Sunday, December 12, 2010
Large solar vs. Little Sun
One of the phoniest settlement of renewable energy sources in space is between "high in the land of the rising sun" and "a little sun."
It can be accessed through a little transparency.
Large solar projects, such as Nevada, 48 megawatt Copper Mountain-project has been favored by add-ins from the days of George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison. It's a good idea to deride a little solar projects--a few panels residential roof--than promoting a little than a mere political correctness.
But the science is not always agree with Big Solar. In the first place, is situated in the heart of many nautical miles from the city to lose much of their projects in the power of the load, power. The second they promise not to benefit from relief pursuant to the grid vulnerability to terrorism. People are known to take the city after the power structure before the end of the ocean's 11 (one Sinatra) ".
All of this would be academic, with the exception of it creates a political battle. As long as the Sun cost more than conventional power generation, it seems, the great sun and little Sun must be Christopher-aid, and these Japanese fights, often pitting against activists of the utility companies are usually unilateral raising of the add-in side.
The solution, in my opinion, is a new way of subsidies will be reviewed. Price differences.
Aid costs, instead of basing it on the basis of the current technology and the difference in price between what is offered. , Point to Accessories, point to know their courses and they know how their networks are designed. Enter these costs, the center of the near a specific point in the grid will be delivered, you can then Calculate the actual yearly baseline rates for each proposed project large and small, who wants to connect to. Specifies the name of the aid budget annually, pile of money, then one approve projects, which can satisfy the best price-test, the aid budget is exhausted.
Over time, the price rises to a baseline and unsubsidized belongs to. The add-in in a public undertaking or co-op unit is placed under an obligation to submit regular honest reports. There is a problem with the turn of the public service leaders as part of the "good guys" and I think it is stupid to see them always the enemy.
Baseline price becomes a homeowner or a company that wants to sell to the measurement of power through the net, they receive too much off the price. They shall be calculated on the basis of costs and decide for yourself whether or not the project is a good idea to spend money. But the large grid projects should also go through this account. To justify the ratepayer love, do not believe only throws all boondoggle is us, and expect us to pay the costs incurred by calling themselves green. And add the transfer fees and expenses incurred in connection with this calculation.
My guess is a lot of large solar power does not get built on this basis. I am guessing big wind projects much either would disappear or look for the supply of them closer to the customers, if the expenses shall be calculated and if they are in direct competition with a small solar subsidies and capital.
But I'm ready to prove wrong. And for the purposes of this calculation is through to display the entire support-open debate, to which it belongs.
The launch of a new FIT-compatible with 600 Vac inverters Ontario on the market of Schneider Electric
Rudy Wodrich, commercial Director, Schneider Electric "through our existing Ontario facilities, Schneider Electric was unable to quickly respond to customer demand, the FIT-compliant products this year," said. "In the following months, as we Expand our offering re-engineered inverters with the Canadian market."
Schneider Electric Xantrex ™ GT500 inverter 600 grid tie solar
Xantrex GT500 600 is a grid tie Solar Inverter, highly efficient design (estimated efficiency 96.5% of the CEC), renewed for additional reliability for the enclosure and the two part model, the inverter and the DC component, together with the Government and in the second part of the transformers, and AC. Two sections is designed for easy with ropes in the area and all the necessary equipment. Inverter includes AC and DC systems terminates the connection is cut off, night-time design prevents the current transformer magnetizing losses and to reduce the start is soft district transformer inrush. GT500-600 can be installed indoors or outdoors, and it contains a space heaters, low-temperature applications. GT500 600 is available in the optional DC combiner boxes and detection settings, there are a number of fuse and tracking options string.
Schneider Electric Xantrex ™ GT100 600 and GT250 600 grid tie solar Inverters
Xantrex GT100 and GT250 are grid tie solar inverters ultra-efficient design (estimated the efficiency of 96% of the CEC), and are one of the cab plan, in accordance with the provisions of the isolation transformer integrated in the enclosure. Inverters are AC and DC systems terminates the connection is cut off, night-time design prevents the current transformer magnetizing losses and to reduce the start is soft district transformer inrush. GT100 600 600 can be installed and GT250 indoors or outdoors and that contains a space heaters, low-temperature applications. GT100 600 and GT250 600 are available in the optional DC combiner boxes and detection settings, there are a number of fuse and tracking options string
Schneider Electric to identified existing products and turnkey solutions for the Solar Canada 2010, Canadian Solar Industries Association (CanSIA) Annual Conference and exhibition December 6 and 7. Schneider Electric production plan will have a Booth 403 Toronto Convention Centre and Schneider Electric product displays with experts.
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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Boom-bust Cycle of the tax
While most attention will be paid to the Nissan Leaf starts today for the supply of electricity produced from renewable energy sources in the long term, the question of its power is getting less attention.
One of the most frustrating problems is the boom-bust cycle the mileage tax relief, not only in the United States, but also in the people's Republic of China. It is difficult to make all of the long-term planning when politicians to blow hot and cold industry. Take a look at the latest, the plan of the people's Republic of China will be offered in the context of the climate conference in Cancun. Most of the money in the short term, If is linked to specific projects.
Right now the Federal aid hot blows but soon will be able to take cold. Construction grants, 6.7 billion dollars to expire at the end of this month, so find out investors have shorting the Sun in the area. The Obama administration is combating the uphill battle to continue the ARPA-E programme, begun under the stimulus that wants to receive alternative energy sources, DARPA, State-of-the-art research.
From a political point of view these battles leave the impression that the Sun is completely dependent on tax, that the industry of continuing in existence without State aid. This applies to more than the argument that the oil and coal, it is important to be extracted without any State support for our editors note.
By supporting the oil and coal, the politicians to defend market is rarely a lease on the basis of the prices of non-renewable energy sources, together with any compensation due, or long-term costs directly to the expensing. When they win back tries to reduce subsidies to headers is limited.
Resource companies will be able to continue to succeed in one of the reasons is, many of them are conditional upon the interests are indirect, including grants to deal with health costs, and written to the tax code.
Equal treatment of all energy products should be a net profit of the Sun and cut the deficit at the same time. But aid is a resource you must be a member of the tax code they will not be short term durable properties. This is not the only American to be a problem. French face it as well.
No status and local support for solar power projects such as the Long Island $ 1.75 per watt-meter solar, expressed as a percentage of the aid cannot be imported, but also of local problems. Take San Francisco. Although the Government's support for the Sun and the wind, the neighbors are blank in the wind power plans and work in the event of a dispute is in possession of the city until the plans of its own in the land of the rising sun.
