Oh dear.
I remain deeply concerned about the potential for "Solargeddon" in Australia if the RET issue is not resolved quickly. However, it is becoming clearer by the day that the Prime Minister is astoundingly out of touch on this issue.
New research released today highlights the issues and validates previous findings demonstrating the incredibly far reaching support for solar.
PM TONY ABBOTT IS NOT REPRESENTING THE COMMUNITY OR HIS VOTERS.
Whilst the Prime Minister claims to be representing his constituents on the RET, research shows he is doing exactly the opposite.
In terms of constituents, poll data shows that 70% of coalition voters ARE IN FAVOUR OF RETAINING THE RET. Poll's also found they understand the issue and that the RET is not the reason electricity prices are going up, making a mockery of the driver behind the review.
The broader population is increasingly supportive of the RET too. More than 82% OF TOTAL VOTERS ARE NOW IN SUPPORT OF THE RET which has increased from 77% a year ago.
Responses to the Review supported this finding with a staggering 23, 272 submissions to the RET review panel of which 99% WANTED THE TARGET RETAINED OR EXPANDED
This is totally consistent with previous analysis which shows the penetration of solar by electorate and that THE TOP 3 SOLAR ELECTORATES IN AUSTRALIA ARE LNP SEATS.
There are also a growing number of COALITION AND OPPOSITION MP'S AND STATE GOVERNMENT MINISTERS who are vocally supporting the RET and clearly, are at odds with the Prime Minister.
And on top of that, polls released by the Australian showed 89% OF AUSTRALIANS "Want the Government to subsidise the use of renewable energy" and ALSO 89% SAy they "Don't think the Government is investing enough in Renewable energy" and EVEN 84% SAY they would "Be willing to pay a little to a lot more for renewable energy"
So, 4.5 Million voters across all demographics and political persuasions, including members of the Prime Minister's own party in survey after survey support the RET.
And it is increasing every day.
BUSINESS IS KEY AND THEY SUPPORT THE RET TOO.
So if voters and members support the RET then it must be business who doesn't support it and they are influencing the Prime Minister, right? Wrong.
A former chairman of the AUSTRALIAN COAL ASSOCIATION IAN DUNLOP said "Corporate Australia is in denial over climate change", and that "The more enlightened corporations around the world are seeing that we now do have a very big problem, but we also have an enormous opportunity", implying support for programs such as the the RET. Former Minister John Hewson has also GONE TO PRESS saying that "The days of burning fossil fuels unabated is over" along with a host of other former Government ministers including Malcolm Turnbull who has been a keen advocate for the renewable energy industry in days gone by.
Even more telling is the fact that 100 MANAGERS OF LEADING BUSINESSES IN THE RESOURCES AND ENERGY SECTOR in Australia said that "53 per cent want the 20 per cent target to stay the same, 34 per cent would like to see it increased and 13 per cent would like to see it reduced".
Of course it goes without saying that the 3,800 solar businesses in Australia want the target retained, so they can simply get on with the plan that has been in place for ten year. What the Prime Minister doesn't seem to realise is that a)96% OF SOLAR BUSINESSES ARE SME'S, the backbone of the Australian economy and that b) the industry employs around 21,000 directly, more than double the coal generation sector.
Our own small survey of solar businesses last week revealed that 91% OF SOLAR BUSINESSES EXPECTED THEIR BUSINESS TO REDUCE if the RET was cut.
So, businesses, business leaders and a broad suite of industry sectors support the RET too.
And it is increasing every day.
CRUNCH TIME
I'm going to spell this is out for the Prime Minister in the simplest possible terms.
CONSUMERS OF ELECTRICITY AT HOME OR IN BUSINESS LOVE SOLAR BECAUSE IT HELPS THEM REDUCE COSTS.
Poll's can be wrong but the truth on this issue isn't rocket science; it really is that simple.
Your views on the RET, and the views of the Review Panel therefore represent an out-of-touch minority.
Wake up.
