Municipal Solid Waste to Power Project Finance Model
Municipal Solid Waste to Power Project Finance Model
The energy technology expert is pleased to offer to its readers, project developers, project investors, loan and funding institutions a state-of-the-art project finance model for municipal solid waste (MSW) to power using the biomass gasification technology.
Place your order now and avail of hefty discount (50%) and buy only for $1,500 only and proceed immediately with your project development of MSW to power. Use this model to determine the IRR given the tons per day capacity, garbage tipping fee and electricity tariff. Email your order now to get the discount and I’ll email you back my bank details for remitting the payment so you get immediately your project finance model.
The MSW may come in free into the power plant or the local government units (LGUs) may pay garbage tipping fees as additional income on top of the feed-in tariff income of the power plant from the national government.
The byproduct high-density residue (over 2 MT per CUM) which is excellent road pavement and sea shoreline reinforcement material could also provide additional revenues.
The user inputs the tons per day (100 to 400 MT/day) of MSW. More »
Feed-in Tariff (FiT) to be issued by March 2011
Feed-in Tariff (FiT) to be issued by March 2011
The government thru the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) is targetting to come up with the feed-in tariff (FiT) rate scheme by the end of March this year (2011), a top Department of Energy (DOE) official said.
The FiT is the price per kWh sold that will be paid to all renewable energy (RE) developers and power generators for puting up these intermittent power generation plants. It shall be fixed for 15 years and shall be subject to review every 3 years with the possibility of lowering the FiT as technology and economy of scale improves. It is, however, prospective, and applies only to future RE projects, thus protecting the earlier RE investments from regulatory and pricing risks arising from technological improvements. The RE technologies being intermittent are thus considered must run and will be dispatched when available and transmission and distribution system operators are obliged to ensure that investments are made to ensure their safe and stable connection into the grid. More »
Flooding in Brisbane and Australia – need for dam water release simulation model
Flooding in Brisbane and Australia – need for dam water release simulation model
It is all over CNN and the cable news. Brisbane has been hit by an “inland tsunami” arising from dam water release at the height of a typhoon and massive rainfall over the past few days.
It appears that the dam above Brisbane that was designed to protect it from flooding experienced in 1976 released excess water in order to avoid serious damage to the dam structure itself.
This article below will perhaps help the Australian authorities in calculating the needed advanced warning and time for pre-emptive discharge in order to remove excess water at a safe rate so that the incoming storm could be safely contained by the dam. Having sufficient storage capacity of at least one storm (4-6 meters to handle one storm) is a must that should be maintained at all times, especially after a previous storm has exited and an incoming storm has been spotted by the weather bureau through Doppler Radar which locates storms and estimate its rainfall potential. More »
Energy Technology Articles and Project Finance Models
Energy Technology Articles and Project Finance Models
This Christmas, give your self the greatest gift – the energy technology selection articles and project finance models for conventional, nuclear, storage and renewable energy technologies.
Jump start your career in energy and power generation consultancy and use the best models that will support your project feasibility studies.
Get your models from a leading expert in the preparation of energy and power plant feasibility studies.
To order, please email the expert for payment details and how to receive the articles and models.
Regards,
Marcial Ocampo
Template for Levelized Cost of Energy, Project Finance Model and Power Plant Emission Calculation
Template for Levelized Cost of Energy, Project Finance Model and Power Plant Emission Calculation
This December 2010, your energy technology selection and business development consultant/expert is providing his avid readers and fans a very good bargain.
Marcial is going to offer low cost templates for various power generation technologies to determine electricity tariff and for renewable energy the feed-in tariff.
He will also offer power plant emission calculation models which the user may modify given the actual fuel properties and chemical analysis.
