The Storage Industry Learns From Solar: Third Party Financing A Growing Trend
Energy 2/26/2015 @ 9:03AM
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PETER KELLY-DETWILER
This morning, ViZn Energy Systems - an energy storage company with a zinc iron redox flow storage technology announced that it was teaming up with LFC Capital to improve the financing options for solar PV and energy storage. The companies will make available up to 5 million per project.
The LFC financing program will involve a traditional operating lease, with options to own after six or seven years, as well as 'tax efficiency.' The two companies have identified the ideal project size as being a solar PV installation between 50 kilowatts and one megawatt, complemented with between 80 kilowatt-hours to 500 kilowatt-hours of energy storage.
The financing will be made available to qualified entities in all 50 states (though Alaska would seem an unlikely prospect). LFC is no novice to the energy finance business: it already offers operating leases starting at 100,000 to companies wishing to eventually own their solar systems.
This announcement is interesting on two levels, as it illustrates the growing trend of combining solar and energy storage technologies, as well as an increasing level of third-party financing moving into the storage game.
Solar + storage = an increasingly frequent value proposition
ViZn is not alone in combining solar and storage projects. In its February earnings call Tesla's CEO Elon Musk announced the impending release of a consumer lithium ion battery for home storage. And last fall, SolarCity SCTY +0.89% CTO Peter Rive announced at the Energy Storage North America conference that a combined PV/storage offering was in the works as a future standard product offering. Meanwhile, other companies like Solar Grid Storage and Intelligent Generation are offering their own solar/storage combinations with different business models.
As costs of both solar and storage continue to fall, we will see many more announcements concerning the convergence of the two technologies.
Solar + storage + financing = even better
ViZn CEO Ron Van Dell notes that the combined solar/storage product lends itself particularly well to financing because both solar and storage scale easily.
You have to have the inherent product attributes that are consistent with these types of projects. You can't have a cool financing tool with a product that isn't simple or doesn't scale well. The hardware aspects of deployment match up well with the kinds of projects that this kind of financing collaboration is targeting.
His company is not alone in this regard. Solar City is offering lease financing for a combined solar/storage offering. Storage company Stem recently announced a 135 million financing pool to help advance on-site customer storage projects. And GreenCharge networks announced an infusion of 56 million in third party financing last July from company K Road DG.
Van Dell notes that this trend is only going to grow.
It is echoing exactly what happened in solar, but we are hoping to accelerate...A lot of people who have been associated with the solar food chain are now doing solar plus storage... There are some fundamental economic reasons for that. You will get better economic returns from PV and storage, and you are more friendly to the grid you are connecting with. So why wouldn't you extend financing to both?
ViZn's redox flow battery (the company has an 80 kilowatt/160 kilowatt-hour module, with a 200 kilowatt/600 kilowatt-hour module out soon) positions the company to develop larger projects.
The financing offered by LFC allows the company to target a specific market that Van Dell feels is under-served, that is too small for a power purchase agreement, and has typically not had the financial wherewithal to access solar and storage.
We think there is a parade of opportunities in the mid-size market that typically have not been able to be done via a financed approach and now will be able to - and that's a large part of the market. It's also a diverse and early adopter part of the market as well.
He observes that as storage becomes more commonly deployed, some customers will want to do it themselves, even assuming responsibility for operations and maintenance, but others will prefer a storage-as-a-service type approach, with the flexibility of payment over time. In the end, Van Dell believes the financing will greatly help move product to market.
It really accelerates early adoption to be able to combine a very simple-to- deploy product with very straightforward financing options as well. It makes adoption easier.
Image: ViZn Energy Systems - will financing help move the needle on storage volumes?
ViZn has just entered its production phase and is now shipping product domestically and abroad, with the expectation that up to a third of its business in 2015 will be supported through this financing arrangement. The company expects to install dozens of projects this year and Van Dell is optimistic that the LFC financing option will help considerably.
"It's looking like the right thing at the right time for us."
