Download or read book Florida Renewable Energy Potential Assessment written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to examine the technical potential for renewable energy (RE) in Florida, through 2020, and to bound potential RE adoption, under various scenarios. The intent of this study is not to provide recommendations on Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) targets, as a statewide Integrated Resource Planning process would need to be undertaken to understand how RE would fit in with: Florida's current and planned generation assets; current transmission infrastructure and potential future requirements; Florida's reliability requirements and future energy needs.
Download or read book Florida s Renewable Energy Potential written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Hydropower Resource Assessment for Florida written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US Department of Energy is developing an estimate of the undeveloped hydropower potential in the US. The Hydropower Evaluation Software (HES) is a computer model that was developed by the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory for this purpose. HES measures the undeveloped hydropower resources available in the US, using uniform criteria for measurement. The software was developed and tested using hydropower information and data provided by the Southwestern Power Administration. It is a menu-driven program that allows the personal computer user to assign environmental attributes to potential hydropower sites, calculate development suitability factors for each site based on the environmental attributes present, and generate reports based on these suitability factors. This report describes the resource assessment results for the State of Florida.
Download or read book Florida s Renewable Energy Potential written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Evaluation of the U S Department of Energy s Marine and Hydrokinetic Resource Assessments written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing renewable energy development, both within the United States and abroad, has rekindled interest in the potential for marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) resources to contribute to electricity generation. These resources derive from ocean tides, waves, and currents; temperature gradients in the ocean; and free-flowing rivers and streams. One measure of the interest in the possible use of these resources for electricity generation is the increasing number of permits that have been filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). As of December 2012, FERC had issued 4 licenses and 84 preliminary permits, up from virtually zero a decade ago. However, most of these permits are for developments along the Mississippi River, and the actual benefit realized from all MHK resources is extremely small. The first U.S. commercial gridconnected project, a tidal project in Maine with a capacity of less than 1 megawatt (MW), is currently delivering a fraction of that power to the grid and is due to be fully installed in 2013. As part of its assessment of MHK resources, DOE asked the National Research Council (NRC) to provide detailed evaluations. In response, the NRC formed the Committee on Marine Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Assessment. As directed in its statement of task (SOT), the committee first developed an interim report, released in June 2011, which focused on the wave and tidal resource assessments (Appendix B). The current report contains the committee's evaluation of all five of the DOE resource categories as well as the committee's comments on the overall MHK resource assessment process. This summary focuses on the committee's overarching findings and conclusions regarding a conceptual framework for developing the resource assessments, the aggregation of results into a single number, and the consistency across and coordination between the individual resource assessments. Critiques of the individual resource assessment, further discussion of the practical MHK resource base, and overarching conclusions and recommendations are explained in An Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy's Marine and Hydrokinetic Resource Assessment.
Download or read book Assessing Large Scale Application of Photovoltaic Renewable Energy Systems to University Campuses in Florida written by Jason Andrew Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: As the nation moves towards sustainability, many universities are interested in leading the charge. Universities in Florida have a unique opportunity to make use of photovoltaic technology on campuses to educate, generate power, and make an environmentally friendly step simultaneously. This study evaluates the feasibility of incorporating solar power systems into university campuses in Florida for the purposes of power generation and education. In order to accomplish this, the University of Florida campus in Gainesville was used as a case study. The areas on campus with potential for photovoltaic installation were identified, and their areas totaled into five separate categories or phases. These phases were Open Areas, Building Roofs, Parking Lots, Parking Garages, and Water Coverage. Each of these phases was analyzed in tandem with Gainesville-specific solar radiation data and technical performance data for specific solar panels. A wide variety of options were presented for each phase, represented different technologies, costs, and amounts of power generation. A maximum power generation case was presented for the University of Florida, which yielded about two-thirds of the consumption needs for the university in Gainesville. While this is not likely to be financially or practically feasible in its entirety, it represents the potential that universities have to generate a significant portion of their consumption needs from on-site photovoltaic technologies. After the results of the case study, guidelines were presented on how to apply this data to other university institutions in the state of Florida. In addition, a web-based calculator tool was developed that is based on the research and results from this study. It allows any Florida university to easily input square footage and choose from various menus to see how much PV energy could be effective generated on a campus.
Download or read book An Assessment of the Ocean Thermal Energy Potential of the Florida Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment of the Potential for Renewable Energy Sources in the Southern United States Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands written by Juan A. Bonnet and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Assessment of the Ocean Thermal Energy Potential of the Florida Current written by Peter A. Mangarella and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Florida s Renewable Energy Potential written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Renewable Energy Assessments written by Marcia M. Gowen and published by Pacific Islands Development Program. This book was released on 1985 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manual, energy resources development planning, tropical zones, Pacific - measurement, financial aspects, economic analysis, assessment of biomass, solar energy, hydroelectric power and wind power renewable resources and technology. Bibliography, graphs, illustrations, statistical tables.
Download or read book Renewable energy potential of Greenland with emphasis on wind resource assessment written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Renewable Energy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation written by Ottmar Edenhofer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SRREN) assesses the potential role of renewable energy in the mitigation of climate change. It covers the six most important renewable energy sources - bioenergy, solar, geothermal, hydropower, ocean and wind energy - as well as their integration into present and future energy systems. It considers the environmental and social consequences associated with the deployment of these technologies, and presents strategies to overcome technical as well as non-technical obstacles to their application and diffusion. SRREN brings a broad spectrum of technology-specific experts together with scientists studying energy systems as a whole. Prepared following strict IPCC procedures, it presents an impartial assessment of the current state of knowledge: it is policy relevant but not policy prescriptive. SRREN is an invaluable assessment of the potential role of renewable energy for the mitigation of climate change for policymakers, the private sector, and academic researchers.
Download or read book The Renewable Energy Potential in Dyfed written by Derek Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment of Renewable Energy Devices and Improvements that Increase Resistance to Wind Damage written by Florida. Legislature. Senate. Finance and Taxation Committee and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regional Renewable Assessment written by Joshua Walker and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research is to investigate two renewable sources of energy, wind and solar energy resources. There is difficulty deciding which energy source to utilize when both are present. This research provides break-even points that show at what winds speeds a wind turbine will outperform a photovoltaic array. As the U.S. adopts more sustainable practices, renewable energy systems are going to play a pivotal role in shaping our greener built environment (Lund, 2009). Wind generators and photovoltaics (PVs) are two leading systems in our attempt to harness energy via renewable resources. Wind and solar energy are both considered renewable resources due to the fact that neither will be depleted in the foreseeable future. The aim is to take advantage of these energy sources as opposed to our traditional energy systems such as coal, oil or nuclear. Exploiting the energy provided by wind and solar tends to have much less detrimental effect on the environment. The only emissions associated with these two renewable sources are those connected to the production of the machines and materials used to build and implement the systems that actually capture the energy from the sun or wind.