So hurry up. This is a limited offer. Email me right now to avail of the huge discount on the template models that are user friendly and could be user modified. More »
Advanced Electric Vehicle Concept – Hydrogen powered fuel cell hybrid vehicle
Advanced Electric Vehicle Concept – Hydrogen powered fuel cell hybrid vehicle
Congratulations to US Pres. Obama for giving importance to the electric vehicles (EVs) since this will be the precursor of the ultimate vehicle – the hydrogen-powered fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle. Hydrogen can be produced from many energy pathways, including off-peak renewable energy and nuclear energy as well as from biomass, biogas, municipal solid waste, by-product of chemical processes such as coking of steel, and the traditional steam reforming of fossil fuels such as gasoline, diesel, LPG, natural gas or LNG and coal. As the world gradually shifts from the present high carbon economy, to a lower carbon economy, then hydrogen economy, followed by a rebirth of nuclear energy, and finally breeder nuclear economy, to provide mankind’s future energy into the 22nd century.
The Ultimate Commuter Vehicle Concept More »
How to use biomass for energy and power
How to use biomass for energy and power
Here is my reply to an avid reader requesting for advice on how to use biomass effectively in his home town.
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How to Lower Power Plant Emissions – some suggestions
How to Lower Power Plant Emissions – some suggestions
Here are my simple suggestions on how to lower power plant emissions and address global warming and climate change issues.
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Hi Jeff,
I am not an environmental scientist, but this I can say.
As long as your liquid fuel has lower than 1% Sulfur by weight, you will not exceed SO2 concentration (in volume % or parts per million by volume or as mg/Nm3 or milligram per normal cubic meter) required by the EPA (usually given in ppm and mg/Nm3 for both old and new power plants).
Having sufficient excess air (3-15% or average of 9%) will help eliminate unburnt fuel emission such as CO (carbon monoxide) and THC (total hydro carbon) as well as unburnt carbon (C) particles.
You also need to lower impurities such as ash to reduce total suspended solids (TSP) emissions (ash and unburnt carbon fuel).
To lower NOx emissions, the firing of oil must be done in stages so that the flame is not too hot that it will dissociate nitrogen (N2) in the air into oxides of nitrogen (NOx) that contributes to acid rain together with oxides of sulfur (SOx).
But this days, you have to address global warming and climate change issues by lowering your carbon (C) or as carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. This means keeping the fuel to electricity conversion efficiency (thermal efficiency) as high as possible, which is typically around 33-36% for oil thermal power plants based on the steam Rankin cycle. To lower the carbon footprint, you need to move away from the simple steam Rankin cycle to combined cycles (CCGT) to raise efficiency to over 54-59%, almost double, thus reducing the carbon footprint by almost half.
Hope I was of help,
Marcial
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For the readers who would want to design a power plant that addresses global warming and climate change issues, energy efficiency considerations, cost of power plant and resulting electricity tariff, please email me your concerns as I may provide you a good feasibility study that addresses all the above issues.
Cheers,
Marcial, your energy technology expert (for conventional, nuclear and renewable energy power generation).
Sample Power Plant Emission Question and Solution
Sample Power Plant Emission Question and Solution
Here is an email from a reader:
Hey Ocampo:
Thanks for the reply, but I am not a mathematician. I am just trying to get a general idea of output. Any ideas how much two boilers that burn about 6,000 gallons per hour of #2 oil release?
Greatly appreciate- Jeff
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How to make a top-of-the-line project finance model for wind energy
How to make a top-of-the-line project finance model for wind energy
After many years of financial modeling experience, including working for international development agencies, your favorite energy technology selection and business development consultant is providing his audience with a template for making state-of-the-art project finance model for individual wind turbines and wind farms in hybrid with fossil power generation (peak load and base load units in order to allow the massive penetration of wind energy into the grid without undermining the grid’s stability, voltage and frequency).
Here is the sample template model showing the main topics and a few columns of the model. The model is broken down into the following sections: More »
How to Get Out of Debt Quickly and Permanently – prepare a personal financial plan
How to Get Out of Debt Quickly and Permanently – prepare a personal financial plan
Your energy technology expert also would like to share with you his experience in assisting his clients to get out of debt by preparing their personal financial plan. He studied the techniques and prepared a plan for their family. The executive summary is shown below. Should you wish to get out of debt also, please email him for a proposal to prepare your own personal financial plan.
