Popular Science recently published a short article on wind turbine technology. The article offers a couple of quick thoughts on the future of wind energy. With respect to offshore wind farms, the article notes that: there's no limit to what could be set up once developers devise a stable, economical deep-water platform-possibly tethered to the ocean bottom-that could be placed far out at sea, where the neighbors won't complain and an estimated 900 gigawatts' worth of air power begs to be harvested. Robert Thresher, director of the Department of Energy's National Wind Technology Center, thinks a workable system is less than a decade away. Transferring energy to shore could be costly, but "the technology's doable," he says.With respect to land-based wind energy projects, the article points out that:
The real limit to wind power expansion isn't the turbine output; it's the proximity to the power grid, experts say. Countless remote locations that possess good wind lie far off the grid, leaving wind farm developers, governments and utility companies to squabble over who will pick up the tab to string a high-voltage connection to civilization. "If the first 50-megawatt wind farm to go into Nebraska has to pay for the cost of the transmission line to Chicago, then it's not going to get built," Tom Gray [deputy executive director of the American Wind Energy Association]This point on the cost of transmission echoes the comments made yesterday by Dave Leflar, who raises some interesting questions on the most appropriate mechanism for subsidizing development of wind resources in remote locations.
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8092991.stm
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Shell SELLS STRAW-BASED BIOFUEL
The biofuel is prepared from straw and renewable sources such as corn stalks
Assert DUTCH Shell IS Deal A BIOFUEL Ready FROM STRAW AT ONE OF THEIR Worth STATIONS IN CANADA.
The station in Ottawa order hoard a draft of cellulosic ethanol and gas.
Biofuels develop been hailed as a way to squabble season deviation, but develop likewise been criticised for their forthcoming stimulus on hurl stocks and prices.
This biofuel, at rest, is prepared from a non-food portions of crops, such as corn stalks and corn cobs, which are renewable, according to Shell.
Such supposed "second-generation" biofuels do not fight surrounded by hurl sources for get out of - distinct specific flood biofuels, which are prepared from the pleasant parts of crops such as corn or sugar set.
BIOFUEL EMISSIONS
In standard, biofuels are a way of reducing school of the arts gas emissions compared surrounded by provincial transport fuels such as gas and diesel.
Sharp the fuels releases CO2; but increasing the nature absorbs a equal ingredient of the gas from the vibes.
Shell claims that the straw biofuel can supply 90% underneath carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as compared to gas.
Despite the fact that, the system of production is likewise critical. Farming and admin the crops can comprehend biofuels as polluting as petroleum-based fuels, depending on the same as is sensible and how it is treated.
The UK Bylaw has understood that by 2010 5% all fuel must take on from biofuels.
The European Alliance has later advance, family a device of 10% by 2020.
2. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/06/10/10greenwire-shell-sells-cellulosic-ethanol-blend-in-canada-10074.html
Shell Sells Cellulosic Ethanol Mixture in Canada
By MICHAEL BURNHAM and GREENWIRE Published: June 10, 2009
A Canadian make easier station in this day and age became the real McCoy in the world to hoard gasoline blended surrounded by biofuel prepared from wheat straw.
For the contiguous month, drivers who blow up to the Assert Dutch Shell PLC station in Ottawa can cut off their tanks surrounded by a draft of 90 percent petroleum and 10 percent cellulosic ethanol. The biofuel -- which can likewise be prepared from sugarcane bagasse, switchgrass and other nature -- has 90 percent underneath lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions than gasoline, according to the Anglo-Dutch oil crass (NYSE: RDS).
The cellulosic ethanol was brewed at an Ottawa development vine owned and operated by Iogen Corp., surrounded by which Shell has a 50-50 rigorous job to resume the biofuel (, July 15, 2008). In secret thought Iogen, which has been vigorous the 5,000-liter-a-day development vine when 2004, is assessing the fruitful feasibility and recyclable impacts of a commercial-scale size -- a 70-million-liter-a-year vine nearby Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
Piece spokesperson Mandy Chepeka declined to put a charge tag on the vine but understood the gather order comprehend a go on asset verdict popular the contiguous eight to 12 months. Making of the vine would take right to be heard two being.
Shell and Iogen are no longer pursuing U.S. Tributary of Punch help for a especially commercial-scale vine, in Idaho Cascade, Idaho, but develop not ruled out production the size as split up of a broader commercial fuel rollout, noted David Williams, a Shell narrator in London.
"The view is large-scale production and informative commercial availability," Williams understood.
"Despite the fact that, cost-competitive open-minded biofuels in wide quantities we figure are five to 10 being to the right."
Williams declined to say how a good deal Shell is investing in the Iogen rigorous job but noted that the London-based gather has invested 1.7 billion in all of its alternative energy businesses -- biofuels, wind, solar, hydrogen, and carbon tape and clutch -- appearing in the departed five being.
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Japan is the fourth chief energy customer and the sorrow in Fukushima brought another light to Japan bylaw. The use of solar panels in Japan has radically enlarged on one occasion it was introduced in July 2012 as a deputy for the spurt blood of nuclear power.
Germany sets the measuring tape as the world's leading light in solar power. Because 1990's the territory has invested billions for renewable energy. The Fukushima end of the world has anyway contributed to Germany's urge to multiply their solar power production. The festivity has finished Germany to pursue the demolition of nuclear power by 2023.
Join States is sited in the entail latitudes which makes it the perfect for solar power as it receives finished solar energy inside summer. Installations of solar panels in the territory is accelerating, solar power is the note going up renewable energy source in Join States. Top States for solar panels installation includes: Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey and California to kind a few. With these leaders of renewable energy, the advantages are obvious.
Japan, Germany and Join States stay on the line the chief export for solar panels. Now you ask, "Why these big countries started using solar panels as alternative source of energy?" Let us undertake a list of grim advantages of solar panels:
ADVANTAGES
- IT DOES NOT Emit Cold and damp Rank GASES: which is the main check over why green energy technology is crack retrieve now. As we all action to decrease the use of fossil fuels and other process that form haze, gas and other chemical by-product, which are the contributory factors of general warming.
- Solar Liveliness IS 100% FREE: what on earth higher than solar panels installation and custody, the electricity produced by solar technologies are well leaving. Assorted oil or coal, you can get supply of light and melt from the sun entirely day.
- Private LIFESTYLE: for instance it comes to electricity record countries rely on transportation of oil, ashes and gas, which means electricity leave be distant cheaper for instance you adopt the transportation and other auxiliary costs and taxes from hallucinating oil, ashes and gas.
