Renewable Energy job and business opportunities in the Illawarra

• The world picture• A few Australian

examples• Opportunities for the

Illawarra

The world picture – high growth• Investment increased 400% from 2004 – 2008 and now

exceeds investment in fossil fuel power• Windpower and solar installations growing at over 30%

p.a. worldwide

World Windpower Growth

WINDPOWER IN SILVERTON

$700M to local economypower for 430,000 homes

700 construction jobs, 120 ongoing jobs

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LARGE SCALE SOLAR

May 2009 - Feds announce tenders for 2000-2500MW solar power starting next year

(approx. 1 coal power station)

10,400MW projects under review or announced in California

(about 4 coal power stations)

Target - 33% renewable by 2020

100, 000MW solar project planned in Sahara desert to power Europe

LARGE SCALE SOLAR

ORGANIC SOLAR

Australian players

•CSIRO

•Dyesol

•UOW

Hong Kong

4 ferries for HK Jockey Club

2009/2010

OCEANLINX

Existing prototype will be replaced by another prototype – testing at Port Kembla

RENEWABLE ENERGY – a BIG OPPORTUNITY for the

ILLAWARRA• Cut CO2 emissions• Take advantage of

local expertise • Local income stream

from energy production

• Diversify Illawarra economy

• Local employment in high growth industry

World wide wind

• The use of wind power continues to grow around the world. Global installed capacity at the end of 2008 was almost 121 gigawatts producing approximately 260 terrawatt hours of electricity annually. In 2008, more than 27 gigawatts of new wind capacity was installed around the world with a value of around $US48 billion - a 28 percent increase on 2007.

• The top four wind energy nations for 2008 were: • United States - 25,170 MW  • Germany - 23,903 MW • Spain - 16,754 MW • China - 12,210 MW

SOLAR - WHYALLA

WAVE POWER

Florence Wave Park Project - Oregon

Wave Power from OCEANLINX – Australian Company

100MW

Oregon plan is to be 25% renewable by 2025

SOLAR POWER• World's largest solar installation to use Stirling

engine technology• 20-year purchase agreement between Southern

California Edison and Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. will result in 20,000+ dish array, covering 4,500 acres, and capable of generating 500 MW -- more electricity than all other present U.S. solar projects combined.

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THE GHG VARIATION IS NOT NATURAL15Gt pa / 5,140,000Gt (atmospheric mass)

= 2.9ppm increase p.a. , or about 35 years to add 100ppm

Source:http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/historical-trends-in-carbon-dioxide-concentrations-and-temperature-on-a-geological-and-recent-time-scale

RH scale is 1/200th of LH scale

El Nino…

Its getting warmer…

HUMAN EMISSIONS ARE NOT INSIGNIFICANT

Source: http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11638volcanoes

SOURCE: IPCC 4TH ASSESSMENT REPORT - ar4_syr_topic2.pdf

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birds

• 70. Worldwide research has indicated that wind turbines account for between 1/5000th to 1/10,000th of annual bird deaths. Most of these occur as a result of impact with cars, powerlines and towers and glazed, particularly tall buildings. A 2001 US study into bird deaths is instructive. The proportion of bird deaths were found to be attributed as follows:

• a. Vehicles — 60-80million

• b. Buildings/windows—90-98million

• c. Powerlines — up to 174 million

• d. Towers — 40-50million

• e. Wind turbines 0.01-0.04million.

• That the National Parks and Wildlife Service has reported that 7000 animals a day are killed by vehicle strike in Australia, helps put this into perspective.

birds• "Although birds do collide with wind turbines at some sites, modern wind

power plants are collectively far less harmful to birds than numerous other hazards. The leading human-related causes of bird kills in the United States, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, are cats (1 billion deaths per year), buildings (up to 1 bn), hunters (100 million), vehicles (60 to 80 m), as well as communications towers, pesticides and power lines. Bird deaths due to wind development will never be more than a very small fraction of those caused by other commonly-accepted human activities, no matter how extensively wind is used in the future.

Avian studies carried out at many wind farm sites in the US show that bird kills per megawatt of installed capacity average one to six per year or less. These include sites passed by millions of migrating birds each year. At a few sites, no kills have been found at all. In Europe, studies of almost 1,000 wind turbines in the region of Navarra, Spain, showed a detected mortality rate of between 0.1 to 0.6 collisions per turbine per year.

Noise Impacts

Noise from modern wind turbines with advanced blade design has been greatly reduced since earlier designs. Their noise is generally rated at 350m to be 35db(A), the same as a quiet bedroom at night. By comparison, rural night-time noise is rated at 20-50db(A).

We could do it here…

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• Selected renewable energy indicators[2][33] Selected global indicators   2006   2007   2008   Investment in new renewable capacity (annual)63104120 billion USDExisting renewables power capacity,including large-scale hydro1,0201,0701,140 GWeExisting renewables power capacity,excluding large hydro207240280 GWeWind power capacity (existing)7494121 GWeBiomass heating~250 GWthSolar hot water/ Space heating145 GWthGeothermal heating~50 GWthEthanol production (annual)395067 billion litersCountries with policy targetsfor renewable energy use6673

• Wind power market