When the political decision-makers consider Sun, they have a bad habit is just like coal or natural gas for thinking more Prosaic systems, that is to say, heat water instead. The money goes to the huge distance from any city in the case of projects which will lose half of their income than high-power lines to transfer that electricity in rural areas of the city. Such as this 1 megawatt solar project that Abu Dhabi going into liquidation, transfer.
In spite of All this are the analysts who have, rising sun 2011 might not find that I am one of them surprised.
Can be "Electrofuels" source of Green Energy Storage?
Here's an interesting idea: create the clean (or type in a clean) energy that reduce CO2 by using energy from the Sun or bacteria. It may happen. This concept was presented to me first, upstate NY, and during their journey through the visiting a number of universities, including Cornell. One of the cleantech approach Emmanuel Giannelis, Cornell: n KAUST Center for energy and sustainable development, Co-Director, says carbon sequestration – possible values of the nanoparticle materials – could be combined with the Sun photocatalysis-process. "People are focused on systems where you can share the water to hydrogen and oxygen and hydrogen combines sequestered CO2, methane or methanol. You can then save it and use it just like gasoline and other fuels, "he said.
When I did not keep petrol and other fuels such as methane or butane, energy storage, when creating my blog in the form of development is presented in the form of energy storage, energy storage, of course, they are the most commonly used forms. I may not be comprehensive much (if at all) to move forward, but is of the opinion that it was possible to produce "green" fasion (i.e. without petrochemicals or biomass). I learned afterwards that this approach is actually a focus in the ARPA-E-program, called "Electrofuels." Most of the methods to join, the conversion is being carried out by the biomass or waste while also produces liquid transportation fuels directly from the sunlight, and carbon dioxide approaches. Although the photosynthetic routes promise global efficiencies remain low. "In this topic, the objective is to develop a completely new were felt to be liquid fuels, which could be used to resolve the current technological challenges in the production of" finds ARPA-E-site. ARPA-E is looking for technology that can be used in the illicit manufacture of synthetic metabolic engineering and biological approaches to the efficient conversion of liquid carbon dioxide transport fuels. ARPA-E is designed, in particular, be capable of extracting energy from hydrogen, reduced land-abundant metal ions, robust, affordable, easily accessible organic redox active species, or directly to the electrical power to inhibit the development of the community of organisms. Such an approach is, in theory, could be 10 times more efficient than current approaches to photosynthetic biomass liquid fuel production.
One example of the Columbia University researchers use the ammonia oxidizing bacteria chemolithoautotrophic n. europaea produces isobutanol, from carbon dioxide. Team genetically engineer a micro-organism to demonstrate that they reduce effectively ammonia, nitrite may create electrochemically or for the treatment of domestic waste water streams.
GE, but keep the Cleantech investment policy Lapse warns of
As part of its Ecomagination initiative, GE has scaled up its wind turbine manufacturing, to develop a smart grid technologies, supporting the next generation of thin film companies and built more efficient locomotives. These investments have been made by the Director of the cleantech and helped GE competition in new energy technologies to develop competitive Us residence.
GE's cleantech efforts – GE Energy financial services-investment arm achieved a significant milestone this month goal, which is 6 billion dollars into renewable energy sources by the year 2010 at the latest. Renewables constitute the entire agreement between you and now 30% of the portfolio of financial services, GE, to an increase of 6% in 2006.
2009 and 2010, the business unit invested or committed to invest more than $ 1.5 billion in wind farms, hydroelectric and geothermal closed transactions and venture capital investments for the production of electricity produced in a smart grid, and renewable energy companies. During the year, the investments of the company shall be spanned with 14 countries, 95 40 wind farms, solar installations, the six hydroelectric project of construction of the landfill gas, 12, and is associated with the other techniques to a wide range of capital – capital debt and the risk capital project more than 15 projects.
6 billion dollars-a declaration was made on the basis of the ACORE's phase II Conference, Washington-DC is based on the Forum is a good idea, business leaders and politicians talk about renewable energy sources in the industry to grow in the United States ".
Phase II-Conference GE leaders have urges politicians in Washington to pass the Treasury Grant Program, before it expires at the end of the year. The program has been a life-saver wind, solar, geothermal and bioenergy companies building projects. Renewable energy trade groups were hoping that Grant the application and the central production tax credits would be important to VAT, currently at the Congress of the invoice; However, before it was removed from the part out of the last week.
Although the prospects for the CAP and trade program or the national renewable energy target is to find good, business leaders still suitable for pushing to expand key tax credits must be for some investors, such as GE, for the sake of clarity. If they have been expanded, GE, says that the u.s.-based investment in 2011 may belong to the first two categories.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Clean energy Patents, record a big third quarter-Clean Energy patent blue growth index
CEPGI follow the clean energy sector and the grant of patents and are subject to the supervision of the important technological breakthroughs in this field. Victor Cardona, the company's Co-chair's Cleantech Group concludes, "we are pleased to announce that the Clean Energy Patent growth index again reached a high of 12% for the year 2010 at the latest during the first quarter, and 45% more than a year in advance in the third quarter record. In addition, all of the Clean Energy areas were equally, with the exception of this quarter, which correspond to the result of the second quarter. "GM took quarterly Clean Energy patent Crown Honda, who considered it two from the previous quarter.
Clean Energy Patent growth index contains an indication of the innovative activity in the clean energy sector development since 2002 in the United States, lead to Patent owners and lead the country and with the State. The year 2010, the third-quarter results show the value in the 490 CEPGI granted Us patents which record specifies the last quarter of the value of the largest quarterly monitoring with the start of the CEPGI is equal to or less than 53 after breaks (more than 12%) in the second quarter and 45% of the value of the second quarter of 2009 337. Quarterly results are shown in the example below:
CEPGI parts breakdown shows all sectors increased by more than in the second quarter, except in the case of tidal energy, which was the same as the total of the previous quarter. Fuel cells were granted for a period of not more than 5 patents in relation to the second quarter of 253 and maximum of 96 in relation to the year before the continue to dominate the other parts of the absolute volume of CEPGI. Sun patents (88) continued to other parts of the overall top and its nearest competitor, 17 (71) the wind. Sun patents were not more than 12% vol. and not more than 55 year 2010 relative to the third quarter of 2009 compared to the second quarter. Wind patents were 16 in relation to the second quarter compared to the year and not more than 36 passengers in advance. Hybrid/electric vehicle for patents (46) were 13 in relation to the second quarter and not more than 24 in relation to the third quarter of 2009. Biofuel patents (16) were 4 in the second quarter and up to 5 years in advance. The highest total hydroelectric power patents quarterly total never much larger than the previous quarter, or year 12 and 12 with the departments of different patents receiving.