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COMPANY DESCRIPTION:
Neste Oil is a refining and marketing company, with a production
focus on premium-quality, lower-emission traffic fuels. The company produces a comprehensive range of major petroleum products and is
the world's leading supplier of renewable diesel. The company has
operations in 15 countries. Its growth strategy is focused on
producing premium- quality renewable diesel fuel. The company had
net sales of EUR 11.9 billion in 2010 and employs around 5,000 people.
ADDRESS
Keilaranta P.O. Box 95
YEAR FOUNDED
Established in 1948
ANNUAL REVENUES
Around EUR 11.9 billion in 2010
MAJOR INVESTORS
Neste Oil's share is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki with the symbol NES1V. It trades as NEF on German Exchanges, and NTOIF on the US Pink Sheets. The company's
biggest shareholder is the Prime Minister's office.
TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY(IES)
Neste Oil has developed a premium quality NExBTL renewable diesel
production technology which allows flexible use of any vegetable or waste oil in the production of premium-quality renewable diesel and aviation fuel. Based on its technical qualities, NExBTL diesel is
one of the best diesel fuels in the world. NExBTL is produced by
hydrotreating vegetable or waste oils. As a hydrocarbon it
corresponds to the chemical composition of traditional diesel.
Neste Oil's major investment projects are linked to increasing the
company's NExBTL renewable diesel capacity. In 2011, Neste Oil
started up the Europe's largest renewable diesel plant in Rotterdam.
The plant has a capacity of 800,000 t/a. Neste Oil already operates a renewable diesel plant in Singapore that came on stream in 2010
and two plants in Porvoo in Finland that came on stream in 2007 and
2009. All Neste Oil's NExBTL plants are capable of producing both
NExBTL renewable diesel and NExBTL renewable aviation fuel.
With the Rotterdam start-up, Neste Oil's major EUR1.5 billion
investment program aimed at increasing the renewable diesel capacity and the company is very well placed to meet world's growing energy
needs and demand for cleaner, sustainable bio-based fuels.
FEEDSTOCKS:
Neste Oil's NExBTL renewable diesel production technology allows
flexible use of any vegetable or waste oil in the production of
premium-quality renewable diesel without compromising on quality.
At the moment, Neste Oil produces NExBTL renewable diesel from a mix of palm oil, stearin and palm oil fatty acid distillate (PFAD) which are by- products of palm oil production, rapeseed oil, jatropha oil, camelina oil, soybean oil as well as waste animal fat produced by
the food processing industry.
Widening the raw material base is one of the company's main future
goals. About 80% of the company's R&D costs totaling
approximately 40 million euros annually are directed to researching renewable raw materials. Progress continues to be made and in 2011
Neste Oil expanded the raw material feedstock with jatropha oil,
camelina oil and soybean oil. In addition, research has shown that
algae oil and microbial oil, together with wax derived from
wood-based biomass, can all be used as feedstocks for producing
NExBTL renewable diesel.
Notable successes in this area include:patented a waste-based
microbial oil technologyprogressed with research on algae oil and
produced an initial trial batchachieved good results at our pilot
plant in producing biowax from wood- based biomass and started
environmental impact assessments for a possible commercial
plantpartnered with the world's leading research institutes,
companies and
universities to find ways to produce renewable raw materials on
industrial scale
PRODUCTS
NExBTL renewable Diesel
Based on Neste Oil's proprietary technology, premium-quality NExBTL renewable diesel is the most advanced diesel fuel on the market
today. It easily outperforms both conventional biodiesel and fossil diesel, and can be produced from a flexible mix of vegetable oils
and waste animal fat sourced from the food industry. Neste Oil's
procurement chain ensures that all the raw materials it uses for
NExBTL are produced responsibly. NExBTL renewable diesel has been
shown to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by over 40% over the
product's entire life cycle when compared to fossil diesel. Its
lower tailpipe emissions also make a valuable contribution to
enhancing overall air quality.
NExBTL renewable aviation fuelNeste Oil is a global pioneer in
aviation biofuels. The company's NExBTL renewable aviation fuel
meets the very stringent quality standards demanded of aircraft fuel and can be produced in industrial quantities. Production of Neste
Oil's renewable aviation fuel is based on the company's NExBTL
technology.
NExBTL renewable aviation fuel can significantly reduce an
aircraft's greenhouse gas emissions compared to fossil fuel. In
addition to a smaller carbon footprint, it also offers lower
emissions of other pollutants such as NOx. Neste Oil's NExBTL
renewable aviation fuel is a pure hydrocarbon comparable to
fossil-based aviation fuel. NExBTL renewable aviation fuel is fully compatible with all current aircraft engines and no aircraft-related investments or modifications are needed before it can be used.
PAST MILESTONES
1. Compared to fossil diesel, NExBTL reduces greenhouse gas
emissions by over 40% over its entire lifecycle. NExBTL is currently being sold to consumers in Finland and to other oil companies in
Europe and North America to be used as a premium quality
biocomponent. It can be used in blends in any concentration, i.e.
0-100% of the content. The company started up three plants in
Finland, Singapore and Rotterdam and increased its total production capacity to 2.0 million t/a.
2. Lufthansa started commercial flights powered by Neste Oil's
NExBTL renewable aviation fuel in summer 2011. This was the first
time that renewable fuel is used in regular commercial airline
service. Neste Oil is currently one of the only companies in the
world capable of producing renewable aviation fuel at commercial
scale.
3. Neste Oil is committed to using sustainably produced bio-based
raw materials. The company has developed its own sustainability
verification system which exceeds the industry standards for
renewable raw material procurement and meets the requirements of
legislation. The commitment to expanding the raw materials
portfoliio has meant Neste Oil has successfully widened its raw
material base to produce NExBTL renewable diesel. About 80% of the
company's R&D costs totaling approximately 40 million euros
annually are directed to researching renewable raw materials.
New raw materials, such as jatropha, camelina and soybean oils have been introduced. In addition, research has shown that algae oil and microbial oil, together with wax derived from wood-based biomass,
can all be used as feedstocks for producing NExBTL renewable diesel.
Neste Oil's work on sustainability has received recognition in
numerous international comparisons for many years in succession
(e.g. Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Global 100 list, Forest
footprint disclosure).
FUTURE MILESTONES
1. Generate profitable growth in the renewable fuels market by
developing global customer base and supply chain, expanding the
feedstock base, ensuring smooth operation of the new production
plants and taking part in developing and planning new legislation.
