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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

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.

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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.

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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 »

Marcial Ocampo – Energy Technology Expert – CV and Company Profile

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Name :       MARCIAL T. OCAMPO

Email: mars_ocampo@yahoo.com

energydataexpert@gmail.com

Web:   www.energytechnologyexpert.com

http://ph.linkedin.com/in/ocampomarcial

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Elementary :         Dologon Laboratory School

Musuan, Bukidnon

1958 – 1964

Valedictorian

High School :         San Sebastian College

Claro M. Recto, Manila

1964 – 1968

Salutatorian

College :          B. S. Chemical Engineering

University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City

1968 – 1973

2^nd Place (87.75%) – Chemical Engineering Board Exam, 1973

Post Graduate :         M. S. Chemical Engineering

 University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City

Thesis: “The Assimilative Capacity of Some Rivers in the                        Philippines, an LP Model”

1974 – 1978

M. S. Combustion and Energy

 University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Thesis: “The Performance and Emission Characteristics of a Methanol-Fueled Spark Ignition Engine”

1979-1980 More »

Urgent request for assistance and support

Urgent request for assistance and support

On behalf of my countrymen from the Philippines, I would like to send this urgent appeal for support and assistance to the numerous victims of flood brought about by the incessant rains of the two super typhoons.  They need financial support, food, clothing, shelter and infrastructure reconstruction as earthen dikes, levees, bridges, roads, dwellings, agricultural crops and lands have been severely damaged or destroyed.  Please contact the author below on how to course your donation and support.

Likewise, the author of this blog is requesting for your continued assistance and support in order to keep the energy technology blog featuring the various power generation technologies as to its principle, overnight capital cost, commercial capacity range, availability, reliability, load factor, capacity factor, efficiency or plant heat rate, fuel cost, construction lead time, economic life, etc. in order to calculate its levelized cost of energy with the end objective of comparing technologies in order to decide which one to select as to the most cost effective solution to the energy supply problem. More »

Thanks to the visitors of my energy technology and pricing blog – my global audience and expertise

Thanks to the visitors of my energy technology and pricing blog – my global audience and expertise

Since the start of my blog, a number of readers throughout the world have visited my blog.  As an author and blogger, I am deeply honored and very happy with the response and continued interest.

Your support will surely be appreciated as it gives me greater hope that by sharing my expertise and experience, I would be able to foster greater understanding on the various market, technical, environmental, social, economic and financial aspects of providing energy to support global economic growth.

It is only with sustainable and cost-effective provision of energy such as electricity, process heat and space cooling/heating and lighting that both developed and developing economies will continue to provide the growth needed keep the global economy at pace with population growth, otherwise, poverty and underdevelopment will continue.

Again, cheers to our readers worldwide. To those who donated and ordered my spreadsheets on cost of power generation technologies, levelized cost of energy and electricity, simple gas turbine, clean coal technology, etc, a million thanks for supporting your energy technology expert.

Thanks also to a leading energy and exploration company for engaging my services in preparing the market, technical, economic and financial model and feasibility study for a lignite coal-fired CFB and a natural gas-fired CCGT power plants. More »

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.)