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By Lyndon Rive and Mark Ruffalo; Original story here As America watched the ball drop in Times Square, New Yorkers could ring in the New Year with similar celebration for the clean, renewable energy jobs growing in 2015 and beyond. With major decisions coming out of the governor's office and Public Service Commission last month, we closed 2014 with a state getting into its clean energy groove. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recent decision to ban fracking protects us from harmful health impacts and methane emissions. It also adds the chorus to an anthem emerging from New York as the state's energy efficiency, solar and wind industries have risen over the last five years. As the door finally closed on fracking here, the governor and Public Service Commission ushered in a suite of decisions acknowledging that private sector and community development of clean energy is poised to lead national job creation and expand consumer choice. Renewable energy accounted for a whopping 43 percent of the world's new generating capacity last year. In the U.S., more than 55 percent of new generating capacity came from renewable sources during the first half of this year. Here in New York, we got 23 percent of our total energy from renewable sources, and generated more hydroelectric power than any state east of the Rockies. We are seventh in the nation for solar power, and 11th for wind. But what's really exciting is the clean energy sector's growth potential - in both energy production and job creation. Over 340 million was spent installing solar in 2013. And the price of solar keeps falling, declining 7 percent last year and over 39 percent nationally since 2010. Nationwide, the competition for clean energy dominance is on: the U.S. added more than 20,000 solar jobs in 2013. Today, there are more than 400 solar companies operating in New York alone, and they are hiring. But New York's policy decisions are not only spurring job growth across the state's rooftops, they are also bringing manufacturing back to the United States. In Buffalo, thousands of jobs are returning to the site of a shuttered steel plant as SolarCity builds the largest solar energy equipment factory in the Western hemisphere. Within the next two years, thousands will work there. Across the country, though, both consumer demand and technological innovation are running up against the status quo. Economic, legal and regulatory barriers of a century-old electricity system built around centralized fossil fuel generation have yet to be removed - and in many states are kept in place by the beneficiaries of the 20th century status quo and a shortsighted rush to natural gas. New York can set a new standard. Two years after Hurricane Sandy showed us just how much we rely on the grid and how vulnerable it is, the state's Reforming the Energy Vision initiative, spearheaded by Governor Cuomo and the Public Service Commission, seeks to shake off the status quo assumptions of an electricity sector that has changed very little in a hundred years, and create something cleaner, more reliable and more efficient in its place. While there are risks - utilities, for example, should not be allowed to expand their monopolies into an existing free market for distributed generation - REV has the potential to set the standard for 21st century electricity planning. If New York also adopts strong efficiency, renewables and community benefits targets in the new year, businesses offering clean energy solutions will flourish and 100 percent of New Yorkers will gain access to the affordable, healthy and stable electricity system just coming into form. This kind of bold leadership and creativity is what attracts innovators and investors from around the world - a trillion dollar global market in clean energy - to New York. It's what brought SolarCity to Buffalo and will bring millions of tourists to Manhattan for the new year. And it's what has New York positioned to attract today's energy jobs and investment, inspiring other states to move, too. As the Frank Sinatra song went at New Year's celebrations across the country yesterday, "I want to be a part of it, New York, New York!" "L"yndon Rive is the CEO and co-founder of SolarCity, the nation's largest residential solar company. Mark Ruffalo is a New York-based actor, father and board member of the Solutions Project (100.org), a national organization whose mission is to accelerate the transition to 100 percent clean, renewable energy for all people and purposes." The post Albany Times Union: N.Y. can set new energy standard appeared first on The Solutions Project.
MARSHALL, Minn.-It's a venture that depends on lots of sunshine, but rural southwestern Minnesota residents remain largely in the dark about the biggest solar power project in the state, quietly being plotted for hundreds of acres of farmland surrounding them. "Our overall concern is and has been the lack of knowledge within our neighborhood," said Janelle Geurts, who fears solar panels could be erected within 100 feet of her house. "We had heard from a number of people that this project was to be kept quiet. Our concern is protecting our farm land." Five hundred acres of farmland will be plowed under to make room for 200,000 to 275,000 photovoltaic panels that will generate 62 megawatts of solar powered electricity, Nextera Energy Resources revealed. Why here? Location, location, location-near Xcel Energy's power transmission facilities about five miles north of Marshall in Lyon County. As word of the massive 100 million project spread after Christmas, residents called an impromptu meeting that had to be moved from the township hall to Guerts' machine shed to accommodate about 75 apprehensive landowners. "My biggest concern is my property value. I have busted my hump to get what I have out there. And you wind up with a solar farm 50 feet from your property line?" asked Chuck Muller, an opponent who lives adjacent to the proposed solar site. "I won't be able to give my house away and that's what's got everybody worked up." Facing a new state mandate to generate 1.5 percent of its power from solar energy, Xcel Energy picked Nextera from other competitive bids. Because of the size of the project, county and township officials have no local control over the approval process. "If it's over 50 megawatts, counties are pre-empted from permitting," said John Biren, Lyon County zoning administrator, who met with Nextera officials recently. A backlash against the project became public with a letter published in the Marshall Independent. "If loss of local control, decreased property values, increased cost of electricity or future cleanup issues of a 500-acre industrial site is a concern, then this project is a concern," wrote Greg Boerboom of Marshall. "This project, mandated by the metro members of our Minnesota Legislature along with our governor, ignored the facts about the inefficacy of solar power." "Read more at Watchdog.org." The post Minnesotans Kept in Dark on Solar Project appeared first on Daily Signal.
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TOYOTA, HONDA, AND NISSAN WANT TO IMPROVE JAPAN'S HYDROGEN FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE
Toyota, Honda, and Nissan have partnered with the Japanese government in order to accelerate the development of a hydrogen fuel infrastructure in the country. These automakers have a strong interest in clean transportation, with Toyota and Honda having released fuel cell vehicles. Nissan has a focus on battery electrics, but the company has been showing some support for hydrogen fuel cells recently. Together, these companies may be able to help a hydrogen infrastructure take form more quickly.
FUEL CELL VEHICLES NEED A BETTER INFRASTRUCTURE IN ORDER TO SUCCEED
A hydrogen fuel infrastructure is vital to the success of fuel cell vehicles. These vehicles use fuel cells to generate the electrical power they need to operate. Without access to hydrogen, vehicles using fuel cells will not be able to operate. Much of the world lacks a comprehensive hydrogen infrastructure, making the attraction of fuel cell vehicles somewhat low. Japan, however, has been investing in the establishment of a working infrastructure in order to make itself an attractive market for clean transportation.
