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New Product List for Models – Levelized Cost of Power and Energy, Feed-in-Tariff, Project Finance, Renewable Energy Resource Assessment, Optimal Load Dispatch and LP Model for Trigeneration

New Product List for Models – Levelized Cost of Power and Energy, Feed-in-Tariff, Project Finance, Renewable Energy Resource Assessment, Optimal Load Dispatch and LP Model for Trigeneration

Order now and try our latest top-of-the-line models for:

1) Cost of power generation technologies (technology, capacity, all-in capital cost per kW, fixed and variable O&M cost, capacity factor, cost of fuel, economic life, construction lead time, levelized cost of energy)

2) Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) rate for renewable energy (biomass, solar PV, wind, mini-hydro, ocean thermal energy conversion) More »

Shopping Cart for my Project Finance Models and LP Load Dispatch Models – new price list

Shopping Cart for my Project Finance Models and LP Load Dispatch Models – new price list

Due to the tremendous interest and response from avid readers to this blog, your energy technology selection and business development expert is now automating the order taking, payment and downloading of its various energy technology articles as well as project finance models.

Here is the new price list for my energy data base, power plant emission, feed-in-tariff, renewable energy resource assessment and project finance models for conventional, renewable and nuclear energy. More »

Coal-Fired Power Power Plant Model (Pulverized, CFB, IGCC)

Coal-Fired Power Power Plant Model (Pulverized, CFB, IGCC)

Japan recently announced that it intends to wean away from Nuclear Power. So in the meantime, it has to rely on diesel gensets, oil thermal, coal thermal and combined cycle gas turbines firing oil and natural gas or LNG. This model will help you determine the economic feasibility and the first year tariff to meet equity returns as well as project returns including payback period of a coal-fired power plants (pulverized, CFB, IGCC) and compare with conventional (oil, gas, natural gas, hydro, geothermal) and renewable technologies (biomass, solar, wind, mini-hydro, ocean thermal energy conversion). More »

Nuclear Power Power Plant Model

Nuclear Power Power Plant Model

Japan recently announced that it intends to wean away from Nuclear Power. So in the meantime, it has to rely on diesel gensets, oil thermal, coal thermal and combined cycle gas turbines firing oil and natural gas or LNG. This model will help you determine the economic feasibility and the first year tariff to meet equity returns as well as project returns including payback period of a nuclear power plant and compare with conventional (oil, gas, natural gas, hydro, geothermal) and renewable technologies (biomass, solar, wind, mini-hydro, ocean thermal energy conversion). More »

Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Power Plant Model

Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Power Plant Model

Japan recently announced that it intends to wean away from Nuclear Power. So in the meantime, it has to rely on diesel gensets, oil thermal, coal thermal and combined cycle gas turbines firing oil and natural gas or LNG. This model will help you determine the economic feasibility and the first year tariff to meet equity returns as well as project returns including payback period. More »

Simple Cycle Gas Turbine Power Plant Model

Simple Cycle Gas Turbine Power Plant Model

Japan recently announced that it intends to wean away from Nuclear Power. So in the meantime, it has to rely on diesel gensets, oil thermal, coal thermal and combined cycle gas turbines firing oil and natural gas or LNG. This model will help you determine the economic feasibility and the first year tariff to meet equity returns as well as project returns including payback period. More »

Geothermal Power Plant Model

Geothermal Power Plant Model

Japan recently announced that it intends to wean away from Nuclear Power to Renewable Energy such as Geothermal Energy. This model will help you determine the economic feasibility and the first year tariff to meet equity returns as well as project returns including payback period. More »

Diesel Genset (fuel oil, diesel oil) Power Plant Model

Diesel Genset (fuel oil, diesel oil) Power Plant Model

Buy your diesel genset project finance model now for only $300 and start your emergency power generation business. Use this model to hybrid your renewable energy project to provide 24/7 hours of electricity service. More »

New Simplified Calculation Procedure for Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) and Feed-in Tariff

New Simplified Calculation Procedure for Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) and Feed-in Tariff

As part of the on-going technical preparations for the proposed mini-conference on the Mindanao Power Crisis this coming late August or early September 2010 and the main conference on “Energy & Climate Change”, the workshop coordinator, Mr. Marcial T. Ocampo, has prepared the simplified calculation procedure for calculating the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and levelized selling price (tariff) for conventional and renewable energy resources.

