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Presentation to the Business Council for Sustainable Energy & the House Climate Change Caucus
Thomas R. Casten Chairman, Recycled Energy Development, LLC March 6, 2008
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2. Homer Simpson’s Power Plant (Springfield, ?)
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3. Electric Generation Plant (Craig, CO)
Two-thirds of the fuel’s energy is vented to atmosphere.
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4. Inefficient US Electric Generation
U.S. Delivered Electric Efficiency
Related Headlines:
Wasted Energy
Excess Costs
Excess Pollution
“Recent Warming of Arctic may Affect World Climate”
-NASA
“US Manufacturing Jobs Fading Away Fast”
-USA Today
Energy Costs Push Consumer Prices Higher”
-Associated Press
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5. US Electric Power Sector’s CO2 Emissions
Electric Generation’s Increasing Contribution to Domestic CO2 Emissions
US Electric Power Sector’s CO2 Emissions
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6. Breakdown of Emitting Sources:
US Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2005
Breakdown of Emitting Sources:
Heat & Power;
69% of all fossil fuel CO2 emissions
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7. Combined Heat and Power
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Combined Heat and Power
Pollution
End User Site
Fuel
100
units =
66 units Useful Work
33 units Electricity
33 units Thermal Energy
33 units Waste Energy
CHP Plant
The technology has been developed, put into service, and proven over the past 30 years to make power a different way -- to combine the production of heat and power. In this approach, many smaller plants, using modern and very clean technology, are sited at or near customer sites -- customers who need thermal energy for space conditioning or processes. The same 100 units of fuel energy now becomes 90 units in total of three useful energy products, electricity, steam, and chilled water. Only 10% of the input energy is wasted, and the pollution is reduced by dramatic amounts. It would have taken 200 units of fuel to produce this same useful energy in the conventional way, with some burned to make electric power and the rest burned to make heat, or more electric power for cooling.
The carbon dioxide reduction is at least 50%, if there is no fuel switch, and if as is typically the case, the new smaller combined heat and power plants are gas fired, the carbon dioxide reduction can reach 80% for the same end use energy.
Because the new technologies are so clean, the regulated pollutants fall to 6% of what would have come from conventional separate generation with old plants. Trigen is operating several plants that achieve a 94% reduction in pollution, and we expect to use new combustors in the near future that will cut regulated pollutants to 2% of conventional.
The cost of generation only is $310 per kW greater than the cost of new central generation, reflecting economies of scale in construction. However, when the T&D costs are considered, central generation requires an incremental $1,242 per kW, and thus costs society $932 per kW more in total than distributed generation.
Recycle Waste Heat
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8. Efficiencies of Energy Recycling Projects
U.S. Delivered Electric Efficiency
Steam Pressure Recovery (190 Projects)
Combined Heat & Power (56 Projects)
Industrial Waste Heat Recovery
(6 Projects)
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9. 95 MW of Waste Heat Recycled from Coke Production (Gary, IN)
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10. Silicon Production (Alloy WV)
Plant uses 135 MW
$60 million investment
Recycles exhaust into 44 megawatts
Plant will use power to expand production by 20%
We are taking silicon production back from China!
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11. US Energy Recycling (CHP) Potential
EPA and DOE studies identify 200,000 megawatts CHP and waste industrial energy recycling potential
Capital investment of $350 billion
Annual societal savings of $70 billion
Profitably eliminate 1.4 gigatons of CO2 emissions
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12. Why Does Inefficiency Prevail?
Energy laws are outmoded, designed before climate change was an issue
Changing laws difficult because old rules create strong vested interests
There are more winners than losers
The health of our country and the planet depend on how fast the government modernizes energy regulations to give clean energy a chance.
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13. Thank You
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