1. Power Economics and Emissions
Ask audience what they think it is
Madelyn- “if you cant see me then I’m invisible” story tieing into how we don’t see most of the process of transporting electricity in every day life, but that does not make it any less important
Sean Lee and Madelyn Fahhoum

2. What is Power Economics?
-The study of the costs and efficiencies of transporting electricity from conductors to consumers
Basically, power econ is the financial side electrical engineering

3. What Do Power Economists Do?
Specialize in making sure that the energy sources are not overloaded
Work to maximize output of energy without increasing emissions
Try to use combinations of energy sources to lower costs
Work to prevent outages
(go to website and direct audience to notice the costs
and emissions labled. Explain chart.
Then turn one of the external power sources off.
Notice how cost of other external system goes up
and wait for outage.

4. Power Economics and Power in the Home: What’s Different?
Macro vs Micro
Balance between power sources
Number of power sources
Cost

5. Solar 2005- .02% of total power 2013- .54% of total power
Last years
Home use efficiency: 11-15%
One time installment fee
Output watts
Cost about $10,000 per kilowatt capacity in a solar power system

6. Wind
Wind energy can be sold at 5-6 cents per kilowatt hour (just around the national grid average of 5 cents per kilowatt hour)
New onshore wind turbine plants placed in 2018 with a life expectancy of 30 years will initially cost around $90 per megawatt hour (9 cents per kilowatt hour)

7. Hydroelectric
By far the cheapest of the renewable energy sources in the United States
In the Pacific Northwest, cost is about 4 cents per kilowatt hour (three times cheaper than national average)
Most of the cost involved comes from building the dams

8. Nuclear Average cost is about 1.65 cents per kilowatt hour
Main disadvantages are high initial costs (construction of plant) and safety concerns

10. What can we do? Invest in new, efficient appliances
Be conscious of energy consumption
Turn your electronics off when they are not being used
Spread the word about the advantages of green power
What can we do to help the grid?

11. Works Cited
emission-full.html
solarenergy-usa.com
ndrc.org
awea.org
theenergycollective.com
hydro.org
zebu.uoregon.edu
world-nuclear.org
nei.org
wikipedia.org

12. Thank you! Questions?