The result of the simplified formulas using the US NREL formula for generation cost and the RP MTO formula for selling price were compared with the results from a full-blown project finance model and the variance between the two methods were minimal in most of the power generation technologies analyzed.

The input data came from the IEPR research summary of 2007 and from internationally published data on power generation technology by noted experts such as Paul Breeze and yours truly, Marcial Ocampo. More »

Road Map for Pres. Obama : Preparing for the future energy economy is the quickest way out of the global financial crisis – low carbon, hydrogen, nuclear and breeder economy

Road Map for Pres. Obama : Preparing for the future energy economy is the quickest way out of the global financial crisis - low carbon, hydrogen, nuclear and breeder economy

It seems that the stimulus package is not working for the USA.  A simple analysis reveals that it will never work because it is simply perpetuating and delaying the economic correction in the US which the Asian countries have done during the 1996 Asian Financial Crisis – they allowed big corporations to fail and recapitalize on their own accord, with government undertaking painful but necessary economic and fiscal reforms, and government leading the private sector in the right direction of energy efficiency (green homes and green buildings, smart grids, advanced and optimized manufacturing and logistics, optimal load dispatch, higher transport mileage, hybrid and electric vehicles), renewable energy (biomass, mini-hydro, wind, solar, ocean thermal energy conversion or OTEC), alternative fuels (biodiesel, bioethanol) and clean energy technologies (clean coal CFB, IGCC).

All of these initiatives, if undertaken on a global scale, will lead to sustainable development that mitigates global warming and climate change risks.  And sustainable development will always lead to greater customer confidence in the future, leading to willingness on the citizenry to spend their money in new and energy efficient technologies – the necessary ingredients for long-term economic growth.

This is what the US Pres. Obama and the US Congress should provide leadership so that the whole world will follow in unison towards a common goal of eradicating permanently global poverty through sustainable economic development.  Conserving expensive fossil fuels to prolong its economic lifetime while the world gradually shifts to a low-carbon economy is the heart of this paradigm shift. 

This article will explain how it can be done.  Please read on and give me your comments and suggestions, and if possible, email it to US Pres. Obama and the members of the US Congress.

The world’s ever growing population requires that massive energy and power projects be developed to keep pace with the socio-economic needs of the more technologically advanced offsprings of civilization.

Mankind has never seen before the exponential growth of energy demand as technological innovations lead to a more wired and electrically dependent society.

So the current scenario of a high carbon energy diet has raised alarm bells  throughout the world and this is being relentlessly being pursued by no less than former US President Al Gore and the new “Inconvenient Truth”. More »

How to reduce electricity cost in the Philippines – response to latest MERALCO price increase

How to reduce electricity cost in the Philippines – response to latest MERALCO price increase

The largest distribution utility in the Philippines, MERALCO, recently reflected in the power bill of each residential, commercial, industrial, public building and street lighting consumer classification, the previous month’s rise in WESM prices.

I for one was also hard hit (my power bill increasing from P4,000 to over P7,900 last month), with the explanation of its MERALCO President, Mr. De Jesus, who said, the generation charge reflected the increase in the rise of WESM prices, the spot market of electricity producers.  From a previous month of just over P5.14/kWh, the average WESM price jumped to over P6.70/kWh in view of the use of more expensive oil-fired power plants to replace hydro plant capacity that were temporarily lost as a result of a prolonged drought nationwide.  Some plants are also undergoing preventive maintenance in preparation for the May 10 elections.

These events will not be the last, and will continue to persist, unless the country improves its generation mix.  As I’ve said in previous blogs which was quoted by renowed Philippine Star Columnist Boo Chanco, “no amount of optimization of our existing generation mix will result in any substantial reduction in electricity tariff unless we introduce a significant quantity of nuclear electricity”.

The newly appointed Energy Secretary Ibazeta, who recently replaced Angelo Reyes, clearly emphasized to keep the nuclear power option open as a means to provide a long-term solution to the country’s high power cost.

The following blog will clearly illustrate the potential cost reduction with the entry of a 620mw nuclear power plant into the country’s generation mix, which will product electricity at a constant rate of around 2.50 Pesos per kWh.

Alternatively, the short-term solution is to construct more “clean technology” circulating fluidized bed (CFB) coal-fired power plants that is capable of generating electricity in the order of 50, 100, 200, 300 MW at costs far cheaper than oil-fired, natural gas-fired and geothermal power plants.  As I’ve shared before, clean coal will be the transition fuel and power generation technology that will carry the world, including us, while we move towards renewable energy sources.

