Transcript SteveCrawford_Passamaquoddy energy and economic projects

Steve Crawford
Environmental Director
NTF JUNE 2-4, 2009
Chair, TAMS Steering committee
Chair, USET Natural Resource Committee
Member, NTWC
Member, NTC
Member, TEPAC
 Solar
Power
 Photo-voltaics
 Geothermal
 RGGI review
 Algae biomass
 Windpower
 Tidal power
 Waste to energy Project
 Bunch of thoughts
 Rural
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Jay Edens Director
Non-profit , based in Minneapolis
Turn key production facility to produce solar
panels for less than $1,500 for 4 x 10 ft panels
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Renewable Energy Alliance
Generate enough heat to reduce heating bills 25%
Much better than LIHEAP
Production facility employs 2 people, in 20’x 20’
Tribe may be able to access RGGI funds for
development
Passamaquoddy Development and Supply
Production doubling every two years
 12,400 MW globally
 Germany leads the world in photo-energy
production, with 30% less sun than
Vermont.
 Power cost /kwh will be at parity with
fossil fuels by 2012
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 Carbon
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Credit fund, begun October 2008
Quarterly auction for next 9 years
First auction generated $2.8 million
Funds for reducing CO2 emissions
$40,000 grant received for weatherization of
houses
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There is no other resource that Comes even
close in magnitude to the potential for
making oil”
John Sheehan, energy analyst, National
Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), DOE, Golden,
CO
 Corn, 18 gal/acre: Algae, 5,000
 Lipid content, Corn <2%, Chlorella Alga, 44
 20000 gal of algal culture = 300 gal biodiesel
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Harvest every 4 days, 1,000 gal bioreactor yields
300 gal biodiesel every 20 weeks.
WINDPOWER SITES
Wind power
site
Wind power
site
Windpower
site
 15
months wind data
 Class 3 wind, commercially viable
 RFP to 13 contractors, resulting in one
proposal, DISGEN
 Simple lease, no ownership, annual lease
payment beginning at $227,000, escalate to
$324,000 by year 25.
 100% ownership would yield $7,623,000 first
year, escalating to $10,723,000 by year 25.
 Cedar
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Mountain, T3R9
No met data, but approx 25 miles from 30.5 MW
Stetson Mountain project being constructed.
Transmission line <8 miles, in Millinocket
 Prentiss
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Township
Probably best wind farm site in State, but no
transmission lines nearby.
Quebec Hydro Line 8 miles to west
TIDAL PROJECT SITES
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UEK Turbines
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– year FERC pilot lease, funded by BIA,
ends 2010
 Produce enough power to power sewage
treatment plant, approx. $2,000/month
 Further development of tidal turbine “farm”
has low potential, might generate 2 MW to
provide power for local area.
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Requires substantial regulatory development,
and at least 10 years away.
Not incineration
 Reduce volume
 Recycle metal and glass
 Recover energy
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 By-products:
syn-gas, water, fly ash, glass, metals
 Very little CO2
 Tipping fees approx. $40-50/ton
 Proven
Technology, with plants being used
since 1992 by US Navy, Canadian Department
of Defense, numerous different markets and
site locations around the world and in the
US.
 50 Ton plant =200 ft x 85 ft x 30 ft building,
greenhouse is extra
 Tribal
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participation, on Tribal Trust land
Near NEBCO office?
Reclaim MSW dumps in Washington County
Reduce tipping fees
Generate power and heat
Reduce CO2 emissions
5 acre greenhouse for algal oil production,
vegetable/medicinal plant production
 We
are at 387 ppm now, there is no return
Climate change and food
 15 billion Tons CO2 equivelants from
agriculture
 Includes 7.2 billion Tons from livestock
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World carry-over stocks of grain 2008= 62
days; a record low.
 25%
of US grain is going to bio-fuel, enough to
feed 500 million Indians.
Don Ort, Inst. Of Genomic Biology, U. of Ill. @ Urbana-Champaign, 2008
Take home messages:
• To meet agricultural demand, productivity would need to
double on a land area basis.
• CO2 fertilization of crop yield is only half of what is
assumed in global food security models.
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Climate change and water
70% of all freshwater used for irrigation
Wheat production – 8% since 1997, Rice – 4%
Climate change and health:
 Direct:
 Thermal
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Indirect:
 Changes
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stress, death/injury in storms, floods
in range of disease vectors
Impacts:
 Traumatic,
infectious, nutritional, psychological
occurring in demoralized and displaced
populations.
8.2 Billion tons/yr CO2 released from
fossil fuel combustion
Every human exhales 1 ton of CO2/yr
THERE ARE 6.8 BILLION OF US
To illuminate us and
save our world
There’s a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in