Author: Iloka Benneth Chiemelie
Published: 9th-November-2014
1. INTRODUCTION When it comes to measuring sustainability in energy resources, nuclear power stands out as one of the favorable approaches. The reasons are underlined in the fact that it can easily be operated, it can provide vast amount of energy to conveniently power any given system or society, and it does emit huge CO2 like other energy sources such as Coal and Petroleum. The global demand for energy resources will most certainly increase significantly in the next decades as a result of economic and demographic growth, especially in developing worlds. If the current trends is not reversed, this demand will be met by fossil fuels, which will further increase Carbon emission and cause more harm to the society. Thus, any energy resource that is capable of reducing this emission and enhancing sustainability of the human race is a welcomed path. 2. NUCLEAR POWER AS THE SOURCE OF FUTURE ENERGY As both business and governments battle the challenges of increasing emission, all eyes are set on new paths that will increase sustainability and nuclear power is one of such paths. Generating electricity from nuclear power doesn't produce any direct emission of CO2 - which is the major greenhouse gas that is responsible for global warming (GIF, 2010). The indirect emission (which is synonymous with all sources of energy) is as a result of fossil fuels used in operating the nuclear fuel cycle (GIF, 2010). Additionally, advancement in technologies can also limit the indirect emission of Carbon from the fossil fuels used in operating the nuclear plant. Since nuclear power is an established source of low-carbon energy, it can play important role when it comes to reducing CO2 emissions, and it can also ensure reliable and affordable supplies of energy. A number of scenarios have been used to illustrate this an such include the International Energy Agency's Blue Map scenario, which showed that there will be 50% reduction in CO2 emission from energy sources (NEA, 2012). Such case will be made effective by adopting 1 200 GWe of nuclear capacity by 2050, which is equivalent to 24% of the global supply of electricity. The expectation is a higher proliferation of nuclear power with an eventual reduction in emission (NEA, 2012). From the above analysis, it is clear that nuclear power is a reliable and effective source of electricity and it does have major advantage of reducing carbon emission - thus, ensuring environmental sustainability. As such, one would be right to conclude that nuclear power holds a powerful position as the future source of energy because it is the most effective way of meeting global demand for energy-based low-carbon emission. 3. WILL INCREASE OF NUCLEAR POWER IN A COUNTRY REDUCE AVAILABILITY IN ANOTHER COUNTRY?Unlike fossil fuels and coal, increase in nuclear proliferation of a given country will not affect availability in another country. This is because nuclear energy are operated from nuclear plants and doesn't deplete like fossil fuels and coal. Thus, countries can have any many nuclear plants as deemed necessary without their own proliferation affecting availability in another country (as would be experienced in the case of mined fuels where depletion can affect availability - as the more a country have, the less another country will have). Thus, nuclear power is clearly a reliable means of energy supply 9 GIF, 2010; IAEA, 2007; IAEA, 2008; NEA, 2011; von Lensa and Verfondern, 2010). In any case, it is important to understanding that some barriers can hinder the extent of proliferation a country can undertake and such barriers include:1. Associated difficulties with financing high capital costs of nuclear plants.2. Constraints of individual capacity and human resources needed for construction and maintenance of nuclear plants.3. Addressing pre-Fukuhima extents of how the public accepts nuclear energy.4. Demonstrating high standards of safety management with respect to radioactive waste and many more issues (NEA, 2012). Irrespective of these barriers, "ceteris paribus", proliferation in one country will not halt availability in another country as all countries can have as many nuclear plants as desired. Availability is only halted by the barriers above. 4. CONCLUSION The future of energy is nuclear because it is reliable, effective and sustainable. However, necessary measures need to be taken into consideration when deciding to go nuclear because past experiences (e.g. The Furkushima plant in Japan) have shown that nuclear disasters can bring about unending damaged and heavily devastating effects on the society. However, "ceteris paribus", nuclear is the future of sustainable and reliable energy supply. 5. REFERENCESGIF (2010), Annual Report 2010, Generation IV International Forum, published by OECD/NEA, Paris, France. IAEA (2007), Non-Electric Applications of Nuclear Power: Seawater Desalination, Hydrogen Production and other Industrial Applications, Proceeding of an International Conference, Oarai, Japan, 16-19 April 2007, IAEA-CN-152, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria. IAEA (2008), Advanced Applications of Water Cooled Nuclear Power Plants, IAEA-TECDOC-1584, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria. IAEA (web), Small and Medium Sized Reactors, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, available at: www.iaea.org/NuclearPower/SMR/[Accessed on: 20-8-2014] NEA (2011), "Current Status, Technical Feasibility and Economics of Small Nuclear Reactors", OECD/NEA, Paris, France, available at: www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/reports/2011/current-status-small-reactors.pdf[Accessed on: 20-8-2014] NEA (2012), "The Role of Nuclear Energy in a Low-carbon Energy Future." Available at: http://www.oecd-nea.org/nsd/reports/2012/nea6887-role-nuclear-low-carbon.pdf[Accessed on: 20-8-2014]
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The Megawatt Block Incentive Structure (Megawatt Block) is one of New York's most important solar incentives. The program provides strong subsidies for both commercial and residential rooftop solar energy systems. The size of your subsidy depends on how big the solar energy system you install is, and how much solar energy is already being produced in your area. You also don't need to take any action to claim the benefit if you use a state certified installer.
IN TOTAL, THE VARIOUS SOLAR INCENTIVES AVAILABLE IN NEW YORK STATE COULD REDUCE THE COST OF GOING SOLAR BY MORE THAN 50%. SO WHY NOT START SHOPPING FOR SOLAR TODAY? ENERGYSAGE'S SOLAR MARKETPLACE IS A GREAT PLACE TO START COMPARING YOUR OPTIONS.
MEGAWATT BLOCK SOLAR INCENTIVE STRUCTURE: HOW TO DETERMINE YOUR INCENTIVE
The Megawatt Block Incentive provides generous up-front discounts for solar energy systems, delivered in a 'dollar-per-watt' (/W) format. The highest incentives available through the program are 1/W, but will eventually fall to as low as 0.15/W.
WHAT'S A WATT? KILOWATT? MEGAWATT? A 'watt' (W) is the basic measurement of solar electricity generation capacity. 1,000 watts is equal to a kilowatt (kW), which is the measure commonly used when talking about rooftop solar systems. (The average rooftop solar energy system in the USA is about 6kW). 1,000 kilowatts is equal to a megawatt (MW) - typically used when talking about large amounts of solar capacity. 1MW is equivalent to about 160 residential solar installations.
A number of factors influence the amount of the discount you may be eligible for. The questions below will help you determine your incentive.
1. WHICH REGION OF NEW YORK DO YOU LIVE IN AND WHO IS YOUR UTILITY?
Under the Megawatt Block Incentive, New York State is divided into three geographic / utility network districts: Long Island, Con Edison territory (NYC and Westchester County) and Upstate. In each of these three districts, the Megawatt Block Incentive reduces the costs associated with a solar energy system installation. Your incentive rate will depend on in which region you are having your system installed.
