean Electricity
100% Clean Electricity
and Clean Plug-in Cars
Clean Plug-in Cars
The Analysis
What does it mean that all electricity generation within 10 years will be met only by zero-carbon sources of power? The We Campaign, with assistance and advice from dozens of energy experts, assessed the potential for meeting electricity demand from a combination of well-understood sources: improved energy efficiency, renewable sources like wind, solar, and geothermal, and fossil fuel power plants that capture and store their carbon pollution. Generation from existing carbon-free sources like conventional hydropower and nuclear power plants was assumed to remain unchanged from current levels.
The assessments uncovered a variety of plausible Repower America scenarios. These scenarios are illustrative: none represent the precise electricity mix in ten years. New and unanticipated technologies will emerge. Others will play a lesser role as competition drives the market. The exact timing of the ramp-down of conventional fossil fuel plants will be in part determined by the ramp-up of the various renewable plants, storage types, and grid advancement.
These scenarios demonstrate, however, that technology availability is not the factor limiting achievement of the Repower America goal. It will be possible to achieve a 100% clean power mix over the next ten years if appropriate policies are put in place to unleash the technologies’ vast potential.
The Scenarios
We considered one reference case and two alternative scenarios for the US electricity mix in a decade and compared them to today’s portfolio.1 For context, the bar chart below shows the 2006 electricity resource mix and the Energy Information Administration’s reference case forecast for 2020.
* 2006 DOE Actual Generation: The most recent data available, the 2006 mix from the US Department of Energy (DOE), is a good representation of today’s generation: predominantly coal, nuclear, natural gas, conventional hydropower, and small contributions from renewable energy.
* 2020 EIA Reference Case Projection (Repower America projected demand target): This is the DOE’s Energy Information Administration projected electricity generation in 2020 under the 2008 Annual Energy Outlook Reference Case. It assumes that electricity generation grows from approximately 4 million GWh in 2006 to 4.7 million GWh in 2020. This 2020 level of generation represents the target for the Repower America scenarios. The EIA’s projections include additional conventional coal and natural gas with modest increases in renewable power to meet growing demand.
* Repower America Scenario A: Energy efficiency policies and programs reduce demand by 28%, nuclear and hydropower – neither of which emits CO2 – remain at current levels, America ramps up wind consistent with recent sectoral growth rates, solar thermal with storage is deployed at scale, and solar PV and geothermal grow at levels consistent with the projections of industry experts.
* Repower America Scenario B: Like Scenario A, includes a mix of efficiency, renewables, and existing generation but assumes fossil fuel industries deploy approximately 20 large coal and natural gas power plants that capture and sequester their CO2 emissions (these are known as coal and natural gas plants with CCS). Wind levels are reduced commensurate with the additional contribution from fossil power with CCS.
* Additional Scenarios: As referenced earlier, there are numerous possible pathways for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2020 — it would be impossible to predict exactly what technologies will comprise the mix. Once the transformation to a system that is highly efficient, renewables–based and connected via a unified smart grid commences, a variety of configurations become possible. For example, industry experts indicate that the 2020 generation mix could include larger contributions from geothermal, solar photovoltaics, and other rapidly emerging renewable technologies — along with new ways to improve efficiency. A modernized grid diminishes the magnitude of traditional baseload plant required for system stability, potentially allowing decreased reliance on aging nuclear power resources. For reference, the ranges described below represent Scenarios A, B, and portfolios with higher geothermal and solar PV levels supported by industry analysis.
The Scenario Details:
Start with carbon-free power at today’s levels: In all scenarios, today’s generation from nuclear and conventional hydropower is held constant. These two sources combined provide over 1 million GWh or 23% of the 2020 projected demand.
Immediately begin an efficiency upgrade – getting more benefit from the electricity we produce: With a suite of national policies and programs, energy efficiency improvements achieve 28% reduction from the 2020 projected demand. Implementing this efficiency target will immediately help families and businesses save money on utility bills.
Continue growth of geothermal power: Baseload geothermal power, which harnesses the energy stored below the ground and has been operating in the US for decades, will continue to grow during the time period. The scenarios assume a total of 20-25GW installed within 10 years or about 3%-4% of the projected demand (or 4%-5% of the annual generation). The scenarios assume the geothermal is mainly conventional hydrothermal power within the timeframe.