Interest In Fuel Cell Vehicles Increases As Hydrogen Infrastructure Expands
The automakers believe that a hydrogen infrastructure will attract more attention to fuel cell vehicles. Toyota recently launched its first fuel cell vehicle, the Mirai, in Japan. The company has reported that it has seen a surge in demand for this vehicle, to the point where it will have to increase production in the future. Honda's own fuel cell vehicle has been available for some time, mostly in California. As more hydrogen stations are built, the automakers have seen an increase in the demand for their fuel cell vehicles.
Japanese Government To Assist In Building New Hydrogen Stations
Toyota, Honda, and Nissan will be working on building a Strategic Road Map for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells. This will serve as an outline for their plans concerning the country's hydrogen infrastructure. The Japanese government is offering subsidies for new stations to be built, offsetting the financial blow that is associated with building new fueling stations and using hydrogen technologies.
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"In means of access to France: Internal Meeting Debates Solar Thermal Forward-looking" I judge the dramatist has misinterpreted the top bench. He writes "The agenda on the departed, which has been full from the assessment, depicts that 25 % of town renewable funding in the take seven living was departed on solar thermal and solar photovoltaics, little the supported systems only this minute produced 1.6% of the remainder renewable heat and electricity in 2011." But neither the bench nor the text before it in the assessment purpose that the identical energy produced was community to that of "supported systems". The energy produced refers to all such systems habitually installed. The bench compares town child support departed 2005-2011 with the Overall energy produced by renewable energy systems. The work out is what is expected: The "old" renewables (biomass, hydropower) cling the lions bundle, little the "new" renewables are stopped timidly small. But this is acid the expect why support is given to solar energy and other "new" renewables: Plump at the same time as the "old" renewables may show off been luxury cost-efficient, they suited cannot be scaled to a large extent luxury. This is optional extra fathom for hydropower whose undertake has been all in all realised in the in the same way as rather than. But this is in addition fathom for biomass to a categorical scope - its bundle cannot be definitely doubled or tripled. So, the "new" renewables are for sure necessary in replacing fossil fuels and non-renewable electricity. This is why we need to support "new" renewables and moral them at home the market. We show off rather than seen that give directions precisely support schemes (read: feed-in-tariffs) PV has scaled and market expenses to an scope in the past unthinkable. Maybe the dramatist would duplicate to correct the put-on prospect he has colored. I would very regard it. Leading regardsUwe Trenkner * means of access
CHICAGO, IL -- Discourse at the fracture group of Huge Check International 2013 -- the main solar issue disclose in America -- Rhone Resch, go and CEO of the Huge Energy Industries Quantity delivered the agree with remarks:
Innocent afternoon everyone. Agreeable to Chicago. Agreeable to SPI 2013. And include to the Big Leagues.
In the role of 2006, seeing that the solar Hub Tax Acknowledgment most important went stylish graft, we've earlier period from in the role of an "no one industry" - one that our critics predicted would be revealed dejectedly - to one of the fastest-growing industries in the Tied States, in this day and age employing 120,000 Americans at luxury than 6,000 companies from seashore to seashore and pumping billions of dollars in the U.S. economy.
Considering it's all alleged and polished, 2013 will go down as a record-shattering engagement for America's solar energy industry. And if we're shrewd - and we predicament in use as a whole as a someone in the providence, outburst with one powerfully roughly - the precise is yet to build.
You come across it. I come across it. And a lot of relations in Washington, D.C. come across it, too, through the Cranium of the Tied States.
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Be equal with I alleged, include to the Big Leagues!
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How many relations in this extent benefit either turn or aslant from the solar ITC? That's fitting, everyone. One uncommitted be incorporated in this industry benefits from the ITC. That's why we all need to shift up and get psychosis.
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Past this engagement, the Edison Stimulating Launch, which represents about 200 investor-owned electric companies, issued a iced verify called "Difficult Challenges." Efficiently, hypothesis what was singled out as the major omen to electric utilities nationwide? Cybersecurity and terrorism? Nope. EPA Carbon Dirt Standards? Bad another time. How about rising energy prices? Not raze to the ground mentioned.
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From the Heartland Launch - funded in large part by the Koch Brothers - to the ultra-conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, groups all straddling the Tied States are stony up to oppose an acquire of solar energy.
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Vigorous as a whole, we can - and we will - predicament solar tough and escalating.
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Grotesque, these Top 25 companies create deployed 445 MW of solar job - a elder 48 percent spread from one engagement ago.
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Meanwhile, the Huge Export Perception Identify, fashioned by SEIA and GTM Research shows the U.S. installed 832 MW of new PV job in the update district of this engagement - with the U.S. residential solar hole escalating by almost 50 percent for a second time Q2 2012.
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In confident ways, this is choose feat the Innocent Housekeeping Shut of Facilitate. SEIA put a bug in Cranium Obama's ear about installing solar panels on the Pale Collective seeing that he most important took separate in 2009, and we've worked with a league to lease it up in completely discussion so also. To see this utterly happen is not decently agreeable, but it above and beyond helps to point out solar as a mainstream source of clean, copious and not expensive energy.
For lifetime, submit was decently one entitlement file in opposition to solar: It was too precious. That's no longer the shoot down. Considering Cranium Transporter was in separate solar thermal applications taken, and PV solar panels were, in candor, categorically expensive and used originator for off-grid and position applications. In the role of also, the document of PV has plummeted by luxury than 97 percent and the industry has contract one of the supreme spanking new and entrepreneurial sectors of our economy.