2. IS YOUR PROJECT RESIDENTIAL OR NONRESIDENTIAL?
The Megawatt Block Incentive supports both residential and small commercial solar projects in New York State. The amount of the incentive available to you differs depending on whether you will have your system installed on your home or business.
3. WHAT 'BLOCK' IS YOUR REGION CURRENTLY IN?
Screenshot of the NY-Sun Megawatt Block dashboard illustrating how incentive Blocks 'fill up' and then 'roll over' into lower rates.
Under Megawatt Block, each district has a set number of subsidy 'blocks' which determine the incentive rate. As more people install solar panels, a block will begin to 'fill up' towards a predetermined threshold, measured in megawatts of solar panel capacity. Once a threshold is reached, the incentive is reduced for everyone who goes solar after that. This will continue until each block has reached its cap, at which point no more incentives will be available.
You can get a clearer idea of how the program (and of the current incentives) by visiting NY-Sun's Megawatt Block Dashboard tool.
AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THE BLOCKS WORK: RESIDENTIAL SYSTEM IN UPSTATE NEW YORK
Residential Block 1 for the Upstate region had a cap of 40MW (40,000kW - or about 6,500 residential systems) and the incentive rate was 1 per watt (1/W) - a discount of 1 for every watt of solar capacity installed (or 6,000 for a 6kW system). Lots of people installed solar, and this block reached its cap in September of 2014 (just 9 months after the Megawatt Block Incentive was introduced). The incentive then moved on to Block 2, which had a 15MW cap (about 2,500 residential systems) and offered an incentive of 0.90/W. At the time of writing, the incentive is in Block 4, and the current rate is 0.70/W with a cap of 22MW.
THE SIZE OF YOUR SOLAR SYSTEM DETERMINES YOUR FINAL DISCOUNT
Once you've determined the current /W incentive that applies to you, you can now determine the amount of your discount - as long as you know the size of the system you are going to choose. FOR EXAMPLE, IF THE CURRENT INCENTIVE RATE FOR YOU IS 0.70/W AND YOU HAVE DECIDED ON A 6KW SOLAR SYSTEM (6,000W) YOUR DISCOUNT WILL BE 4,200. IF YOU HAVE CHOSEN A 10KW SYSTEM, YOUR DISCOUNT WILL BE 7,000.
MEGAWATT BLOCK SOLAR INCENTIVE RATES: NOW AND FUTURE
Incentive rates under the Megawatt Block system are designed to decrease as more people go solar. The table below shows the current Block incentives available for a 6kW solar system versus what they will at the end of the program. As you can see, the incentive for a 6kW solar system will drop by as much as 3,600 between now and the final Blocks of the program.
INCENTIVES AVAILABLE FOR A 6KW SOLAR SYSTEM UNDER NY MEGAWATT BLOCK INCENTIVE
RESIDENTIAL
SMALL NON-RESIDENTIAL
REGION
NOW
END OF PROGRAM
NOW
END OF PROGRAM
CON EDISON REGION
4,800
1,200
3,300
900
UPSTATE REGION
4,200
1,200
2,700
900
LONG ISLAND REGION
1,800
1,200
2,580
900
New York's Megawatt Block Solar Incentive is a good example of why you shouldn't put off going solar to wait for technology to improve and prices to come down. Even as rooftop solar becomes more affordable and components become more efficient and durable, incentives are being scaled back to match. (You can read more on this topic in our article, "Is now the right time to buy a solar panel system or should I wait?")
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR SUBSIDY
The great thing about the Megawatt Block Incentive is that you do not need to do anything to claim it - your solar installer will apply it to the total price of your solar energy system. You should be able to see it itemized in any quotes that you receive from installers. This is a good thing to keep in mind when you are comparing offers from different solar installation companies.
The Megawatt Block Incentive And Solar Quality Control
The Megawatt Block Incentive also acts as a default quality control mechanism for solar installations: Only installation companies that have met NY state's certification criteria can pass the Megawatt Block Incentive through to you. Read more about these requirements on New York's NY-Sun website.
WHY IS THE MEGAWATT BLOCK INCENTIVE GREAT FOR NY'S SOLAR SHOPPERS?
The Megawatt Block Incentive is a boon to New York State residents considering solar power for a number of reasons:
* It is a generous incentive that requires no effort or paperwork for you (the customer) to claim it.
* It ensures that solar energy system prices come down gradually and without any dramatic fluctuations - so that there is always a good reason to go solar but never pressure to rush to beat a cutoff deadline.
* Because only installers who are certified under the state's criteria can apply for the incentive, it works as an indirect quality control measure for the solar industry. Only qualified installers are able to offer you the incentive.
NEW YORK'S INCENTIVES MEAN BIG DISCOUNTS ON SOLAR POWER
The Megawatt Block Incentive only one of New York's suite of generous solar incentives, including the state's Solar Tax Credit, which alone could reduce your tax bill by up to 5,000.
IN TOTAL, THE VARIOUS INCENTIVES AVAILABLE COULD REDUCE THE COST OF GOING SOLAR BY MORE THAN 50% IN NEW YORK. SO WHY NOT START SHOPPING FOR SOLAR TODAY? ENERGYSAGE'S SOLAR MARKETPLACE IS A GREAT PLACE TO START COMPARING YOUR OPTIONS.