Ramp up solar thermal with storage, which can produce power at night: Based on proven technologies, grow the manufacturing capacity and installation of solar thermal power to levels that will support daytime and at least 8 hours of nighttime power. The analysis assumes 10%-13% of the projected demand (or 14%-18% of the annual generation), or 110-180GW.
Continue America’s leadership on wind: Continuing the double digit levels of growth seen over the past several years for this proven technology, scale up wind to 315-400 GW or between 23%-27% of the projected demand (and 33%-37% of the annual generation). This amount of wind would require 125,000-200,000 2-2.5 MW wind turbines distributed around the country in locations on-shore and off-shore. For comparison, 300,000 airplanes were built in the US during WWII.2
Continued solar PV growth at industry expected rates: Based on the average annual growth rate of 40% since 2000 and the recent announcements for gigawatt-scale solar PV projects in California, continue industry growth to achieve 3%-6% of the projected demand (or 4%-8% of the annual generation). At the lower end (Scenarios A and B), this is 65-75GW, which is in the range of the CleanEdge “Utility Solar Assessment” for 2020-2021. At the high end, it is 120-150 GW, which brings CleanEdge’s forecast for those levels forward by three years.3
Coal and natural gas that captures and safely stores the carbon pollution: Coal and natural gas power that are free of carbon pollution can be part of Repower America. Although no such power plants exist in America today, a variety of experts indicate that with significant research and testing, a few such pilot power plants may be in operation within 10 years. As a result, Scenario B assumes 20 GW of large scale plants or about 4% of the generation. Other than these facilities, which must remove at least 85% of the CO2 pollution and safely store it underground, fossil fuel generation is excluded from the Repower America clean electricity scenarios.
Other generation: The remainder of the generation will come from other sources. These include biomass power (the levels in EIA’s 2020 reference case are assumed), which can encompass many sources of carbon-free electricity like agricultural or wood residues and municipal waste, and, once it becomes proven, advanced hydropower that uses the energy from waves, currents, and tides (the scenarios do not assume specific levels of advanced hydro in the time frame).
Transmission and storage: An expanded and robust unified national smart grid that enables power everywhere to be interconnected, monitored, and supported by storage is an essential component of the Repower American plan. This requires a combination of upgrades and additional long-distance and short-distance high voltage transmission lines, advanced distribution systems with demand response and smart metering, and storage with today’s systems and new systems as they become available. See Unified National Smart Grid for more details.
Is materials or land availability a limiting factor?
There are virtually no material or land constraints in the scenarios. An analysis of the types of materials needed to Repower America shows that expansion of production and manufacture of many materials and components is required but the additional requirements are much less than or in line with other demands today. Using a 10-year average annual material requirement for steel, glass, and concrete, there does not appear to be any fundamental lack of materials. For example, the amount of steel required for production of 25,000 wind turbines in one year is equivalent to 8% of 2006 US steel production. Solar thermal requires significant production of glass, and wind requires significant expansion of materials for turbine blades. This manufacturing will expand jobs and local economies.
For land, wind estimates would require a total area approximately the size of West Virginia, although wind farms can be co-located with agriculture. And, if sited together, all of the estimated solar thermal would fit in an area equivalent to metropolitan Atlanta.
Experts Support Repower America Analysis
Validation
Find out what the experts are saying about the plan to Repower America with 100% clean electricity within 10 years.
References
* The Repower America goal is based on clean energy growth within the next decade. However, to ease comparisons of industry and government projections, the scenario analysis used a 2020 timeframe.
* http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/wwii_book_excerpt.html
* CleanEdge. “Utility Solar Assessment”. 2008.
A project of The Alliance for Climate Protection
Copyright © Repower America 2008. All Rights Reserved. Legal & Privacy | Contact Us
Repower America
* The Plan|
* Press
Energy Efficiency
Energy Efficiency
+ Renewable Generation
Renewable Generation
+ Unified National Smart Grid
Unified National Smart Grid
= 100% Clean Electricity
100% Clean Electricity
and Clean Plug-in Cars
Clean Plug-in Cars
The Analysis
What does it mean that all electricity generation within 10 years will be met only by zero-carbon sources of power? The We Campaign, with assistance and advice from dozens of energy experts, assessed the potential for meeting electricity demand from a combination of well-understood sources: improved energy efficiency, renewable sources like wind, solar, and geothermal, and fossil fuel power plants that capture and store their carbon pollution. Generation from existing carbon-free sources like conventional hydropower and nuclear power plants was assumed to remain unchanged from current levels.