Happy Reading.

Marcial T. Ocampo

Energy & Business Development Consultant

mars_ocampo@yahoo.com

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Sample data for calculating the levelized cost of energy and electricity

SAMPLE DATA FOR CALCULATING THE LEVELIZED COST OF ENERGY AND ELECTRICITY

Your favorite energy technology expert presents sample data for calculating the levelized cost of energy and electricity which could be applied on the NREL formula or implemented in a detailed project finance model.

The input data are summarized below. More »

How to calculate the levelized cost of energy – some updates

How to Calculate the Levelized Cost of Energy and Electricity – some updates and developments

The author is re-issuing this article in view of the tremendous interest worldwide on this article.  A number of readers have in fact ordered my technology articles, specifically on the cost of power generation technology (a spreadsheet containing the technology, rated capacity, overnight cost $/kW, capacity factor % of rated capacity, fixed O&M $/kW/year, variable O&M $/kWh, energy conversion efficiency % of fuel energy, fuel cost $/GJ, economic life years, construction lead time years, reliability % of operating hours, availability % of calendar days, and levelized cost $/kWh).

Using the NREL formula and a detailed project finance model, I was able to demonstrate that the results would be the same in calculating the levelized cost of energy or electricity.  The reader is adviced to email me if they would like to get a copy of the spreadsheet showing the two calculations.

With the passage of the Philippine Renewable Energy Act of 2009 (RE Law) and its implementing rules and regulations (IRR), it is imperative that financial models for renewable energy projects be revised accordingly.  This author and our group of experts would assist project proponents and investors in the Philippines develop an updated financial model for evaluating their RE project proposals for endorsement by the Department of Energy (DOE) and for the approval of their feed-in tariffs with the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC). More »

How to Calculate the Cost Impact of Nuclear Power Addition to the Energy Mix – a Philippine estimate

How to Calculate the Cost Impact of Nuclear Power Addition to the Energy Mix – a Philippine estimate

This is the 4th sequel to the 1st blog on “How to Calculate the Levelized Cost of Energy – a simplified approach”.

Using sample data and reasonable assumptions, I’ve calculated the potential reduction in the weighted average levelized cost of electricity in the energy mix of the Philippines should the mothballed 620 MW Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) be revived and allowed to operate again after being in preservation mode since the early 1990’s. More »

Sample Levelized Cost of Energy – the cheapest and most expensive technology

Sample Levelized Cost of Energy – the cheapest and most expensive technology

As the third article of the  series on “How to Calculate the Levelized Cost of Energy”, the author is now ready to present the summary of levelized cost per technology group.  Please refer to the first article for the calculation formulas (US NREL and RP MTO) and the second article for the sample input data used in the calculations (rated capacity, overnight cost, fixed and variable O&M cost, fuel cost, efficiency, capacity factor, station use, taxes, economic life, etc.).

Levelized Cost by Technology Group (using RP MTO Formula)

The levelized cost for each technology of given rated capacity is given for the RP MTO formula (with taxes and depreciation).

Conventional Thermal Plants

Oil Thermal (fuel oil) - 300 MW, 0.1397 $/kWh

Orimulsion Thermal (orimulsion) – 100 MW, $0.1030 $/kWh

Gas Thermal (natural gas) – 100 MW, 0.0808 $/kWh

Pulverized Coal Thermal (coal) – 600 MW, 0.0665 $/kWh

Compression Ignition Engines

Reciprocating Diesel Engine (diesel, fuel oil) – 50 MW, 0.1605 $/kWh

Reciprocating Orimulsion Engine (orimulsion) – 50 MW, 0.1143 $/kWh

Gas Turbines (oil, natural gas)

Simple GT – 35 MW, 0.0755 $/kWh

Recuperated GT – 3 MW, 0.0739 $/kWh

Cascaded Humid Air Turbine (CHAT) – 11 MW, 0.0804 $/kWh

Cascaded Humid Air Turbine (CHAT) - 300 MW, 0.0584 $/kWh

Heavy Frame GT – 200 MW, 0.0875 $/kWh

Combined Cycle GT – 500 MW, 0.0607 $/kWh

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Cómo calcular el coste levelized de energía y de electricidad – muestree los datos y los cálculos

How to calculate the levelized cost of energy and electricity – sample data and calculations

As promised in my last blog “How to Calculate the Levelized Cost of Energy – a simplified approach”, I am sharing sample data, assumptions and calculations to provide our readers with greater understanding.