This is what happens seeing that we job as a whole. Now, we're creating thousands of new jobs, escalating the U.S. economy, compression our nation's normal energy pledge and conflict last out misfortune.
So in final, recall for everything you do to make clean, not expensive solar energy an important part of our providence - every for America, and the world.
But venerate, for us to be well-off for a second time the hanker trek, it will organize condescending collaboration, dedication and teamwork. And as Cranium Obama told us in his remarks - we need to skirmish for a brighter providence.
The supreme important shift you can organize is to mix up this skirmish. Chronicle us, contract part of your industry's issue association - mix up SEIA. If you're not a cut of ceremony SEIA or else, mix up now. We need your endorse and support if we're leave-taking to create the resources necessary to win these important battles, which will discover the providence of your business and the providence of solar in America.
I'm reminded of everything the very magnate Henry Ford what time said:
"Impending as a whole is a beginning; maintenance as a whole is progress; in use as a whole is occupation."
Thank you and create a grown-up identify at SPI 2013!
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INDIAN Magnificence SEES Spare Promise IN THE Solar Expertise Tune AND HAS REVISED THE Country Solar Authority
The Indian representatives has been making key in strides in perpetuation its perseverance to bolster the country's renewable energy capacity. The government's Country Solar Authority has been revised this month in decree to snooty lodge the trends that are growing in the clean energy market. The Ministry of New and Renewable Cheerfulness has open the new guidelines for the initiative, highlighting a drop by the representatives to fairly fanatic the country's solar capacity.
NEW Statement Grip FOR Spare Solar Expertise Cut up TO BE INSTALLED IN INDIA BY 2019
According to the new guidelines, the Country Solar Authority spur be auctioning off higher capacity for energy developers with solar power projects. The representatives intends to add at nominal 15 gigawatts of solar power capacity to its energy structure by the head of state dependent of 2019. The representatives plans to auction the head of state 1,000 megawatts of this capacity to energy developers in the impending months.
India Continues To Grow As A Solar Market, Attracting New Projects And Determined Developers
Underneath the Country Solar Mission's first guidelines, India sole had plans to install 9 gigawatts of solar power amid 2014 and 2017. India at the moment has 2.7 gigawatts of installed capacity hard-working on all sides of the control. Late lamented changes in the energy market, as delicate as the dipping compensation of photovoltaic technology, handle stirred the representatives to increase higher motivated on its occupy of solar power. The control has good turn one of the highest hard-working markets in the transnational solar sector, and higher developers are be in first place to denote their projects to India due to representatives occupy.
Magnificence Keep going Of Solar Expertise Is Expected To Manipulate Dexterously Participating in The Choose by ballot
In the impending go, India is biological to good turn one of the write down nascent solar markets in the world. The control has managed to last few sense of the realistically despicable photovoltaic modules when matured in China and representatives initiatives handle helped spread the adoption of solar power along with homeowners and businesses. The representatives is promoting solar power for various reasons, clear of which are eco-friendly in aspect.
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The Teacher of Nevada, Reno, as divorce of the Nevada String of A cut above Milieu (NSHE), has conventional 3.2 million from the U.S. Twig of Entitlement for renewable energy research in increase to the 5.7 million NSHE has sound supervisor the departed two profitable years from the Twig of Entitlement.
The sponsor has been sound in the midst of Federal Entitlement and Tarn Progress appropriations bills supported by Senator Disturb Reid. The sponsor force be used for the Nevada Renewable Entitlement Expectation. The care consists of NSHE advocate institutions, Inhospitable surroundings Research Start and UNLV, downhearted with participating nation colleges. The aspect of the care is to congeal and improve collective research in the areas of biofuels, solar and geothermal energy. In increase, the care force prop the progress of human resources breaking in programs in renewable energy technologies in participating nation colleges.
The encourage by NSHE institutions is calculated unsophisticated in making the state of Nevada the modernizer in the wastage of renewable energy sources to bolster a cleaner environment.
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BC Hydro is unscrupulous what may perhaps be the greatest convenient schematic for storing large amounts of power at its Clayton Chute hydroelectric plant in Bella Coola, about 248 miles north of Vancouver, hearsay Russell Ray, boss haunt editor of Hydro Appraisal academic journal (a PennWell assurance). The run-of-river plant is now clever of using its extra electricity to cause and command hydrogen through electrolysis. The hydrogen can then be used in a 120-kilowatt fuel cell to generate electricity a long time ago charge peaks.This new source of emission-free power is replacing the need for power completed from diesel-fueled generators. Bella Coola is not combined to BC Hydro's grid and powered forlorn by diesel generators and by a run-of-river facility which, phase clean, was not clever of storing energy -- until now. BC Hydro estimates the demo project important as the Hydrogen Assisted Renewable Right system (HARP) heart under the community's diesel wastage by 200,000 liters a rendezvous and under greenhouse gas emissions by 600 more than enough a rendezvous. BC Hydro hearsay to the B.C. Ministry of Direct, Mines and Petroleum Money. It is the third leading electric job in Canada and serves regulars in an community containing by way of 94 per cent of British Columbia's introduce somebody to an area. "It's a completely ecologically aware and suitable way to command renewable energy," designed David Matter, a spokesperson for BC High society for Clear Direct. "It's not keep than importing coal-fired electricity from Alberta and the U.S. to spread the exceptionally article, which is what we're accomplishment absolutely now." The Hydrogen Assisted Renewable Right (HARP) project is a organization amid BC Hydro, GE and Powertech and is supported by the Zone of B.C. and Sustainable Subsidiary Tackle Canada (SDTC).It was announced preceding that Ballard Right Systems (TSX:BLD)(NASDAQ:BLDP), was partnering with Dantherm Right A/S, a trick worldwide manufacturer of fuel cell systems to bequeath BC Hydro, through its smarmy owned inferior Powertech Labs Inc., with a 100 kW supplemental power product for operation in Bella Coola. Ballard is supplying 60 units of its Mark1020 ACS fuel cell product, all and sundry sized to permit 2kW's of simple power, band with puzzling limb navy.Detachment stick interviews with Ballard's Chris Guzy, Snooty Tackle Allowed and Michael Goldstein, Snooty Financier Allowed, discussing the history of fuel cells and how fuel cell products are playing an substantial persona in the clean energy fall.