The assessments uncovered a variety of plausible Repower America scenarios. These scenarios are illustrative: none represent the precise electricity mix in ten years. New and unanticipated technologies will emerge. Others will play a lesser role as competition drives the market. The exact timing of the ramp-down of conventional fossil fuel plants will be in part determined by the ramp-up of the various renewable plants, storage types, and grid advancement.
These scenarios demonstrate, however, that technology availability is not the factor limiting achievement of the Repower America goal. It will be possible to achieve a 100% clean power mix over the next ten years if appropriate policies are put in place to unleash the technologies’ vast potential.
The Scenarios
We considered one reference case and two alternative scenarios for the US electricity mix in a decade and compared them to today’s portfolio.1 For context, the bar chart below shows the 2006 electricity resource mix and the Energy Information Administration’s reference case forecast for 2020.
* 2006 DOE Actual Generation: The most recent data available, the 2006 mix from the US Department of Energy (DOE), is a good representation of today’s generation: predominantly coal, nuclear, natural gas, conventional hydropower, and small contributions from renewable energy.
* 2020 EIA Reference Case Projection (Repower America projected demand target): This is the DOE’s Energy Information Administration projected electricity generation in 2020 under the 2008 Annual Energy Outlook Reference Case. It assumes that electricity generation grows from approximately 4 million GWh in 2006 to 4.7 million GWh in 2020. This 2020 level of generation represents the target for the Repower America scenarios. The EIA’s projections include additional conventional coal and natural gas with modest increases in renewable power to meet growing demand.
* Repower America Scenario A: Energy efficiency policies and programs reduce demand by 28%, nuclear and hydropower – neither of which emits CO2 – remain at current levels, America ramps up wind consistent with recent sectoral growth rates, solar thermal with storage is deployed at scale, and solar PV and geothermal grow at levels consistent with the projections of industry experts.
* Repower America Scenario B: Like Scenario A, includes a mix of efficiency, renewables, and existing generation but assumes fossil fuel industries deploy approximately 20 large coal and natural gas power plants that capture and sequester their CO2 emissions (these are known as coal and natural gas plants with CCS). Wind levels are reduced commensurate with the additional contribution from fossil power with CCS.
* Additional Scenarios: As referenced earlier, there are numerous possible pathways for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2020 — it would be impossible to predict exactly what technologies will comprise the mix. Once the transformation to a system that is highly efficient, renewables–based and connected via a unified smart grid commences, a variety of configurations become possible. For example, industry experts indicate that the 2020 generation mix could include larger contributions from geothermal, solar photovoltaics, and other rapidly emerging renewable technologies — along with new ways to improve efficiency. A modernized grid diminishes the magnitude of traditional baseload plant required for system stability, potentially allowing decreased reliance on aging nuclear power resources. For reference, the ranges described below represent Scenarios A, B, and portfolios with higher geothermal and solar PV levels supported by industry analysis.
The Scenario Details:
Start with carbon-free power at today’s levels: In all scenarios, today’s generation from nuclear and conventional hydropower is held constant. These two sources combined provide over 1 million GWh or 23% of the 2020 projected demand.
Immediately begin an efficiency upgrade – getting more benefit from the electricity we produce: With a suite of national policies and programs, energy efficiency improvements achieve 28% reduction from the 2020 projected demand. Implementing this efficiency target will immediately help families and businesses save money on utility bills.
Continue growth of geothermal power: Baseload geothermal power, which harnesses the energy stored below the ground and has been operating in the US for decades, will continue to grow during the time period. The scenarios assume a total of 20-25GW installed within 10 years or about 3%-4% of the projected demand (or 4%-5% of the annual generation). The scenarios assume the geothermal is mainly conventional hydrothermal power within the timeframe.
Ramp up solar thermal with storage, which can produce power at night: Based on proven technologies, grow the manufacturing capacity and installation of solar thermal power to levels that will support daytime and at least 8 hours of nighttime power. The analysis assumes 10%-13% of the projected demand (or 14%-18% of the annual generation), or 110-180GW.