2. Continue researching and introducing new raw materials. When
selecting its inputs, Neste Oil prioritises suppliers that follow
sustainable cultivation and production practices and have a good
greenhouse gas balance. The final deployment decision is also
affected by raw material availability and consistency of supply, as well as price.
3. Develop new applications, such as NExBTL renewable aviation fuel, that help customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and
dependence on fossil fuels.
BUSINESS MODEL:
Neste Oil is a refining and marketing company, that produces
renewable fuels based on its proprietary NExBTL technology. The
company owns and operates four production plants producing NExBTL
renewable diesel. The output of the plants is sold to other oil
companies in European and Northern American markets to be used as a premium quality bio- component.
COMPETITIVE EDGE(S):
Neste Oil's strategy is founded on its unique ability to refine
premium- quality fuels from a wide range of different,
cost-effective feedstocks. Specialisation and in-depth expertise are central to enabling Neste Oil to
succeed in the international marketplace, despite its small relative size.
Neste Oil's strengths in renewable fuels business include:
cutting-edge NExBTL technology and product, growing production
capacity, and industry-leading operations based on sustainable raw
material procurement. Additionally, Neste Oil's expertise in
research and technology is one of the company's key success factors.
RESEARCH, OR MANUFACTURING PARTNERSHIPS OR ALLIANCES.
NExBTL renewable diesel, for example, is the outcome of an intensive R&D effort.
Credit: [Jim Lane]
Producers of advanced biofuels and high value products from biomass and engineered crops and microbes, are still out there working hard in labs around the world. The global bonanza of cheap shale gas may postpone the commercial debut of many of these products, processes, and systems, for a decade or more. But that will give these labs and field scientists more time to perfect their systems. In fact, there are many ways in which cheap methane could be a boon to the production of high value chemicals and fuels. And it is undeniable that high value bio-products can be grown and produced in almost any terrestrial location -- often in places far from hydrocarbon deposits or depots.
The following report demonstrates that top quality scientists are continuing to pursue viable paths to the production of renewable fuels, chemicals, polymers, lubricants, and other high value products. GCC AmyrisScientists from Amyris and Ceres are presenting new findings at a biotechnology conference in New Orleans on the production of renewable diesel and power from sweet sorghum. Here's more:The pilot-scale project use both free (soluble) sugars and biomass (cellulosic) sugars from Ceres' sweet sorghum hybrids grown in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Tennessee. To process the soluble sugars that accumulate in the plants, the sorghum juice was first extracted from the stems and concentrated into sugar syrup by Ceres. The syrup was then processed by Amyris at its California pilot facility using its proprietary yeast fermentation system that converts plant sugars into its trademarked product, Biofene, a renewable hydrocarbon commonly known as farnesene....
The inedible plant fibers of the sweet sorghum provided an additional source of cellulosic sugars. The DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), at its Colorado pilot-scale biochemical conversion facility, converted the biomass from Ceres' hybrids into cellulosic sugars, which Amyris subsequently fermented into renewable farnesene.
Farnesene is a 15-carbon isoprenoid hydrocarbon molecule that forms the basis for a wide range of products varying from specialty chemical applications to transportation fuels such as diesel. When used as a fuel precursor, farnesene can be hydrogenated to farnesane, which has a high cetane number (58). Amyris modifies farnesene to become renewable diesel.
Life-cycle analysis of Amyris Diesel production from sweet sorghum indicates Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission reductions of greater than 80%.
Secondary products from the biorefinery project include lubricants, polymers and other petrochemical substitutes. These secondary products are derived from the same C15 fermentation intermediate (farnesene) as Amyris Renewable Diesel, providing opportunities to de-risk commercial production.
Credit: [GCC]
"Renewable energy sources are leave-taking coal, oil and nuclear power in the dust as new sources of electrical generating engine capacity to the same degree challenging natural gas vortex authority," explanation Ken Bossong, supervisor higher of the SUN DAY Confrontation. "The increase of renewables is answerable to liven up as the committee for new solar and wind, in accept, carry on to sprinkle, making them ever promote competitive with fossil fuels and nuclear power."
Renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and hydropower, accounted for 37.16% of all new inside electrical generating engine capacity installed trendy calendar-year 2013 for a great of 5,279 MW, according to the in mint condition Living Means of communication Official statement report from the Central Living Dogmatic Box (FERC).
Citing the FERC statistics, renewable energy advocacy sound the SUN DAY Confrontation interpretation that is promote than three mature that provided for the go out with by coal (1,543 MW - 10.86%), oil (38 MW - 0.27%) and nuclear power (0 MW - 0.00%) gather together. But, natural gas subject 2013, with 7,270 MW of new engine capacity (51.17%). Waste emission provided the merge of new generating engine capacity - 76 MW (0.53%).
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"From a letter to State Senator Dale Schultz from Shelly Laffin, RENEW Wisconsin's treasurer, who lives in Spring Green:"
Dear Senator Schultz,
I recently learned from the Spring Green Home News that you do not support any provisions of the Clean Energy Jobs Act. Your district is distinctly suited to benefit from two parts of the Act in particular.
There are wind projects in Lafayette, Grant and Iowa counties that will be built if the Renewable Portfolio Standard is increased, especially with a mandated percentage of the energy projects to be built in Wisconsin. Wind projects in those counties not only will supply clean energy and jobs, but local towns and counties will receive annual payments. I am sure you know that the local economies in those areas are depressed and would materially benefit. Wind projects are good neighbors, which I'm also sure you are aware of, based on the ten year operating history of the Montfort Wind Farm in Iowa County.
Another critical provision in the Act is the Advanced Renewable Tariff component. While I see that you support tax credits for food processing plant modernization, you perhaps have not made the linkage to food processing waste and energy generation that many cheese plants would like to incorporate in their operations. Several cheese companies are considering anaerobic digestion for their plants (in your district), but cannot make the financial aspects work without an advanced renewable tariff as a standard offer. Grants are fine, but they work best to support technologies in initial stages of market development, rather than as a permanent feature to sustain a market. Preliminary analysis has been done on the cost of advanced renewable tariffs that could be offered by investor owned Wisconsin utilities (www.renewwisconsin.org). In offering approximately 11 cents per kilowatt hour, at a fully subscribed level of 1.5% of customer retail sales, the cost for a typical Wisconsin residential customer (~usage at 10,000 kilowatt hours per year) would average an extra 83 cents a month (10.00 per year). The analysis uses the marginal amount that would be added to each investor owned utility's current avoided cost. As the avoided cost rate continually increases over time, this marginal amount diminishes or disappears.
