Transcript Turning Down the Heat - Recycled Energy Development

Recycling Waste Energy
August 18, 2007
Presentation to Senator Reid by
Energy Recycling Industries
Presenter: Thomas R. Casten
Chairman, Recycled Energy Development, LLC
Presentation Summary
 Energy efficiency gains stalled in 1960
 Recycling waste energy can reduce
US CO2 by 10 to 20% and save $70
billion per year
 The provisions in the House Energy
Bill would spur energy recycling
 The Ask: How can our companies help
these provisions become law?
The Last Seven Presidents
Pledged Energy Independence
But energy imports rose during every
administration
Conventional
Approaches Have Not
Worked
US Electric Efficiency,1900-2005
Primary Efficiency, Delivered Electricity
Final Efficiency raw energy to useful work
35%
30%
47 years of 33% efficiency.
20%
15%
10%
5%
Year
20
00
19
90
19
80
19
70
19
60
19
50
19
40
19
30
19
20
19
10
0%
19
00
% Efficiency
25%
Conventional Electric System
Efficiency Since 1960
Pollution
Waste Heat
Transmission Line Losses
3 units (9.0%)
67 units
Waste
Energy
Fuel
=
100
units
33 units
Electricity
End User
Power Plant
Remote Generation Waste (66%)
 Insert Craig Plume picture to illustrate
waste heat
Local Generation Recycles Heat To
Industrial Plant (85% efficiency)
Local Generation with Energy
Recycling
 Reduces power costs, greenhouse gas
emissions and fossil fuel use
 Avoids transmission capital and line
losses
 Helps host industry with lower steam
costs and/or new revenue from sale of
waste energy – makes host more
competitive
Estimated U.S. Potential to Recycle
Waste Energy ( Million MWh per Year)
 2005 fossil electric generation:
2,633
 Waste Energy Recycling potential

From Industrial waste energy
450

From new CHP plants
900
 Total Energy Recycling potential:

% of US fossil central generation:
1,350
51%
 Drop total U.S. CO2 emissions: 10% to 20%
 Societal savings per year in billions:
$70
Companies at this Breakfast Specialize
in Recycling Waste Energy
 We create useful energy by recycling:
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Exhaust heat from any industrial process or power
generation
Industrial tail gas that would otherwise be flared,
incinerated or vented,
Pressure drop in any gas
 We develop new local combined heat and
power plants (CHP) that recycle byproduct
heat to displace boiler fuel of thermal users
95 MW Recycled from Coke Production
Click on the map to begin the Google Earth Video
Identified Recycled Energy
Prospects in Nevada
Data Source: EPA’s National Emissions Inventory
Ormat 5 MW Energy Recycling System
OEC
Original
Stack/Silencer
WHOH
*
*
Diverter
400
Fe
et
of P
ipin
Gas
Turbine
Enclosure
4,000 to 6,000 Megawatts wasted at US gas compressor stations
g
US Electric Efficiency,1900-2005
Primary Efficiency, Delivered Electricity
Final Efficiency raw energy to useful work
100%
90%
Local Generation
Plants we have
built that recycle
waste heat
Denmark Electric
Efficiency
80%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
Year
20
00
19
90
19
80
19
70
19
60
19
50
19
40
19
30
19
20
19
10
0%
19
00
% Efficiency
70%
A Convenient Truth:
Energy Recycling Can Profitably Reduce CO2
 US can reduce CO2 emissions by 10% to 20%
and save $70 billion per year recycling waste
energy with proven technology
 Congress can induce Energy Recycling:

Share societal savings

Removing barriers to local generation
 House Energy Bill 3221, Subtitles E and G would
achieve these goals
 How can we help Energy Recycling provisions
become law?
Thank you for your leadership
and for considering
support of energy recycling