Continue America’s leadership on wind: Continuing the double digit levels of growth seen over the past several years for this proven technology, scale up wind to 315-400 GW or between 23%-27% of the projected demand (and 33%-37% of the annual generation). This amount of wind would require 125,000-200,000 2-2.5 MW wind turbines distributed around the country in locations on-shore and off-shore. For comparison, 300,000 airplanes were built in the US during WWII.2
Continued solar PV growth at industry expected rates: Based on the average annual growth rate of 40% since 2000 and the recent announcements for gigawatt-scale solar PV projects in California, continue industry growth to achieve 3%-6% of the projected demand (or 4%-8% of the annual generation). At the lower end (Scenarios A and B), this is 65-75GW, which is in the range of the CleanEdge “Utility Solar Assessment” for 2020-2021. At the high end, it is 120-150 GW, which brings CleanEdge’s forecast for those levels forward by three years.3
Coal and natural gas that captures and safely stores the carbon pollution: Coal and natural gas power that are free of carbon pollution can be part of Repower America. Although no such power plants exist in America today, a variety of experts indicate that with significant research and testing, a few such pilot power plants may be in operation within 10 years. As a result, Scenario B assumes 20 GW of large scale plants or about 4% of the generation. Other than these facilities, which must remove at least 85% of the CO2 pollution and safely store it underground, fossil fuel generation is excluded from the Repower America clean electricity scenarios.
Other generation: The remainder of the generation will come from other sources. These include biomass power (the levels in EIA’s 2020 reference case are assumed), which can encompass many sources of carbon-free electricity like agricultural or wood residues and municipal waste, and, once it becomes proven, advanced hydropower that uses the energy from waves, currents, and tides (the scenarios do not assume specific levels of advanced hydro in the time frame).
Transmission and storage: An expanded and robust unified national smart grid that enables power everywhere to be interconnected, monitored, and supported by storage is an essential component of the Repower American plan. This requires a combination of upgrades and additional long-distance and short-distance high voltage transmission lines, advanced distribution systems with demand response and smart metering, and storage with today’s systems and new systems as they become available. See Unified National Smart Grid for more details.
Is materials or land availability a limiting factor?
There are virtually no material or land constraints in the scenarios. An analysis of the types of materials needed to Repower America shows that expansion of production and manufacture of many materials and components is required but the additional requirements are much less than or in line with other demands today. Using a 10-year average annual material requirement for steel, glass, and concrete, there does not appear to be any fundamental lack of materials. For example, the amount of steel required for production of 25,000 wind turbines in one year is equivalent to 8% of 2006 US steel production. Solar thermal requires significant production of glass, and wind requires significant expansion of materials for turbine blades. This manufacturing will expand jobs and local economies.
For land, wind estimates would require a total area approximately the size of West Virginia, although wind farms can be co-located with agriculture. And, if sited together, all of the estimated solar thermal would fit in an area equivalent to metropolitan Atlanta.
Experts Support Repower America Analysis
Validation
Find out what the experts are saying about the plan to Repower America with 100% clean electricity within 10 years.
References
* The Repower America goal is based on clean energy growth within the next decade. However, to ease comparisons of industry and government projections, the scenario analysis used a 2020 timeframe.
* http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/wwii_book_excerpt.html
* CleanEdge. “Utility Solar Assessment”. 2008.
A project of The Alliance for Climate Protection
Copyright © Repower America 2008. All Rights Reserved. Legal & Privacy | Contact Us
American Energy Conservation Group
Redding,CA. 96003
Producing NegWatts...Since 1981
http://negawattsite.com.p2.hostingprod.com/
Repower America
* The Plan|
* Press
Energy Efficiency
Energy Efficiency
+ Renewable Generation
Renewable Generation
+ Unified National Smart Grid
Unified National Smart Grid
= 100% Clean Electricity
100% Clean Electricity
and Clean Plug-in Cars
Clean Plug-in Cars
The Analysis
What does it mean that all electricity generation within 10 years will be met only by zero-carbon sources of power? The We Campaign, with assistance and advice from dozens of energy experts, assessed the potential for meeting electricity demand from a combination of well-understood sources: improved energy efficiency, renewable sources like wind, solar, and geothermal, and fossil fuel power plants that capture and store their carbon pollution. Generation from existing carbon-free sources like conventional hydropower and nuclear power plants was assumed to remain unchanged from current levels.