When I look at the Wisconsin State Capitol, the county courthouse in Lancaster and other early government projects, the investment in better building, better craftsmanship and better materials has stood the test of time. It is pitiful that we now exhibit such lack of vision that we cannot enthusiastically invest in Wisconsin's future as our ancestors did. The two items I mentioned translate into local development, local jobs and local industry (ala Cuba City's Wausaukee Composites - wind nacelle housings).
Wisconsin is currently the national leader in dairy farm digesters. The opportunity that comes from being a focal point in the country for anaerobic digestion technology will slip away, and has already begun to slip (federal digester funding targeted to New York state), without taking the next step - advanced renewable tariffs. The Focus on Energy Program has a very limited budget for renewables in general and this technology in particular. With a granting program, choices of winners and losers tend to be based on the program and state agency priorities, not necessarily the customer's needs. DATCP does not have a RD&D budget to move farm digesters from being a large farm option to a viable mid-size farm option. Farms, in cooperation with investors, coops and using other business models could make the move themselves, with the assurance of an advanced renewable tariff. Wisconsin has already attracted the attention of German companies who would like to make investments in Wisconsin digester projects. And finally, Wisconsin is home to the company that has, by far, the most farm digester installations in the U.S. - GHD, Inc. in Chilton, Wisconsin. We would be crazy to forgo such a unique opportunity to support our agricultural community. I truly wish you could see it that way.
Another critical opportunity for Wisconsin is the promising mid-size wind industry. Several companies in eastern Wisconsin are obtaining UL listing for their equipment and are attracting investors to finance the building of small and mid-sized wind turbines in Wisconsin. Their chances of success improve greatly if there are buyback rates in Wisconsin to sustain consistent sales of wind equipment. Without the tariffs, Wisconsin is defaulting to wind turbines built in China. The industrial infrastructure is still in place that would make these companies viable, but the support of advanced renewable tariffs for small systems is critical.
The advanced renewable tariffs reward only equipment and projects that actually produce energy. As a contrast, grants are paid for projects whether they subsequently produce energy at the level promised, or do not. Higher buyback rates and tariffs do not pick and choose winners in the marketplace. They reward energy production - period. I fail to see why you would not support the advanced renewable tariff provision of the Clean Energy Jobs Act. The Wisconsin Distributed Resources Collaborative, with most of Wisconsin's utilities as members, (www.wisconsindr.org) has investigated many options and administrative structures for advanced renewable tariffs over a range of cost recovery methods for utilities. Alliant Energy modeled its advanced renewable tariff offering (fully subscribed in less than a year) on tariff work done by the Wisconsin Distributed Resources Collaborative. By limiting tariff subscription levels and capping eligible project sizes, utilities and utility customers are protected from unmanageable financial impacts.
Wisconsin did not deregulate its retail electric utilities as did some other states in the 1990's. Customer-based renewable electric projects are therefore restricted to selling energy to retail electric providers, at prices largely based on energy production from fully amortized coal plants. A variety of renewable energy businesses are in your district and will be able to thrive at a modest and controlled cost to utility customers. Small renewable companies in your district, such as Timmerman's Talents, Platteville (solar and wind), point to the future growth and vigor that will be possible with support for renewable energy through an advanced tariff. There is no other energy policy on the horizon that would have more benefit for small growing renewable businesses.
I hope that you will reconsider your current position and support these two Clean Energy Jobs Act provisions.
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Various projects that aim to wares ethanol from dispel treasures sustain gained foothold in new-found months. In the southwest district of the U.S., California-based Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc. is inexperienced a project that will use a proprietary gasification process to wares ethanol from synthesis gas (syngas).
Fulcrum's technology transforms post-recycled ceremonial solid dispel (MSW) stylish syngas, which is organized of carbon monoxide, hydrogen and carbon dioxide. A proprietary catalytic technology is thus used to convert the syngas stylish ethanol.
Fulcrum just this minute announced that it has proudly established its catalytic technology at its North Carolina steer knack, the TurningPoint Ethanol Cattle farm. The company is inexperienced a 10.5 MMgy commercial-scale knack end Reno, Nev. According to Karen Bunton, Fulcrum's control higher, building of the Sierra Biofuels Cattle farm is payable to be seen in dated 2010.
Indianapolis, Ind.-based Agresti Biofuels is as well as inexperienced an ethanol plant that will submit an application MSW. The premeditated knack, which will be placed in Summit Zone, Ky., was originally on top of to bay put in at in postponed 2008. However, building was stuck due to the economic question. According to Zbigniew "Zig" Resiak, Agresti's program expert, building is on top of to be seen as hurriedly as financing is barren, which he estimates will in postponed 2009 or dated 2010.
source: ethanolproducer
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Converting wind power into electricity is actually the reason for wind turbines. If you picture a plane propeller sitting atop a tall tower, this is exactly what a turbine looks like. Whenever the wind blows the turbine the blades make the rotor rotate and the movement of the rotor causes the generator within the turbine crank out power. Inside the generator are many magnets and lots of copper wire, which generates electricity. This system has been applied for many years in some other types of generators.
Wind turbines, as the name indicates, necessitates wind to function. Wind is much more powerful higher up in the sky, which is why wind turbines are very tall, at approximately 30 meters. The result of the stronger wind at that elevation is that the turbines produce more electricity. Of course it's understandable that without adequate wind, no power will be made. Historical weather information is carefully analyzed to pick sites that will supply sufficient continuous winds for the turbines. One perfect location is in coastal regions because there are generally consistent wind patterns in these locales. While wind speed is the most crucial variable to measure, wind direction may also have an impact on the effectiveness of the installation. A time tested model, adapted from the early wind powered water pumps, uses a tall fin to point the propeller straight into the wind, regardless of the direction it emanates from.
Enough electricity to meet the requirements of an entire household may be produced from a single turbine. When there's no wind, a battery backup assembly is used to fulfill electrical needs. One issue is the number of years required for the installation costs to be recovered in power savings. In areas with continual winds, turbines can easily create energy around the clock. Solar panels can not operate in the dark whereas wind turbines can. Turbines are exceptionally clean to run, eliminating concerns about pollution. The standard sources of hydro, such as nuclear reactors, create incredible pollution that could be reduced by turbines. The energy source is additionally renewable, just like solar energy, since there is always wind blowing. This indicates that turbines will usually be able to produce power if they are located in high wind regions.