General Motors took quarterly Clean Energy Patent holder of the Crown in relation to the multiannual, which fell by Honda uncharacteristic of the fifth place in this quarter. GM's fuel cell patents were mainly to assist hybrid/Electric 30 vehicle with 9 patents. Samsung after Fuel Cell (21), hybrid/electric vehicle (1) and Sun (3) patents. GE was in a strong wind, it will be displayed in the list of patents (19) in its fuel cell to assist, as provided for in the third place, as a matter of priority, buoyed by (3) patents and one of the hybrid electric vehicle in the event of a patent. Auto companies after the fourth and sixth occurred. Toyota had 14 fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle and 6 patents and Honda had a little more fuel cells (17) and less the hybrid vehicle patents/electrical (2). Nissan had 12 patents hybrid/electric vehicles (9), and fuel cells (3). Panasonic had the following 10 fuel cells with the patents. The third generation of the manufacturer or his authorised representative established in the land of the rising sun, Konarka and Aloys Wobbe, wind, Enercon GmbH, the company owner, tied eighth place and each was 7 patents its expertise. Canon (4. fuel cell, solar 2) and Sanyo (see 2 fuel cell solar 4) tied to ninth place. Ford is rounded off with 6 hybrid/directors of electrical vehicle in the field of patents.
Geographically, the Japanese again led the u.s. clean energy patents and the individual with the United States (124), to a maximum of 3 during the second quarter, and up to a maximum of 48 at the same time, in 2009, the non-US geographic holders again clean energy patent the Crown's argument. Michigan took the second place, the last quarter of the holder, California, is 54 clean energy patents, 19 during the second half of the year in advance, and less than or equal to in relation to 31. California was 46 patents down to four, and less than or equal to 21 in the second quarter of 2009. Went beyond the bounds of the Republic of Korea (DPRK) in New York and the Federal Republic of Germany, is to take place in third with 35 patents, 2 in the second quarter and up to 14 day years ago, down in the third quarter. New York City was 31 patents, during the preceding quarter, 9 and 18 during the third quarter of 2009, up. Germany was a 1 in the second quarter and not more than 6 day 2009, 28. Illinois, Pennsylvania, France and Taiwan was clean energy patents, Virginia had 8 9. Canada, Texas, Connecticut, Florida and Ohio bound to 7. Of the people's Republic of China was the Danish 5 and 6.
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During the practical COP16, plea for Pragmatism "in the United States of America
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The November elections turned the chilly politics of global warming in America ice cold. After winning 65 seats in the House, Republicans are now taking control of key committees that could determine the future of energy policy; some of the leaders in the running for these committees are vociferous foes of climate science.
Elizabeth Kolbert, a staff writer for the New Yorker who has been covering climate change issues for over a decade, profiled some of those leading Republicans in a piece last month.
“A lot of people who's positions are not even necessarily mainstream...are going to come into power,” she explains in an interview.
There's John Boehner, the presumptive Speaker of the House, who said in a television appearance last year that “the idea that CO2 is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical.” He went on to opine that because people breath out CO2 and cows “do what they do,” we shouldn't consider the gas a problem.
Then there's John Shimkus, who's been running for the Chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He became well-known last year for quoting a passage from Genesis during a hearing as evidence that climate change is not an issue, saying “there's a theological argument that we are a carbon starved planet.” (It should be noted that Shimkus is not a front-runner in the race. Fred Upton, who is considered far more moderate on climate and energy issues will likely get the seat. He's battling Joe Barton, another leader who is extremely skeptical of climate science).
[Editor's Update: After releasing this story, Fred Upton was voted in as Energy Committee Chairman].
And there's also Darrell Issa, the incoming Chairman of the House Committee for Oversight and Government reform. As leader of that body, he'll have the power to open investigations on a variety of issues. One of his stated priorities is to investigate climate scientists associated with the “Climategate” scandal. (Multiple independent inquiries found no evidence that climate data was skewed by scientists).
These are a few among a handful of powerful politicians who have vowed to thwart climate-change mitigation efforts when they take leadership positions. Kolbert says this change in leadership makes it increasingly unlikely that the U.S. will play a positive role in international climate negotiations in the foreseeable future.
“This is a situation where irrationality has won the day,” says Kolbert. “Without strong leadership from the U.S., I have never seen how we are going to get from here to there.”
But some people don't believe that all is lost. The renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors are maturing quickly, accelerating solutions to the problem. Although the politics around climate change are vitriolic, there is still strong bi-partisan support for clean energy.
Jigar Shah, the CEO of the non-profit investment firm Carbon War Room, has been telling renewable energy advocates to “stop bitching” and “go out and build businesses.” The industry made it this far, he says. Companies can continue to persevere in spite of the challenges.
His business partner, Virgin Airlines Founder Richard Branson, recently wrote a piece in the Guardian newspaper urging the investment community to stay ahead of policymakers: “Legislation and public policy will only shape the market, it will not deliver solutions,” he wrote.
Activity at the COP16 conference in Cancun mirrors this new political reality. Rather than push for a large-scale global agreement, negotiators are focusing on the details of a climate fund that will help finance renewable energy, energy efficiency and mitigation projects in developing countries. Even if political leaders can't agree on how (or whether) to price carbon, there is still support for investment in technological solutions at the sub-national level.
In America, industry leaders are pushing for extensions of the federal grant program and key tax credits. (Aside from solar, which has an investment tax credit through 2016, tax credits for other technologies expire in one or two years, making it difficult to plan large-scale projects). Trade groups were hoping to have those extensions in a bill currently before Congress that will extend tax cuts and unemployment benefits, but they didn't get them in.
Beyond that immediate priority, industry leaders have halted their push for a comprehensive energy policy on the federal level.
Lewis Milford, president and founder of the non-profit policy and investment advisory firm Clean Energy Group, believes there will be a trend toward more specific and localized action in the U.S. With the prospects for cap and trade or a national renewable energy standard virtually dead, Milford says the U.S. needs to focus on “policy pragmatism” and establish solutions on a more local level.
“We've tried big and grand, let's try small and experimental and work from the bottom up, rather than assume we have the answers in Washington to all these problems,” he says.
