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Australian Greens Community Renewable Energy Policy

A spacious skip in the direction of establishing a probable community-owned renewable energy sector in Australia has been full with The Australian Greens initiation their Nation Renewable Spread policy in a stick together media arena co-hosted by the Stool pigeon Nation Spread oppose and school assembly of inner-Melbourne's neighborhood solar projects, in addition to Moreland, Yarra, and Keep going Nation Solar.Announced on the 21st Revered at Melbourne's iconic Emperor Victoria Get rid of, the 'Australian Nation Renewable Spread Array pledges 100 million obsolete 5 lifetime as seed-funding for possibility grants, project guideline and nominal grasp to be accessed by emerging locally-owned and operated clean energy projects.Australian Greens Journey Senator Christine Milne strut of the initiative's augur to give nearby communities the power to generate their own power by preface up the ability for hundreds of thousands of Australians to own and benefit from renewable energy.

"Communities on the cross the terrain scarcity their own clean energy generators, but arrange them up, deliberations and applying for funding takes pace, payment and methodical grasp," Senator Milne held.Allocate Journey Adam Bandt contrasted his nearby constituents' vitality for renewable energy with the dispossession of diplomatic generosity for community-scale clean energy generation."Melbourne has a spacious level of fly who generosity renewables but can't install solar panels on their own homes to the same degree they rent or stopover in an dwelling. Our plan incentive useful city dwellers own their own labor of a solar plant or a wind farm," Mr Bandt held."It has worked unknown. In Germany, for example, many less significant cities as a group own run-of-the-river hydro systems or bio-energy. In the Multiparty States, dwelling dwellers defective roof outright invest in solar panels installed in parks and on neighborhood buildings."Australia has numerous rich neighborhood owned clean energy projects thrill Hepburn Weave here in Victoria, which powers thousands of homes with clean energy and column nearby neighborhood groups. The Greens' plan incentive useful tickle pink these ideas to the city," the Central Addition for Melbourne held.Record of the policy coat an fateful role for the free Australian Renewable Spread Administration (Field). It incentive be allocated the column to method a ruthless tender program whereby projects that can edify that their business plans are practicable incentive control monetary and logistical generosity as they need it charge stages of business development and project put into effect. The Cleanse Spread Deposit Determined (CEFC), which today facilitates large-scale clean energy development, is also to be expected to operate a key role in enabling communities to get their projects off the be given sooner.Nicky Ison from the Stool pigeon Nation Spread Announce welcomed the policy sight, axiom that 100 million in seed-funding has the augur to unbutton obsolete 1 billion of investment in communities re Australia. Based on economic modelling commissioned by the Stool pigeon Nation Spread Announce and undertaken by Marsden Jacob Dwell in, The Greens' 100 million fund would: * Minder treat than 250 neighborhood owned renewable projects from fright to the investment-ready frame obsolete the with five lifetime
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* Unveil 656MW of neighborhood renewable generation
* Correct 1300 kilotonnes of carbon emissions

"This can release 1 billion dollars of investment - that's investment that fly thrill you and I might make, as mums and dads, as renters, as farmers, and the list goes on." Ms Ison held."These projects name communities to regenerate their nearby economies charge maintenance investment in their nearby communities, to be able to discipline become rough fork at the nearby flat, and finally to be able to home town and select satiate of their own community's electricity bills."We need to get projects to a max out where they're investment departing, so that the communities can moreover invest in themselves, and that's what this policy announced by The Greens can do." Ms Ison held.Stool pigeon Nation Spread campaigners sport met with school assembly of all abundant Australian diplomatic parties in modern months as troop of a plucky citizen oppose career for a 50 million fund to generosity communities charge the daunting archaic stages of renewable energy project development. The oppose applauds the 100 million endeavor and calls on all parties to acquire robust and recognise the full benefits that neighborhood renewable energy can award for all Australians.SourcePost from CleanTechLaw.org: www.cleantechlaw.org

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Glennmont Completes Purchase Of 40Mw Biomass Project

Glennmont Partners has completed the purchase of the Margam Green Energy Project from ECO2 Ltd. and Western Logs Group on behalf of its dedicated clean energy fund, Glennmont Clean Energy Fund Europe II in a lb160m deal.

The Margam Green Energy Project will see a new biomass power generation plant built in Port Talbot, Wales, providing 40 MW of renewable energy to the Welsh and UK Energy market.

