Recent Orders from our Readers: Optimal Load Dispatch (LP) and Power Plant Emission Models
Recent Orders from our Readers: Optimal Load Dispatch (LP) and Power Plant Emission Models
Your energy technology selection and business development expert/consultant would like to inform our other readers that a kind reader has donated and purchased my Optimal Load Dispatch (Linear Programming or LP model) that could be solved using the Solver tools built-in with MS Excel.
Likewise, I receive an urgent inquiry and interest on how to calculate power plant emissions: mass emission (kg/hr, lb/hr, tons/hr) and volume/mass concentrations (% volume, ppm volume, mg per normal cubic meter or mg/Nm3). More »
A weakening US Dollar and Debt-Riddled US Economy – time to shift to renewable energy
A weakening US Dollar and Debt-Riddled US Economy – time to shift to renewable energy
The rapidly deteriorating US Economy and depreciating US Dollar – the result of mal-governance in the US financial system as well as its political system, is going to ruin the world with US-exported inflation, and deteriorating value of US debt instrument.
The US Dollar – “In God We Trust” is a symbol of American debt to the entire world. It is the medium currency of trade and transfer of US debt to the emerging economies – the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) – which holds tremendous US government treasury bonds. More »
How to earn passive income while refering my articles and project finance models to your friends and clients
How to earn passive income while referring my articles and project finance models to your friends and clients
Yes, I mean it. You can earn passive income thru your PayPal and bank account by simply referring clients interested in my project finance models, renewable energy resource assessment tools (e.g. wind, solar, mini-hydro), feed-in-tariff calculation models, power generation technology data, Philippine oil, coal, natural gas, biomass, biofuels, power generation and electricity sales, green house gas emission and other environmental data for developing energy and power generation projects. More »
50% discount on my project finance models for power and energy – Extended till July 31, 2011
50% discount on my project finance models for power and energy – Extended till July 31, 2011
Due to interest of readers and project developers and project finance modelers, I am extending the 50% discount period till July 31, 2011. Hurry up now and order and purchase my power generation data, levelized cost of energy models, and project finance models for calculating feed-in tariff for renewable energy and for calculating the economics of conventional fossil and non-fossil power generation technologies.
Your energy technology expert and business development consultant is calling on his co-experts to invest now in his state-of-the-art project finance models and renewable energy prospecting models for calculating annual capacity factor and its transient impact on grid power.
Hurry up now. The 50% discount offer is valid only up to July 31, 2011 at midnight Manila time. More »
Last day for 50% discount on my state-of-the-art project finance models
Last day for 50% discount on my state-of-the-art project finance models
June 30, 2011 midnight is the last chance for availing of the 50% discount on my state-of-the-art project finance models.
After this date, come July 1, 2011, the prices will revert to the old regular price found in the ENERGY DATA page of my website.
So avail of the discount now. Don’t dilly dally. Jump start your energy technology selection and business development consultancy service career and be the best in your field.
Regards,
Marcial
My success stories with my project finance models
My success stories with my project finance models
To my readers, I would like to share to my some of my success stories since using my top-of-the-line project finance models.
To-date, I was able to jump start my energy technology selection and business development consultancy.
In fact a client in renewable energy project development recently got an investor in their wind energy project (25-100 mw) in the Visayas who used my project finance model and engaged me to conduct a wind energy resource assessment and prepare a pre-feasibility study that finally convinced their investor to build a 25-100 mw wind farm in one of the Visayas islands in the Philippines that will be supplying the Visayas Grid and get paid using the renewable feed-in tariff (FiT) for wind of around PhP10.37 per kWh (exchange rate is PhP44 per US$).
How to calculate the feed-in tariff for renewable electricity – assumptions
How to calculate the feed-in tariff for renewable electricity – assumptions
Your energy technology expert would like to share with its readers the basic assumptions in calculating the feed-in tariff using a project finance model that calculates the first year tariff (also the feed-in tariff) that will provide the minimum returns for the equity investors.
Fears of price spike due to renewable energy feed-in tariff allayed
Thursday, May 19, 2011 – Manila, Philippines
Fears of price spike due to renewable energy feed-in tariff allayed
BY JOHN LOURENZE POQUIZ
The National Renewable Energy Board yesterday allayed fears of a spike in power rates with the tapping of renewable energy, saying the added cost will only be about 12.57 centavos per kilowatt-hour. (MTO: but will be blended at 3% to the grid’s 97%)
In its proposed feed-in tariff (FIT) rates submitted to the Energy Regulatory Commission, the NREB pegged the rates at P6.15 per kWh for hydro, P7 for biomass, P10.37 for wind, P17.65 for ocean energy, and P17.95 for solar.