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So, to begin from the top, "SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY" was created to provide information on renewable energy, ocean resources and the environment, providing updates of my three SIMPLE SOLUTION books.
Perhaps these subjects are inherently boring, but my friends kept telling me they much rather enjoyed tales of my eating and traveling and enjoying life, so I have expanded coverage to anything I wish, especially as Book 2, "SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR HUMANITY," dealt with a range of subjects having nothing to do with energy and the environment. Ninety percent of the time in the morning when I first sit at my computer, I have no idea what would be the subject for the day, with today being a typical example. This leap year day, that milestone 200,000 was the spark of inspiration.
Then the total pageviews followed by SOME HUFFPO AND BLOG POSTINGS OF POSSIBLE INTEREST. In the right column are various energy statistics which are constantly changing. I guess it is no surprise that fossil fuels dominate and the grand total of non-hydro renewables is about 2%. China uses more energy than the USA, and combined our two countries account for 40% of all the energy used.
This blog emanates from Honolulu, Hawaii, thus the time and date.
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TRANSLATE TO YOUR LANGUAGE is amazing, for you can just click on your flag of choice, and this column is instantly translated into that language. Actually, colleagues have informed me that the state of the translation remains infantile.
The VIEWERS box lists the number of visitors from those 200 countries. I find it remarkable that ONLY one-third of those who have read this page are Americans. There are two visitors entries because some time ago, this service disappeared, so I added a second one. Then the original returned, so I kept both. They are largely redundant.
LINK TO JOOBLE is just a favor to a stranger who asked if I could list their search engine, so I said okay. I imagine I will delete this link sometime soon.
WE MUST TAKE ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING NOW does a weak job of balancing the reality of climate change. I believe what is happening is real and that we are largely responsible.
How Much Does Gasoline Cost is a real time indicator of gasoline prices in the USA. Just follow those directions to find out what the prices are in your state or the nation at large.
This is followed by the WTI Crude Oil price.
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-The Dow Jones Industrials fell 53 to 12,952, with world markets also mostly down. But my oh my, gold crashed 75/toz to 1711, and platinum minus 29/toz to 1692. How appropriate, as my blog yesterday focused on these two metals. The reason looks like the premise for a movie, as a cartel raid was the cause.
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NEESC, Administered By CCAT, Created Individual Plans For Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, And Vermont To Aid In Advancing The Deployment Of Hydrogen And Fuel Cell Technology.
EAST HARTFORD, CONN.-The Northeast Electrochemical Energy Storage Cluster (NEESC), administered by Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Inc. (CCAT), today announced the release of the 2015 Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Development Plans for each of the eight states in the Northeast U.S.
Created individually for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont, the plans were produced with support from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and input from industry stakeholders including automakers, government agencies, gas suppliers, and hydrogen and fuel cell companies to advance deployment of hydrogen and fuel cell technology.
"These plans should be very helpful for policymakers to better understand the potential market for fuel cell technology," commented John McGuinness, marketing leader, GE Fuel Cells.
Demand for new electric capacity is expected to increase, due in part to the replacement of older, less efficient, base-load generation facilities. Fuel cell technology can help meet electric grid needs as a high efficiency, distributed generation asset that can be located directly at the customer's site.
The use of distributed generation will increase efficiency, improve end-user reliability, provide opportunity for combined heat and power, and reduce emissions at schools, hospitals, manufacturing facilities, and other mission critical facilities.
The deployment of hydrogen and fuel cell technology will also help meet carbon dioxide emissions reduction and zero emission vehicles (ZEV) requirements, and utilize renewable energy from indigenous sources such as biomass, wind, and photovoltaic (PV) power.
"States that support the development of clean, efficient technologies such as fuel cells, have realized the benefits, including increased energy reliability with low or zero emissions," commented Morry Markowitz, president, Fuel Cell Hydrogen and Energy Association.
Hydrogen and fuel cell technology can also be used to provide zero emission vehicles for mass transit and fleet operations. The 2015 plans identify opportunities for the states in the Northeast region to more fully employ hydrogen and fuel cells for transportation. Such uses could make the region a showcase for renewable energy while reducing air emissions.
"We've defined actionable goals for the deployment of stationary and transportation applications in each of the states," stated Joel Rinebold, director of energy initiatives at CCAT. "These goals represent a short-term investment for long-term productivity."
According to Rinebold hundreds of small businesses in the hydrogen and fuel cell supply chain are poised to capture a substantial share of the global energy and transportation market. The manufacture and implementation of this emerging technology could significantly increase the number of clean energy jobs within the region.
The plans cite cumulative goals for the Northeast states: approximately 1,300 megawatts of installed stationary fuel cell capacity; 10,800 fuel cell electric vehicles; 640 fuel cell powered buses; and 110 hydrogen refueling stations to support the fuel cell electric vehicles and buses.
Laura Ritger's article for the Dedicated du Lac Storyteller published stage Friday provided an build of the continued logic exhausted the impact of wind turbines on human health. Significant the interpretation frequently used to attack wind farms, Barbara Vanden Boogart of the Gloom Realm Nation for Answerable Windstorm Vim and vigor tough wind celebrate shadily reported to Ms. Ritger that a health scrutiny had been conducted to smear the provocation for cancer in Gloom Realm people dowry a loving wind farm. Wisconsin's renewable energy communal was petite to uncover and offset the interpretation used by Ms. Boogart's celebrate with wind energy over Mike Barnard responding in "Barnard on Windstorm "and RENEW's Michael Vickerman inscription the at the rear of rejoin to the Dedicated du Lac Storyteller.