The purchase and further construction of the Margam Green Energy Project is being supported by debt arranged by Deutsche Bank with the support of Eksport Kredit Fonden, the export credit agency of Denmark.

The completion of the deal marks the inclusion of the first biomass generation in Glennmont Clean Energy Fund Europe II and a significant step towards the completion of the diversified European portfolio of clean energy investment. The Fund has already completed four deals in onshore wind and solar photovoltaics and with the addition of this innovative biomass transaction now has assets in France, UK and Portugal.

Joost Bergsma, CEO of Glennmont Partners, said: "In the current market it is important to be versatile and technically skilled in order to close the right deals. Glennmont is demonstrating an excellent track record of being among the leading investors for producing value in difficult circumstances. Margam is a great example of this and sends a strong message to the market that it is full steam ahead for us."

Michael Volkermann, Head of Infrastructure and Energy Finance for EMEA at Deutsche Bank, said: "We are delighted to be involved in this important project that will deliver a new source of renewable energy to Wales and the UK." Simon Sayer, Head of Structured Trade & Export Finance EMEA at Deutsche Bank, commented: "We greatly appreciate the participation of EKF in working with us on this transaction and look forward to continuing our partnership with EKF in financing renewable energy projects around the world."

Kim Richter, Senior Director for SME & Cleantech at EKF (Eksport Kredit Fonden), said: "Biomass is booming in the UK, and EKF is pleased to help Babcock Wilcox Volund A/S secure the contract for the Margam plant. It is an important project and so far EKF's first biomass plant in the UK with Babcock Wilcox Volund A/S. The project fits very well with EKF's continued commitment to support renewable energy projects based on Danish technology. We have been very pleased working with the professional partners involved in making this project possible."

Fuel for the plant will be sourced from the waste wood market and will be supplied by Stobart Biomass Products Ltd under a long-term, indexed-linked fuel supply contract.

The plant was developed and will be managed by ECO2 Ltd., which has unique experience in developing, building and operating UK biomass plants.

The construction contract has been placed with a consortium consisting of Babcock Wilcox Volund A/S, who will also operate the plant, and Interserve.

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What In Your Electricity Bill Part 5 The Pso Levy

PSO LEVY COULD INCREASE BY EUR 550 MILLION BY 2020

The PSO Levy is possibly one of the craziest schemes ever introduced by an Irish Government (along with electronic voting machines, bank guarantee etc). While the idea is to promote fuel from indigenous sources, the result is bad for competition and bad for the consumer. The levy reimburses generating companies when the wholesale prices are low. It props up peat and wind plants aswell as some idle gas plants. You could be fooled for thinking that the substantial capacity payments already been paid to these plant was for this very purpose, but nothing about the electricity market in Ireland is straightforward.

Imagine if the price of bread was suddenly cut in half but the government slapped a levy on the bread to bring the price back up to normal levels. But instead of the levy going to the government, as happens with petrol, it goes back to the bakery. This would result in a win-win situation for the baking companies and a lose-lose situation for consumers. In effect, it acts as a buffer against market forces. Yet we were told by Minister Dempsey in 2007 that "we are introducing structural changes in the electricity sector that will create a more attractive investment climate for existing and new players, deliver increased competition, reduce the cost of electricity and offer greater choice for consumers". "But in 2010", "instead of enjoying the fruits of a competitive electricity market, consumers began paying the PSO Levy which ensured energy companies made profits on certain generators regardless of what happened to prices in the market (Note 1).

It's true that only a portion of the levy goes to wind generation. But a closer look is required to see what is going on.

This chart shows where the PSO Levy goes :

GAS GENERATION

The single biggest beneficiary of the PSO Levy is Tynagh gas plant whose profits soared to EUR40 million in 2013 :

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/energy-and-resources/tynagh-energy-profit-soars-60-to-40m-after-shutdown-1.2037578

Tynagh is not run very often but cannot be allowed to close down as this could affect "security of supply" - in otherwords, when the weather does not deliver in terms of wind energy, the good old reliable fossil fuel plant will step in. Lower demand is also a factor because this means the plant receives less income from the market. Tynagh will receive EUR69 million from the PSO this year - about 21% of the total levy. The Energy Regulator explains :

"This is because most of Tynagh's allowed PSO costs are fixed rather "than related to its output, so the less the plant runs and receives correspondingly "lower SEM revenue, the higher the PSO subsidy needed to cover its allowed "fixed costs."

But as we can see above, Tynagh does not just recover its fixed costs, it makes substantial profits from the PSO.

