Our Solar Trigeneration™ Energy System
provides "Cooling, Heating & Power" for your business,
or home with the power of the sun!
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and Solar Power Purchase Agreements PPAs
Available for our Cogeneration,
Demand Side Management,
Our Solar Energy Systems include: One of our customers
with our Net Zero Energy
Building™ installed
Engineering, Feasibility Studies & Consulting Services Equity positions now available for qualified joint venture
partner(s) in our new ESCO Casinos For qualified commercial customers, we will install
one or more of our Demand
Side Management
solutions, including; cogeneration,
peak-shaving,
solar trigeneration
or trigeneration
energy systems at your business, with little to no up-front costs. Email: info@PowerPurchaseAgreement.com Tel (832) 758 - 0027 Now accepting resumes (by email only) from sales professionals with a successful background in selling; Demand Side Management solutions, onsite power (including solar), peak-shaving and Onsite Power Generation systems to Fortune 1000 companies.
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Power Purchase Agreement
www.PowerPurchaseAgreement.com
Our company provides cogeneration,
peak-shaving, solar
cogeneration, solar
trigeneration or trigeneration
and renewable energy projects for our commercial, industrial and utility
clients.
We prepare and promulgate Power Purchase Agreements, Energy Purchase Agreements, Energy Service Agreements for our clients that have our company install, own and operate one of our cogeneration, peak-shaving, solar cogeneration, solar trigeneration or trigeneration energy solutions for their qualified commercial business.
What
is a Power Purchase Agreement?
A Power Purchase Agreement is similar to an Energy
Purchase Agreement or Energy
Service Agreement wherein our clients agree to buy either the power
(electricity) or the power and energy (hot water, steam and/or chilled water for
air-conditioning) directly from us, for a term of 10 to 20 years, where we have
installed, own and operate our cogeneration,
peak-shaving, or trigeneration
energy systems. This may also include our Solar Cogeneration or Solar
Trigeneration energy system.
In
nearly every case, once we have installed our cogeneration,
peak-shaving, or trigeneration
energy system at our client's commercial facility, we can immediately
reduce our (commercial) client's electricity expenses by 10% over what
they were paying for their power electricity from their electric utility.
The
right Power Purchase Agreement or Energy Service Agreement - along with our cogeneration,
peak-shaving, solar
cogeneration, solar
trigeneration or trigeneration
energy solution, may save your company
hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions of dollars over the term of the
agreement. Simultaneously,
having the wrong or poorly drafted PPA or ESA can cost your company thousands or
millions of dollars. You wouldn't consult a brain surgeon to treat your
child's broken bone! Selecting the wrong attorneys, law firm or team to
promulgate or re-negotiate your Power Purchase Agreement can leave you
"powerless" and penniless - and still requiring the skills and
expertise of competent and qualified professionals to resolve the situation.
Because a Power Purchase Agreement or Energy Service Agreement is at the "heart" and underlying foundation of our projects, we can help your business with the selection and oversight of PPA's and ESA's. Our company is a turnkey developer and owner of cogeneration and trigeneration power plants in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Our projects range in size from as small as 100 kW to well over 10 megawatts.
We can help your city or community create a Municipal Utility District or Public Utility District that may then qualify for our very competitively priced energy and electricity rates. Now is the time for cities, municipal and governmental clients to consider having our company install one of our renewable power and energy systems that will generate "clean" power and energy, lower costs, and avoid the coming electricity shortages and grid congestion problems!
Products and services provided by Renewable Energy Technologies includes the following power and energy project development services:
Project Engineering Feasibility & Economic Analysis Studies
Engineering, Procurement and Construction
Environmental Engineering & Permitting
Project Funding & Financing Options; including Equity Investment, Debt Financing, Lease and Municipal Lease
Shared/Guaranteed Savings Program with No Capital Investment from Qualified Clients
Project Commissioning
3rd Party Ownership and Project Development
Long-term Service Agreements
Operations & Maintenance
Green Tag (Renewable Energy Credit, Carbon Dioxide Credits, Emission Reduction Credits) Brokerage Services; Application and Permitting
More about Power Purchase Agreements
A Power Purchase Agreement is also "behind" almost every power plant. A PPA is a contract involving the generation and sales of electricity - which is normally developed between the owner of a power plant generating the electricity, and the buyer of the electricity. PPA's can be quite lengthy agreements that may exceed 100 pages in length and take several months to even 1-2 years to finalize.
