Tapping Solar Energy

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• Tapping Solar Energy
• In the home in business in Ireland
• Tim Cooper, Company Founder

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Green Building in Temple BarTesting micro-RE
systems for 15 years

• Wind Turbines
• Solar PV
• Solar Thermal
• Heat pumps

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Connected to grid June 2006
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12 year old PVDoing exactly what it said on
the tin (1,700W)
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Cool Power Limited 2006
Licensed Green Electricity Supplier Compliant
grid-connected inverters Revenue Approved BES
Status Experience/Expertise with/in PV
technology Owner of grid-connected
micro-generator Generating electricity from
sunlight Selling electricity to one final
customer Started looking for other suitable
sites Technical hitch!!
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Mismatch between demand and output!Theoretical
data
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Mismatch between demand and output!Real data
13 Amp/3kW spikes resistive electric heating
elements
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Recorded PV outputData collected in Ireland
since June 2006
5 kWh(e)/kWp/Day
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Recorded hot water use
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Potential for storing surplus output?
120 litres 50C 5.3kWh
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How to divert surplus energy to store?From PV
array
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How to divert surplus energy to store?From Wind
Turbine
2.5 kW Turbine
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How to divert surplus energy to store?Cool
Powers EMMA Controller Patented 07/04/08
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First EMMA installation
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EMMA installations in Ireland
Building interest in Ireland and overseas
including UK France Poland South Africa
Germany
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The Bigger Picture?
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Total system weekday demandMWh Summer
(24/07/08) Winter (31/01/09)
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Total system weekend demandMWh Saturday
10/01/09
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Total Wind Turbine OutputMWh Saturday, 10/01/09
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Demand and Wind Turbine OutputMWh Saturday,
10/01/09
Wind generating c.25 of demand
Wind Turbine Output
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Surplus Turbine Output Exported!!
Wind generating c.25 of demand
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Potential Wind Turbine Outputc.5 times current
output
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Potential Wind Turbine Outputc.25 more than
total demand. On this occasion!!
Wind Turbine Output
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Potential for storing surplus output?21,000 MWh
120 litres 50C 5.3kWh/House c.8,300 MWh
8 kWh/House c.12,700MWh
9 kWh/Electric Vehicle
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How to do this?Cool Powers EMMA Controller plus
Smart MeterPatented 07/04/08
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EMMA control
These links are provided by EMMA control. They
enable the supplier and customer to exercise
intelligent control over the use of electricity
in the household and EV.
METER EMMA
EMMA control adds vital missing links required to
enable smart metering become part of a hugely
powerful and effective intelligent energy control
system
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How to bring this technology forward?
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Expand the team!!
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Cool Powers Core BusinessGenerating selling
green electricity to commercial customers
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Summary

• c.200kW PV installed
• c.50 EMMA units installed
• c.330 kW PV in design
• EMMA, Smart Meters and EVs
• Static wind powered systems
• Stream of other low/zero energy systems and
  appliances
• DKIT
• ILRP
• Dundalk links thanks to EI SEI