Reducing Carbon Emissions and Water use by 80% is possible today.
Bill Williams
Experienced across the spectrum of every stakeholder role in infinitely sustainable and prosperity-generating business models for all stakeholders.
By William Ross Williams CEO Altresco www.altresco.com
The new abundance of natural gas and LNG can accelerate renewable energy integration dramatically.
Natural Gas is the matrix fuel that can quadruple the amount of wind that can be deployed and it can do it today. We don’t have to wait years for chemically based electricity storage to become viable because the flexibility of natural gas generation technologies has evolved to a point where it can provide seamless balancing of far more wind energy than batteries could dream of.
The Paris accords and climate activists have spoken and written tomes of articles about Climate Finance and where it’s going to come from. My answer is that it can come from the trillions of dollars desperately looking for good investments. The sustainable implementation of financially viable and radically cleaner base load energy will be one of the best investment opportunities of the century. The revenues to support these investments will come from the energy users that will be drawn to these new, clean, green and cost effective energy and industrial zones.
The new climate-friendly energy developments will also be focused specifically on providing energy and a total environment that will be magnetic to new industries and Processing facilities. Our view has always been that the purpose of power is to amplify cost-effectiveness in the production of tangible products. It is these end products that will generate the revenues needed to pay energy bills.
After all: Electricity is not a product. It is only worth the value it provides to industries who do make products.
Altresco has been an innovator in the Gas to Power industry for nearly 30 years. Today, Altresco Integrated is configured to provide advisory services, project development, finance strategies and implementation, and systems organization/ alignment advisory. Williams and his extensive and collaborative network of experts have worked together and independently to finance and implement innovative projects in North America, Philippines, India and Africa. Today, Altresco is focusing on creating Gas-Wind-Solar hybrid microgrids for Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture.
This long-term multifaceted and cross-discipline experience has allowed us to collaborate with virtually all stakeholder groups that participate in the full raw energy to delivered electricity and gas supply and logistics chain.
With this very broad spectrum of independent experts and active operators, we have designed a template for grids ranging from single user microgrids to fully load balanced independent utility districts of hundreds of megawatts that will provide the full benefit of reliability, flexibility, scalability and affordability. The Altresco led collaborative has designed and validated a mini grid and integrated generation and load-balancing area IGLB ™ that uses natural gas to integrate four times as much intermittent wind and solar as can be constructively integrated into today's High Voltage Transmission and distribution grids that connect large fleets of central generation based electricity sources. These IGLB™ grids can be designed to be grid connected, fully independent and islanded, or both.
Our objective has always been to create the lowest CO2 per MW hour of any baseload electricity generating facility, and we have accomplished that, providing that we are located in areas with both stable cost natural gas supplies and high-quality wind resources plus solar when economically viable.
The emergence of the LNG abundance and proliferation is now making it possible to bring the gas supplies to the renewable resource rich parts of areas close to LNG landing locations.
This is a huge game changer because now, we can bring the natural gas to the Renewable Resource-rich parts of countries that have good ports in proximity to good renewable resources and through co-location, achieve all of the results described above.
The potential that is now available as a result of LNG availability is far too big and globally significant for any one group to even try to implement. However, it needs to be replicated in any many places as possible and as rapidly as possible. At this time we feel that we can enable the most rapid implementation of this by forming alliances with groups who are ready to break out of the thinking that got us here and ready to lead the creation of the models of the future. We are negotiable regarding how those alliances are structured providing that each group has the determination, values and fertile minds needed to bring these strategies to life in their domains.
For more information, or to discuss potential collaboration please contact me via Linkedin, or via email at Bill.williams@Altresco.com. Feel free to visit www.altresco.com .
Footnote 1. Participants and contributors to the evolutionary design of the IGLB model include Burns McDonnell Engineering, Sunflower Electric Power Corp, Southwest Power pool, Xcel, Wartsila, GE, Warren Frost, Pioneer Natural Gas, El Paso Natural gas pipelines, Texas Tech University, ERCOT, NERC, FERC, NREL, Black and Veatch, CDM Smith, Tetra Tech, LLNL, World Watch, Spirae, Homer Energy, Kansas PUC, EPRI and a few other top of industry individual advisors.
Independent Energy Consultant
6yPierre, I think you are chasing you tail. Mr. William's statement is largely correct; the value of electricity totally derives from its contribution to the production of goods and services and also from the comfort and convenience it produces for residential customers. You can subdivide "end-user products" all you want but it will not negate the veracity of Mr. William's statement.
Teacher
7yIf the following statement were true, then only the things an end-user disposes of can be considered 'products'...; "Electricity is not a product. It is only worth the value it provides to industries who do make products." This is a false statement, as every end-user product is an aggregation of sub-products...with every end-user product, within a circular economy, becoming the base resource for a new generation of products...much like how Nature works.
Relocating
7ysalutations, Thank you for sharing Mr William Ross Williams. A variety of initiatives to regard existing systems investment: sufficiency as part of the mix... fit for purpose appreciating the values on measures all the best kind regards caroline
Experienced across the spectrum of every stakeholder role in infinitely sustainable and prosperity-generating business models for all stakeholders.
7yOver the past 8 years, I've come to understand the many reasons. Nobody is wrong. Our electricity systems have been designed around the assumption that electricity generation would be designed to match the way it is used. When the power switches are turned on so is the generation. Wind turbines do not have on/off switches and the electricity output can vary like a rheostat. From 1 MW to 700 MW in less than an hour and occasionally from 700 MW to zero in 5 minutes. Least cost fossil fuel generation can take from 90 minutes to 12 hours to go from idle to stable output and when they are turned down more than 10% the emissions/MWh increase to intolerable. These plants turn on and off in 400-800 MW blocks. This is like trying to chase a bunch of Sea Doos with an aircraft carrier. Ontario Hydro has generated more power than Ontario has used for decades. Much of it is sent to the US. Yet, the green push required them to add more power generation in the form of wind. This extra electricity is intermittent and often more than electricity users in Ontario can take. In 2013 Ontario Hydro had to pay over a billion dollars to take excess electricity in order to avoid blackouts caused by overloading the electricity lines. We saw this coming in 2008 but the green rush tsunami continued to propel the installation of vast amounts of wind generation regardless of its disruptiveness. The IGLB system was designed to incorporate wind generation and gas generation into the same "box" so that the hybrid could become a coal plant replacement but, at that time, the availability of adequate natural gas was very uncertain. Today this uncertainty is gone and it is time to start implementing these hybrids. First, we have to get Wind and Gas to stop thinking they are enemies or simply find good locations like South Africa where matches sets can now be created by using LNG.
Jade Communications
7yI seems that not in every country there is a need to have a national administration for the carbon emission rights. Sorry for the blatant oversimplification but it seems that smaller countries are obliged to have one, whereas bigger countries can go without it ;-)