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NREL Overview

NREL Overview. Robert J. Noun Executive Director Communications & External Affairs January 30, 2009. Energy Solutions are Enormously Challenging. Economic Productivity. Energy Security. • Global financial crisis. • Secure supply • Reliability. Vulnerability Or Opportunity.

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NREL Overview

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  1. NREL Overview Robert J. Noun Executive Director Communications & External Affairs January 30, 2009 NREL is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy operated by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC

  2. Energy Solutions are Enormously Challenging Economic Productivity Energy Security • Global financial crisis • Secure supply • Reliability Vulnerability Or Opportunity Environmental Impact • Carbon mitigation • Land and water use Must address all three imperatives National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  3. Achieving a Sustainable Energy Economy Requires: A National Energy Grand Challenge* Forge Essential Policies Investment in RD3E Support Education and Workforce Development Inform Decisionmaking Lead Globally Use Federal Market Power Encourage Consumer Decisionmaking * Preliminary Recommendations of the National Science Board Task Force on Sustainable Energy

  4. Getting to “Speed and Scale” –Key Challenges Implementing Renewable Gigawatts at Scale • Cost • Reliability • Infrastructure • Dispatchability BARRIERS Displacement of Petroleum-Based Fuels • Cost • Life cycle sustainability • Fuels infrastructure • Demand and utilization BARRIERS Reducing Energy Demand of Buildings, Vehicles, and Industry • Coordinated implementation • Valuing efficiency • Cost • Performance and reliability BARRIERS National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  5. President Obama on Renewable Energy • Invest $150B in alternative energy over 10 years • Double production of alternative energy in three years • Upgrade the efficiency of more than 75% of federal buildings and two million private homes • Create Jobs with Clean, Efficient, American Energy = $54B • Transforming Our Economy with Science and Technology = $16B

  6. Technology Options Are Evolving Solar Wind & Water Geothermal Biofuels National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  7. Harvesting Past InvestmentsFirst Generation Technology U.S. Renewable Electricity Installed Nameplate Capacity Sources: Chalk, AWEA, IEA, NREL, EIA, GEA National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  8. Technology Innovation Challenges RemainThe Next Generation • Wind Turbines • Improve energy capture by 30% • Decrease costs by 25% • Biofuels • New feedstocks • Integrated biorefineries • Solar Systems • Improved performance through, new materials, lower cost manufacturing processes, concentration • Nanostructures • Zero Energy Buildings • Building systems integration • Computerized building energy optimization tools National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  9. Achieving the Potential RequiresA Balanced Portfolio National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  10. Translational Science is Key to Speed and Scale Systems Biology Photoconversion Computational Science Connecting new discoveries, via applied research, to the marketplace National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  11. Managing the Lab-to-Market Interface • Partner with industry, universities, other federal agencies, international community and state/local governments to deploy clean energy solutions • Hawaii training, DuPont CRADA, Xcel/SolarTAC • Contribute timely and definitive analyses on technology, policy, and market issues that impact commercialization • Provide investment community with credible information (industry growth forums) National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  12. Technology Development Programs NREL R&D Portfolio • Renewable Resources • Wind and water • Solar • Biomass • Geothermal • Efficient Energy Use • Vehicle Technologies • Building Technologies • Industrial Technologies • Energy Delivery and Storage • Electricity Transmission and Distribution • Alternative Fuels • Hydrogen Delivery and Storage Foundational Science and Advanced Analytics National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  13. NREL FY2008 Program Portfolio Actual $328.3 Million Weatherization $3.4M Facilities and Infrastructure $76.2M Solar $72.4M Transmission and Distribution $1.9M WFO $18.7M Bioenergy $35.4M Other DOE $7.6M Geothermal $1.9M Wind $33.9M Basic Sciences $13.5M FEMP $4.6M Buildings $11.1M Vehicle Technologies $19.3M Hydrogen $28.4M Updated October 2008 National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  14. NREL Funding and Staffing 14

