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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 »
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 »
Energy Technology Articles and Project Finance Models
Energy Technology Articles and Project Finance Models
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Special Promo (70% discount) for Project Finance Models Extended for the Whole February 2010
Special Promo (70% discount) for Project Finance Models Extended for the Whole February 2010
The author of this blog is indeed very happy for the response and interest on the project finance models that has been offered for sale in the internet thru either PayPal (using the DONATE button), or thru the DATA page for small-scale and large-scale project finance models. The discount is further increased from the previous 50% to 70% to keep the momentum going for this marvelous special promo.
Thus for February 2010, a 70% discount on large-scale project finance models will be offered to all our valued clients. The price of small-scale project finance models, however, remain to enable the author continue his pioneering work. More »
Project Finance Model for Hybrid Power Plant / Multi-fuel System with CDM
Project Finance Model for Hybrid Power Plant / Multi-fuel System with CDM
During implementation of a project feasibility study for a natural gas pipeline that will serve an anchor load 250-500 mw natural gas-fired combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT), it was felt that additional market for the excess Malampaya natural gas (300 mw surplus plus banked gas for sale) needs to be developed to improve the economics of the pipeline.
Doing a market, technical and feasibility study for this end-use conversion economics will thus entail developing a robust project finance model that is versatile enought to handle conversion of existing power generation and steam/process heat technologies (coal fired, bunker fired, diesel fired diesel electric generators, steam and process heat equipment, refrigeration) to natural gas firing.
The author, an energy technology and business development consultant, has prepared an Incremental Economics Conversion Model for comparing a base case (existing coal-fired or oil fired generation, process heat, refrigeration and air conditioning equipment) versus a more energy efficient, less polluting and cheaper to operate natural gas-fired equipment. More »
Project Finance Models for Power Plants with Carbon Credits under CDM (download file)
Project Finance Models for Power Plants with Carbon Credits under CDM (download file)
How to develop your own project finance model
How to develop your own project finance model
In simplest terms, a project finance model is a business plan written in some sort of a spreadsheet implemented in software (e.g. MS Excel).
It is prepared primarily to assist a potential investor like you to assess numerous business alternatives that you might want to venture into — and decide which alternative would meet your investment objectives – capital requirement, payback, profitability or internal rate of return, cash flows and risks profile.
By preparing in advance a financial model and doing simple to complicated sensitivity tests, the potential investor is forewarned of any potential problems in advance so that mitigation measures are put in place to address such potential risks and problems.
It consists of the following worksheets (or tabs):
1) Assumption or Input worksheet
2) Capital Cost Estimation Worksheet
3) Project Schedule or Drawdown Worksheet
4) Total Project Cost Summary Worksheet (equipment, taxes, installation, land, working capital, capitalized expenses, capitalized interest during construction)
5) Loan Amortization Worksheet (interest, principal repayment)
6) Depreciation Worksheet (beginning balance, depreciation, ending balance)
7) Working Capital Worksheet (receivables, payables, stocks, training, mobilization)
8) Income & Expense Statement Worksheet
9) Balance Sheet Worksheet
Energy Technology Expert is also Project Finance and Financial Modeling Expert
Energy Technology Expert is also a Project Finance Modeling Expert.
He will help you provide data to set up your own business model for power plants, manufacturing plants and direct lending or lending investor business.
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