He recently co-authored a report for the Clean Energy Group outlining some ideas on how to redeploy existing federal dollars to programs at the state level. By giving more local control over the money (which again, has already been appropriated to federal agencies) he says we can continue building the clean energy industry without a climate bill or national renewable energy target.
“This is the opposite of what many people have been promoting [on the federal level] for years,” he says.
A few ideas include: Using $100 million to mimic corporate technology-procurement programs and better link R&D and commercialization efforts; deploy over $1 billion to help state agencies procure electricity from emerging technologies; and invest $650 million into existing state-level clean energy funds to help grow technology funding partnerships, improve regulatory coordination and build workforce development programs. These efforts could leverage billions more dollars in private investment on the local and state levels, providing a direct economic boost.
Milford admits that these programs are only one piece of a long-term clean energy strategy. While this “Clean Energy Federalism” approach is good for helping early-stage technologies, it may be less effective for helping companies build large-scale wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and bioenergy facilities. Ultimately, long-term tax credits are the key to helping developers in that sector – and developers in most industries are nervously watching the expiration dates for those credits get closer.
With the exception of some possible tax credit extensions, Milford believes this approach is currently one of the only realistic options.
“We have to think smaller, more locally. I think this can reconcile the differences between the two groups who either do or don't want do something about climate change,” he says. “It can really appeal to anyone.”
That is also the hope on the international stage. To keep momentum going, policy makers are trying to hammer out any viable package that will accelerate clean energy development on the national or sub-national level.
The New Yorker's Kolbert sees this as a somewhat positive trend during an otherwise dismal period for climate action. Despite the continued attack on scientists and advocates trying to raise awareness of the issue, there is a wide-spread recognition that renewables and energy efficiency are an important investment.
“It's a very frustrating time right now. But at least we can feel positive that we're going in the right direction in some ways,” says Kolbert.
To hear more details about the changing politics of climate change, listen to this week's podcast linked above.
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Fossil energy Knows the entire Contact game – Does Cleantech?
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Cancun - When I started working on solar energy issues several years ago, I heard it repeatedly: “Everyone loves solar.” Back then, many people in solar and other cleantech sectors saw long-term meritocracy in the energy business. Public demand, technological advances and aninevitable price on carbon were going to drive cleantech to dominance over time. “Renewable energy,” it was often said, “will soon become just plain ‘energy’.”
From the gridlocked global warming treaty negotiations here in Cancun, however, the picture seems starkly different. The Congressional climate bill fight ended in disaster, the recession tightened credit markets, and the coal and oil industries bought themselves a new Congress last month. And that global carbon market many were counting on? The most optimistic note Thursday night from a top U.S. treaty negotiator, Jonathan Pershing, was “maybe next year.”
Still, cleantech possesses a great combination of assets that many industries spend considerable time and money trying to generate. These include:
Policy momentum: California’s anti-cleantech Proposition 23 lost by a huge margin last month; and the offshore wind industry has been greenlighted by the Obama Administration.
Business success: Solar is now the fastest growing energy sector, creating jobs in all 50 states.
Wide and deep public support: Over 90% of Americans support solar energy, while 87% believe we should build more wind farms, and all over the country, people from different walks of life actually volunteer their time to move the nation from fossil fuels to clean energy.
However, that asset combination has also moved solar, wind, battery storage, and energy efficiency technologies from being cute niceties to potentially serious market disruptors for traditional, dirty energy players.
The dirty energy guys know that, and they are acting accordingly. Cleantech investors, executives and leaders have a lot at stake, and they should pay attention to dirty energy’s increasingly aggressive attacks:
Virtually all of these attacks push three, interlocking memes about cleantech: 1) It’s “not ready;” 2) It’s “too expensive;” and 3) It’s “unreliable.” And the message discipline and sheer number of these attacks make it very likely they are being underwritten and coordinated by people with a vested interest in making them happen.
But if you invest or work in cleantech, should you really care? After all, customers and project financers make rational decisions, immune from a technology’s market position… don’t they?
Not according to a panel of cleantech communicators we convened during the recent Solar Power International (SPI) trade show. There, RenewableEnergyWorld.com founder and publisher Oliver Strube; pollster Jeff Levine of Gotham Research Group;Kimberly Kupiecki of Edelman; and Greentech Media editor-in-chief Michael Kanellosjoined us to discuss two new polls and steps cleantech should take in the face of dirty energy attacks on cleantech.
These experts agreed:
Cleantech is now in a full-contact game with dirty energy, which is playing accordingly.The attacks by dirty energy are serious, coordinated, and are beginning to get traction in public opinion research.And, the attacks matter. By generating, stimulating, or exacerbating customer concerns about readiness, cost and reliability, they are affecting the marketing and sales environment for large and small companies.More than probably any other industry, cleantech has a strong interest in collective brand defense.Individual cleantech businesses and investors can’t rely solely on their trade associations, much less on environmental groups or on simple public goodwill, for their advocacy. It’s in each cleantech player’s financial interest to help to mount a more concerted effort to push back against detractors.Our panelists recommended at least three steps for cleantech to take.
1. Clean energy needs to capture peoples’ imaginations, not just their intellects
While clean energy has the facts on its side, it hasn’t been using its very strong connection with Americans who might invest in it, purchase it, or support it just on the grounds of national economic interests. Instead, there’s far too much engineer-speak, facts, figures, watts, and jargon dominating cleantech communications. That’s a mistake, according to Renewable Energy World’s Oliver Strube, who said, “As an industry it really is important to us to change that language.”
Emory University psychologist Dr. Drew Westen conducted groundbreaking research in 2004, finding that people make decisions first and foremost at the emotional level, and only then do they begin rational consideration. In fact, Westen found, humans are incapable of doing otherwise. The cleantech community should assume there’s a reason why deep-pocketed Chevron and the coal front group, America’s Power Army, have spent huge sums on advertising and marketing materials with a certain feel to them.
2. Individual companies should advocate for the cleantech industry – it’s in their individual interests
Cleantech companies have strong individual interests in collective brand defense.Michael Kanellos of Greentech Media made the point best: “…the onslaught of information that’s coming to people has allowed them to solidify an opinion.” And that opinion forms the landscape on which cleantech is trying to sell products, draw investors and scale.
If cleantech companies don’t help with their own advocacy, who will? No cleantech sector is old enough to have a trade association or echo chamber it can rely on to do all its public communicating. Their trade associations need individual companies to tell their customers’ success stories and celebrate milestones in a much more public and constant way.