The
basic information contained in a Power Purchase Agreement include the
following items:
* Definitions
* Purchase and
Sale of Contracted Capacity and Energy (such as steam, hot
water and/or chilled water in the case of cogeneration and trigeneration
plants
* Operation of
the Power Plant
* Financing of
the Power Plant
* Guarantees of
Performance
* Penalties
* Payments
* Force Majeure
* Default and
Early Termination
* Miscellaneous
* T&C's
For more information about Power Purchase Agreements and Energy Service Agreements, call or e-mail us today. Tel. (832) 758 - 0027
What is Demand Side Management?
Demand
Side Management, or "DSM" is the process of managing the consumption
of energy, generally to optimize available and planned generation resources.
Not all businesses are candidates for cogeneration or
trigeneration, however,
your company may be a great candidate for other energy-saving solutions. One
of these is Demand Side Management, or "DSM". We also provide
cost-effective DSM solutions.
According to the Department of Energy, Demand Side Management refers to "actions taken on the customer's side of the meter to change the amount or timing of energy consumption. Utility DSM programs offer a variety of measures that can reduce energy consumption and consumer energy expenses. Electricity DSM strategies have the goal of maximizing end-use efficiency to avoid or postpone the construction of new generating plants."
What is Automated Demand Response?
Automated
Demand Response is a Demand Side Management solution that is
specifically designed for a customer's specific location, energy/power
requirements, and also for the specific electric rates for that customer's
location. Automated Demand Response does not involve human intervention, but is initiated at a facility through receipt of an external communications signal.
Automated Demand Response is a rather new area of DSM technologies and may
provide a lucrative revenue stream for customers who can curtail electric load in response to demand incentives, ICAP payments, and/or commodity prices.
Automated demand response technology seeks to automatically, through
software and hardware applications, to respond to variations in the
electricity/power market prices.
Demand Response or Demand Side Management can be achieved through demand reduction, by shifting load to a less expensive time period, or by substituting another resource for delivered electricity (such as
natural gas or onsite power generation, also known as "distributed
generation."
Demand Response (DR) is a set of activities to reduce or shift electricity use to improve electric grid reliability, manage electricity costs, and ensure that customers receive signals that encourage load reduction during times when the electric grid is near its capacity. The two main drivers for widespread demand responsiveness are the prevention of future electricity crises and the reduction of electricity prices. Additional goals for price responsiveness include equity through cost of service pricing, and customer control of electricity usage and bills. The technology developed and evaluated in this report could be used to support numerous forms of DR programs and tariffs.
A recent pilot test to enable an Automatic Demand Response system in California has revealed several lessons that are important to consider for a wider application of a regional or statewide Demand Response Program.
The six facilities involved in the site testing were from diverse areas of our economy. The test subjects included a major retail food marketer and one of their retail grocery stores, financial services buildings for a major bank, a postal services facility, a federal government office building, a state university site, and ancillary buildings to a pharmaceutical research company. Although these organizations are all serving diverse purposes and customers, they share some underlying common characteristics that make their simultaneous study worthwhile from a market transformation perspective. These are large organizations. Energy efficiency is neither their core business nor are the
decision-makers who will enable this technology powerful players in their organizations. The management of buildings is perceived to be a small issue for top management and unless something goes wrong, little attention is paid to the building manager's problems.
All of these organizations contract out a major part of their technical building operating systems. Control systems and energy management systems are proprietary. Their systems do not easily interact with one another. Management is, with the exception of one site, not electronically or computer literate enough to understand the full dimensions of the technology they have purchased. Despite the research teams development of a simple, straightforward method of informing them about the features of the demand response program, they had significant difficulty enabling their systems to meet the needs of the research. The research team had to step in and work directly with their vendors and contractors at all but one location. All of the participants have volunteered to participate in the study for altruistic reasons, that is, to help find solutions to California's energy problems. They have provided support in workmen, access to sites and vendors, and money to participate. Their efforts have revealed organizational and technical system barriers to the implementation of a wide scale
program.
What is Demand Response and How is it Different from "Demand Side Management"?
"Demand Response" is a subset of Demand Side Management (DSM) or a potential Demand Side Management program solution which helps make the electric grid much more efficient and balanced by assisting the electric grid's commercial and industrial customers reduce their electric demand, and/or shifts the time period when they use their electricity, and/or prioritizes the way they use electricity, and in so doing, reduces their overall energy costs. A Demand Side Management Program will include measures that promotes the following:
Reduced customer peak and overall energy demand
Improves the electric grid's reliability
Balances the electric grid through increased efficiency
Energy efficiency
Manages electricity costs
Conservation through both behavioral and operational changes
Load management
Fuel switching
Distributed energy
And provide systems that encourage load shifting or load shedding during times when the electric grid is near its capacity or electric power prices are high
Demand Response has also been defined as a "Demand Side Management" subset that is a set of time dependent activities that reduces or shifts electricity use of selected customers.