The author, your favorite Energy Technology Expert – Mr. Marcial T. Ocampo , has indeed invested tremendous time and resources to bring this blog to the world and the Philippines.

Should the reader/user find the materials, topics, technology briefs, energy data and formulas very useful and would like to continue receiving such useful information, Marcial would like to request the benefited reader to donate or sponsor the continued updating of this blog.

Please keep in touch with Marcial using the contact information at the end of this blog. There is no fixed amount. Marcial would leave it to the good reader the amount of donation he would like to contribute.

Alternatively, you could order the specific topics of interest and use PayPal to effect the payment. Delivery via email will follow for the ordered technology topic.

You could also retain me as consultant in your energy and business development projects and when bidding for NPC/PSALM power plants for sale in the Philippines. Our select group (technology expert, power plant expert, financial modeling expert and legal expert) will conduct a legal and technical due diligence of the power plant for sale, prepare the technical, economic and financial inputs to a detailed project finance model for estimating the value of the power plant. In this way, you will enhance the chance of your company winning the bid and start operating your own power plant in the Philippines. More »

How to Calculate the Levelized Cost of Energy – a simplified approach

How to Calculate the Levelized Cost of Energy – a simplified approach

Calculating the levelized cost of energy is a fundamental principle in the energy and power industry. It basically allows the comparison of various technologies of unequal life times and capacities without resorting to developing a full-blown project finance model.

This simplified approach is particularly appropriate when doing a rough estimate on the cost of electricity given the various technologies in a country. By applying the formula on each power plant, as if it is continuously replaced to provide incremental power to meet new incremental demand, it provides a good estimate on the cost of electricity had a new plant been constructed to replace the old plant that became obsolete.

The weighted average levelized cost for the country is then estimated by using the electricity generation of each technology as weighing factor. For instance, the effect of injecting a nuclear power plant into the generation mix will be estimated quickly so that the country’s average levelized cost of energy could be compared with its neighboring competitor countries having nuclear power. Applying the same set of formulas and cost factors for each technology will yield a good index on our country’s competitiveness with respect to power costs.

Various Power Generation Technologies

I am sharing with you my own list and classification of the various power generation technologies, both existing and future technologies, that taken as a whole, would supply the ever growing needs of the peoples of our mother earth.

Levelized Cost of Each Power Generation Technology

The only way power generation technologies could be compared with respect to cost is to calculate the levelized cost of energy over its economic life. This involves obtaining data on rated capacity kW, overnigh costs $/kW, fixed Operating & Maintenance cost $/kW/year, variable O&M cost $/kWh, efficiency % or plant heat rate kJ/kWh, economic life years, availability %, load factor % or capacity factor %, fuel cost $/GJ or $/kg or $/L, fuel Gross Heating Value kJ/kg or kJ/L, fuel density kg/L, and construction lead time years.

The levelized cost allows comparison of different power generation technologies of unequal economic life, capital cost, risk and returns, capacity factor, efficiencies or plant heat rate, fuel costs and construction lead times.

The basic formula used is based on the US NREL formula for the levelized cost of energy (net):

Net COE = ICC * CRF / AEPnet + (LLC + O&M + LRC + MOE) – PTC, in US $/kWh

where ICC = Initial Capital Cost (total debt), $

CRF = capital recovery factor, 1/yr = int / (1 – (1 + int)^-Life)

AEPnet = Net Annual Energy Production, kWh/yr (net of plant own use)

= (kW capacity) * (capacity factor) * (hours/year)

LLC = Land Lease Cost, $/kWh

O&M = Levelized Operating & Maintenance Expense, $/kWh

LRC = Levelized Replacement/Overhaul Cost, $/kWh

MOE = Miscellaneous Operating Expense, $/kWh

PTC = US Production Tax Credit, $/kWh

In the case of the Philippines where the effect of income tax and depreciation needs to be considered, the RP MTO formula developed by Engr. Marcial T. Ocampo is shown:

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Energy Technology Expert – my expertise and services

Where to Get Assistance for Energy & Electricity Investment Opportunities in the Philippines

Marcial Ocampo provides a blog on issues and concerns regarding current and future fuel cycles and power generation technologies as they affect the environment, fuel supplies and power generation capacities, efficiency of utilization of fuel or energy resource, pollution & greenhouse gas emissions, and cost of power (overnight capital cost $/kW) and energy (levelized $/kWh).