A great recent example of a cleantech executive doing his company a service through collective brand defense was SPG Solar CEO Tom Rooney’s piece making the case why political conservatives should support clean energy. Mr. Rooney is busy running a company, but he took time to do a thoughtful, spot-on piece that generated a lot of traffic, comments and conversation. It also raised SPG Solar’s visibility and thought leadership, at very low cost.
We need more of that type of effort across the board. A lot more, in fact. At our panel, Edelman’s Kimberly Kupecki said, “One of the biggest challenges is helping solar companies talk about the context – why they matter and how they’re affecting their industry in the broader picture. It’s another way we can simply and cheaply be our own advocates.”
3. Welcome a conversation about cost
Cleantech voices need to frame the cost argument properly by relentlessly pointing out that fossil fuels’ supposed cheapness is underwritten by massive taxpayers subsidies.
The dirty energy lobby has proven highly sensitive to this counter-argument. On October 12, 2010, Solar Energy Industry Association CEO and President Rhone Resch called for cutting the “grotesque” subsidies to fossil industries. “Every year, the toxic fossil industries receive $550 billion in subsidies worldwide,” he said.
Just two weeks later, ExxonMobil ran a remarkably defensive ad in the form of an obfuscating quiz on subsidies (see below) at the bottom of the front page of the New York Times.
This ad was followed with a laughable blog post from Vice President Ken Coheninsisting that “open-ended subsidies for existing energy technologies simply shift the costs to taxpayers without making the technologies more competitive or sustainable.” Mr. Cohen’s multi-billion profit company is uncomfortably familiar with open-ended subsidies and their impact on consumers. So, he should know that if you’re given $550 billion a year to be “inexpensive,” you shouldn’t run your mouth about the cost of clean energy technologies.
Our panelists were in full agreement that it’s time for the solar industry to wade into the cost conversation. If we aggressively frame that conversation accurately, we’ll win.
Bottom line: Cleantech managers and investors are busy trying to build successful companies, but their growing successes have drawn the opposition of status quo players who don’t want them to succeed. That’s why the dirty energy industries are now spending significant resources to harden the marketing and sales environment against cleantech’s success. All the facts, figures and solid product offerings in the world won’t overcome that problem if this emerging threat isn’t faced.
Dirty energy is playing full contact. Are we ready to do the same?
Thursday, December 9, 2010
The true costs of renewable energy
Recent Los Angeles Times article, the matter to the attention of the management area significantly intermodaalisena confusion concerning the draft report issued by the California Public Utilities Commission 2009 results. The article stated that the incoming Governor Jerry Brown Visio 33% renewable energies by 2020, to achieve the Californians would cost 60 billion dollars. The article also stated that this goal requires 14,5% the amount of electricity hike.
If the reserved was actually be .gov. Schwarzenegger, which enable the 33% of the mandate of the Executive order, shall be presumed to view these numbers.
The introductory report never completed and the updated analysis was on the other hand, the long-term contracts in accordance with the procedure shunted (r. 10-05-006). The new numbers is shown to be becoming, a wind turbine and solar panel, dramatic reductions in the costs, since 2009, the draft report has been issued.
read as much as $ 60 billion (actually 58.6 billion u.s. dollars) report has a total of all investments in the electricity by 2020 – and not only 33% of the costs of renewable energy sources, the expenditure necessary for the implementation of the mandate.
14,5% hike has been estimated to hike * caused * by * the * report "high distributed generation" scenario, which is based primarily on smaller solar projects fulfil the mandate of the 33% of the projects and other technologies, such as wind and geothermal power, which are cheaper than the Sun instead. 33% of the "reference of the case", it was found that 7.2% hike would result from this situation, the total incremental investments only 3,6 billion dollars (a far cry from 60 billion dollars to the times article noted).
Most importantly the report assumes no reduction in costs of renewable energy sources by 2020. This is already proven wrong because of wind turbines and nonetheless solar panels has fallen considerably in the last couple of years. A solar panel costs, in particular, the dramatically and is projected to decline even further in the coming years, since the industry is finally reached, there are many global production and the placing on the market in a year gigawatts is becoming Saturated. This is good for consumers, but not so good, in the land of the rising sun to producers who are competing in the lowest price. Eventually the price will increase your chances of winning the battle for Earth. See Figure 1, hereinafter referred to as the falling prices of the module for analysis, Solarbuzz since 2001.
More Recently, the two scenarios, one of the 33% higher wind power and other higher out-of-state energy projects found to be even lower costs ratepayers. High wind-scenario would lead to only 2.1 billion dollars by the year 2020 incremental investments and a high level of out-of-state scenario only 1.9 billion dollars.
But does not have that much money? No Yes, 2 billion dollars is a lot of money. But it is all relative. California ratepayers consumes approximately 30 billion dollars per year on electricity. This is the 2 billion dollars by the year 2020 as the additional payments (not for each of the years in mind you can only a lump sum) is a relatively small investment reaches 33% renewable energy, more than 300 billion dollars, compared to the ratepayers pay during this period.
And all figures assume the validity of a preliminary analysis of the report.
It has become apparent, however, that the numbers have changed relatively little of the year and a half since the draft report came out, as already mentioned. The report concludes: "Under the solar PV cost reduction in the total cost of the sensitivity of [high distributed generation] case are very similar to 33% of the costs of the RPS Reference case." And solar PV costs are already down-only and one and one-half years-"solar PV cost reduction" sensitivity level.
California Energy Commission's last report of the energy cost of levelized, shows that the use of renewable energy sources can often be cheaper than conventional fossil fuel energy. Wind power, geothermal, and, in particular the water conduit systems for cable are very cost-effective. And even if the Sun is cheaper when we compare the costs of natural gas in power stations at the peak, solar energy costs are not limited to, facilities which are reliable sources of peak power (see Figure 2).
Figure 2. Levelized cost of energy in the different renewable energy sources. (Source: California Energy Commission, "California Central Station Electricity Generation comparative costs.")
In summary, although we can achieve a 33% by 2020 renewable energy to empower the status of the solar PV generation, mostly it pays the ratepayers relatively small by 2020. Status is displayed at the same time significant job growth, renewable energy sources in the industry, a reduced greenhouse gas emissions, more efficient homes and vehicles, and – probably the biggest advantage –, ensures that Californians continue to take advantage of the jib adjusted to an angle of renewable energy around the world.
A growing number of investors and other leaders have recognised that renewable energy sources is the next great thing. In fact, it is already here and we are in the exponential growth curve – elbow as I you have written about previously. In the next 10, California, which is a not-for-profit, followed by the renewable energy investments in regard to California. They find that fully 25% of all venture capital investments in California moves "cleantech", which includes the promotion of electricity produced from renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and green transportation.