Electric power generation and distribution systems are strongly affected by supply-side policies (how, when, and where to generate electricity, how to couple generation into the grid, how to transmit and distribute generated electricity) and demand-side policies (pricing schemes, conservation efforts, customer premises automation, and, in extreme circumstances, rolling blackouts). Demand-side programs focus on reducing the peak-to-average demand profiles through automation in the customer premises.
What are Demand Response Programs?
Demand Response Programs are programs usually designed and offered by electric utilities that offers those clients that sign-up for specific DR programs with financial incentives and other benefits that help those participating customers to curtail energy use. These actions by the electric utilities and participating clients provide a reliable, predictable amount of power (megawatts) that the ISO's and RTO's can count on during an emergency when energy supplies are low, and there is an inadequate amount of available power generation. The electric utilities typically require that those customers that enroll in their DR program(s) install certain software and hardware, that communicates with these client's online energy management systems, and can control these client's electric power requirements as needed.
What is "Peak Shaving?"
Peak shaving is our demand side management solutions that reduces the use peak demand and amount of electricity by commercial and utility customers. Peak-shaving may significantly reduce the peak demand as well as the energy expenses for clients that have implemented a peak-shaving solution.
One of the preferred technologies for peak-shaving is an onsite power generation system, which could be a natural gas engine genset, or a cogeneration or trigeneration energy system.
We provide Automated Demand Response, Bulk Energy Storage, Demand Side Management, and packaged Cogeneration and Trigeneration energy systems.
Also now in our product offerings is a complete line of solar energy systems, including; Evacuated Tube Collectors, Solar Cogeneration, Solar Trigeneration and Solar Water Heating Systems. We can transform your facility into a "Net Zero Energy Building™ and eliminate your greenhouse gas emissions!
We provide peak-shaving, and demand side management solutions through our packaged cogeneration and trigeneration energy systems. Our cogeneration and trigeneration energy systems are built to our specifications. All of our cogeneration and trigeneration energy systems exceed 85% net system efficiency. This translates into significant energy savings for our clients as well as reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
The standard cogeneration and trigeneration energy system packages we offer include the following packaged units, that come standard on a single skid, approximately 8' wide, x 20' length, in a cabinet that is sound attenuated and will meet or exceed SCAQMD and Houston/Galveston emissions regulations:
100 kW 150 kW 250 kW 500 kW
1.0 MW 2.0 MW 3.0 MW 3.5 MW
Our standard cogeneration and trigeneration energy systems can be mixed and matched so as to provide practically any size energy system needed.
We also offer natural gas engine gensets without waste heat recovery for peak-shaving applications where customers do not need the "free" hot water that is provided with our provided cogeneration energy systems. Or the "free hot water and chilled water that is provided with our trigeneration energy systems.
A recent 900 kW cogeneration system's system efficiency exceeded 90% net system efficiency. This means our (industrial) client was able to reduce their energy expenses by almost 50%!
All of our packaged Cogeneration and Trigeneration energy systems exceed 85% net system efficiency.
We
offer "Energy Master Planning"
services for commercial, industrial, utility and municipal clients. Our Energy Master
Plan should be the fundamental building block for all
energy-intensive businesses and customers as it has been shown to help customers
reduce energy and power costs and overall electric consumption.
Our company and team of professionals are 100% vendor and supplier
neutral. This is a huge advantage we provide our customers as we are not
sold on anything except the optimum solution for our clients. We have learned
that the best, most-efficient, optimum energy and power solutions for our
customers frequently blend multiple products and services from several
companies.
It is within this framework we develop our Energy Master Plans for our customers. We review every aspect about your business and how/when/where its uses energy and power. Our comprehensive, vendor-neutral approach ensures our Energy Master Plan produces the maximum possible savings
We start your company's Energy Master Plan with a "kick-off" meeting and review your facility's past and present power and energy consumption (kWh's and btu's), we then analyze the real cost of power and energy patterns, we develop a baseline, we review your future power and energy requirements, identify power and energy savings opportunities as well as demand side management and energy conservation measures. After your acceptance and agreement with our Energy Master Plan, we can help implement those specific projects and opportunities we discovered to insure the implementation and success of our Energy Master Plan's suggestions. Afterward, our solutions will incorporate an energy and power software/energy management system that tracks and continually monitors "our" success in reducing your power and energy expenses.