BY MICHAEL VICKERMAN
Dear Ms. Ritger:
You absolutely wrote an article describing an industry on the cause a rift of spring Dedicated du Lac Realm people to promoter for a state-funded health scrutiny analyzing impacts of utility-scale wind generators on adjacent people. Your article buried the at the rear of sentence:
Barbara Vanden Boogart, animated Gloom Realm Nation for Answerable Windstorm Vim and vigor, kid Wednesday about health issues. She referred to a scrutiny that precise enlarged cancer provocation for human resources full of beans in Gloom Realm homes dowry turbines and how individual people were inevitable to break their homes.
The dyed consultation is quite incorrect.Yes, a team of acoustical engineers took tome of infrasound and low-frequency hard levels at three houses dowry the Shirley wind farm. The results were recorded and in print up in a report titled "A Pen Element Aspect and Think about of Low Pervasiveness and Infrasound at the Shirley Windstorm Tend in Gloom Realm, Wisconsin." So these acoustical engineers are experts in their field, their proficiency does not get appearing in health check science. They took hard readings, nothing terminated. Afterward, they were powerless to inclination the landlady of the Shirley Windstorm Tend to be over fluff the turbines at any era owing to the testing. Without a baseline hard turn, it is inconsistent to find out to what reach, if any, the Shirley wind turbines are answerable for any sounds recorded by this team. That individualistic the sample, the consultation is in blooper on two grounds:
1. This was an acoustical examination, not a health check examination.
2. The tome smitten neither interest or understandable the Shirley wind turbines for any readings smitten, in the function of they were forever energetic owing to the testing.
It's insincere a sortie to explain the film and reveal, as Ms. Vanden Boogart did, that full of beans dowry wind turbines increases the provocation of contracting cancer. No peer-reviewed health check scrutiny I'm significant of connects wind generation to any medical condition or growth renowned by the health check appointment. Afterward, each one reporter who covers this issue necessity to divulge that Windstorm Turbine Syndrome is not a medically renowned episode.
I would ask that your newspaper issue a drill on this way. Ms. Vanden Boogart quite tainted the report in obstacle, and her quotation suggests that offer is a provocation from wind generators being in fact none has been vocal to see by many researchers machinist just about the world.
For a floating functioning of the Shirley report, subject precipitate the fresh attitude on Barnard on Windstorm, which sets the certificate give directions on what the Shirley infrasound report says and does not say.
DUBAI, Amalgamated Arab Emirates-(Working Specialty)-Dubai Silicon Oasis Dominion (DSOA), the dictatorial trick for the Dubai Silicon Oasis, has signed an suburb with Chang Zhou Almaden Ltd., one of the world's prime producers of photovoltaic anti-reflective covered windowpane, to countless its new manufacturing and education facility at the integrated free setting technology park. The 15,000 sq dial bury impulsion be set up at a unadulterated city lay the blame on of AED 110 million, marking Almaden's raid here the MENA territory. Believed to yield up to 400,000 PV panels the entire rendezvous, the manufacturing facility is set for devoted in Q1 2015. The facility impulsion plus countless a classic education centre that impulsion concentrate on raising sympathy on green energy and sustainable solutions for the MENA territory. The suburb was signed by Dr. Mohammad Alzarooni, Immorality Chairman CEO of Dubai Silicon Oasis Dominion, and Jinxi Lin, Chairman of Chang Zhou Almaden in GITEX Tackle Week 2014 sack publish from 12 - 16 October at the Dubai Worldwide Procedure and Protest Centre at DSOA's act in Za'beel Group (ZB20). Commenting on this new appear in, Dr. Mohammed Alzarooni said: "We satisfactory Chang Zhou Almaden to the hi-tech park and watch deliver to a symbiotic college with the world's prime producer of anti-reflective windowpane. The Pivotal East is in no time rapidly corporation attention to detail as an embryonic market for solar energy. This has led to high uptake for fresh technologies. Dubai offers an corporation survive with collection inhabitant broaden, freedom Almaden the type situation to accompany its inhabitant manufacturing facility." At the DSO plant, Almaden impulsion yield trained wave weak twice over windowpane PV panels to fix the throw out wear away, notoriously for built-up buildings, car parking areas, green houses, roof trimmings and solar farms. Jinxi Lin said: "Stellar is definitely the energy source for the opt for and bar nearby are colossal challenges sooner than the industry, we be inclined to Almaden impulsion create an impact on the market with our in good health ecological technology, aggressive pricing and moral fiber morals. Our ultra-thin twice over windowpane PV panel has been notoriously expected for the hot summers of the Pivotal East allowing down in the dumps power pour blood in high dampness and high part environments. We are about to to make our recording here this territory with our facility at Dubai Silicon Oasis. We are jaunty our operations impulsion grant to Dubai's green perceive and grant to dropping the emirate's carbon hunt down." Founded in 2006, Almaden has brought benefits to improved than 18 GW solar modules total. Then complete investment here its research and development, Almaden is set to creation its level contravention ultrathin in nature tempered solar windowpane (depth ? 2.0mm), as skillfully as anti-reflective covered solar windowpane and anti-glaring electronic windowpane. Almaden has branches in the Amalgamated States, Germany, Australia and Breakables with self-important 400,000 m2 manufacturing base and 1,500 body total. A wholly-owned section of the shape of Dubai, DSO operates as a free setting technology park for large enterprises, average and small companies looking to set up their offices in Dubai. *Source: ME NewsWire
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Canada's largest city started up its second digester to manage SSO collected from the residential sector, and is expanding capacity at its original facility.