Figure 3. Cleantech Venture capital investments in California. (Source: next 10 2010 green innovation index.)
And Figure 4 shows that the California Green dominates the country, in particular solar tech patents.
Figure 4. California's share of the green tech patents in the United States, expressed as a percentage of the total. (Source: next 10 2010 green innovation index.)
By investing in the 33% of the 2020 renewable energy mandate California ratepayers will see a very small amount will increase by 2020 – and save money in the long term. At the same time, we can ensure that we remain at the leading edge of the State into the world economy.
TAM Hunt, j., is the President, the community renewable Solutions LLC, an investment firm and of renewable energy sources, in consultation with the Community-scale renewable energy project developer. He has its head office in Santa Barbara, California.
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Energy policy is one area where there is an overlap of goals between the parties. Members of both parties largely agree that energy is critical to our economic and national security. And most Republicans do not dismiss out of hand the risks of global warming.
I suspect that energy policy will be a topic where this Congress will get something done especially with the President’sincreased desire to work across party lines. It won’t be exactly what the president wants and it won’t be exactly what the Republicans want. It will be an old-fashion compromise that may actually result in some policies and that will have greater long-term impact on cleantech than most of the short-term handout programs that were put in place under the largely ineffective cleantech stimulus bill.
So, where can the Democrats and Republicans potentially agree when it comes to cleantech?
1. Energy efficiency. Republicans and Democrats have demonstrated their ability to find common ground here. George Bush signed the law from a Democratic Congress that will end the life of the incandescent bulb and that increases the fuel efficiency standards for vehicles by 40% by 2020. Democrats like tax credits for installing energy efficiency improvements, and Republicans like reducing taxes. Reads like a match made in heaven.
2. Renewable energy standards. Many states have put in place such standards with support of both parties. Some Republicans in Congress have previously voiced their support. If the definition of “renewable” were expanded to include nuclear as an acceptable alternative, I suspect there would be broad support in Congress. A renewable energy standard is exactly the kind of long-term macro-economic policy needed to drive change and create more sustainable demand for renewable energy and energy efficiency. Utilities putting big dollars into development of renewable energy power sources and energy efficiency will drive much more industry growth and relieve issues around debt financing to a much greater degree than the government’s ineffectual efforts to play banker. And if the definition of “renewable” were expanded to include nuclear, then I suspect the base of support would broaden even more. Given that most renewable energy sources can’t serve as base load, it would be the right environmental and national security move to include nuclear in the energy mix.
3. R&D. Republicans have long been supporters of government R&D. Although there will be an issue around funding offsets for the R&D, I believe there will be broad consensus on the need to invest in our energy future. What will happen, I suspect, is that the focus of this R&D will shift more to early stage disruptive technologies rather than the late-stage grants and government loans which are already proving to be failures. Even the Administration has internally begun to question the effectiveness of these programs. If the scope of cleantech R&D is expanded to include clean coal technologies and next-generation nuclear, I believe the support base will broaden even more. The most effective way to ramp up disruptive R&D funding is likely through the new ARPA-E and possibly to the few federal labs that do not have their roots in our nuclear weapons programs (e.g. the National Renewable Energy Laboratory). By funding ARPA-E, most of the research would take place in our universities and private companies where the potential for real product development and technology transfer is much greater than in our defense oriented federal labs. The biggest challenge will be finding the funds given the need to reduce the deficit. One possible solution would be to take the funds already appropriated to later stage projects/loans that have yet to be awarded and redirect them to disruptive R&D. Another would be a…
4. Gas Tax. Cap and trade is likely dead. And given that such a program would have been a largely ineffectual mess (see my previous post, Cap and Trade: Right Debate, Wrong Solution) that is not necessarily bad. As I pointed out, the area where there is the greatest overlap between environmental, national security and economic objectives is with gas/diesel, which most cap and trade proposals largely wouldn’t have touched. The co-chairs of President Obama’s bi-partisan tax commission recently included a gas tax as a piece of its budget solution and two key Senators (one Republican, one Democrat) recently recently wrote the commissionencouraging them to consider even bigger increases. A heftier tax phased in over time may be possible by using the concept of a “tax and dividend”, whereby a tax is levied to increase its price and much or all of the revenue is distributed back to consumers. If the money raised from this tax is largely given right back to the consumers in the form a rebate, then it’s not a tax increase but rather a tax incentive to reduce consumption of gasoline/diesel. Increasing the cost of gasoline/diesel to drive market demand for alternative fuels and energy efficient vehicles can help Republicans and Democrats achieve their desire of enhancing our national and economic security while reducing carbon emissions.
5. Government Procurement. The government is a large consumer of many items. One of the best ways to accelerate market adoption is by creating a market for the product/service. For example, the Federal government’s decision to require all new buildings to be LEED certified is accelerating a shift in the building industry to green buildings. The government purchases a large amount of energy for buildings, vehicles, airplanes and ships. Policies that drive increased purchases of domestic energy sources based on non-fossil fuels can provide a significant lift to multiple cleantech industries. The Department of Defense understands the critical nature of this issue, especially around liquid fuels. The Pentagon’s concern provides the nexus of an opportunity for collaboration between Democrats and Republicans on government procurement policies.
Even if you believe we will see a stalemate in Washington on cleantech, the global macro-economic trends will not change. Consumption of fossil fuels is accelerating as the world, especially heavily populated China and India, dramatically increase the number of automobiles, power plants and factories. It is a certainty that the price of these commodities will, on average, increase over time. The next spike in oil prices, I suspect, won’t be too many years away and, worst case, whatever lull in cleantech enthusiasm that may occur will be quickly washed away.
The essence of any government policy with the goal of accelerating cleantech is simply an effort to narrow the time between today and the inevitable day when fossil fuels become expensive enough that various renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions become compelling without any government involvement. If you’ve read my previous posts, you know that I do not believe that we will achieve our cleantech goals through massive grant or loan programs to the private sector.
Policies that target the underlying macroeconomic environment will ultimately have a much greater impact than handout programs. Many of the policies that lie in the zone of potential cooperation between Democrats and Republicans such as gas tax, national renewable energy standards, and federal procurement policies can help drive steady long-term demand for renewable energy and energy efficiency. I am optimistic that these are areas where real progress can be made.