About
Us
We provide our clients with comprehensive energy
master planning solutions that provides reductions in their energy expenses
and greenhouse gas emissions.
Our clients benefit from our
extensive experience and knowledge of issues relating to renewable energy, environmental and sustainability
issues as well as implementing real world solutions that accomplish our client's goals and objectives.
Our products and consulting services provide solutions
for reducing our clients energy expenses and also their:
Carbon Emissions (www.CarbonEmissions.com)
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (www.CarbonDioxideEmissions.com)
and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (www.GreenhouseGasEmissions.com) since 2003.
Peak shaving is one of the demand side management solutions that reduces the use peak demand and amount of electricity by commercial and utility customers. Peak-shaving may significantly reduce the peak demand as well as the energy expenses for clients that have implemented a peak-shaving solution.
One of the preferred technologies for peak-shaving is an onsite power generation system, which could be a cogeneration or trigeneration energy system
We provide Automated Demand Response, Bulk Energy Storage, Demand Side Management, and packaged Cogeneration and Trigeneration energy systems.
Also now in our product offerings is a complete line of solar energy systems, including; Evacuated Tube Collectors, Solar Cogeneration, Solar Trigeneration and Solar Water Heating Systems. We can transform your facility into a "Net Zero Energy Building™ and eliminate your greenhouse gas emissions!
Our packaged cogeneration and trigeneration energy systems exceed 85% net system efficiency. A recent 900 kW cogeneration system's system efficiency exceeded 90% net system efficiency. This means our (industrial) client was able to reduce their energy expenses by almost 50%!
We
offer "Energy Master Planning"
services for commercial, industrial, utility and municipal clients. Our Energy Master
Plan should be the fundamental building block for all
energy-intensive businesses and customers as it has been shown to help customers
reduce energy and power costs and overall electric consumption.
Our company and team of professionals are 100% vendor and supplier
neutral. This is a huge advantage we provide our customers as we are not
sold on anything except the optimum solution for our clients. We have learned
that the best, most-efficient, optimum energy and power solutions for our
customers frequently blend multiple products and services from several
companies.
It is within this framework we develop our Energy Master Plans for our customers. We review every aspect about your business and how/when/where its uses energy and power. Our comprehensive, vendor-neutral approach ensures our Energy Master Plan produces the maximum possible savings
We start your company's Energy Master Plan with a "kick-off" meeting and review your facility's past and present power and energy consumption (kWh's and btu's), we then analyze the real cost of power and energy patterns, we develop a baseline, we review your future power and energy requirements, identify power and energy savings opportunities as well as demand side management and energy conservation measures. After your acceptance and agreement with our Energy Master Plan, we can help implement those specific projects and opportunities we discovered to insure the implementation and success of our Energy Master Plan's suggestions. Afterward, our solutions will incorporate an energy and power software/energy management system that tracks and continually monitors "our" success in reducing your power and energy expenses.
Automated Demand Response
Biomass Gasification
Carbon Footprint verification
Carbon Free Energy
Clean Power Generation
Cogeneration plants
Demand Side Management
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Assessment
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory
Net Zero Energy Building™
Net Zero Energy™
Pollution Free Power
Renewable Energy Technologies
Solar Cogeneration
Solar Desalination
Solar Detoxification
Solar Energy Systems
Solar Heating And Cooling
Solar Power And Energy
Solar Trigeneration
Sustainability Assessment
Trigeneration Energy Systems
Waste to Energy
Waste to Fuel
What is a Net Zero Energy Building?
A Net Zero Energy Building produces as much energy as it uses over the course of a year. Net Zero Energy Buildings are very energy efficient. The remaining low energy needs are typically met with on-site renewable energy.
There is no such thing as a "zero energy building."
EVERY building uses energy.
The important considerations are,
1. How efficient is the building?
2. How much energy does the building use?
3. How much "carbon free energy" or "pollution free power" is generated by the buildings' own onsite renewable energy system?
4. What are the
utility company's prices for the excess power generated and sent to the
grid?
(see: Net Energy Metering)
5. How difficult is it to interconnect the renewable energy system of the building with the utility company's powerlines/electric grid?
At the heart of Net
Zero Energy Buildings is the idea that buildings can meet energy
requirements from low-cost, locally available, nonpolluting, renewable
sources.
Our
Solar Trigeneration™ Energy
System
provides
"Cooling, Heating & Power" for your business,
or home with the power of the sun!
What is "Net Zero Energy?"
Net Zero
Energy - when applied to a home or commercial building, simply means that
they generate as much power and energy as they consume, when measured on a
monthly or annual basis.