"Aughinish and Tynagh entered a contract for differences (CfD) agreement with "Electric Ireland, whereby EIectric Ireland recovers or returns additional monies "paid under the agreement from/to the PSO levy. These arrangements were put in "place for a 10 year period, and are accordingly expected to end in 2016, at which"

"point they will no longer receive ex-ante PSO payments."

It will be interesting to see if the PSO Levy will be extended next year for Tynagh but for the purposes of this blog I will assume that it will extended. Indeed, in Eirgrids recent capacity statement, on page 51, you can see that the plant is expected to remain open up to (at least) 2024.

PEAT GENERATION

Peat receives the largest proportion of the levy at 35% but there are no new peat plants in planning. So we can assume that this charge will remain roughly static in the coming years. There will come a time when these peat plants will have to be closed down and replaced as the fuel runs out. Bord Na Mona, the semi state company that runs these plants have now diversified into wind energy. But as wind energy (non dispatch) is incapable of replacing dispatchable peat generation, there will still be a gap in the power generation supply market of about 340MW when the peat plants close down that will have to be met by something else e.g. biomass or gas.

Eirgrid expect the 3 peat plants to still be in operation up to 2024 at least.

WIND GENERATION

Wind energy is given a fixed price of about 80MWh for electricity generated called REFIT (Renewable Energy Feed In Tariff). The PSO levy finances REFIT by making up the shortfall wind receives from the market.

Wind makes up 27% of the levy but this is one to watch as 1,000's of new MWs are planned. I have seen various reports of the amount of planned wind farms ranging from 4,000MW to 6,000MW and even more than that. But Eirgrid seem to think around 4,000MW is required to meet the targets. So that means that about 2,000MW more is due to be built by 2020. So how much will this cost the consumer in terms of PSO Levy ?

Let's look at this step by step :

* The allowance for REFIT increased from EUR 51.07 million to EUR 90.5 million this year. This is a hike of EUR 39.43 million.
* We are told that "Overall the amount of renewable generation, mostly wind, estimated to receive the PSO levy next year is 138 MW more than the current year (due to REFIT 2 primarily), hence increasing the levy". "So we will be building approx 14 times more than this amount by 2020 (138 x 14 = 1,932MW).
* So 138MW of new wind generation requires EUR 39.43 million from PSO. We are building 14 times this capacity between now and 2020. Multiplying 14 by EUR 39.43 million gives us EUR 552 million additional PSO required for wind (39.43m x 14 = 552m).

So we will have to increase the PSO Levy by EUR 552 million to pay for all this additional wind. So who will pay for this ? Well page 32 of the PSO Levy Decision Paper shows how much extra each consumer type pays for the current PSO increase. So we can deduce from that how much the EUR 552 million will cost for each consumer type (Note 2) :

+ 2,000MW WIND = + EUR 552 MILLION PSO BY 2020 PAID FOR BY :

Domestic customers = + EUR 300 per customer per yearSmall commercial customers = + EUR 1,285 per customer per yearMedium/large customers = + EUR 220 per kVA

As you can see a EUR300 increase will drive many families into fuel poverty. As for SME's, a near EUR 1,300 hike in their bills will put a lot of them out of business. Large industry will simply look elsewhere to locate their plant - Poland, USA, India or perhaps China.

It will be argued that this increase will be offset by savings due to more wind generation. But there are more system costs due to more wind apart from the PSO Levy as the Energy Regulator recently pointed out :

* Constraint costs for conventional power plant - plant must be compensated for running differently to their schedule which will become more frequent with more intermittent wind - http://irishenergyblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/whats-in-electricity-bill-part-2.html
* Curtailment costs of additional wind - as more wind gets added, more wind farms will have to be shutdown at high winds due to the restriction on exporting electricity to the UK (more on this in a future blog). Wind farms get paid to shutdown or curtail their generation.
* Increased maintenance of conventional plant - http://irishenergyblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/news-from-germany-and-uk.html
* The cost of upgrading the grid infrastructure to facilitate more wind generation - estimated at between EUR 3.5 and 4 billion.
* Costs associated with running plant inefficiently - the increasing fuel costs of running conventional plant on low loads to accommodate high wind penetrations.
* The increased costs with maintaining more reserves at high wind penetrations - http://irishenergyblog.blogspot.ie/2014/12/seais-quantifying-savings-from.html

So it's hard to see much savings, if any, from adding more wind at this stage.

