American Renewable Energy

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American Renewable Energy
Making Alternative Energy Reliability a
Possibility for Your Home, Business, or School
David Dwyer, President Provided most of
Information (except for otherwise
noted-information retrieved from company web-site
or by David Dwyer) 805 Greenwood St. Evanston, IL
60201 Phone [phone] www.americanrenewable
.com
This Presentation was Prepared by Yesenia
Villasenor-Rodriguez for Spring Energy Law Class
2004 - Professor Bosselman. yvillasenorrodriguez_at_
kentlaw.edu
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Overview

• Introduction to American Renewable
• What Does American Renewable Do
• American Renewable Energy Solutions
• Potential Legal Issues
• Conclusion

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I. Introduction

• Background on American Renewable
• Founders
• Mission
• Team

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Background

• founded in 2001 by David Dwyer
• Located in Evanston
• Renewable Energy Contractors

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Mission

• Energy Independence Environmental
• Responsibility

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The Energy Team

• David Dwyer Designer-Builder
• Toni Bark Owner-Consultant
• Bill Becker Engineer-Inventor of Aero Turbine
• Windy City Power Company
• Nate Kipnis Environmental Architects
• Karla Sierralta Finalists in Twin Tower
  Memorial
• Brian Strong Ford Calumet Environmental
  Center
• Tim Lesch Project Engineer
• IBC Engineering Premier Environmental
  Engineering
• Firm in Midwest

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Goal

• Trying to Bring Distributed Power Geothermal,
  
• Solar (hot water), Photo-Voltaic (PV), Wind
  Power and
• Conservation

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Worse Case Scenario Looks Really Good

• Numerical Data has been done potential by
  using a
• combination of the systems will lead to
• Better Costs
• Lower Emissions
• Lower Operating Costs
• Investment Potential (adding Value to your
  Home)

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II. What Does American Renewable Energy Do ?

• Phase I Scope/Survey
• Phase II Design Specific System
• Phase III Construction

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Phase I Survey

• Orientation of Home (i.e. Location w/respect
  to bigger
• buildings and Potential Geothermal Sources)
• Visual Survey (i.e. find simple ways to
  conserve)
• Structure, insulation, roofing, doors,
• blow-door test
• Time ranges few hours- day
• Cost 2000- 5000 (usual range 2000-3000)

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Phase I Survey (continued)

• Financial Assessment (I.e. Life-cycle costs
  savings)

• American Renewable Performs 50 Surveys/year
• Clients
• Pritzker Family
• Prairie Crossing Charter School
• Ford Calumet Environmental Center

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Phase II Designing a Specific System for
that Structure

• Do a more specific Scope based on Survey
  Results-
• Formulate Reasonable Costs for Investment
  (given
• value of house, local property values etc.)
• Final Presentation given to Customer by Team
  Members
• Time 1 month- 1 year (varies project size)
• How Many Completed - 10 Projects

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Phase III Construction

• Materials, Labor and Commissioning
• Time Frame variesoccurs in phases
• Wells for geothermal
• structure
• PV
• Wind generators
• Cost varies

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• American Renewables Energy Solutions

• Renewable energy is any source that can be used
  
• without depleting its reserves.
• Examples are wind, solar, and geothermal
• Renewables are an important supply of energy,
• providing security, reducing need for fuel
  imports
• and helping to preserve the earths
  valuable resources

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Renewable Energy Sources

• Wind Aero turbines
• Geothermal GeoExchange
• Photovoltaic (PV) BP Panels

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Wind

• AEROTECTURE A New Paradigm for Wind power in
• cities.
• DESIGNER/PRICIPAL BILL BECKER
• AEROTECTURE 510 SERIES Wind System
• Cost Per Aero turbine 6000/unit
• Avg. Amount of Unit in Design varies- owner has
  4
• Manufactured here in Chicago 21st Racine by
• 
  Windy City Power

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Aerotecture 510 Series Wind System
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Aerotecture 510 Specifications

• Rated Power 1500 Watts
• Rated Wind Speed 30 m.p.h.
• Startup Wind Speed 2 m.p.h.
• Maximum Wind Speed 120 m.p.h
• Rotor Diameter 5 feet
• Number of Blades 2
• Height 20 feet
• Weight 250 lbs.
• Generator Type Permanent Magnet
• Power Output Range 24-48 VDC

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Aerotecture Turbines v. Propeller Systems
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Aerotecture Aeroturbines v. Propeller cont.
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Aerotecture Aeroturbines (cont.)
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Geothermal

• heat (thermal) derived from the earth (geo).
• Thermal Energy contained in rock and fluid (that
  fills
• the fractures and pores within the rock) in
  the earths
• crust.
• Current Production ranks 3rd among renewables
• Utilized through process called Geoexchange

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Geoexchange

• Works by moving heat, rather than by converting
  chemical
• Energy to heat like a furnace
• Every GeoExchange Systems Includes
• A geothermal Pump
• A loop field of Polyethylene
• An internal distribution System

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Geothermal Heat Pump

• Moves heat between the building and the
• Fluid in the Earth Connection
• low maintenance- requires replacement of air
  filters
• Efficient requires a little electricity
• clean

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Savings over a period of 1 year
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Earth Connection

• Transfers heat between its fluids and the earth
  
• Earth connections are called loops
• 4 Different types
• Open
• Vertical
• Horizontal
• Pond
• The type of Terrain where location is on
  determines which loop.

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Open Loop

• Requires abundant supply of well water
• Discharges water to drainage ditch or pond
• Processes heat energy from water
• Discharging water return well not as effective
  as sending to pond or lake

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Vertical Loops

• Used land area is limited or soil conditions
  prohibit digging the more economical horizontal
  loops.
• A pair of pipes w/ special U-bend assembly at
  bottom inserted into a borehole (150-250 ft.
  deep/ton of equipment)
• Holes filled w/ special grout solution for good
  contact w/earth.

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Horizontal Loops

• Used Soil conditions allow for economical
  excavation
• Requires more land
• Trenches 5ft. Deep w/ multiple pipes placed in
  trenches at various depths
• Trenches require several hundred feet
• Where space permits, more desirable

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Pond Loop

• Very economical to install
• Requires pond or lake (8 ft. depth)
• Utilize water rather than soil to transfer heat
  to and from pond
• Coiled pipe in water covers ½ Acre
• Avg. Home requires 900 feet pipe
• Reduced installation costs high performance

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How Geothermal Works
Geothermal Unit
Cooling (Process Reverses)

• heat removed from home
• Transfers to Earth Loop
• As warm fluid travels through loop- cooled
• earth serves heat sinks
• Result cool, dry air

• Heating
• fluid circulates - loop
• heat energy transfer to
• fluid than to

Earth Loops

• Earth
• 47 Suns Energy absorbed

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Photovoltaic - PV

• Sun strikes a PV cell module converting such
  into electricity
• Integrates with existing electricity Supply
• British Petroleum (BP) PV Panels
• Distributor Windy City Power
• Cost 9 per watt with out grants or rebates

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Legal Issues

• Owners of American renewable had battle with
  neighbors who didnt like aesthetics of Wind
  turbines on their roof
• Result American Renewable prevailed but now,
  neighbors are trying to require variances for a
  new house they are building.

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Conclusion

• American Renewables Integrative Approach is
  making renewable energy a possibility by
• team
• ethics
• technologies