Peter Gorrie
BioCycle February 2015, Vol. 56, No. 2, P. 40
The City of Toronto's new anaerobic digester, the Disco Road Organics Processing Facility, has capacity to process about 83,000 tons/year of residential source separated organics (SSO).
Photo courtesy of City of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada's largest city, is taking major steps to expand its already successful collection and processing of residential source separated organic wastes. This spring, a ribbon cutting will mark the official opening of the City's second organics processing facility, with pretreatment followed by anaerobic digestion (AD). Known as the Disco Road Organics Processing Facility, it is capable of handling up to about 83,000 tons of source separated organics (SSO) annually. Electricity generation and heat recovery will be added by spring of 2016.
Planning is underway to revamp and more than double the capacity of the city's original SSO digester, the Dufferin Organics Processing Facility. The Dufferin plant opened as a pilot project 12 years ago, with capacity to process about 27,500 tons per year of SSO. When the expansion at Dufferin is completed, the two facilities combined will be able to process 143,300 tons of feedstock annually and Disco Road will produce enough electricity to be nearly independent of the provincial grid.
The 74 million Disco Road AD plant completed commissioning of its design and construction activities last summer. Following that step, the City of Toronto's chief contractor, AECOM Inc., began implementation of operations, including establishment of biological equilibrium in the anaerobic digestion system, as well as optimizing and fine-tuning the wastewater treatment process, biofilter odor control system and biogas flare. With a municipal election last October, and the onset of winter, the City decided to schedule the official opening this spring, when the weather has improved and the new City Council is sitting.
The Disco Road project took advantage of lessons learned at the Dufferin site. While the fundamental process steps are similar, AECOM and operators Veolia North America and CCI BioEnergy Inc., "had the ability to build in all the good knowledge gained" at the pilot plant, says Carlyle Khan, the City of Toronto's Solid Waste Management Services' Director of Infrastructure Development and Asset Management.
The City of Toronto's new anaerobic digester, the Disco Road Organics Processing Facility, has capacity to process about 83,000 tons/year of residential source separated organics (SSO).
Photo courtesy of CCI Bioenergy, Inc.
Contaminant Removal
Similar to the original Dufferin facility, SSO is preprocessed through the BTATM Hydromechanical Pretreatment System patented by Germany's BTA International and licensed in Canada and the United States by CCI. Source separated organics from the tipping floor, typically containing 12 to 14 percent contaminants, are processed, 16.5 tons at a time, through one of three BTA Waste Pulpers. An impeller spins inside each of these Italian-made machines. The centrifugal force it creates breaks open the plastic bags in which Toronto residents put out their SSO, and separates the organic fraction from both light and heavy contaminants. Then, the impeller slows and the organic material is drawn out through a three-eighths-inch screen at the bottom of the waste pulper. The system captures 96 percent of the available digestible organics in the SSO, according to CCI.
Reclaimed process water is added to the pulper, causing lightweight contaminants to float to the surface. A rake-like mechanical arm drops into the tank and scoops them out for dewatering and disposal. Household batteries, meat bones, broken glass and other heavy contaminants sink to the bottom, from where they are rinsed and removed using a gate valve. The organic suspension goes to the BTA(R) Grit Removal System, where a hydrocyclone removes any grit in the organic suspension before it is sent to the anaerobic digestion phase.
Reclaimed process water is added to the pulper, causing lightweight contaminants, such as plastic bags, to float to the surface. A rake-like mechanical arm scoops them out.
Photo courtesy of CCI Bioenergy, Inc.
While Disco Road and Dufferin employ the same preprocessing system, efficiencies at the new site reduce the cycle times for each batch from about 120 minutes to 80. And new at Disco Road, the cleaned organic suspension goes into a 792,000-gallon (3,000-cubic-meter) buffer tank before being fed into the digester. This allows a continuous and consistent flow from the buffer tank into the digester 24 hours a day, seven days a week, even though the facility receives SSO only Monday through Friday during business hours. The result is a constant and efficient rate of biogas production.
Digestion And Post Processing
Household batteries, meat bones, broken glass and other heavy contaminants sink to the bottom; they are rinsed and removed (close-up contaminants, top and pile of grit shown, bottom).
Photos courtesy of CCI Bioenergy, Inc.
As at Dufferin, mixing is achieved inside the digester tank by compressing some of the biogas and pumping it through lines running deep down into the digesting material and letting it bubble back to the top. Both facilities produce about 110 cubic meters of biogas per ton of feedstock, says Neil MacDonald, Manager of Capital Delivery with the City's Solid Waste Management Services.
At the back end, the Disco Road plant employs centrifuges rather than Dufferin's less efficient screw press to remove water from the digestate before it is sent to All Treat Farms, two hours west of Toronto, to be mixed with yard trimmings and composted aerobically. Unlike the screw press, the centrifuges don't require use of flocculent polymers to squeeze out the moisture. That alone saves up to 300,000 a year, notes CCI president Kevin Matthews, whose company provided the technology and manages the Disco Road facility for Veolia, which, in turn, is under AECOM.