David Gold is a Partner with Access Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm with offices in Colorado and Texas. This article was originally published on the GreenGoldBlog and was reprinted with permission.Monday, December 6, 2010
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This year, I looked at the eight mutual funds from AltEnergyStocks' green mutual fund list. In order of fund size, they are:
These are not the only "Green" or "Ecological" funds available. Instead, they are the funds that I feel are the best match to my own focus on clean energy, although each manager has a slightly different slant to how they approach green investing. There may be a few that should be here but aren't: I added the Gabelli fund to the list when a reader brought it to my attention.
Fund Costs
Far too many investors put their money in a mutual fund without properly considering the costs. I think this is especially true for green minded investors, who may be more concerned about doing the right thing for the planet than doing the right thing for their finances.
The chart below displays some of the costs of investing in these funds. The dark blue "Max Load" are for mutual funds that have an up-front charge when you first invest. Small investments pay this percentage (between 4.75% and 5.75% of the total investment) for the right to invest, after which they pay a somewhat reduced annual expense ratio every year. (The annual expense ratio for load funds ranges from 1.02% for the New Alternatives Fund to 2.01% of the Gabelli SRI Green Fund) shown below in light blue "Load Expense Ratio." Larger investments in load funds may qualify for a somewhat reduced sales charge or load, as a percentage of the amount invested.
No-load funds do not have an up-front charge, but typically have a slightly higher annual expense ratio, shown below in orange. The Calvert, DWS, and Gabelli funds allow both options, which is why they have two ticker symbols. Typically the no-load shares are called Class C shares, while the load shares are usually called Class A shares. No-load class C shares charge annual expense ratios ranging from 1.45% for the Winslow Green Growth Fund, to as much as 2.85% for the Calvert Global Alternative Energy Fund. Other share classes are often available to institutional investors, but I have chosen not to display them here since they are unlikely to be relevant to most of my readers.
Even the least expensive of these fund charges more than 1% each year to manage your money. Over time, that is a large drag on fund performance, so an investor should be confident that the fund manager is adding considerable value before investing in one of these funds. If the manager is not adding considerable value, it makes more sense to invest using a typical clean energy Exchange Traded Fund (ETFs). I've included the expenses for a typical ETF in the chart for comparison. In the case of an ETF, the "load" is the fixed brokerage commission you pay to buy the ETF; I assumed a $10 commission on a $1000 investment.
Fund Size and Expenses
It's no coincidence that the largest funds (shown at the bottom of the chart) have the lowest expenses. There are a large number of fixed costs involved in running a mutual fund, and these show up in higher expenses (as a percentage of invested assets) for investors.
Other Expenses
While a manager cannot do a lot about the size of his fund, one source of expense he can control is trading costs. Each time a portfolio manager makes a trade, he incurs transaction costs in terms of brokerage fees, liquidity costs, and potential capital gains. Depending on how liquid the stocks are, and if the fund frequently trades in foreign markets, brokerage commissions and liquidity costs can range from 0.5% to as much as 2% or more of the value of a trade. If the fund has made profitable investments, any gain on a sale will have to be distributed to fund shareholders at the end of the year in the form of a capital gain distribution, on which tax must be paid. This is an added burden of trading for taxable investors.
A fund's annual turnover ratio measures how often the manager trades in and out of positions, measured as the percentage of the portfolio that is traded every year. Funds with annual turnover ratios in excess of 100% trade each position more than once per year. Each fund's annual turnover ratio is shown in the chart above.
Conclusion
On the (fairly conservative) assumption that trading costs amount to about 1% of trade value, I have combined typical fund expenses with estimated trading costs. The results are shown below. The dark blue band represents the cost of the front-end load spread over a ten year holding period, while the dark blue and light blue together represent the cost of the load if it only spread over five years. The three dark green to pale yellow bands should also be read cumulatively, with the lighter bands added on if we assume the fund's trading costs are higher rather than lower. The lighter shades of blue and yellow represent a lower likelihood that these costs will occur.
Solely in terms of cost, the clean energy ETFs remain by far the best option. After that, the no-load funds the Winslow Green Growth Fund (WGGFX), the Firsthand Alternative Energy Fund (ALTEX), and the Guinness Atkinson Alternative Energy Fund (GAAEX) all have roughly comparable costs depending on your assumption about internal transaction costs, with low estimates of transaction costs favoring the low-turnover Guinness Atkinson fund. For a ten year holding period, the total costs of the New Alternatives Fund (NALFX) are by far the best deal, but this load fund is only comparable to these no-load funds over a five year holding period, and would be considerably worse over shorter holding periods.
In contrast the Gabelli SRI Green Fund (SRIGX and SRICX), the DWS Climate Change Fund (WRMAX and WRMSX), the Allianz Global Eco Trends Fund (AECOX), and the Calvert Global Alternative Energy Fund (CGACX and CGAEX) are more expensive than the three funds listed above, let alone the sector ETFs. The Gabelli fund not only has extremely high expenses due to its tiny size, but it then adds to these expenses with frenetic trading expressed in an unmatched turnover ratio of 190%. The Calvert funds could also do much better as well: although they have done a reasonable job fighting transaction costs by keeping turnover down, the large fund size, at four times that of the considerably less expensive Guinness Atkinson fund, leaves considerable scope for reducing investor costs.
Investors who choose the Firsthand, Guinness Atkinson, Winslow Green Growth, Firsthand, or New Alternatives funds will pay roughly 1 to 1.5 percent per year for the active management available in these funds. Given that Alternative Energy is a new and evolving sector without extensive analyst coverage, active managers may be able to gain enough of a market edge to pay for those additional costs. I will look deeper into these four fund managers' strategies and holdings in future articles to try to determine which ones are most likely to be producing value for money.
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Is a green Planet by way of a permanent IP?
Deal with international cooperation, Secretary Chu said significance of "we should be very hard in a very collaborative manner-I mean a very collaborative, according to share all the intellectual property rights, as much as possible." This proposal for a regulation of the extreme of its face recalls that IP rights play in climate change is an important part of the debate, and shall be addressed to labour statistics at a global level.
Fundamental importance of THE INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) is the maxim of the u.s. cleantech industry throughout the business rauhoittamaan.The ability to obtain and enforce IP authentication using innovative green start-up firms to find employment, should be carried out, to defend the growing market and to increase revenue in the form of a new World Economic Forum report. Speed successful Smart grid Pilots discuss policy makers and regulators in creating the conditions for Innovation, in order to ensure the correct key noted that "it is important that they provide upside innovators, so that they could benefit from intellectual property to which they are developing, even if the best practices for distributed and delivered elsewhere."