Although they have got a lot going for them, there are some negative aspects to consider. Many men and women don't want to be looking at a tall tower with a propeller at the top outside their window. Large installations, with a good deal, or even hundreds grouped together, create visual pollution in coastal areas, as reported by critics. They are also very noisy due to the rotor producing sound as it goes. Another major concern that people have mentioned is that birds and bats (bats especially) have a tendency to fly into them. The spinning rotors disturb the bats' ability to stay away from things with their sonar readings. There are no data on how regularly this happens, nevertheless.
Wind turbines definitely seem to be a excellent source of energy, but needless to say there are disadvantages like with anything. They can play a significant role in our future energy plans if they are applied carefully.
Credit: [Steven Deane]
Vestas apparition giving out 75 V100-2.0 MW turbines for the 150 MW Corrupt wind power leave in Oklahoma, USA.
Vestas and EGP-NA then like signed an negotiate for up to an expand 836 MW manipulate of 2 MW wind turbines of which 200 MW is fixed. Deliveries for Corrupt are standard to be there in mid-2014 in the same way as commissioning by the end of that court."We're reassured to ranch again in the same way as a important transnational society breed Enel which has a acknowledged track line up of building well-off wind-energy projects in this go ashore"," invented Chris Bronzed, Person in command of Vestas' sales and practice split in the Connected States and Canada. "Our two-megawatt podium facial appearance turbines that are loyal, acknowledged workhorses in the same way as a rightly ruthless pace of energy. We are confident the V100-2.0 MW turbines apparition ratify a favorable addition on assets for Enel."
Vestas' factories in Colorado apparition be tortuous in business blades, nacelles and towers for the 350 MW group of students. To become consumer meticulous, Vestas is calculation choice employees at three of its Colorado factories - the blade factory in Windsor as completely as the blade and nacelle factories in Brighton. Vestas is recruiting now and expects to add hundreds of production employees in the initially shared of 2014 in Windsor and Brighton, foremost at the two blade factories. Odd candidates can wastage at ElwoodWindJobs.com.The Corrupt project apparition span a three-year Enthusiastic Output Organization (AOM) 5000 practice negotiate. AOM 5000 is an energy-based availability put up collateral that ensures the turbines are effective being the wind is blowing. This practice probability includes the VestasOnline(R) following system that formally wheel and monitors the turbines and predicts indicate wear-and-tear issues. This allows Vestas to meaning child maintenance so the turbines make use of in the same way as the smallest quantity of deserted production.Vestas has some time ago helpful wind turbines to Enel for three U.S. projects, furthermost lately the 200 MW Caney River wind power leave in Kansas that was commissioned in 2011.EGP-NA, part of Enel Youthful Faculty, is a former container and working of renewable energy plants in North America in the same way as projects effective or under improve in 21 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. For instance 1979, Vestas has helpful choice than 50,000 wind turbines and better 58 GW in 73 countries - 62 percent choice than its closest opponent. Vestas entered the U.S. channel in 1981, selling its initially wind turbine for a project in California. For instance for that reason, the society has delivered 12,396 turbines to the Connected States and 1,419 to Canada. Dual, Vestas' installed level is 13,387 MW in 28 U.S. states and every part of Canadian discipline - adequate to power regarding four million households. Vestas employs regarding 16,000 state worldwide in addition to 2,500 in the course of the Connected States and Canada at four business facilities in Colorado, practice and makeup sites, and sales offices. Vestas' U.S. and Canadian sales and practice headquarters is in Portland, Ore., and its transnational headquarters is in Aarhus, Denmark.
VESTAS HAS Received A Unmodified AND Demonstrative Level FOR 350 MW IN THE USA With A Assurance OF UP TO 636 MW High-class.
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Enel Youthful Faculty North America, Inc.
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350 MW
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Hand round and commissioning of the wind turbines as completely as Enthusiastic Output Organization (AOM) 5000 practice negotiate.
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From 2014 as the crow flies 2015.
Total year-to-date announced group of students ingestion in MW: 4,491 MW, (see vestas.com/investor).
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Domestic Makes use of Of Renewable Energy
Renewable energy would be the sort of power that comes from natural resources like the sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which can be naturally replenished. Presently, lots of individuals all over the world have adopted a variety of power saving and eco-friendly tactics to create electricity in their very own properties, one particular of them entails employing renewable power.
In case your bill is too higher and you require to save or if you'd like to lessen emissions and contribute towards the reason for minimizing the carbon footprints, you can have a second believed about utilizing the renewable energy. Under are some of the substantial uses of renewable power, which you'll be able to apply inside your personal home.
Central Heating Method Replacement
You will find two techniques that you can replace your central heating program utilizing renewable energy. These incorporate using a biomass boiler or heat pump. A biomass boiler performs like a fireplace which supplies warmth within a single space. The air heat pump extracts the warm air in the outside to heat radiators, beneath floor heating systems, or warm air convectors and hot water in your residence. Biomass boiler and heat pump installations typically cost about 4,300 to 11,500. These renewable power sources, however allow you to save money on electric bills and lessen carbon emissions.
Water Program Heating
Instead of employing electric water heater for your hot and cold shower and drinking water, you are able to opt to employing a solar water heating technique. It basically makes use of free heat in the sun to warm domestic hot water through a boiler or immersion heater. The solar water heating system can work throughout a year, thus cutting your bills by almost 50% while being able to reduce carbon emission as well. Water system heating installations normally price about 4,800 including the VAT.
Power generation
In the event you are living in a rural area where there is no other means of electrical energy, you can get the most reliable off-grid supply from hydropower method, wind turbine, or Solar PV. A hydropower system makes use of running water from small stream or large river to create electrical energy that is enough to lighting and other electrical appliances in average properties. If your residence is far away from rivers or streams, you can have wind turbines installed within your home. Wind turbines basically use the power of the wind to generate electricity.
For most efficient supply of electrical energy even during cloudy days or less windy days, you can opt to installing solar panel electricity system, also known as solar photovoltaic's. Its solar cells absorb the heat from the sun and coverts them into electrical power for lighting and other appliances for your home use. Most from the domestic solar panel method usually expense about 3,000 to 3,500 per kWp installed.
The wind farm has an installed fraction of 30 MW and is worthy of generating stuck-up than 145 million kWh per day. It is the display machinery of the "Cristal" wind power complex (get installed fraction of 90 MW) to be terminated.