The assessments uncovered a variety of plausible Repower America scenarios. These scenarios are illustrative: none represent the precise electricity mix in ten years. New and unanticipated technologies will emerge. Others will play a lesser role as competition drives the market. The exact timing of the ramp-down of conventional fossil fuel plants will be in part determined by the ramp-up of the various renewable plants, storage types, and grid advancement.
These scenarios demonstrate, however, that technology availability is not the factor limiting achievement of the Repower America goal. It will be possible to achieve a 100% clean power mix over the next ten years if appropriate policies are put in place to unleash the technologies’ vast potential.
The Scenarios
We considered one reference case and two alternative scenarios for the US electricity mix in a decade and compared them to today’s portfolio.1 For context, the bar chart below shows the 2006 electricity resource mix and the Energy Information Administration’s reference case forecast for 2020.
* 2006 DOE Actual Generation: The most recent data available, the 2006 mix from the US Department of Energy (DOE), is a good representation of today’s generation: predominantly coal, nuclear, natural gas, conventional hydropower, and small contributions from renewable energy.
* 2020 EIA Reference Case Projection (Repower America projected demand target): This is the DOE’s Energy Information Administration projected electricity generation in 2020 under the 2008 Annual Energy Outlook Reference Case. It assumes that electricity generation grows from approximately 4 million GWh in 2006 to 4.7 million GWh in 2020. This 2020 level of generation represents the target for the Repower America scenarios. The EIA’s projections include additional conventional coal and natural gas with modest increases in renewable power to meet growing demand.
* Repower America Scenario A: Energy efficiency policies and programs reduce demand by 28%, nuclear and hydropower – neither of which emits CO2 – remain at current levels, America ramps up wind consistent with recent sectoral growth rates, solar thermal with storage is deployed at scale, and solar PV and geothermal grow at levels consistent with the projections of industry experts.
* Repower America Scenario B: Like Scenario A, includes a mix of efficiency, renewables, and existing generation but assumes fossil fuel industries deploy approximately 20 large coal and natural gas power plants that capture and sequester their CO2 emissions (these are known as coal and natural gas plants with CCS). Wind levels are reduced commensurate with the additional contribution from fossil power with CCS.
* Additional Scenarios: As referenced earlier, there are numerous possible pathways for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2020 — it would be impossible to predict exactly what technologies will comprise the mix. Once the transformation to a system that is highly efficient, renewables–based and connected via a unified smart grid commences, a variety of configurations become possible. For example, industry experts indicate that the 2020 generation mix could include larger contributions from geothermal, solar photovoltaics, and other rapidly emerging renewable technologies — along with new ways to improve efficiency. A modernized grid diminishes the magnitude of traditional baseload plant required for system stability, potentially allowing decreased reliance on aging nuclear power resources. For reference, the ranges described below represent Scenarios A, B, and portfolios with higher geothermal and solar PV levels supported by industry analysis.
The Scenario Details:
Start with carbon-free power at today’s levels: In all scenarios, today’s generation from nuclear and conventional hydropower is held constant. These two sources combined provide over 1 million GWh or 23% of the 2020 projected demand.
Immediately begin an efficiency upgrade – getting more benefit from the electricity we produce: With a suite of national policies and programs, energy efficiency improvements achieve 28% reduction from the 2020 projected demand. Implementing this efficiency target will immediately help families and businesses save money on utility bills.
Continue growth of geothermal power: Baseload geothermal power, which harnesses the energy stored below the ground and has been operating in the US for decades, will continue to grow during the time period. The scenarios assume a total of 20-25GW installed within 10 years or about 3%-4% of the projected demand (or 4%-5% of the annual generation). The scenarios assume the geothermal is mainly conventional hydrothermal power within the timeframe.
Ramp up solar thermal with storage, which can produce power at night: Based on proven technologies, grow the manufacturing capacity and installation of solar thermal power to levels that will support daytime and at least 8 hours of nighttime power. The analysis assumes 10%-13% of the projected demand (or 14%-18% of the annual generation), or 110-180GW.