Offered by this pro-business pro-IP position is newly established innovation, Development & employment Alliance (or "IDEA") Coalition.This group, which was launched by the US Department of trade and industry Secretary: n Chu after comments on "the role of champion [ing] the innovation and creativity in the jobs" is found to be a strong mission to protect the intellectual property rights around the world., that THE IDEA OF calls on the industry, which is a cleantech potention produces millions of American jobs, the continuing growth depends on a strong IP rights. The Group has lobbied hard to prevent Erosion of the patent system in the United States.
From the Opposite corner of the "IP-fundamentalists" are those who believe that THE INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) rights to deny that the introduction of innovative technologies to developing countries on the green.Because of the global carbon emissions in the future is linked to the attainment of the objectives of these countries, they should be granted access to the technology used by reducing the amount of time as efficiently as possible, the obstacles to the use of patented technology.
Detected by relying on a strong IP rights in tension with a view to contributing to the cleantech innovation and allows global access to these technologies patented lifesaving medicines analogized to the fight against developing and underdeveloped countries. International concerning the agreement on trade related aspects of (TRIPs) IP regimes for the minimum requirements laid down in the country's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and anticipate that, in some cases, compulsory licensing may be appropriate. [1] [2] and, indeed Doha Declaration, in 2001, to strengthen the WTO Member States to improve access to essential medicines by the acquisition of patent rights, why not relax with flexibility and AN INCREASE IN THE INCIDENCE OF HIV drugs, successfully increased access.
Add green technology transfer within a spectacle of pesticides is currently under constant review all systems of the United Nations Framework Climate Change (UNFCCC) meetings. 2010 Copenhagen negotiations efforts to reach a binding agreement in the form of an IP and questions relating to the transfer of technology were unsuccessful. [1] [2] Although there is a consensus that a clean technology must be spread around the world, THE INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) management of the negotiations stalled.
Two of the four options considered compulsory licences accompanied by proposals, in which, in practice, the Government of the United States shall be adopted in accordance with a patented invention without the right to a patent owner's consent, of the United States of America strongly opposes the. compulsory licensing-the House of Representatives, moved up to June 2009 Bill of materials U.s. persons in other countries so as to protect the rights of IP to protect.Voluntary licensing schemes, which is more politically feasible, are more flexible and allows IP holders I will attend.Other approaches are creating incentives to share "green" technologies, creating a common pools take what cleantech companies could devote some IP-rights and permissions to create a simplified conditions some of the INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) at a reduced rate of sustainable uses.
Dangerous on the basis of expanded access to cleantech IP debate than the "battle of the" unnecessarily to the obligations of the successor of the two develop technology distance: innovation, we need to tackle climate change, and to secure its worldwide implementation.Hardcore compulsory authorization system and a pure IP Islamic approach has plenty of space craft policies that contribute to the attainment of these objectives, as well as. If either side is listening carefully to another, there is no reason a pragmatic approach to the way the structure of the INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) rights as well as research and incentivize and serves the public interest, could not be found.
Eric Raciti has left, Cambridge, Massachusetts Office, Mr. Finnegan, agents partner.Raciti, focusing in particular on the practical intellectual property counseling his alternative energy sources, and medical devices sectors.For additional information about Mr. Raciti, using his profile in this.
Nicole Parsons (left), Ph.d., is an Associate at Dr. Finnegan, agents.Parsons practices contains the client counseling, the u.s. and international patent processing, asset management, as well as to the validity, infringement of the patentability and freedom, that operate on the basis of the opinions of the Committee, as a matter of priority, the life sciences. Dr.Parsons also works in patent litigation in various matters.
New Jersey, solar panels and solar energy systems
Enter the systems solar energy solar energy allows you to make the user to clean energy. Green house Gases are reduced by this together with our dependence on fossil fuels. Finally, our environment will be benefited in a splendid manner. New Jersey, the largest tool is the treatment of thousands of Poles tool from solar panel s and that has made it the nation's second largest producer solar energy, is the first California.
This common tendency of humanity to cry on what is not. But New Jersey differs in that it tries to overcome restrictions depending on the possible way. If it does not benefit from the bright sun, high winds, free land, etc., found places where solar capacity may be squirreled away directly.Known except tools poles are NJ solar panel sec for industrial location with many roofs flat. Tools customers will finance New Jersey 514 million dollars, twice the capacity of solar to 160 at least until 2013.
New Jersey is a program named Renewable energy production incentives (REMI) to provide incentives to their residents, businesses, local governments and non-profit organizations, buy and install solar panel s, inverters and systems trueing where manufactured in New Jersey.
For customers, incentives for panels begin. 25n $ 0 per watt for up to 500 KW of solar project and discounts for racking systems and start at $ 0.15 inverters per watt of the companies must provide the SEC solar Panel manufactured from at least 50% of the cost of the product from premises located in New Jersey to be certified manufacturer of New Jersey in the program.
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What types of energy solar heating systems or installation?
Heating systems solar energy definitive measures are based, to reduce the costs of the use of conventional energy sources, energy-efficient. This alternative source of energy is clean, will not be completed and do not pose a threat to the environment. In this connection, the energy absorbed from the Sun produces unlimited resources of energy, in contrast to traditional energy sources, which are reducing the alarmingly and emits toxic gases Cape House (carbon dioxide gases) in the environment.
The use of solar energy is nothing new since ancient times the bath water, urns and balls containing water were stored in the Sun to heat the water bathing or for other purposes. Even at the time of the American frontier days were filled with water beds, wooden rain and later were heated by solar thermal energy in the summer months.
From 1800 at the end of the year, commercial water heating to be supported by solar came into the market now these heating systems solar supported are widespread in the joint households as part of efforts to mitigate the energy uses and negative impact on our planet. in this connection, the supported solar energy Heaters can reduce the carbon footprint of the property and reduce global warming threats.
Fluctuations in solar energy on water heating Systems
Systems of water by solar tend to differ mainly due to differences in solar collectors.Most common form of energy manifold designs in aquatic systems consists of black-painted plate copper tube water adjacent to it (or tubes shall be placed above the plate) to capture the sunrise on the falling over it.As the plate captures sunlight, produces the energy to heat the water in the tub then hot water is stored in a tank.
Another type of solar collector is an integral solar collectors for water heating function, to the collector panels. this method of heating system located in passive water solar energy on heating panels. However, some active water heating systems can use this mechanism for the heating of water, but this does not usually found in water heating for homes.
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