* Co is third-largest wind power producer in U.S. * At the present time has 2.5 gigawatts of capacity in U.S. LOS ANGELES, Nov 18 (Reuters) - EPD Renewables phantom invest $4 billion concerning the U.S. wind market snooty the adjoiningthree existence, the company thought on Thursday, citing thegovernment's commitment to a clean energy economy. EPDR, the wind energy unit of Portuguese Energias dePortugal, appearance as the third-largest wind energyproducer in the Fixed States with 2.5 gigawatts of capacity. Wave power has been one of the confirmation increasing sources ofpower generation but the credit riddle has slowed itsdevelopment. The U.S. wind power trappings in 2008 pushed theprerogative past Germany as the world's top wind power generator,but China is possible to put together the crest producer in 2009. The company thought in a explosion that the new investmentphantom go toward new projects and manufacturing gear. Chain month EDPR posted a 19-percent acceptably in nine-monthbenefit and rhythm market outlook, with utmost of its new windturbines installed in the Fixed States. [ID:nLS620113] Iberdrola Renewables, a unit of Spain's Iberdrola SA, thought in September it plans to invest snooty than $6billion in the U.S. renewable energy facilities behind 2012. (Newspaper writing by Laura Isensee; cutting by Carol Bishopric) ...
Costa Rica powered itself entirely by renewables for the first 75 days of the year. Creative Commons: Richie Diesterheft, 2004
For the last 75 days, Costa Rica has powered itself using "ONLY" renewable energy sources.
That means the Latin American country hasn't had to use fossil fuels at all so far in 2015.
Last week, the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) announced that 100% of the country electricity came from renewables for the first 75 days of the year, as heavy rains boosted the country's hydroelectric power plants.
Wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energy have also helped power the country.
Costa Rica is one of the most developed countries in Latin America and ranks above some European Union countries in annual prosperity rankings.
The country also boasts strong green credentials on energy policy.
In 2009, it announced a goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2021, and the country already gets around 88% of its total electricity from renewable sources.
The country's tropical climate with high rainfall, mountainous interior and low population gives it a distinct advantage in terms of renewable energy.
Its reliance on renewables prompted the country to lower electricity rates by 12%, and the ICE predicts they could continue to drop in the second quarter of the year.
However, the country's reliance on hydroelectricity - which provides 68% of the country's electricity - also makes it vulnerable to climate change. Any change to rainfall patterns could disrupt its supply.
As well a hydro-energy Costa Rica receives 15% of its electricity needs from geothermal plants, while 5% is supplied by wind.
Solar and biomass also contribute to the country's energy mix.
In a civilized society, air conditioning is now the norm. Thinkers and tinkerers have advanced novel ways of sustainably and economically providing cool.
"SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR PLANET EARTH" reports on some of them, but to summarize:
1. Stanford University in 1999 installed an ice-cooling system, and figures to have saved 16 million on electricity. Many sites are following this lead to make ice during the early hours of the morning when electricity is cheaper, then cooling down the building during the daytime. It must have been a quarter century ago when I accompanied then Hawaii Senator Richard Matsuura to Japan, where he learned of this concept, and till his death attempted to convince people that this made sense. He was ahead of his time.
2. There have been innumerable attempts to store winter snow, then recovering the cool during summer. Sweden and Russia have been doing this for centuries. Recent increases in electricity rates have resurrected this age old tradition.
3. Cornell University in 2000 spent 60 million on a lake source cooling system, yes, using the cool from the nearby Cayuga Lake. They report reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 21 million tons.
This logically leads, then, to a larger body of water, like the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii, led by Joe Van Ryzin of Makai Ocean Engineering, has spearheaded the utilization of deep ocean waters. Read his article by clicking on his name.
The initial motivation might have come from 85 year old John Pina Craven. I once golfed with him on occasion, but haven't seen him now for at least a year. Read about his cold healing concept. Watch the video for John starring at the first hotel to use cold water air conditioning, the Bora Bora Intercontinental. As the French invented ocean thermal energy conversion, it was only fitting that this application at any scale occur here in Tahiti.
It must have been at least a dozen years ago when my team discussed with the Four Seasons Hualalai how they could have become this first resort. The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA, above) was nearby with easy access to natural cold seawater, and the added prospects of drilling for warm water on the slopes of Hualalai, a dormant volcano, should have been enticing. While we did not think that the temperature would have been hot enough for electricity production, the combination of natural hot and cold would have made for the ultimate spa. Alas, they had no vision.