Continue America’s leadership on wind: Continuing the double digit levels of growth seen over the past several years for this proven technology, scale up wind to 315-400 GW or between 23%-27% of the projected demand (and 33%-37% of the annual generation). This amount of wind would require 125,000-200,000 2-2.5 MW wind turbines distributed around the country in locations on-shore and off-shore. For comparison, 300,000 airplanes were built in the US during WWII.2
Continued solar PV growth at industry expected rates: Based on the average annual growth rate of 40% since 2000 and the recent announcements for gigawatt-scale solar PV projects in California, continue industry growth to achieve 3%-6% of the projected demand (or 4%-8% of the annual generation). At the lower end (Scenarios A and B), this is 65-75GW, which is in the range of the CleanEdge “Utility Solar Assessment” for 2020-2021. At the high end, it is 120-150 GW, which brings CleanEdge’s forecast for those levels forward by three years.3
Coal and natural gas that captures and safely stores the carbon pollution: Coal and natural gas power that are free of carbon pollution can be part of Repower America. Although no such power plants exist in America today, a variety of experts indicate that with significant research and testing, a few such pilot power plants may be in operation within 10 years. As a result, Scenario B assumes 20 GW of large scale plants or about 4% of the generation. Other than these facilities, which must remove at least 85% of the CO2 pollution and safely store it underground, fossil fuel generation is excluded from the Repower America clean electricity scenarios.
Other generation: The remainder of the generation will come from other sources. These include biomass power (the levels in EIA’s 2020 reference case are assumed), which can encompass many sources of carbon-free electricity like agricultural or wood residues and municipal waste, and, once it becomes proven, advanced hydropower that uses the energy from waves, currents, and tides (the scenarios do not assume specific levels of advanced hydro in the time frame).
Transmission and storage: An expanded and robust unified national smart grid that enables power everywhere to be interconnected, monitored, and supported by storage is an essential component of the Repower American plan. This requires a combination of upgrades and additional long-distance and short-distance high voltage transmission lines, advanced distribution systems with demand response and smart metering, and storage with today’s systems and new systems as they become available. See Unified National Smart Grid for more details.
Is materials or land availability a limiting factor?
There are virtually no material or land constraints in the scenarios. An analysis of the types of materials needed to Repower America shows that expansion of production and manufacture of many materials and components is required but the additional requirements are much less than or in line with other demands today. Using a 10-year average annual material requirement for steel, glass, and concrete, there does not appear to be any fundamental lack of materials. For example, the amount of steel required for production of 25,000 wind turbines in one year is equivalent to 8% of 2006 US steel production. Solar thermal requires significant production of glass, and wind requires significant expansion of materials for turbine blades. This manufacturing will expand jobs and local economies.
For land, wind estimates would require a total area approximately the size of West Virginia, although wind farms can be co-located with agriculture. And, if sited together, all of the estimated solar thermal would fit in an area equivalent to metropolitan Atlanta.
Experts Support Repower America Analysis
Validation
Find out what the experts are saying about the plan to Repower America with 100% clean electricity within 10 years.
References
* The Repower America goal is based on clean energy growth within the next decade. However, to ease comparisons of industry and government projections, the scenario analysis used a 2020 timeframe.
* http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/wwii_book_excerpt.html
* CleanEdge. “Utility Solar Assessment”. 2008.
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Repower America
* The Plan|
* Press
Energy Efficiency
Energy Efficiency
+ Renewable Generation
Renewable Generation
+ Unified National Smart Grid
Unified National Smart Grid
= 100% Clean Electricity
100% Clean Electricity
and Clean Plug-in Cars
Clean Plug-in Cars
The Analysis
What does it mean that all electricity generation within 10 years will be met only by zero-carbon sources of power? The We Campaign, with assistance and advice from dozens of energy experts, assessed the potential for meeting electricity demand from a combination of well-understood sources: improved energy efficiency, renewable sources like wind, solar, and geothermal, and fossil fuel power plants that capture and store their carbon pollution. Generation from existing carbon-free sources like conventional hydropower and nuclear power plants was assumed to remain unchanged from current levels.
The assessments uncovered a variety of plausible Repower America scenarios. These scenarios are illustrative: none represent the precise electricity mix in ten years. New and unanticipated technologies will emerge. Others will play a lesser role as competition drives the market. The exact timing of the ramp-down of conventional fossil fuel plants will be in part determined by the ramp-up of the various renewable plants, storage types, and grid advancement.
These scenarios demonstrate, however, that technology availability is not the factor limiting achievement of the Repower America goal. It will be possible to achieve a 100% clean power mix over the next ten years if appropriate policies are put in place to unleash the technologies’ vast potential.
