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A Vision for our Energy Future
UH GEMI Energy Advancement Leadership Conference
Karl R. RábagoEnergy Group [email protected] Advanced Research Centerwww.harc.edu
November 18, 2004
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Houston Advanced Research Center
◊ Mission focused independent contract research center
◊ Established 1982
◊ Sustainable development Clean / Renewable Energy
Sustainable Technologies
Life Sciences / Health
Environment
Social / Policy Analysis
◊ Lab and office space
◊ Around 50 employees
◊ Not-for-profitThe Woodlands, Texas
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Clean & Renewable Energy at HARC
◊ Fuel Cell Evaluation Users Group Ten different modules/systems from five different
manufacturers (2001-2004)
◊ Combined Heat & Power (CHP) Production of multiple energy products from a single
source for maximum efficiency (e.g., cogeneration)
◊ Carbon Management & Markets Industrial Coalition Credit aggregation & marketing
◊ Energy Policy Member, TX Renewable Energy Industry Assc.
◊ Consulting
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In the Future . . .
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In the Future . . .
Our predictions will come out wrong
(unless)
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US energy/GDP already cut 42%, to very nearly the 1976 “soft path”
Rocky Mountain Institute
renewablesnuclear
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"hard path" projected by industry and government
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soft technologies(which do not include big hydro or nuclear)
oil and gas
coal
renewables
nuclear
coal
oil and gas
actual total consumptionreported actual total energy
consumption
government
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In the Future . . .
Crisis will still be the strongest motivator
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Precipitating Facts
TABLE 1: Benefits of Texas Energy Industry revenues shown are in millions of dollars
1982 1995 Change
School Fund $512 $124 - 76%
Severance Tax
$2,374 $848 -64%
Mining Jobs 292,000 147,800 -49%
Virtus Energy
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End of a Legend
Virtus Energy
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A New Vision
The Texas Sustainable Energy Development Council envisions a Texas responsibly powered by its sustainable energy resource base
and serving as a model to others in equitable prosperity, environmental
health, advanced technology, innovative government and respect
for future generations.
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Texas: Clean Energy Giant?
TX SECO # 8
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A Reminder
◊ “Resource” is a topic that embodies both economic and physical attributes
◊ We are NOT going to run out of the physical resource - Did a shortage of stones end the stone age?
◊ We ARE going to run out of willingness to pay (in $, frustration, and consequences) for some resources and in some locations
◊ So, at $10 billion dollars or 1 million cases of cancer or 1 million refugees per pound or per barrel or per bushel, we have an infinite supply . . . What are you willing to pay?
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In the Future . . .
We will measure success against the Triple Bottom Line
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Sustainable Development
Society Economy
Environment
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In the Future . . .
We will learn Systems Thinking
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Practical Electric Economics
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Optimized industrial designOptimized industrial design
• Redesigning a standard (supposedly optimized) industrial pumping loop cut its power from 95 to 7 kW (–92%), cost less to build, and worked better in every way
• No new technologies — just two changes in the design mentality
• Many other examples are in Natural Capitalism, free at www.natcap.org
• Redesigning a standard (supposedly optimized) industrial pumping loop cut its power from 95 to 7 kW (–92%), cost less to build, and worked better in every way
• No new technologies — just two changes in the design mentality
• Many other examples are in Natural Capitalism, free at www.natcap.org
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New design mentality example
1. Big pipes, small pumps (not the opposite)1. Big pipes, small pumps (not the opposite)
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No new technology, except in the mind of the designer
2. Lay out the pipes first, then the equipment (not the reverse).
Optimize the WHOLE system,and for multiple benefits.
2. Lay out the pipes first, then the equipment (not the reverse).
Optimize the WHOLE system,and for multiple benefits.
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No new technologies, just two design changes
◊ Fat, short, straight pipes — not skinny, long, crooked pipes!
◊ Benefits counted 92% less pumping energy Lower capital cost
◊ “Bonus” benefit also captured 70 kW lower heat loss from pipes
◊ Additional benefits not counted Less space, weight, and noise Clean layout for easy maintenance access But needs little maintenance—more reliable Longer equipment life
◊ Fat, short, straight pipes — not skinny, long, crooked pipes!
◊ Benefits counted 92% less pumping energy Lower capital cost
◊ “Bonus” benefit also captured 70 kW lower heat loss from pipes
◊ Additional benefits not counted Less space, weight, and noise Clean layout for easy maintenance access But needs little maintenance—more reliable Longer equipment life
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In the Future . . .
We will look before we leap
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It Takes a System
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Finding Better Options
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Some Systems are Better than Others
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In the Future . . .
Energy solutions will be smaller and more
satisfying
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A 5-year rolling average reveals that US fossil-fueled steam unit orders have been fading since the 1970s; their ordering rate, all ≤1/5 the former size, is now back to Victorian levels
Maximum and average sizes of new generating units (fossil-fueled steam, all utilities, 5-year rolling average) by year of entry into service
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Rocky Mountain Institute
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Big steam units aged ungracefully
Fossil-fueled steam units: median Equivalent Availability Factor vs. age, by size range,
1982–93
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RMI analysis by André Lehmann, using Markovian smoothing of 29 July 1994 NERC raw data on all 1,347– 1,527 U.S. steam units in the years shown; raw data kindly provided by Resource Insight, Inc.
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“Distributed Benefits”
◊ Small Is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size (RMI, 8/02) www.smallisprofitable.org One of The Economist’s top three
business/economics books of 2002
◊ Codifies and quantifies 207 “distributed benefits” that collectively increase the economic value of decentralized generation by typically ~10 (but site-specific)
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In the Future . . .
The system will be smarter
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Smarter & More Communicative
U.S. DOE
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Why Make Just One Product?
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Why Sell Only One Product?
Production of Renewable
Energy
Environmental & Other Benefits(from displacement)
Commodity Electricity
• Certificates represent the contractual right to claim the environmental and other non-electricity attributes associated with electricity generated from a renewable energy facility
• May be traded independently of energy markets
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In the Future . . .
We will recognize that public goods can and should be well-
managed with public policy
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US Transportation Oil Gap
US DOE Hydrogen Posture Plan
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California: policy works
Per-Capita Electricity Consumption, 1960–2000
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(DOE and CEC data, compiled 1960–89 by Worldwatch Institute, 1990–2000 by Rocky Mountain Institute; 2000 data are preliminary; 1991–2000 population data not yet renormalized to 2000 Census findings)
Rocky Mountain Institute
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A Variety of Policies
AWEA Wind Energy Outlook 2004
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In the Future . . .
Materials will matter . . . even
more
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World Demand for Stuff is Growing
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Dematerialization
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Principal Flows are Fossil Related
WRI
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Hazards are Growing
WRI
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As with Energy, So with Materials
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No Materials Self-Sufficiency