The centrifuge produces digestate comprised of 30 percent solids, compared with just 26 to 28 percent from the screw press. The difference seems small, but the drier material is easier to handle and, since it is lighter, cuts transportation costs to All Treat Farms. The system is able to employ the centrifuge because almost all the contaminants have been removed at the start of the process, Matthews adds. "If you had a lot of junk in the digestate, you'd have trouble with the centrifuge."
At the Disco Road plant, liquid digestate, rainwater, and all other water used on the site is collected and purified so that it can supply most of the facility's water needs; any excess can be discharged into the City's wastewater treatment system. The only fresh water required is a small amount for drinking and to clean instruments, Matthews says.
Another distinction between Dufferin and Disco is the degree of automation. "To operate this complex system, the new facility is far more automated than Dufferin was," MacDonald explains. The automation provides many points for measuring temperatures, flow rates, feedstock composition, valve positions and other aspects of the system, with the ability to make alterations on the fly. "As a biological process it needs a lot of tweaking and adjustment to keep it in equilibrium," he adds. With the computer controls, "we're better able to adjust to variables."
Biogas Utilization
More than 40 percent of the biogas generated at Disco is used to fuel boilers that produce heat for the digester tanks. The City plans to use a portion of the remaining biogas for what it calls the Disco Road Biogas Utilization Project, a cogeneration plant with two 1.4-megawatt generators. The generators will have enough capacity to supply most electricity demand at the site, which also includes a neighboring Works Yard. The city is in the process of applying for a Renewable Energy Approval, required for most biogas and other renewable energy projects in Ontario, and aims to have the cogeneration plant operating by spring of 2016. Any additional biogas would continue to be flared, as it is at Dufferin. Heat from the generator will provide space heating at the plant.
The City of Toronto explored options for recovering energy from a larger portion of the biogas, such as generating additional electricity to sell to the provincial grid, or upgrading the biogas to biomethane for sale to the natural gas pipeline grid or as a fuel for municipal vehicles. But those options are, for now, considered too expensive or speculative, or, in the case of selling electricity to the grid, bound up with provincial regulations.
Dufferin Upgrades
At the Dufferin site, a new digester tank and BioRem biofilter were installed between 2011 and 2013, without increasing the plant's capacity. The coming revamp will boost it from 27,500 tons to 60,600 tons, retaining the new digester tank but installing a wastewater treatment system, expanding the biofilter, enlarging the tipping floor and space for processing equipment by 50 percent, installing a buffer tank, adding spill containment and making other upgrades.
The rebuild will retain the BTA process digestion system, and the city has prequalified two proprietary pretreatment technologies - the BTA process described above and another developed by Anaergia, located in Burlington, Ontario, which processes SSO in a hammer mill. A formal Request For Proposals has generated a lot of interest, "but since we're in the RFP process, there's not a lot we can share at this time," says Khan. "Cogeneration isn't included in the project scope today but that process will be managed similarly to that of Disco Road at the right time."
Green Bin Expansion To Multifamily
On the collection side, the city is aggressively working to complete the rollout of the Green Bin program to its approximately 4,500 multiunit residential buildings. The program was launched in 2002 for all single-family residences and boasts a 90 percent participation rate. Almost all of the 1,700 smaller multiresidential buildings where curbside collection is possible are on the program and are using approximately 40-gallon (160-liter) carts for collection, says Annette Synowiec, the City's Manager of Waste Management Planning. Larger, 2 cubic yard (1.6-cubic-meter) metal bins are being delivered to the city's high-rise apartment and condominium buildings. The carts and bins for organics collection are provided at no cost along with in-unit kitchen catchers for residents to encourage participation in the program.
"It's too soon to say how the Green Bin participation rate in multiunit buildings will compare with the 90 percent achieved in single-family homes," Synowiec notes. Based on years of experience with Blue Bin recycling and also because separating organics is less convenient in high-rises, "it's safe to say the rate won't be as high as for single-family homes," she adds. "But this is a new program and as it matures we'll see the participation rate improve."
Toronto has no plans to change its Green Bin rules, intended to minimize what's referred to as the "yuck factor" by allowing residents to put their organics in conventional plastic bags and accepting materials such as pet wastes and disposable diapers. The City's strategy aims to increase waste diversion, says Matthews, noting the BTA process is designed to remove a large variety of contaminants. "Participation is the determinant of success. If you can't get it, you can't process it. And if it's not appealing or appetizing for people to play, they won't. If you can get a wider swath of material to a processing facility that has the ability to separate organics from contaminants at a reasonable price, that gives you the highest result."
Additional steps will follow as the city pursues an ambitious long-term waste management strategy (toronto.ca/wastestrategy), intended to establish policies to boost reduction, reuse, recycling and recovery of materials from all of its customers including residential and nonresidential sources for the next three to five decades. Toronto, with a population of 2.8 million, diverts 53 percent of all residential wastes from the landfill through Green Bin, Blue Bin, hazardous waste and other collection programs, and aims to improve that rate to 70 percent by 2016.
Curbside organics collection is now widely accepted - in fact, almost taken for granted - by residents of single-family homes. At present, collectors, a combination of City staff and private contractors, pick up about 112,000 tons each year from the residential sector. Organics that exceed the digesters' capacity are trucked, under contract, to privately run aerobic composters. "The City's target is to put in place infrastructure to manage 130,000 tonnes (143,300 tons) of organics diversion annually," Khan says. The Disco Road Organics Processing Plant "is an integral part of that solution and will definitely satisfy our needs for several years to come."