What
is "Copper Indium Gallium Diselenide?"
Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CuInSe2) is a material that provides an extremely high absorption of light ( 99%) to be absorbed in the first micron of the material. Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide is projected to be the revolutionary material that some are saying, could put typical "central" power plants and some electric utilities, out of business, as it will be much cheaper for customers to generate their own onsite power with Thin Film Photovoltaics made from these materials.
When additional small amounts of Gallium is added to Copper Indium diSelenide, this increases its' light-absorbing band gap, thereby making the solar panel more closely match the solar spectrum of the sun. This, in turn, increases the voltage and the efficiency of the Thin Film Photovoltaics solar panel.
Solar panels produced with Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide cells have reached efficiencies of more than 20% - which is much higher than the other Thin Film Photovoltaics.
Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide solar panels create more electricity from the same amount of sunlight than other Thin Film Photovoltaics panels. This translates into a higher conversion efficiency.
The conversion efficiency of Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide PV technologies is very stable over time, meaning its power output remains stable over many years, while the power output of many other PV materials can rapidly decline with time.
What are "Building Integrated Photovoltaics?"
Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) are solar energy systems that are integrated into a part of the building, that serve as the building's exterior or the building's skin.
Commercial buildings and facilities (including houses) that integrate their own solar power systems into the building's exteriors, are referred to as "power buildings."
The technology that makes this possible is "Thin Film Photovoltaics."
What are Thin Film Photovoltaics?
Without a doubt, the most exciting technology in the solar power industry is "Thin Film Photovoltaics." Thin Film Photovoltaics technology represents the next big thing in renewable energy and solar power as it integrates nanotechnologies into the production of solar photovoltaics.
According to the Department of Energy, the recent technological advances in thin film photovoltaics make this a very exciting time to be in the solar energy industry. These advances have led to many new developments in the components and manufacturing of thin film photovoltaics. This has made thin film photovoltaics cheaper to manufacture as they are also now easier to install since they are extremely versatile, flexible, bendable, and much lighter.
Thin film photovoltaics have led many to believe that as much as 50% of our nation's future power will be generated by "power buildings" that integrate "building integrated photovoltaics" or "BIPV" into the building's skin or exterior surfaces, that convert sunlight into "pollution free power" for use in the building. This also designates these buildings (and homes) as "Net Zero Energy Buildings" and make the option for going grid-free, or not connecting to the grid, a real possibility.
According to the Department of Energy, the market potential for printed electronics will grow into a $47 billion market by 2018. Thin film photovoltaics represents a significant portion of this market - and based on this heavily researched solar technology, thin film photovoltaics now represents a $20 billion/year industry in the U.S.
The solar PV panels produced under the thin film photovoltaics umbrella have the potential to produce power significantly cheaper power than today’s typical silicon-based PV panels. The panels are usually made in the form of a monolithic piece of glass, upon which various thin films are deposited, although a number of firms are working on depositing the materials on a substrate, such as stainless steel or plastic.
Types of Thin Film Photovoltaics – there are primarily three types of thin film photovoltaics and include:
Amorphous Silicon
Cadmium Telluride
Amorphous Silicon had the largest share of the thin film photovoltaics market through 2006. It has been researched for the longest period of time, may be the best understood material of the three and has been commercial for the longest. Cadmium Telluride has the remaining share and is growing.
Thin Film Photovoltaics Advantages over Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics
Lower cost of production of the
Lower production facility cost per watt - CapEx
Uses as little as 1/500 of the amount used in standard silicon cells
Lower energy payback – amount of time until the product produces more energy than was utilized in its manufacture.
Produces more power/watt
Superior performance in hot and cloudy climates
Integrates seemlessly in homes and buildings – see Building Integrated Photovoltaics
Produces the lowest cost power
What is Net Energy Metering?
Net energy metering is used to measure a customer's total electric
consumption against that customer's total on-site electric generation. When
a customer's onsite generation of power exceeds the amount that they use, the customer's
solar energy system (or other renewable energy system) exports the extra electricity to the
grid. When the power requirements of the customer exceeds their onsite
generation of power, the customer imports the electricity they need from
electric grid. The customer pays the electric company for any extra power they
use over the amount they generate - OR - the customer receives a credit or
refund from the electric company if they exported more power to the grid, than
what they consumed.
Much focus is placed on energy efficiency as the most cost-effective way to reduce energy use in commercial buildings. However, consumption can be reduced only so much. There is a point at which the cost of adding efficiency measures is higher than that of using renewable energy such as thin film photovoltaics and other solar energy systems.