Cheers,
Marcial
mars_ocampo@yahoo.com
PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLAN
FOR
Charles & Diana Family
and the
Children.
(PLAN DATED 15 January 2010) More »
Integrating energy resource assessment to project finance modeling : the key to fast turn-around in analyzing renewable energy potential and its economic viability
Integrating energy resource assessment to project finance modeling : the key to fast turn-around in analyzing renewable energy potential and its economic viability
I am now in Jakarta, Indonesia as international technical consultant of a wind-diesel hybrid power generation project of an international development agency. My consultancy is pioneering work that is applicable especially to poor and developing economies that has very little access to integrated consulting services that are appropriate to developing economies in Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America.
Doing a renewable energy (RE) resource assessment of an intermittent source such as solar PV and wind and sometimes biomass, biogas, landfill methane gas, municipal solid waste (MSW) is indeed a backbreaking exercise even for an experienced consultant.
This difficulty is now a thing of the past because your Energy Technology Selection Expert (Marcial) has automated and computerized in an easy-to-use and accurate spreadsheet the evaluation of wind energy potential (which could be applied also to solar PV) that is found in wind speed data from space satellite doppler data measurements.
In a minute or two, a wind site using a wind turbine model (power curve) could be evaluated in terms of its kW output, leading to annual generation potential. Thus a wind site with many turbine models could be optimized in less than 30 minutes. More »
How to make US Pres. Barak Obama’s plan succeed in getting out of the Recession
How to make US Pres. Barak Obama’s plan succeed in getting out of the Recession
A clear analysis of the root cause of the US recession that led to a global financial meltdown will help US Pres. Barak Obam in formulating an integrated plan that will bring back US consumer confidence leading to long-term rise in sustainable consumer spending and economic growth in the US economy and the rest of the world.
The US must use its stimulus funding wisely to create a new sustainable economic model based on activities that are energy efficient, renewable-energy based, low carbon foot-print, technology-based and climate change-sensitive that its impact on US consumers will be long-term confidence in the future in terms of flexible job security thru a good balance between domestic savings and consumer spending.
Oil Crisis, US Recession and Global Financial Meltdown
As early as 2007, signs of economic recession have been observed throughout the world. By end December 2007, the international price of crude oil went past $100 per barrel. Continued speculation in the world markets as well as increased demand pushed the price to its maximum of $147 per barrel by July 2008. More »
Avoiding Widespread Flooding Thru Predictive Dam Water Release Modeling – Recent Nigeria, Pakistan and Philippine flooding
Avoiding Widespread Flooding Thru Predictive Dam Water Release Modeling – Recent Nigeria, Pakistan and Philippine flooding
The very recent Nigeria flooding that affected over 2 million people and the continuing widespread misery due to flooding in Pakistan is a portent warning of serious effects of global warming and unabated release of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions of CO2 and other similar gases such as methane (21 times of equivalent CO2).
This increasing severity of weather changes from widespread flooding to severe drought has indeed impacted on the daily lives of peoples, especially the poor whose makeshift houses along dangerous and hazardous terrain and communities are subject to more frequent dislocations and damage to property as well as loss of lives, which is magnified by the lack of adequate planning (such as doing predictive dam water release simulation), preparations (pre-positioning of emergency safety and rescue equipment), and lack of maintenance of flood control infrastructures such as dams, dikes, levies and embankment supports that separates the flood plains from low-lying communities.
Indeed, the lack of foresight (pre-emptive release of dam water) to avoid catastrophic release later at the height of a storm as what happened in the Pangasinan-Agno River system in the Philippines and the continuing saga in Pakistan is just another grim reminder of the need to use advanced computing technology (dam simulation logic and a Excel spreadsheet) to avoid the tragic consequences of damaged levees, embankments as a result of high releases of impounded water. More »
Evaluating Renewable Energy Potential and Project Economics Made Easy
Evaluating Renewable Energy Potential and Project Economics Made Easy
Your energy technology selection expert wishes to announce the latest release of renewable energy (RE) project finance and energy resource evaluation tools, specifically for evaluating the performance of RE hybrid combinations such as minihydro-diesel, solar PV-diesel, wind-diesel PV and biomass gasification-diesel generation for off-grid as well as on-grid systems. The model will calculate the RE resource potential, predict the annual generation, and then calculate annual average capacity factors.