The Scenarios
We considered one reference case and two alternative scenarios for the US electricity mix in a decade and compared them to today’s portfolio.1 For context, the bar chart below shows the 2006 electricity resource mix and the Energy Information Administration’s reference case forecast for 2020.
* 2006 DOE Actual Generation: The most recent data available, the 2006 mix from the US Department of Energy (DOE), is a good representation of today’s generation: predominantly coal, nuclear, natural gas, conventional hydropower, and small contributions from renewable energy.
* 2020 EIA Reference Case Projection (Repower America projected demand target): This is the DOE’s Energy Information Administration projected electricity generation in 2020 under the 2008 Annual Energy Outlook Reference Case. It assumes that electricity generation grows from approximately 4 million GWh in 2006 to 4.7 million GWh in 2020. This 2020 level of generation represents the target for the Repower America scenarios. The EIA’s projections include additional conventional coal and natural gas with modest increases in renewable power to meet growing demand.
* Repower America Scenario A: Energy efficiency policies and programs reduce demand by 28%, nuclear and hydropower – neither of which emits CO2 – remain at current levels, America ramps up wind consistent with recent sectoral growth rates, solar thermal with storage is deployed at scale, and solar PV and geothermal grow at levels consistent with the projections of industry experts.
* Repower America Scenario B: Like Scenario A, includes a mix of efficiency, renewables, and existing generation but assumes fossil fuel industries deploy approximately 20 large coal and natural gas power plants that capture and sequester their CO2 emissions (these are known as coal and natural gas plants with CCS). Wind levels are reduced commensurate with the additional contribution from fossil power with CCS.
* Additional Scenarios: As referenced earlier, there are numerous possible pathways for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2020 — it would be impossible to predict exactly what technologies will comprise the mix. Once the transformation to a system that is highly efficient, renewables–based and connected via a unified smart grid commences, a variety of configurations become possible. For example, industry experts indicate that the 2020 generation mix could include larger contributions from geothermal, solar photovoltaics, and other rapidly emerging renewable technologies — along with new ways to improve efficiency. A modernized grid diminishes the magnitude of traditional baseload plant required for system stability, potentially allowing decreased reliance on aging nuclear power resources. For reference, the ranges described below represent Scenarios A, B, and portfolios with higher geothermal and solar PV levels supported by industry analysis.
The Scenario Details:
Start with carbon-free power at today’s levels: In all scenarios, today’s generation from nuclear and conventional hydropower is held constant. These two sources combined provide over 1 million GWh or 23% of the 2020 projected demand.
Immediately begin an efficiency upgrade – getting more benefit from the electricity we produce: With a suite of national policies and programs, energy efficiency improvements achieve 28% reduction from the 2020 projected demand. Implementing this efficiency target will immediately help families and businesses save money on utility bills.
Continue growth of geothermal power: Baseload geothermal power, which harnesses the energy stored below the ground and has been operating in the US for decades, will continue to grow during the time period. The scenarios assume a total of 20-25GW installed within 10 years or about 3%-4% of the projected demand (or 4%-5% of the annual generation). The scenarios assume the geothermal is mainly conventional hydrothermal power within the timeframe.
Ramp up solar thermal with storage, which can produce power at night: Based on proven technologies, grow the manufacturing capacity and installation of solar thermal power to levels that will support daytime and at least 8 hours of nighttime power. The analysis assumes 10%-13% of the projected demand (or 14%-18% of the annual generation), or 110-180GW.
Continue America’s leadership on wind: Continuing the double digit levels of growth seen over the past several years for this proven technology, scale up wind to 315-400 GW or between 23%-27% of the projected demand (and 33%-37% of the annual generation). This amount of wind would require 125,000-200,000 2-2.5 MW wind turbines distributed around the country in locations on-shore and off-shore. For comparison, 300,000 airplanes were built in the US during WWII.2
Continued solar PV growth at industry expected rates: Based on the average annual growth rate of 40% since 2000 and the recent announcements for gigawatt-scale solar PV projects in California, continue industry growth to achieve 3%-6% of the projected demand (or 4%-8% of the annual generation). At the lower end (Scenarios A and B), this is 65-75GW, which is in the range of the CleanEdge “Utility Solar Assessment” for 2020-2021. At the high end, it is 120-150 GW, which brings CleanEdge’s forecast for those levels forward by three years.3
Coal and natural gas that captures and safely stores the carbon pollution: Coal and natural gas power that are free of carbon pollution can be part of Repower America. Although no such power plants exist in America today, a variety of experts indicate that with significant research and testing, a few such pilot power plants may be in operation within 10 years. As a result, Scenario B assumes 20 GW of large scale plants or about 4% of the generation. Other than these facilities, which must remove at least 85% of the CO2 pollution and safely store it underground, fossil fuel generation is excluded from the Repower America clean electricity scenarios.