Aggressive energy efficiency strategies can reduce a building's energy consumption by 50% to 70%. Renewable energy technologies must be used to reach the goal of a net-zero energy building (NZEB).
Various supply-side renewable energy technologies are available for Net Zero Energy Buildings. Supply-side technologies, often called energy producers, collect natural energy and transform it into a useful form. Examples of these technologies include PV, solar hot water, wind, hydroelectric, and biofuels.
All renewable sources are favorable over conventional energy sources such as coal and natural gas; however, the U.S. Department of Energy recommends the following ranking for these options (the lower numbers are preferable):
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Option Number |
NZEB Supply-Side Options |
Examples |
|---|---|---|
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0 |
Reduce site energy use through low-energy building technologies |
Daylighting, high-efficiency heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning equipment (HVAC), natural ventilation, evaporative cooling |
|
On-Site Supply Options |
||
|
1 |
Use renewable energy sources available within the building's footprint |
PV, solar hot water, and wind located on the building |
|
2 |
Use renewable energy sources available at the site |
PV, solar hot water, low-impact hydroelectric, and wind located on-site, but not on the building |
|
Off-Site Supply Options |
||
|
3 |
Use renewable energy sources available off site to generate energy on site |
Biomass, wood pellets, ethanol, or biodiesel that can be imported from off site; waste streams from on-site processes that can be used on-site to generate electricity and heat |
|
4 |
Purchase off-site renewable energy sources |
Utility-based wind, PV, emissions credits, or other "green" purchasing options; hydroelectric is sometimes considered |
This hierarchy is weighted toward renewable technologies within the building footprint and site. Rooftop PV and solar water heating are the most applicable supply-side technologies for Net Zero Energy Buildings. Other supply-side technologies such as parking lot-based wind or solar energy systems may be available.
The goal in developing the ranking was to encourage technologies that:
Minimize overall environmental impact by encouraging energy-efficient building designs and reducing transportation and conversion losses
Will be available over the lifetime of the building
Are widely available and have high replication potential for future Net Zero Energy Buildings.
Solar
Trigeneration
www.SolarTrigeneration.com
Through an affiliated partner company, we are now installing *Free Solar Power Systems for qualified commercial businesses in California and Texas.
To qualify for our Free Solar Power Systems, businesses must:
Have a good credit rating
Agree to buy all of the power generated from the Free Solar Power Systems under a 20 year Power Purchase Agreement
We expect ALL of our customers will be very happy knowing that the clean, green, renewable power they are using is:
More reliable than the electricity from the power company.
Saving the environment by reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and helping reverse Climate Change and Global Warming.
Generated from their own reliable Solar Power System on their roofs.
Saving Money! At today's published electric rates at Southern California Edison, TXU, Reliant and Centerpoint, most of our customers will also enjoy a SAVINGS on their present electric bills by as much as 10% from what they are now paying for their electricity from the electric utility.
Under warranty.
At the end of the Power Purchase Agreement, the Free Solar Power Systems is then owned by our customers and the savings really start to add up as the power and electricity generated from their Free Solar Power Systems is now free!
To find out if your business qualifies for one of our Free Solar Power Systems, call (832) 758 - 0027 today!
"Solar
Trigeneration™"
is Here!!
Residential,
Commercial and Industrial Customers:
Reduce
or COMPLETELY
ELIMINATE
Your Electric Power & Natural Gas Expenses
Stop
Paying High Electric and Natural Gas Rates!
"Cut the Cord" to the Electric Company!
Our
"Solar Trigeneration™" Power and Energy Systems
Generate Carbon Free Energy and Pollution Free Power
Which is Sustainable, Clean, Renewable and Affordable
Solar Energy Systems provides cooler, cleaner, greener power and energy project development services. We specialize in renewable energy technologies and renewable fuels including; B100 Biodiesel, Biomethane, E100 Ethanol and Synthesis Gas.
Our Solar Energy Systems are an environmentally-friendly and economically-superior choice to expensive natural gas and electricity. Additionally, our renewable energy technologies generate "green tags" or a Renewable Energy Credit.
We provide
Solar
Power and Energy systems that we refer
to as "ecogeneration" solutions that produce cooler,
cleaner, greener power and energy for our customers and our environment.
Unlike most companies, we are equipment supplier/vendor neutral.
This means we help our clients select the best equipment for their
specific application. This approach provides our customers with superior
performance, decreased operating expenses and increased return on
investment.
Engineering and Economic Feasibility Studies
Project Design, Engineering & Permitting
Project Construction
Project Funding & Financing Options
Shared/Guaranteed Savings program with no capital requirements.