For off-grid, the model evaluates also the optimum fossil fuel back-up support so that the RE (minihydro, solar, wind, biomass) hybrid system will provide 24/7 hours of affordable and reliable electricity service.
Don’t waste your time evaluating the RE potential using obsolete and un-integrated software that are site and technology specific. In just a few minutes and few hours, you could run a series of wind site evaluations which compares the wind power levelized selling price (tariff) to your country’s diesel power generation cost or feed-in tariff.
It’s now the right time to change to the fully-integrated multi-site RE hybrid evaluation tools. 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 »
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ENERGY & CLIMATE CHANGE: A Complete Review of Power Generation Technologies and Impact on Climate Change
For: ________________________ (name of suggested speaker/presentor, discussant/reactor, contributor/donor, exhibitor, participant)
From: Marcial T. Ocampo
former Executive Director, Philippine Council for Industry & Energy Research & Development (PCIERD)
Department of Science & Technology (DoST)
Republic of the Philippines
Subject: Invitation to Conference on Energy & Climate Change as Speaker/Presentor, Discussant/Reactor, Contributor/Donor, Exhibitor, Participant (top management by invitation)
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Dear Sir/Madam:
In view of the need to provide stakeholders’ input into the development of a new energy strategy of the incoming administration of President Aquino towards sustainable development, I would like to invite you to solicit your interest and participation on the proposed conference on
ENERGY & CLIMATE CHANGE: A Complete Review of Power Generation Technologies and Impact on Climate Change
Date: tentative September-October 2010
Venue: To be arranged More »
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The Noynoy Aquino Presidency – Its Character and Overall Plan
The Noynoy Aquino Presidency – Its Character and Overall Plan
(This report is in power point format. It is supported by an excel file complete with energy data and government economic statistics. Printed copies of this discussion paper were sent to President-Elect Noynoy Aquino and Sec. Butch Abad about a month ago during the canvass of the presidential and national elections held last May 2010. It is my fervent wish that the problem identification, analysis, findings & conclusions, alternative solutions and recommendations will be looked into by the new cabinet and President Noynoy so that an intelligent discussion may be held in this proposed conference on Energy & Climate Change to be held at the ADB this end of July 2010 would be meaningful and an action plan would be drawn up by the participants for transmittal and endorsement to the new administration of President Noynoy Aquino. A program schedule is being prepared together with the topics and suggested speakers. Interested speakers and participants may email me for an advanced copy of the proposed program. Cheers. Marcial Ocampo)
Expectations
- •Your Presidency for the next 6 years is a new dawn and a great beginning in our country’s journey of change – seize the moment
- •You need to understand the problems facing the country – climate change, energy and food security, and pricing
- •You need to implement doable programs and lay down framework for continuity beyond your term – deliverables
- •You need to present your action plans and implement them – with full transparency
- •You will save the country from a “Greek Tragedy” – when you promote predictable revenues, reduce tax leakages and utilize resources efficiently (reduce corruption) to deliver your promises (food, education, health, security, infrastructure) More »
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) to Power Project
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) to Power Project
This is a power point presentation with a project finance model for calculating feed-in tariff (FiT).
The FiT is a renewable energy charge paid to renewable energy (RE) developers for providing power to the grid. It is paid for by the Transco operator who collects a renewable energy charge (REC) from all consumers of electricity in the country. By being spread out to all consumers, the burden of a higher FiT compared to the average grid rate is shared equally by all citizens and consumers alike since they will benefit from the positive impact of RE on global warming and climate change issues.
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 »
