Mini-Hydro Power Model – avail of 50% discount now

August 4th, 2011 1 Comment   Posted in renewable energy

Mini-Hydro Power Model- avail of 50% discount now

As promised in my previous blog, I will now deal with the cost of renewable energy technologies (feed-in-tariff). I will be making a special offer for the purchase of the following RE technologies: More »

Latest Feed-in-Tariff Rates for Renewable Power Generation Technologies

August 4th, 2011 1 Comment   Posted in renewable energy

Latest Feed-in-Tariff Rates for Renewable Power Generation Technologies

Fears of price spike due to renewable energy 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. (1 US$ = 41 Pesos, 1 Peso = 100 centavos)

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 average of P11.82 per kWh. More »

Updated Price List of my Top Selling Energy Articles and Project Finance Models

August 2nd, 2011 No Comments   Posted in renewable energy

Updated Price List of my Top Selling Energy Articles and Project Finance Models

For this month of August 2011, please refer to my updated price list of my top selling energy technology articles and project finance models that will go a long way in helping you expand your expertise and allow you to go into consultancy as I do. I am now doing international consultancy for UNDP-Indonesia (wind-diesel hybrid), UNDO-China (fuel cell hybrid bus demonstration), UNDP-India (biomass power generation), PNOC-EC (coal-fired Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) power plant, natural-gas fired combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT)), Benguet Corporation (coal-fired CFB), Constellation Energy (wind energy resource assessment and wind farm feasibility study for 5 wind sites in Negros Island), PhilCarbon (wind energy resource assessment and wind farm feasibility study for 2 winds sites in Sagada and Bulalacao).

Likewise, I received a donation for the purchase of an optimal load dispatch model for a sample grid using Linear Programming. I also received an urgent inquiry about calculating power plant mass emissions (kg/hr, lb/hr, tons/hr) and volume concentration (% volume, ppm volume) and mass concentration (mg/Nm3 or mg per normal cubic meter). More »

A weakening US Dollar and Debt-Riddled US Economy – time to shift to renewable energy

July 21st, 2011 No Comments   Posted in global financial meltdown

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

July 15th, 2011 1 Comment   Posted in Passive Income Generation

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

June 27th, 2011 No Comments   Posted in renewable energy

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

June 21st, 2011 3 Comments   Posted in renewable energy

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

June 7th, 2011 3 Comments   Posted in renewable energy

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

June 7th, 2011 No Comments   Posted in renewable energy

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

May 31st, 2011 No Comments   Posted in renewable energy, Uncategorized

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

April 17th, 2011 No Comments   Posted in renewable energy

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

April 16th, 2011 4 Comments   Posted in nuclear energy and power

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 »

Municipal Solid Waste to Power Project Finance Model

March 7th, 2011 7 Comments   Posted in renewable energy

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

February 16th, 2011 No Comments   Posted in feed-in tariff

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

December 16th, 2010 No Comments   Posted in energy technology expert

 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

mars_ocampo@yahoo.com

energydataexpert@gmail.com

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How to use biomass for energy and power

November 18th, 2010 1 Comment   Posted in renewable energy

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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Hi Jeff,
For biomass waste-to-energy and waste-to-power applications, you may utilize biogas from human waste, kitchen, commercial waste, biodegradable industrial wastes and farm and animal wastes. More »

Evaluating Renewable Energy Potential and Project Economics Made Easy

September 5th, 2010 No Comments   Posted in feed-in tariff

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 »

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) to Power Project

July 3rd, 2010 9 Comments   Posted in feed-in tariff

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.

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Feed-in Tariff Calculator – from simple RP MTO formula to project finance model

June 26th, 2010 4 Comments   Posted in feed-in tariff

Feed-in Tariff Calculator – from simple RP MTO formula to project finance model

Yes, you are right.  A feed-in tariff calculator using the modified US NREL formula for levelized cost of energy (LCOE) or levelized cost of electrity is available from you Energy Technology Expert – Marcial Ocampo.   (Please refer to my previous articles on simplified formula for LCOE.)

In addition, we prepared a more sophisticated project finance model to calculate the feed-in tariff using the discounted cash flow internal rate of return method (DCF IRR). More »

Philippine Renewable Energy News Bulletin 4 – September 19, 2009

September 20th, 2009 16 Comments   Posted in renewable energy

Philippine Renewable Energy News Bulletin 4 – September 19, 2009

The recent passage of the Philippine Renewable Energy (RE) Law and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) now clearly defines the legal and regulatory framework for renewable energy investment in the Philippines.  After almost a long 10 year wait, this important piece of legislation has passed deliberations in both chambers of the Philippine Congress and Senate and was signed into law by President Gloria.

(Please email for IRR – mars_ocampo@yahoo.com or energydataexpert@gmail.com) More »