Project Commissioning
Operations & Maintenance
Green Tag/Renewable Energy Credit Application, and Marketing
For more information: call us at: 832-758-0027
Net
Zero Energy Buildings
www.NetZeroEnergyBuildings.com
The Sun
Powers the Audubon Nature Center's Solar
Trigeneration
System at Debs Park in Los Angeles. The Audubon Nature Center's
building is one of the world's first "Net Zero Energy
Buildings."
The Solar
Trigeneration
System Consists of a 10 Ton
“Solar Absorption Cooling"
System Matched with a Solar
Electric Power System
By: Monty Goodell, M.B.A.
www.SolarTrigeneration.com
Los Angeles,
California
There
is now a better, more efficient, “pollution
free power” solution
for cooling, heating and powering homes and commercial buildings where
solar energy is available.
Solar
Trigeneration
is defined as the simultaneous generation of cooling,
heating and power with
only the free solar energy from the sun providing the "fuel". Solar
Trigeneration is now
a reality at the Audubon
The
Audubon
Nature Center
is
totally powered by the sun’s energy and the building operates
entirely “grid-free” and without any electric connections to the
electric grid, or natural gas connections – a truly sustainable power
and energy solution. Best of all, the Audubon Center doesn’t rely on
the over-burdened electric grid or even natural gas. Therefore,
the Audubon Nature Center
NEVER receives an electric bill or
natural gas bill.... ever!
The
Audubon
Nature Center's 5,000 square foot office
and conference facility is powered by a Solar
Trigeneration system
that features a 25-kilowatt solar electric power system where the energy
is stored in a bank of batteries. The Center is cooled by a 10-ton solar
absorption cooling
system powered by an array of very efficient solar heat pipe vacuum tube
thermal collectors. The
collectors heat the water to temperatures of 200+ degree F stored in a
1,200 gallon insulated tank, another type of inexpensive battery. The Solar
Trigeneration system at
the Audubon not only provides the air-conditioning in the summer but
also heats the building in the winter, and provides the hot water for
the kitchen and bathrooms.
Absorption
chillers,
and cooling with solar energy with an absorption chiller are not new
technologies.
In fact, absorption chiller technology is over 70 years old.
The first refrigerators were powered by propane gas to run the
absorption chillers that used ammonia as a refrigerant.
Electricity and the electric compression chiller gained
popularity only because of the convenient “plug and play” appliance
and relatively cheap electric rates.
Electricity is no longer economically, or environmentally “cheap.”
Cogeneration
refers to the simultaneous production of heat and power. Cogeneration
plants are much more efficient as compared with typical power plants.
Cogeneration is usually about 55% to 70% efficient in terms of
overall system efficiency, or about 200% more efficient than typical
power plants. However,
cogeneration power plants are fueled by natural gas, which is a limited
resource, and whose price has exploded as a result of all the new
cogeneration plants that have been built and fueled by natural gas. Even
in early 2001, the price of natural gas was only $2.75 - $3.25 per mmbtu.
However, with all of the new cogeneration power plants, limited supply
of natural gas, and the huge demand placed on natural gas for fueling
the new cogeneration plants, the price of natural gas is now around
$7.50 - $8.50 per mmbtu.
Solar
Trigeneration is an EcoGeneration
solution. EcoGeneration
refers to a power and energy system that uses the “natural” energy
or fuel that is available for a specific site or location. Such energy
or fuel includes, solar, wind, BioMethane,
geothermal, and ocean power, including ocean tidal and ocean thermal
energy conversion. For
example, in the desert areas of the
Today,
the cause of the summer peak electric demand, electric supply problems,
and black-outs, are the result of the energy crisis in
Greater
Demands on California’s Limited Electric Supply, Lack of New Electric
Power Supplies, and This Summer’s Heat Wave are Compounding the
Problem Leading to the “Perfect Electric
Storm”
Many
people will remember the movie “The Perfect Storm” from several
years ago, when several storms came together in the northeastern part of
the
The
most likely time of year for a black-out in
How
Do We Prevent the “Perfect Electric Storm” from Occurring
in California and Other Regions in the U.S.?
Another
major concern is how do we prevent the “Perfect Electric Storm” from
happening, like the Northeast Blackout several summers ago, especially
for people living in the desert?
Governor
Schwarzenegger’s “Million Solar Roofs” program and the passage of
the 2005 Federal Energy Act will be the foundation to create a “Perfect Solar
Storm” to trigger the Solar Economy throughout California.