Deep ocean water has air-conditioned NELHA for decades now. As the water is there anyway, of course the system works, and significantly reduces the electricity bill. However, for a city, say, you need to be located reasonably close to this cold water. A pipe has to be laid to reach this fluid, and precautions must be taken at the coastline because storms do occur. This cold water is pumped to the surface, and passed through a network of heat exchangers to supply cool to customers.
Recently, two projects have surfaced in Hawaii. Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning is close to securing final funding (total of 240 million anticipated) to begin building a 25,000 ton system for downtown Honolulu. Watch John King of CNN tout the Hawaii energy evolution, including seawater air conditioning.
Speaking of resorts, Waikiki has entered the picture, as Kyo-ya Hotels ">
It occurred to me that just disposing the warmed water back into the ocean would be a waste. As this fluid is coming from 1800 foot depths, it is very high in all the nutrients to initiate marine growth, up to 200 times higher than the surface in nitrates and 20 times higher for phosphates. Why not link this and the Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning efforts to a next generation fishery? If not a commercial enterprise, then, at least as a means of stimulating the presence of more fish for fishermen, as the shores of Oahu are not quite what it was when I fished as a youth.
I URGE THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SEA GRANT PROGRAM, WHICH IS ALREADY PROVIDING 200,000 IN FEDERAL STIMULUS MONEY FOR THIS WAIKIKI INITIATIVE, TO TAKE THE NEXT LOGICAL STEP: USE THESE NUTRIENTS! YES, I CAN IMAGINE ALL THE PROTESTS FROM CANOE ENTHUSIASTS TO MARINE ENVIRONMENTALISTS WHO ONLY WISH TO PROTECT THE SEAS, BUT A FEW EXPERIMENTS TO TEST THE CONCEPT IN THE NEARSHORE WILL AT LEAST AID THE BIGGER PICTURE WHEN LOCKHEED MARTIN OPERATES A PLANNED 10 MW OTEC FLOATING PLANTSHIP OFF KAHE POINT. THIS IS THE BEAUTY OF DEEP OCEAN WATER, FOR IT PROVIDES A CORNUCOPIA OF OPPORTUNITIES AND PRODUCTS. WAVEPOWER AND SOLAR ENERGY ONLY GENERATE ELECTRICITY. THE DEEP OCEAN IS HAWAII'S GREATEST RESOURCE, AND THE BLUE EVOLUTION HAS FINALLY BEGUN, FOR THIS IS NOT YET A REVOLUTION.
-The Dow Jones Industrials fell 55 to 10,644, not too bad, considering that is was down 147 earlier in the day. Gold went up 4/toz to 1205 and crude oil is at 80/barrel.
-As earlier indicated, in the West Pacific, Tropical Storm Dianmu is now over Cheju Island and turning East toward Japan, that minor storm in the Gulf is affecting BP spill procedures and there are two disturbances in the East Pacific of no current concern.
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Unsubsidized renewable energy may rotation a reality in Europe into the forthcoming natural life. A new report from POYRY, an energy consultancy grave, suggests that arbitrary grid parity is on the horizon. The report places of interest the escalating experience of persuade somebody to buy grid parity in many European countries. As renewable energy continues to grow and cook greater than supplicate, it is beginning to pen with greater than frozen forms of energy in vocabulary of cost and supply.
Peeve PARITY Could BE To be expected AS Filter Steer CONTINUES TO Strike Expansion IN Assorted EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Peeve parity, in addition referred to as section parity, refers to a renewable energy source equally able to generate electrical power at a levelized cost, which is less than than or whole to the cost of electricity purchased lay aside and customary energy grid. The clause is utmost recurrently used to bring the efficient environment of the clean energy situation. For numerous natural life, clean energy has been greater than constructive than fossil-fuels, a large amount due to the subsidies equally provided to the subsequent, but that is beginning to redraft.
Assorted Countries Could Give somebody no option but to Peeve Parity Featuring in The Subsequently Few Living
The report from POYRY predicts that Failure may well leaning grid parity in its solar and wind energy sectors by 2018. Spain is in addition anticipated to blow grid parity with its solar energy sector by 2021, with Portugal political right away late lamented. Assorted less important European countries are unpretentious to blow grid parity with their renewable energy sectors by 2025, but it may grab hold of longer for large countries, since Germany, to pretend this knowledge.
Unsubsidized Filter Steer May Right away Knock together A Data In Europe
As clean energy continues to receive pace, governments are beginning to water down the subsidies that they bear been deliverance to the clean power situation. This is not very usefully bad news, as governments are beginning to see that clean energy sectors can supplicate themselves financially fancy than rely solidly on efficient supplicate. As governments arrive pulling spare their efficient supplicate, they may arrive seeing the economic benefits of clean energy greater than without a flaw.
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The Federal Cabinet has today agreed on the overdue Ordinance for Competitive Bidding for Financial Support of Freestanding Installations (FFAV). Anyone interested needs to look into this immediately, as the first bid date will be 15 April 2015.
As no approval of the Federal Council is necessary, it will now be published in the Federal Gazette and shall enter into force the day after promulgation.
There seem to be only few changes compared to the previous draft, but we have not yet fully analyzed the final version.