  15. TEAM Initiative DOE's effort to maximize energy efficiency and renewable energy generation across the DOE complex Science and Technology Facility achieves LEED ‘Platinum’ First Federal building NREL Site is “Carbon Neutral” Onsite renewables (Mesa Top and NWTC PV) Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) purchases Renewable Fuel Heating Plant Will offset 75% of current South Table Mountain campus natural gas use (significant on-site RE project) Financed and installed through Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) Energy Policy Act and Executive Order Requirements Currently exceeding EPAct requirements Meet or exceed new Executive Order requirements Vehicle Fleet 48 vehicles, 34 (71%) are alternatively fueled Fleet petroleum reduced ~45% since 2000 NREL: Leadership by Example National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  16. Market Growth is Enabled by Progressive Public Policy JAPAN CALIFORNIA National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  17. State Policy Framework Renewable Portfolio Standards Source: DSIRE database, March 2008 National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  18. Wind Long Term Potential • 20% of the nation’s electricity supply • Today’s Status in U.S. • 22,820 MW installed capacity • Cost 6-9¢/kWh at good wind sites* • DOE Cost Goals • 3.6¢/kWh, onshore at low wind sites by 2012 • 7¢/kWh, offshore in shallow water by 2014 * With no Production Tax Credit Updated December 8, 2008 Source: U.S. Department of Energy, American Wind Energy Association National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  19. Wind • NREL Research Thrusts • Improved performance and reliability • Advanced rotor development • Utility grid integration Source: Megavind Report Denmark’s future as leading centre of competence within the field of wind power National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  20. Solar – Photovoltaics and CSP • Status in U.S. • PV • 1,000 MW installed capacity • Cost 18-23¢/kWh • CSP • 419 MW installed capacity • Cost 12¢/kWh • Potential: • PV • 11-18¢/kWh by 2010 • 5-10 ¢/kWh by 2015 • CSP • 8.5 ¢/kWh by 2010 • 6 ¢/kWh by 2015 Source: U.S. Department of Energy, IEA Updated January 5, 2009 National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  21. NREL Research Thrusts • PV • Higher performance cells/modules • New nanomaterials applications • Advanced manufacturing techniques • CSP • Low cost high performance storage for baseload markets • Advanced absorbers, reflectors, and heat transfer fluids • Next generation solar concentrators 8.22-megawatt Alamosa, Colo., PV solar plant National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  22. Buildings • Status U.S. Buildings: • 39% of primary energy • 71% of electricity • 38% of carbon emissions • DOE Goal: • Cost effective, marketable zero energy buildings by 2025 • Value of energy savings exceeds cost of energy features on a cash flow basis • NREL Research Thrusts • Whole building systems integration of efficiency and renewable features • Computerized building energy optimization tools • Advanced HVAC and envelope technologies • Building integrated PV April 10, 2008 National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  23. Geothermal • Today’s Status in U.S. • 2,800 MWe installed, 500 MWe new contracts, 3000 MWe under development • Cost 5-8¢/kWh with no PTC • Capacity factor typically > 90%, base load power • DOE Cost Goals: • <5¢/kWh, for typical hydrothermal sites • 5¢/kWh, for enhanced geothermal systems with mature technology • NREL Research Thrusts: • Analysis to define the technology path to commercialization of Enhanced Geothermal Systems • Low temperature conversion cycles • Better performing, lower cost components • Innovative materials • Long Term Potential: • Recent MIT Analysis shows • potential for 100,000 MW installed • Enhanced Geothermal Power systems • by 2050, cost-competitive with coal- • powered generation April 10, 2008 National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  24. Biopower • Biopower status in U.S. • 2007 capacity – 10.5 GWe • 5 GW Pulp and Paper • 2 GW Dedicated Biomass • 3 GW MSW and Landfill Gas • 0.5 GW Cofiring • 2004 Generation – 68.5 TWh • Cost – 8-10¢/kWh • Potential • Cost – 4-6¢/kWh (integrated gasification combined cycle) • 2030 – 160 TWh (net electricity exported to grid from integrated 60 billion gal/yr biorefinery industry) April 10, 2008 National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  25. Biofuels Current Biofuels Status in U.S. • Biodiesel – 165 companies; 1.85 billion gallons/yr capacity1 • Corn ethanol • 134 commercial plants2 • 7.2 billion gal/yr. capacity2 • Additional 6.2 billion gal/yr planned or under construction • Cellulosic ethanol (current technology) • Projected commercial cost ~$3.50/gge Key DOE Goals • 2012 goal: cellulosic ethanol $1.31/ETOH gallon or ~$1.96/gge • 2022 goal: 36B gal Renewable Fuel; 21B gal “Advanced Renewable Fuel”– 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act • 2030 goal: 60 billion gal ethanol (30% of 2004 gasoline) NREL Research Thrusts • The biorefinery and cellulosic ethanol • Solutions to under-utilized waste residues • Energy crops Updated February 2008 Sources: 1- National Biodiesel Board 2 - Renewable Fuels Association, all other information based on DOE and USDA sources National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  26. Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) • Key Challenges • Energy storage – life and cost • Utility impacts • Vehicle cost • Recharging locations • Tailpipe emissions/cold starts • Cabin heating/cooling • ~33% put cars in garage • Status: • PHEV-only conversion vehicles available • OEMS building prototypes • NREL PHEV Test Bed • NREL Research Thrusts • Energy storage • Advanced power electronics • Vehicle ancillary loads reduction • Vehicle thermal management • Utility interconnection • Vehicle-to-grid National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  27. Renewable Electricity at Scale Microturbines Utility Grid Grid Simulator 3 AC Buses Synchronous Generators Inverters Wind Turbines 3 DC Buses Battery Banks Load Simulators PV Array Fuel Cells Electrolyzer National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  28. An Integrated Approach is Required National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

  29. Visit us online at www.nrel.gov Operated for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future

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