1 / 41

Appalachian Coalition Community Wind

Appalachian Coalition Community Wind. Joe Smith WNCREI wind@appstate.edu www.wind.appstate.edu. Current NC Electricity. Annual increase of 2.9% from 1980 to 2001 Average cost $0.07/kWh. Trillions of BTU. http://www.eere.energy.gov/states/state_specific_statistics.cfm/state=NC.

nuri
Download Presentation

Appalachian Coalition Community Wind

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Appalachian CoalitionCommunity Wind Joe Smith WNCREI wind@appstate.edu www.wind.appstate.edu

  2. Current NC Electricity Annual increase of 2.9% from 1980 to 2001 Average cost $0.07/kWh Trillions of BTU http://www.eere.energy.gov/states/state_specific_statistics.cfm/state=NC

  3. NC’s 10 Largest Electric Plants

  4. REPS • Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Bill establishes a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) for North Carolina. The law requires public utilities in North Carolina to obtain a percentage of their electric power from renewables by certain dates • 3% by 2012 (4.2 Bill kWh*) • 6% by 2015 (8.4 Bill kWh*) • 10% by 2018 (14 Bill kWh*) • 12.5% by 2021 (17.5 Bill kWh*) *based on current usage of 140 Bill kWh/yr

  5. Perspective • NC population in 2006 was 8,860,000 • 15,800 kWh/capita/year • 1,320 kWh/capita/month • includes industrial, commercial, and residential • Average Southeastern home use 1,100 kWh/month

  6. Wind Resources

  7. Big Picture • If every terrestrial class 3 and greater site were developed on a 200m grid with 1.5MW turbines, NC could produce 233 Billion kWh/yr • Enough for 1.7 times NC’s current use • 2/3rd of this wind resource in WNC • 48,000 1.5MW wind turbines • Only 850 needed to get to 3%

  8. Calculations

  9. Wind Turbine Sizes

  10. History

  11. Small Wind Examples

  12. Investment

  13. Investment

  14. Production Tax Credit

  15. Physics

  16. Where is the wind?

  17. Wind is in the high places.

  18. Other Factors

  19. Rocky Knob Resource

  20. Rocky Knob View Shed

  21. Wind Project Development • Understand your wind Resource • Determine proximity to existing Transmission lines • Secure Access to Land • Establish Access to Capital • Identify reliable power Purchaser or Market

  22. Development • Address siting and project Feasibility considerations • Understand wind energy economics • Obtain Zoning & permitting expertise • Establish dialogue with turbine Manufacturers and project developers • Secure agreement to meet O&M needs www.awea.org

  23. Financial Incentives • Federal RE PTC • $0.019/kWh until end of 2008 • Accelerated Depreciation • MACRS allows 5yr depreciation period • NC RE tax credit • 35% of cost up to $2,500,000 over 5yrs • US Farm Bill • Grants up to 25% ($2,500 - $500,000), loans up to 50%

  24. Financial Incentives • Clean Energy Renewable Bonds (CREBS) • Zero interest funds for governments • Energy Improvement Loan • 1% loan for up to $500,000 • NC GreenPower premium • $0.06/kWh for wind

  25. What could it look like? Skystream (1.8kW) 1-1/4 miles away 25

  26. What could it look like? Bergey (10kW) 1-1/4 miles away 26

  27. What could it look like? Fuhrlander (250kW) 1-1/4 miles away 27

  28. What could it look like? VestasV80 (1.8MW) 1-1/4 miles away 28

  29. ASU’s Beech Mt. Test Site

  30. ASU’s Beech Mt. Test Site

  31. Rocky Knob

  32. Rocky Knob

  33. Rocky Knob

  34. Rocky Knob

  35. Rocky Knob

  36. Rocky Knob

  37. Rocky Knob

  38. Rocky Knob

  39. Rocky Knob

  40. Rocky Knob

  41. Rocky Knob

More Related