He provides market, technical and economic feasibility studies and prepares project finance models for determining asset value (bid price), levelized price of energy or electricity, or equity returns (DCF IRR).

He is also familiar with investment opportunities in the Philippine energy and electricity sector (Philippine Energy Plan, Power Development Plan) and the regulatory framework (EPIRA and RE laws,  implementing rules and regulations, Distribution Code, Grid Code) for purchasing a power plant from PSALM/NPC or for putting up a new power plant (conventional, fossil or renewable).

He can guide you in securing incentives under the latest Philippine Renewable Energy (RE) law and its implementing rules and regulations (IRR).

In addition, he could guide you in securing the needed endorsement from the Philippine Department of Energy (DOE), permits and licenses from the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) and other government agencies (DTI, SEC, BIR, DENR, EMB, NWRB, PNRI, DOLE, NTC, BOC, PPA, ATO, PDEA, BOI, NCIP and LGUs) in order that the facility is duly licensed to operate as a power generation facility with an electricity tariff that is the “best new entrant” for the given location and application in order to balance the need of the customers for affordable electricity and the need of the investor to meet its investment return criteria.

Should you need assistance in preparing a project finance model and a feasibility study (market, technical, economic, financial) using Philippine oil, energy and electricity data, please don’t hesitate to contact Marcial.

email:    mars_ocampo@yahoo.com   and   energydataexpert@gmail.com

tel/fax: (632)-932-5530 More »

Cost of Power Generation Technologies

The file (129 KB) will cover the following topics:

Type of power plant, Commercial Capacity, Overnight Capital Cost, Fixed O&M ($/kW/yr), Variable O&M (cents/kWh), Thermal Efficiency or Plant Heat Rate, Availability Factor, Load Factor, Construction Lead Time, Economic Life, Fuel Cost ($/GJ), Levelized Cost of Electricity ($/kWh).

Power Generation Technologies:

• Oil – Gas Thermal
• Reciprocating / Piston Engine
• Small or High-Speed
• Medium Speed
• Large or Slow Speed
• Combined Cycle – Waste Heat Boiler
• Natural Gas – Simple GT
• Aero-Derivative GT
• With Recuperation
• Humid Air Turbine (HAT)
• Cascaded Humid Air Turbine (CHAT)
• Heavy Frame GT
• Natural Gas – Combined Cycle GT
• Coal – Pulverized
• Atmospheric CFB
• Pressurized FBC
• IGCC
• IGHAT
• Direct Coal-Fired Combined Cycle (DCCC)
• Super critical & Ultra-Super critical Coal Comb.
• Geothermal
• Dry Steam (Vapor)
• Flashed Steam (Single, Double)
• Binary Cycle
• Petrothermal (Hot Dry Rock)
• Geothermal Preheat
• Fossil Superheat
• Nuclear Fission
• Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), advanced
• Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR)
• Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR)
• Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor (AGR)
• Candu Reactor
• High Temp. Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR)
• Gas Turbine Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR)
• Breeder Reactors
• Nuclear Fusion
• Hydro
• Large
• Pelton Turbine – 50-6,000 ft head
• Francis Turbine – 10-2,000 ft head
• Propeller Turbine – 10 – 300 ft head
• Kaplan Turbine
• Small / Mini
• Micro
• Pumped Hydro
• Wind
• Solar PV
• Crystalline silicon
• Thin film – Amorphous Silicon
• Thin film – Indium Diselenide
• Flat Plate
• High Efficiency Multi Junction – IHCPV
• Solar Thermal
• Trough
• Tower
• Dish
• Salt Pond (power + water)
• Biomass
• Direct Combustion
• Co-firing with Coal
• Biomass Gasification (BIGCC)
• Municipal Waste
• Pyrolysis
• Landfill Gas (40 – 60% CH4)
• Anaerobic Digestion (65% CH4)
• Sewage Digestion
• Fuel Cells
• Alkaline (AFC)
• Phosphoric Acid (PAFC)
• Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM)
• Direct Methanol
• Molten Carbonate (MCFC)
• Solid Oxide-GT (SOFC)
• Solid Oxide-GT (SOFC-GT)
• Energy Storage:
• Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) – Huntorf
• Large CAES
• Small CAES
• Above Ground CAES
• Flywheel Systems
• Utility Scale Batteries (USB)
• Lead acid
• Advanced
• Stored Hydrogen
• Superconduction Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES)
• Ultracapacitors
• Ocean Thermal
• Claude (open cycle)
• Controlled Flash Evaporation (open)
• Anderson (closed cycle)
• Ocean Wave
• Oscillating Water Column (OWC)
• Hydraulic Accumulator
• High Level Reservoir
• Float or Pitching Devices
• Wave Surge or Focusing (“tapchan”)
• Pendulor
• Tidal Power
• Single Pool
• Modulated Single Pool w/ Pumped Hydro
• Two Pool