Enel Olive Significance has terminated the handiwork of the display machinery of its "Cristal" wind power complex to be found in Morro do Chap'eu (Bahia), Brazil."S~ao Judas", the new wind farm, is comprised of thirteen 2.3 MW wind turbines, for a get installed fraction of 30 MW, and is worthy of generating out of 145 million kWh per day.The S~ao Judas wind farm is the display of three to be terminated at the Cristal wind power complex. Cristal will exert a get installed fraction of 90 MW and is innate to admirer stuck-up than 400 million kWh per day.An imposing aid of around 165 million euros has been obligatory to create the Cristal complex.This new wind farm brings Enel Olive Power's installed fraction in Brazil to stuck-up than 207 MW, of which 93 MW from hydro.Enel Olive Significance is from now elaboration its phantom in Brazil's good renewable energy retail. Brazil is as well as the rolling in it countries in the world in the specialism of "plush" energy, swaggering stuck-up than 98 thousand MW of installed renewable fraction, which represents around 85% of the country's get installed fraction. Enel Olive Significance has been right awarded a agreement for 11 MW of solar power in Brazil, extra to its 503 MW of wind and hydro that the Italian renewable staff obtained in the 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 Brazilian voters auctions. Over in the photovoltaic part, Enel Olive Significance is in the same way line a 1.2 MW machinery employing thin-film technology that will let somebody borrow qualities of the power required for the handiwork of three hydroelectric vegetation (Salto Apiac'as, Cabeza de Boi and Fazenda) in the Brazilian detail of Mato Grosso.
ENEL Olive Significance is the Enel Group staff sheer fanatical to the press on and employment of renewable energy sources at the conglomerate get, plus operations in Europe and the Americas. The staff generated out of 29 billion kWh in 2013 from tarn, sun, wind and the Earth's humidity - a load to finale the energy wishes of stuck-up than 10 million households and rally round the waves of out of 20 million tonnes of CO2 here the individual. Enel Olive Significance is a world take precedence in the part thanks to its toning generation mix, distribution generation volumes well out of the part degree. The staff has an installed fraction of a propos 8,900 MW from a mix of sources together with wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, and biomass. Without hesitation, the staff has a propos 750 vegetation effective in 16 countries in Europe and the Americas.IN LATIN AMERICA, Enel Olive Significance at this moment runs renewable energy vegetation in Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Sun-hat, Chile and Brazil, plus a get installed fraction of come close to 1,200 MW as of now. In a minute, in the wind part, in pull-out to the projects under handiwork in Brazil, the staff has 24 MW of installed wind fraction in Costa Rica, 144 MW in Mexico as well as 180 MW in Chile. The staff is in the same way constructing the 99 MW Taltal wind farm in Chile as well as the Sureste (102 MW) and Dominica (100 MW) wind farms in Mexico. As soon as its century-long be on familiar terms with in the grazing land of geothermal energy, Enel Olive Significance is in the same way environmentally friendly new opportunities in this part. Over in Chile, the staff is exploring about concessions plus a hint at fraction more than 100 MW.IN BRAZIL, completed Endesa, the Enel Group in the same way operates around 1 GW of installed fraction, so in the distribution grazing land, plus precise 6 million patrons, the Group operates in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Cear`a. In the reassignment part, Endesa operates an interconnection manage amid Brazil and Argentina.
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TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY BOARD (TSB) AIMS TO BOOST ALTERNATIVE ENERGY IN THE UK
The Technology Strategy Board, a public organization that aims to stimulate business innovation in the alternative energy sector, has announced that it will be investing more than 6 million into major research and development projects concerning alternative energy in the United Kingdom. The funding will help those in charge of these various projects better understand how they can incorporate clean energy into their efforts. The UK is currently home to a burgeoning alternative energy industry, and the funding from the Technology Strategy Board is expected to add further momentum to the projects that have already taken root in the country.
COMPETITION FOCUSED ON HYDROGEN FUEL
The Technology Strategy Board has also launched the Building Fuel Cell Manufacturing and the Supply Chain competition, which will reward some 6 million in funding to those making strides in the field of hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen infrastructure. Hydrogen has received some interest from the UK government, primarily where transportation is concerned. Most of the world's major automakers are working to adopt hydrogen fuel into their new vehicles, thus creating a strong incentive for countries, like the UK, to prepare themselves to be ideal markets for these vehicles.
FEASIBILITY STUDIES WILL DETERMINE VIABILITY OF HYDROGEN ENERGY ENDEAVORS
The Technology Strategy Board has another competition being prepared for launch next year. This competition will provide funding for feasibility studies that will determine the viability of the projects being supported in the previous competition. These projects will go on to receive even more funding from the organization to encourage further research and development.
TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY BOARD MAY HELP DRAW ATTENTION TO HYDROGEN FUEL
The United Kingdom has shown a great deal of interest in alternative energy, but much of this interest has been absorbed by offshore wind and solar power. Hydrogen has generated some hype in the country, but only in terms of transportation. If the competitions from the Technology Strategy Board are successful, they may be able to add more momentum behind hydrogen fuel in the UK.
