Energy Law

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Energy Law Bren School, UCSB January 2008 Day 2
Regulation of Leftover nuclear power
discussion Natural Gas / Oil Hydro Renewables Exer
cise
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Nuclear Power
reprocessing
Spent Fuel
Plutonium, Uranium
Separate and Reformulate isotopes of plutonium
and uranium into fuel or bomb material
Thorium and other byproducts

• Complex expensive
• Env safety concerns
• American/Canadian proposals
• Existing reprocessing sites
• Waste reduction
• Shorten lives of radioactive elements

Need higher concentrations of key isotopes of U
and Pu for weapons grade, therefore more isotope
separation
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• Oil Gas
• OG extraction and processing/externalities
• International geopolitics of oil
• Gas-fired power plants
• LNG
• Price volatility

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World Dry Natural Gas Consumption, 1980-2000 (in
Bcf), Source US EIA
1980 2000
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How is natural gas used by its retail purchasers?
World data, source, EIA
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Production by National Oil Companies
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• Hydro
• Generates electricity how?
• Externalities?
• UN Commission on Dams
• Costs

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• Renewables
• Wind
• Solar
• Biomass
• Geothermal
• Wave/Tidal

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Table 1-1 Classes of wind power density at 10 m
and 50 m(a). SOURCE NREL
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U.S. wind resources
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Texas Wind Resources
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TABLE 3. Potential Electricity Production on
Windy Lands in Texas SOURCE TX State Energy
Conservn Office
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UK wind farms, proposed (offshore) Danish wind
farm
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Photoshop of projected visual impacts of
Nantucket offshore wind project Source Save
Our Sound
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SOURCE TX State Energy Conservation Office
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• Biomass
• Basics
• Fuel?
• Externalities?
• CAA
• Geothermal
• Basics
• Growth?
• State regulation

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• Wave / Tidal
• Capturing wave energy /cylindrical or piston
  systems
• Capturing tidal flows
• FERC jurisdiction
• Renewable Portfolio Standards

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Non-traditional energy sources
Generation Mix Exercise
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