Price: 30 USD

Fuel & Energy Technology Expert is Here

Fuel & Energy Technology Expert is Here

Marcial Ocampo, your favorite energy technology expert, is here to provide you latest information on:

1) energy and oil prices (international and domestic pump price calculation)

2) renewable energy and non-renewable energy and electricity

3) cost of power generation – capital and O&M cost

4) levelized cost of energy and electricity

5) Philippine energy and electricity demand and supply

6) project finance and financial modeling

7) power plant efficiency and performance

8) project feasibility studies for biofuels and power plant (market, technical, economic and financial)

Examples of Power Generation Technologies in commercial use are as follows:

Oil – Gas Thermal

Reciprocating / Piston Engine:

Small or High-Speed
Medium Speed
Large or Slow Speed
Combined Cycle – Waste Heat Boiler

Natural Gas – Simple GT:

Aero-Derivative GT
With Recuperation
Humid Air Turbine (HAT)
Cascaded Humid Air Turbine (CHAT)
Heavy Frame GT

Natural Gas – Combined Cycle GT

Coal:

Pulverized Coal PC
Atmospheric CFB
Pressurized FBC
Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle IGCC
Integrated Gasification Humid Air Turbine IGHAT
Direct Coal-Fired Combined Cycle DCCC
Supercritical & Ultra-Supercritical Coal Comb.

Nuclear Fission:

Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), advanced
Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR)
Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR)
Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor (AGR):
- Candu Reactor
High Temp. Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR)
Gas Turbine Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR)
Breeder Reactors

Nuclear Fusion

Hydro:

Large:
- Pelton Turbine – 50-6,000 ft head
- Francis Turbine – 10-2,000 ft head
- Propeller Turbine – 10 – 300 ft head:
- Kaplan Turbine
Small / Mini
Micro

Energy Storage:

Pumped Hydro
Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) – Huntorf:
- Large CAES
- Small CAES
- Above Ground CAES
Flywheel Systems
Utility Scale Batteries (USB):
- Lead acid
- Advanced
Stored Hydrogen
Superconduction Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES)
Ultracapacitors

Geothermal:

Dry Steam (Vapor)
Flashed Steam (Single, Double)
Binary Cycle
Petrothermal (Hot Dry Rock)
Geothermal Preheat
Fossil Superheat

Wind

Solar PV:

Crystalline silicon
Thin film – Amorphous Silicon
Thin film – Indium Diselenide
Flat Plate
High Efficiency Multi Junction (IHCPV)

Solar Thermal:
Trough
Tower
Dish
Salt Pond (power + water)

Fuel Cells:

Alkaline (AFC)
Phosphoric Acid (PAFC)
Proton Exchange Membrane  (PEM)
Direct Methanol (DMFC)
Molten Carbonate (MCFC)
Solid Oxide-GT  (SOFC-GT)

Biomass:

Direct Combustion
Co-firing with Coal
Biomass Gasification (BIGCC)
Municipal Waste Treatment
Pyrolysis

Fermentation
Landfill Gas (40 – 60% CH4)
Anaerobic Digestion Biogas (65% CH4)
Sewage Treatment

Ocean Thermal:

Claude (open cycle)
Controlled Flash Evaporation (open)
Anderson (closed cycle)

Ocean Wave:

Oscillating Water Column (OWC)
Hydraulic Accumulator
High Level Reservoir
Float or Pitching Devices
Wave Surge or Focusing (“tapchan”)
Pendulor

Tidal Power:

Single Pool
Modulated Single Pool w/ Pumped Hydro
Two Pool

Additional technologies provided by readers of this blog:

Waste Heat Recovery: (from Alan Belcher’s comments)

Steam Rankine Cycle (Recycled Energy Development, Inc.)

Organic Rankine Cycle (Ormat Technologies, Inc.)*

Low Temperature Brayton Cycle (Pegasus Energy Project, Inc.)