KC Area Renewables

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KC Area Renewables

• Is anything going on here?

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Conservation/Efficiency first

• CFLs KCMO program
• KCPL - Rebate

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New Services to lower bills

• New conservation services blower door, 400
• Kansas Building Science Institute, Home Energy
  Rater Review Course and Challenge Exam,
  Manhattan, KS

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Smoke pencil used with blower door

• Infrared detection (also the frost/eyeball method)

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Biodiesel

• Old Diesel
• Sooty
• Smelly
• Clatter
• For trucks and tractors

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New Diesel

• Low Sulphur October 2006 in USA
• EIA assumes diesels can have 50 greater
  efficiency vs. gasoline
• EPA 1/3 light duty vehicle fleet to diesel
  1.4 MMB/day Saudi oil imports
• New engines
• KC is a major rail (largest volume) and trucking
  hub (3rd largest) major diesel use

Shell TDI engines win Grand Prix
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U.S. Biodiesel fueling stations
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Biodiesel
Dennis Weaver

• BioWillie B20, Popularized, but no outlets in
  MO/KS
• Where buy in KC?
• Wyandotte Valero, 201 W. 6th, KCMO
• Carter Energy, 6000 Metcalf (distributes)

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Biodiesel Plants

• New KC plant Cargill 40 MM gal./y
• MO Bunceton and Bethel (small), new ADM 30MMg/y
  in Mexico, MO
• KS Burden (small), plans for Goodland, Hiawatha
  (Burns Mac), Lawrence, St. John and Washington

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Biodiesel

• JOHN DEERE TO USE B2 BIODIESEL FUEL IN U.S.
  MANUFACTURING PLANTS LENEXA, KS (February 1,
  2005) John Deere today announced that it plans
  to use B2, a blend of two percent biodiesel fuel,
  as the preferred factory-fill in diesel propelled
  machines made in the United States.

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National Group is Located in MO

• National Biodiesel Board, 3337a Emerald
  Lane  Jefferson City, MO 65110-4898

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Europe and Cellulosic Diesel

• SunDiesel Cheron, Shell minority stake
• From GM - Diesel fuel continues to gain
  importance in Europe. In 2004, 48.4 percent of
  new car registrations throughout Western Europe
  were for diesel-powered vehicles.

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Ethanol - Numerous plants smaller than oil
refineries

• Midwestern concentration

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Ethanol

• MTBE, new, national market for ethanol
• HyVee
• MO 10 requirement
• Vehicles 10 since 80s, E85 models
• E85 in KC? - 17 in 100 mi. radius,
• closest (5 mi.) is Presto Conoco, 649 E.
  Bannister, KCMO,
• Olathe (9 mi., KC Road Ridgeview, Mahaffie
  Farmstead)
• New outlet in Independence, MO.

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Ethanol in Kansas
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Ethanol

• Ethanex Energy, Inc. Basehor, KS
• Alternative Energy Sources, Inc.
• Lansing Ethanol Services, Inc. Merchandise 100
  of the ethanol produced by facility

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National group located in MO

• National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition3216 Emerald
  Lane, Suite C, Jefferson City, MO 65109

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Area Biomass

• NW MO State 25 years wood chips, paper
  pellets, animal waste

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Area Biomass

• Biomass Project Saves Pickering, Mo

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Area Biomass - LFG

• Johnson County Landfill

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Area Biomass Digester Gas

• KC, MO fuels three 500kW generators. Exhaust heat
  is used for process heating.
• BV, for Lawrence, KS, looking at digester gas
  for sludge drying or cogeneration.

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Biomass Tire Derived Fuel

• Aquila, St. Joseph
• Aquila, Sibley, MO
• Empire District, Asbury, MO

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Area Biomass MO Wood Pellet market

• 50 of Missouris known biomass would replace
  20 of states imported fossil fuel used for
  electrical power generation .MO-DNR 2001
• Pennington100 Kiln Dried Oak. Made in Missouri.
  8,250 BTU/lb rating. Relatively Low Ash Content.
  Pellets are very consistent in their quality.

Country Flame TechnologiesPellet and Wood
StovesMarshfield, MO  
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Area Biomass

• Iowa Switchgrass - Chariton Valley Co-firing

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Hydro Missouri

• Six developed sites with power
• Bagnell, Ozark Beach, Niangua, Table Rock,
  Stockton, Harry S. Truman
• 104 MW total capacity
• 12 Dams without power (181 MW)
• 11 potential undeveloped sites (38 MW)

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Hydro Kansas

• One power dam (60 kW), Bowersock
• 12 dams without power (45 MW)
• 5 undeveloped sites (38 MW)

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Hydro Kansas

• Bowersock Dam Lawrence, KS

Source Kansas Geological Survey
Certified as Low Impact Hydro Bonneville Power
Zephyr program
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Wind in Kansas
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Wind

• Small Scale new 10,000 model, Skystream

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Wind in Missouri

• New MO wind data
• State Implementation Plan Air Quality

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Wind in Missouri

• ABB, Ltd. Transformer Plant in MO has boosted
  production of transformers used in wind industry.

Zoltek-St. Louis-Carbon Fiber for Turbine Blades.
Zoltek expects to provide Fiberblade with 65 -
75 million worth of carbon fiber and carbon
fiber materials over the first three years of the
contract for the manufacture of advanced large-
scale rotor blades for wind turbine generators.
3/29/2006 PRNewswire
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PV Companies in KC

• Ozark Energy Services
• Power Tomorrow
• Kansas Wind Power
• Tech Power Systems
• Heartland Solar Energy Industries Association

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PV Rural

• Move the water to the livestock
• Grundfos, North American Headquarters, Lenexa

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PV in KC

• R D results in product

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PV

• MEMC With this announcement, MEMC now has
  agreements to supply solar wafers worth between
  7-9 billion dollars in revenue over the next
  decade." Marketwatch 10/26/2006
• Power Film Solar (Iowa Thin Film), Boone, IA

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Net Metering Rules
www.dsireusa.org


November 2006
NH 25 MA 60 RI 25 CT 100
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VT 15/150
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no limit
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PA 50/1,000/2,000 NJ 2,000 DE 25 MD
500 DC 100 VA 10/500

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20/100

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25/100
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Net metering is available in 40 states D.C.
State-wide net metering for all utility types
State-wide net metering for certain utility
types (e.g., IOUs only)

Net metering offered by one or more individual
utilities
s indicate system size limit (kW) in some
cases limits are different for residential and
commercial as shown
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PV in KC

• Reality - Discovery Center, 48th and Troost

Possibility ELCC of PV
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SDHW

• Riead Home

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Solar Homes in Area

• Rolla and Crowder College Solar Decathlon

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Homes

• Habitat for Humanity, KCMO, Bruce Watkins Way

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Homes

• Solar Ready
• Pathway/Chase for plumbing or electrical
• Space for solar
• Space for inverter or tank

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Local Author

• Bill Hanlon, Flint Hills Technical
  College, Emporia, KS, Outside the Box

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Schools/Training

• Crowder solar classes, homes, vehicles
• NW MO State Biomass class, campus power
• Iowa State Biomass, thin-film PV
• Indian Hills CC Bioprocess Technology
• Rolla University Summer camp, solar home,
  vehicle

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College Team Solar Raycing

• Dan Eberle, Rayce organizer
• Art Boyt, Crowder College
• 45 College Teams
• Great Students

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Groups/ Events

• Midwest Research Institute
• KC Green Building Council
• KS Renewable Conference, Fall
• Ozark Energy Fair, Summer, Hermann, MO
• HSEIA - trade group for solar
• HRES - Citizen group, October Solar Home Tour