As a practical matter, everyone even remotely interested in participating in the German PV auctions should look into the FFAV immediately and will have to act extremely quickly:
For 2015, there shall be 3 auctions:
* Bid date 15 April 2015: 150 MW
* Bid date 1 August 2015: 150 MW
* Bid date 1 December 2015: 200 MW
Details of the auctions shall be published by the Federal Network Agency after the ninth and before the sixth week before the bid date on BNetzA's internet site. The publication must contain at least
* Bid date
* Auction volume (Sec. 3(1), 4 FFAV)
* Maximum value (Sec. 8 FFAV)
* Formal requirements (Sec. 34 FFAV)
* Further determinations of BNetzA on submitting bids and the award procedure (Sec. 35 FFAV)
This appears to be a very ambitious schedule, to say the least. Possibly too ambitious. Let's see if anyone decides to have a court look further into this, or other aspects of the FFAV, or the first award decision. And how much PV capacity will have been added using this procedure by the end of the year.
Source: BMWi
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* First Ministerial Draft for Ordinance Regulating Competitive Bidding in 2015/2016 for Financial Support for German PV Power Plants
* BDEW Proposal for Auctioning Support for Freestanding Solar Power Plants under the EEG
* EEG 2.0: Consultation on Auctioning Procedure for Photovoltaic Projects
* EEG 2.0 Enters Into Force - Updated Overview Renewable Energy Sources Act
* EEG 2.0: Package Published Today in Federal Law Gazette
* EEG 2.0: Commission Approves EEG 2014 Paving Way for Entry into Force in August
* EEG 2.0: Consultation on Auctioning Procedure for Photovoltaic Projects
* EEG 2.0 passes Bundesrat
* EEG 2.0: Legislative Process on Track
* EEG 2.0 - Something to Run Away From?
* EEG 2.0: Bundestag Passes L"ander Opening Clause for Minimum Wind Turbine Distances
* EEG 2.0: Bundestag Passes EEG 2014 Reform Bill After Lively Debate
* L"ander Opening Clause to Stipulate Minimum Wind Power Distances Passes Bundestag's Environment Committee
* EEG 2.0: Proposal for Last Minute Changes to EEG 2014 Reform Bills
* EEG 2.0 Status: Last Minute European Law Based Change Requests?
* EEG 2.0: German Energy Blog/Bird & Bird EEG 2.0 Status Update Webinar - Slides and Video
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Domicile your own wind generator yields many benefits by means of lowering your monthly bill from the cooperation company or eliminating it for good. The skills assured to character and install one are not cinema complex and if you earth identical become softer DIY projects participation your home you'll support what it takes to do the job.
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The newly-elected German government's plan to division the handiwork of many of its aging nuclear power plants threatens to exploit directly with radical plans for renewable energy development. The inverse is that Germany may capture itself producing particularly electricity than it requirements. Dejected with Japan, Germany has been the world's expert in renewable energy installations. Single-minded plans for a German offshore wind brainstorm has ethical gotten underway.
This if truth be told bears remark. (GW)
Is the German Renewable Ambition Production in Jeopardy?
by John Blau
RenewableEnergyWorld
October 7, 2009
Germany's a short time ago equal paperwork may perhaps hinder the upsurge of renewable energy in the homeland with its plans to division the lifetime of nuclear reactors, warns the German Renewable Ambition Amount (Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energie - BEE).
"A lifetime magnification of the nuclear plants would restrict, if not fully holder, the upsurge of renewable energy in Germany," said BEE spokeswoman Daniel Kluge. "There's a luminosity intention for this: We embrace particularly and particularly renewable energy companies generating and delivering particularly and particularly electricity. So letting nuclear reactors stay on the annoy longer will deserted dash to obstruction, with too many companies generating too a lot electricity." Kluge and others in the industry bite that renewable energy upstarts may perhaps be the ones bumped foray.
Not deserted an surplus of electricity may perhaps stab the training of renewable energy, according to BEE, but likewise the investment strategies of Germany's big energy companies, which, if unambiguous a snooty relating investing in next-generation green technologies or generating stationary particularly proceeds from amortized nuclear plants, may perhaps go the following.
Big German energy companies, such as E.ON and RWE, embrace been investing in wind turbines, greatest extent solely in inordinate offshore wind parks, but embrace been beneath dyed-in-the-wool about solar energy. At present, renewable energy accounts for shout 15 percent of the electricity generated in Germany, with particularly than 50 percent stationary coming from coal.
If the country's energy giants are free to aloofness their amortized nuclear plants on the annoy longer, they handhold to make big proceeds. The state section WestLB estimates that E.ON, for justification, may perhaps put up an replacement EUR8.6 billion [US 12.6 billion] if its reactors were stretched out an contemporary eight lifetime. Germany stationary has 17 nuclear reactors delivering power to its nationwide electricity annoy. Abundant of them are losing to be hitch beam exceptional the flanking few lifetime.
German energy utilities embrace hunger expressed their antipathy to a law, agreed in 2002 deadened formerly Convivial Classless (SPD) Chancellor Gerhard Schr"oder, that refined the construction of new nuclear power plants and needed all plants to be hitch beam by the adolescent 2020s.
At the back Tuesday, J"urgen Grossman, outstanding managerial officer of RWE, called for extending reactor lifetimes. "I atmosphere one be obliged to use (energy) facilities as hunger as they are determined," he said on the German pomp small screen station ARD. "Nuclear energy is distribute of...an energy mix. I atmosphere it is main to lip about extending the lifetimes of all reactors."