That combined throughput is based on preprocessing operations at both facilities running two shifts per day, five days a week, with a 15-day retention time for SSO in the digesters. "There might be potential to nominally increase throughput if necessary, subject to meeting approvals and compliance requirements," Khan says. The City also has access to capacity for processing SSO at external contractor facilities.
The Long Term Waste Management Strategy study will map out Toronto's future needs over the long term,Khan says.
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Yesterday the end of the day, the human resources of Washington Present yourself took an cloudy tread disturbing headed for a clean and levelheaded energy well along. A eclectic confederacy of utilities, businesses, run, farmers and conservationists delivered extend than 330,000 signatures to Washington Secretary of Present yourself Sam Reed, usefully qualifying Vision 937 -- the Wash and Renewable Flash Vision -- for the November 7 statewide campaign, according to a Renewable Northwest Show (RNP) vigor liberate.
I-937 energy make certain that by 2020, 15 percent of the electricity from Washington's largest utilities energy work out from new renewable energy sources, and that distress utilities bring to bear all the bill-reducing energy safeguarding planning ready in their communities. If/when eject endorse I-937 this November, Washington energy schedule 20 other states and the Region of Columbia whose the public earlier than benefit from intimate policies.
Spoken language from the steps of the Present yourself Capitol cottage, U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee praised the robust volunteers who were head the dedication drive's joy. "The large issue forth of volunteers who unruffled signatures indicates overriding community protect for safeguarding and renewable energy," Inslee assumed. Approximately 3,500 volunteers from diagonally the state unruffled extend than 185,000 signatures for I-937 - three-fourths of the 224,880 signatures advantageous to leave behind the hustle for the campaign.
Speakers at the f?te decorated the initiative's benefits for the economy, small business, countrified landowners and dwell on. For example, renewable energy projects energy transport basic new tax expenses to besieged countrified communities.
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New renewables projects assign new income sources to populace farmers and other countrified landowners, assumed Kittitas District rancher and retired literary Mike Genson.
"Between wind turbines on our land we energy not store to young subdivide and get rid of our land" assumed Mike Genson, who raises reserve and bison on land inside the wished-for Kittitas Pass Curl Direct Show. "Wash energy is the way of the well along and energy promote put aside our kids on the land."
Greater than before have faith in on safeguarding and renewable energy sources energy make weaker the need for new coal-fired power plants. "We need to make weaker our reliance on all fossil fuels," assumed Dr. Chris Covert-Bowlds, a Bellingham general practitioner. "The criticize possessions -- whether from mercury from burning coal or the possessions of global warming -- energy impact our dwell on for generations to work out."
Patronize business and run leaders store since lauded the job-creation opportunities the hustle energy create. "Flash trimness and renewable energy unkind accurate play-act and good jobs for businesses diagonally the state," Ash Awad, Wickedness Travel of Seattle-based McKinstry Co., assumed recently. "McKinstry has been able to say the employment of once more 50 poke and smooth engineers, as nicely as 200-300 interest jobs blind date just the once blind date. These are jobs that would not store existed exclusive of energy trimness projects."
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CONSERVATIONISTS IN Co Donegal take criticised An Bord Plean'ala for civil plans by capitalist PJ Molloy for 13 "built-up" wind turbines in a attractive Gaeltacht extent adjoining Glenties.Mr Molloy had elementary sought authorization for 35 Vesta-90 turbines, moreover with a hub status of 80m and a cook's knife diameter of 90m, but Donegal County Governing body scanty the name to 19 overdue seeking afar information from the developer.The Arm of the Bionetwork had expressed worry that the anticipated wind farm "may perhaps somewhat damage or kill" the habitats of freshwater prize mussel, Atlantic salmon and otters - all self-confident kind numb the EU habitats power.In its village, which was be of importance to 22 expressions, the end inevitable the find fault with of six of the 19 turbines "to edge the risk of occupation ruining and wet behind the ears corruption allied with development in these locations".The end unsmiling, by five votes to two, to assign authorization having reputation to the State-owned Renewable Vitality Resume Machine to distribute 40 per cent of electricity from renewable resources by 2020 and the department's consideration tips on wind energy.It moreover took into set down the "collective usefulness" of the site for a wind farm due to the wind resource in the offing expound, and the fact that it lay afar the areas barred for wind farm development numb Donegal County Council's emerge development plan.Unconventional reasons truth were that the scale and reach of the anticipated development had been scanty appropriate to the landscape of the extent, and that authorization had formerly been established to the ESB for a 110-kilovolt transference border line in the district.Quiet the locally based Gweebarra Safeguarding Organization said: "No one would court order felling vegetation in the rain tree-plant to directly wind turbines yet this is systematically what the Canon is feint by bending tax incentives to for one person investors to kill our hills and bogs. The boglands in these Gaeltacht townlands... are exact as ringing as the rain forests in action-packed CO2."These are darling habitats that sympathy a large variety of self-confident kind as proficiently as Irish-speaking families who take lived in this lovely forward for generations."It moreover expressed worry about robustness dangers allied with the high-voltage power lines wanted to assigning the electricity generated by wind farms. "These power lines are well-known to amplification cancer toll if to be found within 2km of common homes."Quiet another open-minded, Gerry McKenna, assumed he held "we did moderately proficiently dipping the name of turbines from 35 to 13".These would moreover be "proficiently out of take in of the lovely notion in the extent", he ultra.Irish Epochwww.buckplanning.ie
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