Transcript JEA Clean Power Commitment - Welcome to the PSC Web Site

The Municipal Perspective
Renewable Energy Workshop
January 19, 2007
Kim Owens, P.E.
JEA Clean Power Coordinator
Prepared with input from
Gainesville Regional Utilities
Lakeland Electric
OUC
City of Tallahassee
Florida Municipal Electric Association
PSC Renewable Workshop
Questions
• How much renewable energy is available in
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Florida?
What are the barriers to renewable energy
development?
What is required from the public and private
sector to increase deployment of renewables?
Should there be renewable goals for Florida?
Florida Renewables
• “Renewables” – solar,
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wind, biomass,
hydropower
680 MW of renewable
capacity (3% of capacity)
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38% MSW
24% biomass
33% waste heat
5% hydro
• Most projects a result of
• To fully assess potential
for renewables:
– Quantify fuel resources
– Address higher energy
costs of renewables
– More focus on technology
development
– Approach strategies for
demand-side programs
such as solar separately
from supply side
1978 PURPA
Source: Florida PSC, Renewable Assessment, Jan 2003.
Renewable Energy
Generation Technologies
Landfill Gas/Biogas
• Mature technology
• Cost competitive JEA,
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OUC and GRU all have
LFG to energy projects
JEA WWTS solids facility
uses gas to energy
Florida has 12 gas to
energy landfill projects;
potential for 20 more (per
EPA LMOP database)
• Barriers – Gas rights
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contracts
Idea – Build on 2005
Florida landfill gas
conference and/or require
each landfill gas owner to
submit feasibility study
BIOMASS
• Wood waste – yard waste, tree trimming, land clearing, etc
•Energy crop – Can we grow our own?
•Gasification and IGCC emerging as new technologies for biomass
•Upcoming projects: JEA (yard waste – 20 MW), GRU (fuel supply
RFI), TAL (wood waste – 30 MW)
•Barriers: Fuel availability and variability is biggest concern (100
mile transportation radius)
• DEP/FSEC – Biomass Survey
•Idea – Ownership and refinement of Florida biomass resource
map
MSW Incineration
• 20% of Florida’s waste is incinerated
(driven by policy and land issues)
• Barrier - Opposition to MSW has increased
over years and few new plants built
• New plasma arc technology emerging such
as Geoplasma in St Lucie County
• Idea – support for research of cleaner
destruction technologies for MSW.
Offshore Wind
• RPS compliance attained largely through onshore wind (6,800 MW
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now to 28,000 MW in 2010). None in Florida
FPL Energy is leading owner of wind farms
National NREL wind maps miss Florida’s coastal, offshore, and ridge
wind resources
Initial resources show that Class 3,4 and 5 wind speeds (6.5 to 8.5
m/s) near Pensacola, Miami and Jacksonville
Barrier – Older low-resolution maps for Florida showing low wind
speeds
Idea - High resolution wind mapping is necessary to determine actual
resources. Request state funding for this study.
Energy Costs
• Most renewable energy costs usually above
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avoided costs. Technologies are not dispatchable
increasing overall costs
Federal production tax credits are not reliable
State production tax credit – minimal funding
Idea – encourage long term extension of federal
tax credit and increase funding of state
production tax credit and/or apply investment
tax credit to renewables other than hydrogen
and biofuels
Technology Development
• Florida Renewable Request for Grants
– 183 proposals requesting $215 Million
– Only $15 Million appropriated for 2007
• FSEC – Minimal focus on supply-side resources
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such as biomass, MSW, wind or hydro
Idea – continue to appropriate R&D funding for
future years, proportion funding to technologies
with near term potential
Other
Additional Needs:
• Potential transmission constraints into FL limits
fuel resources to only FL. Conduct transmission
study
• Create model interconnection standards for all
size interconnections
• Create a business development infrastructure to
assist developers with financing, proposals,
business plans
Demand Side - Solar
• Focus on solar thermal
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systems (JEA, GRU, OUC,
LAK, TAL programs)
Florida Municipal Energy
Efficiency Committee
(FMEC) solar workshop
with FLSEIA
– Marketing, consumer
education and workforce
development
• Idea – state-wide
marketing/education
program
Summary
• Landfill Gas – feasibility study
for each candidate landfill in
Florida
• Biomass – build on current
biomass survey
• MSW – development money to
further plasma arc and other
high temperature MSW
destruction technologies
• Offshore Wind – prepare high
resolution map
• Transmission study, common
interconnection standards,
business development
infrastructure
• Increase state production tax
credit
• Increase funding for research
and development
• Identify a research institute to
focus on supply side
technologies
Summary
• Explore energy efficiency and demand-side management first
• Activate the Florida Energy Commission
• Energize the 2006 Florida Energy Plan and develop a Strategic Plan for
development of renewables
• Strategic Plan should focus on:
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Fuel resource study
Financial incentives to reduce costs
Technology and development
Transmission issues
Interconnection Standards
Business Development
Solar marketing and continued financial incentives
• Establishing goals is premature
– If established, take into consideration the inequity across state for fuel resources
Questions
Contact me:
Kim Owens
21 West Church Street,T-12
Jacksonville, FL 32202
(904) 665-4673
[email protected]