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This equates to 4.54 pounds per different per day. This is a scratch of 1.5% from 2004 to 2005. The recycling rate in 2005 was 1.46 pounds per different per day. Discards sent to a landfill time was recycling declined to 2.46 pounds per different per day in 2005.For information on why we requisite reclaim see our article WHY RECYCLE?, Likewise for information on reducing partnership waste see our Force TO Stock COMPOSTING and THERE'S Dynamism Shady In addition to MOULDY CHEESE.HOW Extensively OF THE UK/BRITAINS Spirit IS PROVIDED BY Fossil FUELS? In the blind date 2005 the bundle of energy derivative from excessive sources was as follows; * Inherited Gas 40% * Oil 33% * Coal 17% * Nuclear 8% * Renewable 2% If you would subsequently to switch to renewable energy from your supplier, undeniable allot this switch for free, but possess not publicised it. For more information lose your footing Carbon Emancipation Electricity.DOES Any person Say to HOW TO GET SWANSEA Council TO Start Prop UP THE Elastic COLLECTION?I don't bow to why a meeting would intermission recycling plastics. Slick if they were to basically supply the utmost collective adaptable PET. The questions you requisite stand are not basically organic but economic.The current executive landfill tax is lb24 per tonne, furthermore a fee to the landfill proprietor. In adding together to that one and all tonne of PET generates revenue of up to lb270 per tonne. So by dwindling to supply PET it would trouncing them about lb294 tonne in net revenue furthermore the landfill proprietor fee. If the main part system is in switch and bins are provided, in a meeting space the size of Swansea considerable revenue might be generated at minute trouncing.Incinerating adaptable releases chlorine inside the express and vegetation troublesome metals in the incineration ash. If adaptable is put in landfill, additives such as phthalates can escape inside the water supply.Plastics are derivative from energy resources such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas, so any material top is an energy saving. 90% of the manufacturing process energy desired to produce new plastics is saved by recycling.PET bottles and other plastics to boot have hundreds of time to impairment heap, new to that the hole they guts to boot be booty up in landfills identical if not compacted would be large. Apex to the need for fresh landfills, if constructed by the meeting or not this trouncing guts in time be borne by the solid populace unswerving increases in meeting tax.Legislation which is noticeably stuff to plastics is the 1994 European Bat Regulation on Packaging and Packaging Rubbish 94/62/EC (the Packaging Regulation), which designed to make a diagnosis producer vacancy for packaging waste. 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(thus why supply them at amenity sites at all ?)"I did a search for a reprocessor of PET bottles, using google maps put forward is one located a water 76 miles in a different place, and upto 6 or 7 inward bound 200 miles. Is this to a large extent a craving universe which would be evironmentally ineffective to transport the bottles too? By means of undeniable figures I possess it would be feasible to transport them to the supplier and the energy saved would be far outsized than that of the street transport.You need to make your meeting to ask for a correct release why they possess halted main part of plastics. Multitude other councils areas in the UK can sucessfully supply PET bottles for recycling not including the evils encountered by Swansea Council.email: recycling@swansea.gov.uktel: 01792 635600fax: 01792 511925You requisite thus surrender them a freezing communiqu addressing your concerns organic and economic. Clearly the more fortify you can generate from the conclusion. 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Jan. 16, 2013 ^A Unimportant lands ^A-- those unsuitable for chuck crops -- can facilitate as largest authentic garden for conference the nation's alternative energy production goals.
In the move quickly run of Form, a hoop of researchers led by Michigan Get used to Speculative shows that nonessential lands represent a colossal untapped resource to escalation assorted folks cellulosic biomass, flowers sour i.e. for fuel production, which possibly will annually mark up to 5.5 billion gallons of ethanol in the Midwest comrade.
"Depth the actual attitude of common biofuel production is a central unreturned sphere what's more in the U.S. and worldwide," invented Ilya Gelfand, restraint novelist and MSU postdoctoral scholarly. "We ascertain that through nonessential lands for growing cellulosic biomass crops possibly will bequeath up to 215 gallons of ethanol per acre as a consequence massive orangery gas easing."
The initiative of making exceptional use of nonessential voters has been shout for huskily 15 existence. Quiet, this is the first evaluate to bequeath an ascertain for the orangery gas benefits as fountain as an wisdom of the smooth probable for these lands to mark great amounts of biomass, he add-on.
Focusing on 10 Midwest states, Omnipotent Lakes Bioenergy researchers from MSU and the Conciliatory Northwest State Laboratory recycled 20 existence of take notes from MSU's Kellogg Physical Digs LTER Place to symbolize the comparative lushness and orangery gas impacts of different crops, in addition to lump, poplar, alfalfa and old field undergrowth.
They furthermore recycled a CPU to bigwig and height biomass production that possibly will escalation enough feedstock to snag a watering hole biorefinery as a consequence a sway of at smallest 24 million gallons per blind date. The definite adding together of 5.5 billion gallons of ethanol represents vis-?-vis 25 percent of Seminar 2022 cellulosic biofuels train, invented Phil Robertson, co-author and MSU lecturer of crop, get and microbial sciences.
"The value of nonessential voters for energy production has been long-speculated and commonly on sale," he invented. "This evaluate shows that these lands possibly will maneuver a central cede to transportation energy requirements phase providing massive season and -- if managed highly -- preservation benefits."
This moreover is the first evaluate to verification that grasses and other non-woody flowers that escalation naturally on unmanaged lands are abundance prosperous to maneuver ethanol production helpful. Conventional eject were recycled in the evaluate, and production softness possibly will be bigger by scrupulously selecting the mix of work on folks, Robertson add-on.
"Taking into consideration preservation in nursing, these nonessential lands can be ready prosperous for bioenergy production and, in so exploit, involve yourself in to avoid the conflict among chuck and fuel production," invented Cesar Izaurralde, PNNL get scientist and Speculative of Maryland accumulation lecturer.
Expand benefits for through nonessential lands include:
* New gain for farmers and other voters owners
* No twisting land-use gear, anyplace voters in substitute side of the globe is cleared to discussion voters planed stylish to chuck production
* No carbon bill from voters rendition if vacant undergrowth is recycled or if new perennial crops are planted the moment inside vacant undergrowth
The research was funded mostly by the Dissection of Energy's Omnipotent Lakes Bioenergy Survey Central, the State Science Foundation and MSU AgBioResearch. Expand researchers from the Conciliatory Northwest State Laboratory and the Speculative of Maryland contributed to this evaluate.
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The plan for a European Supergrid is slowly progressing with each interconnector - but is it worth the investment?
New Hampshire, U.S.A. -- Imagine if we lived in a world where constant sunshine, flowing rivers, steady wind, abundant forests, and hot rock beneath our feet were equally accessible resources able to instantly power our around-the-clock energy demands. Alas, we do not live in a perfect world, and sometimes the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. Understanding the limitations of individual renewable sources, European leaders years ago set in motion a plan to solve climate issues and create the most ideal renewable scenario possible.
Eventually, they hope the European supergrid project will connect local renewable resources to all corners of Europe with interconnecting transmission, cutting waste, boosting economies and helping everyone to share the wealth.
THE BIG PLAN
The North Sea Grid Initiative consists of Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. These countries signed a memorandum of understanding back in 2011 to help spur offshore wind development and tap into the ideal types of renewable energy in different parts of Europe within the next decade.
Although some interconnectors already exist, according to the New York Times most European countries still rely on their own electricity production. But a vast interconnection network can reduce power prices and secure the energy supply throughout Europe. This would distribute power efficiently and create competition that can further drive down prices.
Ideally, undersea transmission lines will run along the coasts of these countries and connect to a robust onshore network. It would dispel fears of intermittency and help launch Europe toward its goal of 20 percent renewables by 2020.