Our government has locked society into high electricity bills for many many years to come. The combined social impact of this along with the other charges recently introduced for water etc and carbon taxes will change the lives of many Irish families whose lives revolve around access to relatively affordable electricity.

Disconnections will bring home to many people the true nature of the energy policy devised by the previous government. But by then, like the banking collapse of 2008, it will be too late.

"NOTE 1

Noel Dempsey (Fianna Fail) was Minister for Energy from September 2004 till June 2007. He was succeeded by current Green Party leader Eamon Ryan who held the position until January 2011. So the question as to what happened between the time Noel Dempsey brought in the "structural changes and Eamon Ryan's tenure ended could be the topic of another article or indeed a book to do it full justice.

NOTE 2

Workings based on information provided in CER PSO LEVY DECISION PAPER 2014/15 - PAGE 32.

https://www.cer.ie/docs/000967/CER14361%20PSO%20Levy%20Decision%20Paper%20%202014-15%20%28New%29.pdf

14 is the multiple of wind generation required to get to 4,000MW as per Step 2 above.

Domestic : EUR42.87 - EUR64.37 = EUR21.50 increase this year. EUR21.50 * 14 = EUR 301 per customer per year

Small commercial customers : EUR129.83 - EUR221.66 = EUR91.83 increase this year. EUR91.83 * 14 = EUR 1,285 per customer per year

Medium and large customers : EUR18.47 - EUR34.20 = EUR15.73 increase this year. EUR15.73 * 14 = EUR 220.22 per kVA

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Shell Oil Pulls The Plug On Its Last Algae Biodiesel Research Project

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/03/shell-oil-pulls-the-plug-on-its-last-algae-biodiesel-research-pr/ Algae biodiesel has looked so rose-colored (as in 100 grow old higher fuel than corn or soy) that the U.S. Organization of Excel gave 9 million to Cellana, a all-party research expedition involving Skin Oil and HR Biopetroleum, clearly to picture now the alternative energy source's diagnosis. It seems, while, that fill diagnosis were no longer enthralling to Skin, which has announced it fortitude no longer pursue algae biodiesel, like it feels it doesn't go through penalty commercial viability. Unite HR Biopetroleum has positive it cannot hang on to the project on its own as Skin pursues other biofuel initiatives with other companies. Skin Oil pulls the permeate on its extreme algae biodiesel research project initially appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:28:00 EDT. Humor see our language for use of feeds.Permalink Autoblog Email this Clarification

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Solar Energy At Your Fingertips

We all judge that it is attainable to convert solar energy stylish electrical energy using solar cells grouped stylish solar panels. But, native tongue of electric energy drinking avail yourself of at home, how prudently possible is the use of photovoltaic panels? Well, the blotch voice depends on copious factors, amid which we can explanation your electricity avail yourself of customs, article hours of solar radiation that you repugnant in the unity where you final and your intact skylight for the installation of solar panels.

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The early goal to chew over is, are your good customs of electricity use. Forward motion it be essential to step into the shoes of all gleaming bulbs with energy stingy bulbs next to you enduring finger about using a solar energy system? The energy stingy bulbs consumes an squalid of 75% less electricity than gleaming bulbs. Likewise, communicate are strategy which by their outline join in far off electric power and need be rationed in use, such as air conditioning, microwave ovens, appliances that verve with electrical determination such as toasters, restraints, covering dryers.

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913/60 = 15.2 panels.

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Renewable Energy Ministry Seeks Incentives For Solar Sector

The renewable energy ministry has sought incentives such as excise duty exemption and 10-year tax holiday in the forthcoming budget to give a boost to the solar energy sector. In its suggestions to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has also pitched for 25 percent capital subsidy through the modified special incentive package scheme or NCEF for manufacturing of equipment for the solar energy sector, an official said. "We have also demanded customs and excise duty exemptions," the official added. The solar energy sector in the country is still in the preliminary stage when compared to other matured sectors, domestic manufacturing needs special incentives to provide the relevant push to achieve growth, the official said. Earlier, Power, Coal and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal had said that the Renewable Energy Ministry has asked Jaitley to come out with "innovative financing models" in the upcoming Budget to help the sector attract overseas funds, while amending the inverted duty structure. Jaitley will unveil the government's first full-fledged budget on February 28. The country's renewable energy sector is looking at attracting USD 200 billion in investments. The government aims to have 1,00,000 MW of installed solar power capacity by 2022 from the present around 3,000 MW. It is also looking at rooftop solar model.

Read more at: Moneycontrol

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