With
the threat of California’s seniors and elderly dying from heat
exhaustion due to power outages, black-outs, rolling black-outs and the
rising costs of electricity and natural gas, combined with the
continuing impact of global warming, the perfect solution is to create a
Solar Revolution by cooling, heating and powering the desert with solar
energy and technologies like Solar
Cogeneration or Solar
Trigeneration.
To
find our more about the new
Solar
Trigeneration system
at the Audubon
Center
in Los Angeles, or arrange for a
tour of the Audubon
The Audubon Center's new Solar Trigeneration
power and energy system
makes this building a "Net Zero Energy Building"
The Audubon's Roof showing the Solar
Thermal Collectors, part of the
Solar Trigeneration
power and energy system
The heart of the Audubon's Solar Trigeneration
power and energy system
provides "free heating, cooling and domestic hot water," a
"net zero energy
building."
The hot water from the Solar Thermal Collectors
on the roof of the Audubon is pumped here for producing the building's
heating, cooling and domestic hot water.
Hot water is stored in the tank on the left for overnight.
We
Package, Sell and Install Highly-efficient
Cogeneration and Trigeneration
energy systems
Trigeneration Technologies, LLC. is a privately held company formed by the founder of the Renewable Energy Institute. Our specialty is cogeneration and trigeneration energy systems that are packaged for us according to our specifications by our supplier. Our cogeneration and trigeneration energy systems exceed 80% net system efficiency. A recent 900 kW cogeneration system's system efficiency exceeded 90% net system efficiency.
What is "Cogeneration"?
Did you know that 10% of our nation's electricity now comes from "cogeneration" plants?
And
because cogeneration is so efficient, it
saves its customers up to 40% on their energy expenses, and provides even greater savings to our
environment through significant reductions in fuel usage and much lower greenhouse
gas emissions.
Cogeneration
- also known as “combined heat and
power” (CHP), cogen, district energy, total energy, and combined cycle, is the simultaneous production of heat (usually in the form of hot water and/or steam) and power, utilizing one primary
fuel such as natural gas, or a renewable fuel, such as Biomethane,
B100 Biodiesel, or Synthesis
Gas.
Cogeneration technology is not the latest industry buzz-word being touted as the solution to our nation's energy woes. Cogeneration is a proven technology that has been around for over 120 years!
Our nation's first commercial power plant was a
cogeneration
plant that was designed and built by Thomas Edison in 1882 in New York. Our
nation's first commercial power plant was called the "Pearl Street
Station."
What
is "Trigeneration"?
Trigeneration takes cogeneration one additional step. Trigeneration is defined as the simultaneous production of three forms of energy - typically, Cooling, Heating and Power - from only one fuel input. Put another way, our trigeneration energy systems produce three different types of energy for the price of one.
Our Trigeneration energy systems overall system efficiencies have exceeded 85% efficiency.
Typical "central" power plants that electric utility companies own and operate normally do not use the heat generated from the combustion and power generation process. Therefore, they are only about 30% to 35% efficient, wasting 65% to 70% of the available energy, that is simply wasted, and lost, with the heat going up their smokestacks.
The following is a trigeneration diagram that better reflects the trigeneration process:
Trigeneration
Diagram & Description
Trigeneration Power Plants' Have the Highest System Efficiencies and are
About 300 % More Efficient than Typical Central Power Plants
Trigeneration plants are installed at locations that can benefit from all three forms of energy. These types of installations that install trigeneration power plants are called "onsite power generation" also referred to as "decentralized energy."
One
of our company's principal's first experience with the design and development of
a trigeneration
power plant was the trigeneration power plant installation at Rice University in 1987 where
our trigeneration
development team started out by conducting a
"cogeneration" feasibility study. We installed a 4.0 MW
Ruston gas turbine for the power plant. Rice University selected an EPC
company that installed the trigeneration
power plant, along with waste heat recovery
boilers and absorption chillers. A "waste heat recovery
boiler" captures the heat from the exhaust of the gas turbine. From
there, the recovered energy was converted to chilled water - originally from (3)
Hitachi absorption
chillers - 2 were rated at 1,000 tons each, and the third
Hitachi Absorption Chiller was rated at 1,500 tons. The Hitachi absorption
chillers were replaced shortly after their installation by the EPC
company. The first trigeneration
plant at Rice University was so successful, they added a second 5.0 MW trigeneration
plant so today, Rice University is now generating about 9.0 MW of
electricity, and also producing the cooling and heating the university needs
from the trigeneration
plant and circulating the trigeneration
energy around its
campus.
Trigeneration Chart
Trigeneration's
"Super-Efficiency" compared
with other competing technologies
As you can see, there is No Competition for Trigeneration!