This gives an arithmetic average of P11.82 per kWh (weighted average is P8.8939 per kWh). More »
50% Discount on Renewable Energy Project Finance Models – Order Now
50% Discount on Renewable Energy Project Finance Models – Order Now
This June 2011, your favorite energy technology expert is offering its highly successful project finance models for renewable energy and power generation technologies for determining the first year tariff to meet equity returns of the investor (DCF IRR) which could be compared with the regulator’s feed-in tariff (FiT).
Jump start your consultancy career and make quality feasibility studies for renewable energy resource assessment that determines the annual capacity factor of intermittent renewable energy resources, which is then fed into the project finance models for RE technologies such as biomass combution, biomass gasification, solar PV and solar thermal, wind energy, mini-hydro, large hydro, geothermal, ocean wave, ocean current, tidal and ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC).
The oil and gas resources going to be depleted in our lifetime and nuclear energy having safety issues, the world has to turn to the immense renewable energy resources of the earth.
Renewable Energy Prospecting Tools and Modeling – now available
Renewable Energy Prospecting Tools and Modeling – now available
With the recent Fukushima nuclear power plant partial meltdown, the world is now aware of the need towards developing alternative and cleaner, safer and renewable energy to supply the energy and power needs of the world. And to assist in facilitating renewable energy development, there is now a need for precise, easy-to-use renewable energy prospecting tools and using its output to assess the energy potential and the cost of its electricity output.
The energy technology expert has now expanded the usefulness of renewable energy prospecting tools such as the 3-TIER service provider (solar, wind and hydro).
Given the geographical location by specifying its coordinates (latitude and longitude), the 3-TIER provides the annual average wind speed, wind direction (wind rose), wind speed profile (wind speed vs time of year), and wind speed distribution (Weibull chart and constants).
To enhance the value of the 3-TIER outputs, the expert has now in place a wind energy assessment model that takes input data from wind prospecting tools such as 3-TIER that provides at any latitude and longitude and hub height (30, 50, 80 meters) determined from Google Earth or plain maps. The user of 3-TIER can generate and synthesize wind mast and monitoring data on wind, solar and hydro). It uses the daily average at certain times of the year (mid-month at day 15 and end of month at day 30) and interpolates the other days (day 1-14, day 16-29). More »
The Paradigm Shift from Nuclear Energy to Renewable Energy – the Fukushima debacle
The Paradigm Shift from Nuclear Energy to Renewable Energy – the Fukushima debacle
The recent nuclear meltdown incident in one of the 15th largest nuclear power plant in the world as a result of a sequence of events starting with an Intensity 9.0 earthquake that initiated a 10-15 meter tsunami wave within minutes (leaving little time for safe evacuation in spite of adequate tsunami warning by civil and military authorities) that engulfed as far as 10-20 kilometers inland along the flat lands of northeastern Japan, and in the process destroying buildings, roads, bridges, flinging ships inland and disabling the backup diesel generation system of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
There are newspaper accounts that the earthquake isolated the Fukushima nuclear power plant from the grid, and with a non-operable backup diesel generation backstopped only by an 8-hour battery pack, the world was indeed very close to a China-syndrome type nuclear power plant meltdown. Only the timely use of seawater pumped using crude methods to cool the reactor core and the spent fuel pool prevented a full meltdown. Up to now, the nuclear power plant operator has not succeeded in stabilizing the cooling water system and has relied on pumping and spraying sea water over the damaged nuclear reactors and exposed spent fuel rod cooling pools, leading to leakage of hot radioactive and contaminated sea water into the sea thru the minute cracks on the reactor building’s damage floors. More »
Improving Nuclear Plant Safety – Lessons Learned from Japan Meltdown
Improving Nuclear Plant Safety – Lessons Learned from Japan Meltdown
Authorities have tried frantically since last Friday’s earthquake and tsunami to avert an environmental catastrophe at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex in northeastern Japan, 170 miles (270 kilometers) north Tokyo.
I have just read that out of guilt feelings, General Electric (GE) which designed and provided the boiling water reactor (BWR) for the plant is eagerly providing 10 truck mounted diesel generator sets for immediate use and disposal by the plant going into meltdown.
It was also mentioned that the GE design required active cooling of the spent fuel rods as it dissipates decay heat, in contrast to modern design that provides for passive cooling thru convected air currents that does not require power to cool spent fuel rods.
Other news also says the plant operator was too confident of the external grid power supply that it did not need to constantly test and maintain and run the backup diesel gensets since they have an 8-hour battery backup.
All this old design philosophy must now be trashed to the garbage bin and replaced with new designs such as: More »
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).
