Optimizing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Projects
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The Stella Group, Ltd. is a strategic marketing firm focused on clean distributed energy solutions, including advanced energy technologies and system standardization. Reports from various organizations, including Greenpeace and Google.org, indicate a potential transition to renewable energy by 2090, emphasizing the need for major overhauls and significant investments to combat climate change. The National Research Council suggests that renewable resources in the U.S. can significantly contribute to electricity needs, with various states potentially achieving energy independence through in-state renewable fuels.
Optimizing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Projects
- 1. The Stella Group, Ltd.. is a strategic marketing and policy firm for clean distributed energy users and companies which include advanced batteries and controls, energy efficiency, fuel cells, heat engines, minigeneration (natural gas), microhydropower, modular biomass, photovoltaics, small wind, and solar thermal (including daylighting, water heating, industrial preheat, building air-conditioning, and electric power generation). The Stella Group, Ltd. blends distributed energy technologies, aggregates financing (including leasing), with a focus on system standardization. Scott Sklar serves as Steering Committee Chair of the Sustainable Energy Coalition, composed of the renewable energy and energy efficiency trade associations and analytical groups, and sits on the national Boards of Directors of the non-profit Business Council for Sustainable Energy, Renewable Energy Policy Project, and CoChairs the Policy Committee of the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council. The Stella Group, Ltd. 1616 H Street, NW, 10th fl Washington, DC 20006 202-347-2214 (f-2215) www.TheStellaGroupLtd.com solarsklar@aol.com
- 2. Clean Energy Reports 1. GREENPEACE/DLR The world could eliminate fossil fuel use by 2090 by spending trillions of dollars on a renewable energy revolution, the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and environmental group Greenpeace said. The 210-page study is one of few reports -- even by lobby groups -- to look in detail at how energy use would have to be overhauled to meet the toughest scenarios for curbing greenhouse gases outlined by the U.N. a Climate Panel. "Renewable energy could provide all global energy needs by 2090," according to the study, entitled "Energy (R)evolution." EREC represents renewable energy industries and trade and research associations in Europe. 2. ASES/NREL U.S. Energy Experts Announce Way to Freeze Global Warming On January 31, 2007 at a press conference in Washington, D.C., ASES unveiled a 200-page report, Tackling Climate Change in the U.S.: Potential Carbon Emissions Reductions from Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by 2030. The result of more than a year of study, the report illustrates how energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies can provide the emissions reductions required to address global warming. U.S. Carbon Emissions Displacement Potential from Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by 2030 - 57% Energy Efficiency, 43% Renewables 3. GOOGLE Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the search giant, has unveiled a plan to move the U.S. to . a clean-energy future. The vision: In 2030, electricity will be generated not from coal or oil but from wind, solar, and geothermal power. Energy demand will be two-thirds what it is now, thanks to stringent energy- efficiency measures. Ninety percent of new vehicle sales will be plug-in hybrids. Carbon dioxide emissions will be down 48 percent. Getting there will cost $4.4 trillion, says the plan -- but will recoup $5.4 trillion in savings. The Clean Energy 2030 plan would require ambitious national policies, a huge boost to renewables, increased transmission capacity, a smart electricity grid, and much higher fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles.
- 3. TWO MORE STUDIES INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE (October 2009) report by David Morris “SELF RELIANT STATES” -- Excerpted Executive Summary Conclusion: "All 36 states with either renewable energy goals or renewable energy mandates could meet them by relying on in-state renewable fuels. Sixty-four percent could be self-sufficient in electricity from in-state renewables; another 14 percent could generate 75 percent of their electricity from homegrown fuels. Indeed, the nation may be able to achieve a significant degree of energy independence by harnessing the most decentralized of all renewable resources: solar energy. More than 40 states plus the District of Columbia could generate 25 percent of their electricity just with rooftop PV. In fact, these data may be conservative. The report does not, for example, estimate the potential for ground photovoltaic arrays – although it does estimate the amount of land needed in each state to be self-sufficient relying on solar – even though common sense suggests that this should dwarf the rooftop potential..... It is at the local level that new technologies like smart grids, electric vehicles, distributed storage, and rooftop solar will have their major impact.” Contact for David Morris at: cell 612-220-7649 or dmorris@ilsr.org National Research Council Renewables Report - June 09 Renewable energy resources in the U.S. are sufficient to meet a significant portion of the nation’s electricity needs says a new report from the National Research Council. Press and link to report at: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinew s/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12619 or http://tinyurl.com/neka69
- 4. Percentage of Clean Energy in 21st Century 20 20 20% Biomass Power 12% Building RE: GCHP/SDL 10% Geothermal 10 12 15% Solar-Concentrated Solar 15% Solar-Distributed PV/ST 8 8% Waste Heat 10 10% Water Energy 15 20% Wind Energy 15
- 7. Table 5.3. Average Retail Price of Electricity to Ultimate Customers: Total by End-Use Sector, 1995 through August 2009 (Cents per Kilowatt hour SOURCE: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_3.html 1995 8.4 1996 8.36 1997 8.43 1998 8.26 1999 8.16 2000 8.24 2001 8.58 2002 8.44 2003 8.72 2006 10.04 2009 11.63
- 8. U.S. CAA & Carbon Emissions by Energy Source
- 9. Good planets are hard to find.