Other generation: The remainder of the generation will come from other sources. These include biomass power (the levels in EIA’s 2020 reference case are assumed), which can encompass many sources of carbon-free electricity like agricultural or wood residues and municipal waste, and, once it becomes proven, advanced hydropower that uses the energy from waves, currents, and tides (the scenarios do not assume specific levels of advanced hydro in the time frame).
Transmission and storage: An expanded and robust unified national smart grid that enables power everywhere to be interconnected, monitored, and supported by storage is an essential component of the Repower American plan. This requires a combination of upgrades and additional long-distance and short-distance high voltage transmission lines, advanced distribution systems with demand response and smart metering, and storage with today’s systems and new systems as they become available. See Unified National Smart Grid for more details.
Is materials or land availability a limiting factor?
There are virtually no material or land constraints in the scenarios. An analysis of the types of materials needed to Repower America shows that expansion of production and manufacture of many materials and components is required but the additional requirements are much less than or in line with other demands today. Using a 10-year average annual material requirement for steel, glass, and concrete, there does not appear to be any fundamental lack of materials. For example, the amount of steel required for production of 25,000 wind turbines in one year is equivalent to 8% of 2006 US steel production. Solar thermal requires significant production of glass, and wind requires significant expansion of materials for turbine blades. This manufacturing will expand jobs and local economies.
For land, wind estimates would require a total area approximately the size of West Virginia, although wind farms can be co-located with agriculture. And, if sited together, all of the estimated solar thermal would fit in an area equivalent to metropolitan Atlanta.
Experts Support Repower America Analysis
Validation
Find out what the experts are saying about the plan to Repower America with 100% clean electricity within 10 years.
References
* The Repower America goal is based on clean energy growth within the next decade. However, to ease comparisons of industry and government projections, the scenario analysis used a 2020 timeframe.
* http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/wwii_book_excerpt.html
* CleanEdge. “Utility Solar Assessment”. 2008.
A project of The Alliance for Climate Protection
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Database of State by State, and Federal Incentitives For Renewable Energy Measures
Click title for link to this important, informative information. Don't forget to
check the federal incentitives as well. After you find out what's available,
why not contact us and see what we can do to help you become a factor in your
state? Our affiliated companies have everything your going to need to be a success.
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check the federal incentitives as well. After you find out what's available,
why not contact us and see what we can do to help you become a factor in your
state? Our affiliated companies have everything your going to need to be a success.
Al Boek, Founder
American Energy Conservation Group
Redding, CA. 96003
530-549-4315 E-mail:americanenergy@frontiernet.net
http://negawattsite.com.p2.hostingprod.com/
Monday, January 26, 2009
Obama's Energy Wind Solar Renewable Alternative Financing Green Careers Jobs
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get hooked up with your new leadership...They are actually listening and want to hear from you. That's the kinda change, I'm talken about. _
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Energy Plan for America. Imagine $150 Billion over 10 years to create over 4,000,000
Green Jobs. We're Doing Our Part Mr. President. Go To The White House dot org and
get hooked up with your new leadership...They are actually listening and want to hear from you. That's the kinda change, I'm talken about. _
Al Boek, Founder
American Energy Conservation Group
www.americanenergy@frontiernet.net
530-549-4315
Creating NegaWatts...Since 1981
We are auditing, planning, marketing, selling, financing, installing,training, conservation, wind, solar, projects, Nationwide. Help Wanted
Sunday, January 25, 2009
TOP 10 Solar, Wind, Renewable,Alternative, Green Energy Careers, Jobs
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the post I put up. Be aware, we are just trying to claw our way to the top of a Google search page somewhere. Since we are a full conservation and solar renewable
energy consultants, career mentors and job coaches, involved in marketing, sales
and installs, while setting up a California chain of like-minded Green Eco-consultants. We are one of the few here in the state, that have already built
such a chain.
Come to and enjoy our last renewable energy web-based, FEDRadio, Financing Energy Developments.
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