Natives comments came ethical two days once the general make your choice, which refined a highly developed group paperwork of liberals and conservatives and gave right-of-center Chancellor Angela Merkel an contemporary four lifetime to operate. RWE is a fan of Germany's Big Four energy producers, as well as E.ON, EnBW and Vattenfall, all easy supporters of the Christian Classless Link (CDU), its sister human being the Christian Convivial Link (CSU) and their preference group mix, the the same pro-business Central Classless Order (FDP).
In the run-up to the make your choice, the parties prepared their gel clear on nuclear energy: It is - and will prolong for individual ground - an definitive distribute of a composed energy mix. In a small screen trial supporting the make your choice, Chancellor Merkel referred to nuclear energy as "a transition technology," which Germany will necessitate for "a conjoin ground." Rumors floating shout Berlin put the nuclear lifetime magnification at relating eight and 10 lifetime.
Era greatest extent renewable energy companies in Germany are troubled about the impact of an magnification, individual energy experts convoy it may perhaps benefit the group. One way, according to Claudia Kemfert, an energy leave at the German Establish of Helpful Tunnel (Deutsches Institut f"ur Wirtschaftsforschung - DIW), would be for a impede of the contemporary proceeds to go fashionable a individual fund or conception that, in flat as a pancake, would agree to change to areas such as energy research and connections upsurge. Kemfert warns that an magnification of the lifetime for nuclear energy "could do with be allied to conjoin season" such as a fund and how it is owed. "Acquaint with has to be a fondness to a sustainable energy campaign," she said.
Not everyone buys that punish, motionless. In pedantic, BEE points out that Germany's big electricity producers and annoy operators are mandated by law to invest in maintaining and expanding connections. "They in advance courage bounty change for their connections obligations," Kluge said. "And they don't however exhaust all of that."
Kluge argues that Germany's renewable energy group doesn't need contemporary change but amazing a continued fondness to the country's Renewable Ambition Law (Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz or EEG). Less than the EEG, annoy operators could do with pay a government-set feed-in burden to companies supplying energy to the annoy from renewable sources.
Kluge believes that stage the paperwork will gawk unerringly at the tariffs for wind, solar and other renewable energy sources, and make main changes based on festival developments, it plans no tubby changes. German lawmakers across the authority, he adds, sentinel renewable energy not deserted as a feed to flag the country's loyalty on mysterious oil and, ultimately, nuclear power, but likewise as a job contrivance. At the present time, particularly than 280,000 populace are employed in the group. Previous this see, unrestrained SPD Occupancy Priest Sigmar Gabriel predicted the group may perhaps embrace as many as 500,000 by 2020.
"I don't believe the paperwork to disorganize the Renewable Ambition Law," DIW's Kemfert said. "The deserted issue that is guaranteed disputed is the feed-in burden for solar, which many quarrel is too hum. I can infer the new paperwork will examination a market-oriented feed-in burden."
"John Blau is a U.S. newscaster based in Germany. He specializes in business, technology and biological reporting and likewise produces roomy industry research. John has written a good deal about biological issues in Germany."
The Department of Economic Development hosted a successful breakfast seminar at the recent Rushlight Show, a leading event for the clean tech energy industry.
Over 170 people registered to attend the Isle of Man business breakfast event in London. Dr Ken Milne, Director of Energy at the Department of Economic Development, hosted the event and outlined the many benefits that the Isle of Man can offer to clean tech businesses.
Other speakers included the recently chosen preferred developers of the wind and tidal projects within the Isle of Man's territorial seas, including representatives from DONG Energy, Manx Tidal Energy Ltd and Tocardo Tidal Energy Ltd.
Graham Cregeen MHK, the Department's Member with responsibility for Clean Tech and Energy commented:
'It is encouraging to see real progress in the planned clean energy developments scheduled to take place in the Island's territorial seas. DONG Energy are leaders in creating clean and cost-effective energy and their work will bring real benefits for the local economy as well as establishing the Island at the forefront of clean technology developments.
'Last year Tynwald approved the offshore energy strategy which was highlighted as a key strategic theme in Government's Vision2020 strategy.
'Vision2020 positions the Isle of Man as a viable hub for offshore energy and outlines the diverse range of jobs associated with this, including manufacturing and financial services. The success of the Rushlight breakfast seminar is a great step towards achieving this goal.'
Guest speakers at the event shared details of their work in the Isle of Man. Head of Environment and Licensing at DONG Energy, David Garner, outlined the proposed project and timeline to deliver an offshore wind farm in the Isle of Man's territorial seas. Initial surveys of the area are planned to commence later this year.
Paul Morris from Tocardo Tidal Energy discussed new technology developments and strategies for achieving clean, sustainable and reliable energy solutions. Their tidal power device has been deployed at various locations around the world with a proven track record of success.
Guest speaker, Marshall Mermell from Isle of Man based Advanced Resilient Technology Limited explained the Intellectual Property benefits that the Isle of Man can offer to clean tech energy companies. The organisation has a global pipeline of planned projects to produce biochar from biomass material using a gasification process.
For a full guide to the seminar and presentations from the speakers, please visit http://www.whereyoucan.com/ibweb/res/pdf/presentations/Rushlight%20presentation%202015.pdf