More than 100 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind are in the development or planning phases throughout Europe, and The Guardian reports that if this power were to come onshore, we need to be prepared with a stronger grid system. 'The benefits of an offshore supergrid are not simply to allow offshore wind farms to connect; if you have additional capacity, which you will within these lines, it will allow power trading between countries and that improves EU competitiveness,' said Justin Wilkes of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
And the benefits of offshore wind and interconnector development are not just in energy production - it is expected to boost the economy and create jobs. 'The race for offshore wind manufacturing jobs is on, and Siemens and the Humber [Gateway Offshore Wind Farm] are first out of the traps. I'm determined the UK economy benefits from the opportunities and jobs of the offshore wind supply chain,' said former UK energy secretary Chris Huhne in a statement.
To fully take advantage of the supergrid, countries have started to call on each other to ramp up renewables production. For example, representatives from the UK are urging Ireland to build wind farms on its west coast so they can build an interconnector and take advantage of its huge resources.
'The west coast of Ireland has some of the fiercest winds in Europe,' said Charles Hendry, UK energy minister, to the Guardian. 'They whip in off the Atlantic which makes it an ideal location for wind farms. However, the Irish market for electricity is less than a tenth of that of Britain. That means that companies cannot afford to build wind farms in Ireland because there is no market for their power. We want to put that right.'
The UK hopes to cut down on fossil fuel imports and secure its energy independence as several nuclear power plants are to be decommissioned in the next decade. The country is also aware of possible intermittency issues with its massive wind developments and hopes this project will secure sustainable, renewable power.
'Interconnectors are an incredibly effective way to counter the argument that you need to back up each gigawatt of wind with a gigawatt of gas - they quite clearly show you do not,' said Hendry.
Interconnectors would also allow for excess wind power to pump water into storage lakes, and when electricity is needed, the water would be released and flow through turbines, further establishing "backup" energy storage, according to the Guardian.
'Europe's future lies in green energy and Britain wants to work with other countries to make the most of the clean energy potential in and around the North Sea,' said Huhne.
PROGRESS SO FAR
The UK already has two interconnectors via France and the Netherlands, and nine additional cables are in the works, according to the Guardian. If all goes well and the supergrid is completed, these interconnectors could help to satisfy one third of the UK energy demand and provide stable power to all countries involved.
The England-France Interconnector is owned by the National Grid and R'eseau de Transport d'Electricit'e (RTE). Established in 1986, the 2,000-MW link has exceeded 93% usage per year. The UK receives about 5 percent of its energy from this interconnector annually. In 2001, the rights to its capacity was reevaluated and opened to all market participants at auction. According to a 20th anniversary report by Neelie Kroes, former European Commissioner for Competition Policy, this change was beneficial to the EU.
'This has had positive and far-reaching consequences for energy markets across the European Union. Allocation of scarce capacity on a non-discriminatory basis is now an accepted principle in both competition law and Community legislation. An open process for the allocation of capacity strengthens competition by giving all companies the possibility to trade electricity across borders,' according to the report.
The UK-Netherlands interconnector, BritNed, went online in 2011 and was the first to do so in more than 25 years (since the UK-France connector). National Grid and TenneT own the 1,000-MW connector. Huhne praised the project, declaring it as "good news" for UK consumers because it allows the country to pull in cheap electricity during peak hours.
The Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation Maxime Vergagen agreed with Huhne: 'This cable link between the electricity markets of the UK and the Netherlands will enhance the security of supply and will contribute to effective pricing. What's more, the link will help us integrate sustainable energy initiatives in the electricity grid.'
BritNed allowed for the first-ever energy auction in the UK. Energy orders placed on the day-ahead UK auction are matched on the Dutch auction. 'The BritNed market coupling helps to create a robust and reliable price index and most importantly, it increases liquidity and volumes traded in the GB electricity wholesale market,' said APX-ENDEX, the Anglo-Dutch energy exchange, in a release.
Several additional interconnectors are already under construction. The longest is the 900-km UK-Norway interconnector, called Northconnect, developed by Vattenfall, Agder Energy, E-CO, Lyse and Scottish and Southern Energy; it is set to be complete in 2019.
'Northconnect will make an important contribution towards developing the European market for electricity, with increased competition in regional markets, a secure supply of electricity and more stable energy prices for consumers,' said Harald von Heyden, head of Vattenfall Asset Optimisation and Trading, in a release.
The UK has also been in talks with Iceland, which may soon spread its vast wealth of geothermal energy to the UK. Hendry visited Reykjavik in May to discuss the possibility of establishing an undersea electricity cable to connect the two countries' electricity grids. If built, the cable would be the longest interconnector in the world. Hendry and Iceland Finance Minister Oddny Haroardottir signed a memorandum of understanding to explore options.
According to the agreement, both sides 'cooperate to support the development of the deep geothermal sector in the U.K., including in the supply of heat to district heating networks.'
ISSUES TO CONSIDER
Despite the outpouring of political support for the project, many still have doubts. According to a report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee of the UK's House of Commons, the costs of a European supergrid would likely be too high and coordinating regulations between countries would be too complicated.
Building interconnectors is an expensive endeavor - the 260-kilometer Britain-Netherland interconnector was developed at a cost of lb500 million (US 807.9 million). But even though they are costly to build, some analysts argue that interconnectors are the cheapest method to support wind intermittency without building a power plant. And interconnectors also allow for power to be sold and purchased when supply is high or low.
'Interconnectors are the cheapest way of backing up wind, because you avoid the greater capital cost of building power stations' said Greenpeace's Doug Parr to the Guardian. 'We will of course be buying power when the wind is not blowing, but the interconnectors mean we can sell our wind power when it does, and we have the best wind resource in Europe.'
Not to mention there is concern about the supply of raw materials needed for each connector - each kilometer of cabling requires hundreds of tons of copper, an earth metal that is becoming scarce and expensive.
A study by Poyry, a Finnish engineering and management consulting firm, claims that intermittency could still be an issue because weather patterns can expand over wide areas throughout Europe, which could cause widespread cloud cover and windless days. However, to avoid this problem the report notes that more interconnection lines would be necessary. "Obstacles in the path of getting this going are larger than pretty much any other infrastructure," said James Cox, the author of the report.
Despite these uncertainties, others believe the supergrid is a smart investment. 'There are pension funds and many investors looking for safe returns,' Julian Scola, spokesman for the European Wind Energy Association in Brussels, said to the New York Times. 'Electricity infrastructure, which is a regulated business with regulated returns, ought to and does provide very safe and very attractive investment.'
Source: [www.renewableenergyworld.com]
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