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• Energy Drives the Economy
Source: www.brookings.edu/economics/bpea/bpea.aspx
A bit academic and “wonky,” but this visual shows that as a percentage of our “budget” is spent on our energy needs, this impacts our ability to spend on other things. So, you see that when oil is expensive a bigger part of our budget goes for that necessity and we have less to spend on other things that drive our economy. Thus, you see recessions correlated with high oil prices.
• Extractive Economy vs. Clean Economy
Drilling & Mining
Declining Oil and Mineral Resources
Shrinking Jobs
Prosperity
Extractive
Ideas
New Products &
Services
New Jobs
Prosperity
Clean
• Extractive Economy vs. Clean Economy
Extractive Energy Economy
Plastics, fertilizers, pesticides
Transports all goods (including food) and people, “runs” the global economy
• Extractive Taking from a declining source
• Extractive: Not if, but when….
You will most likely be a grandparent when oil runs out; we should be thinking about what our grandchildren’s life will be like if we are not building our clean economy now…The folks that will make more money as the extractive resources become more scarce will most likely be projecting more potential future reserves and/or greater timeframes for availability, but if we know a better way of doing things now, shouldn’t we be thinking about our kids and our grandkids now too?
• Clean Taking from a replenishing source
• Extractive Garbage and waste
The North Pacific gyre is a concentration of plastic waste in the ocean that is the size of Greenland. The beauty of a clean economy is that this waste can create a potential profit for a business that uses this as a feedstock for energy needs….Right now, in our extractive global economy, this mess is just a mess.
• Clean Instead of waste as garbage, waste as “feedstock”
MaterialsEnergy
Product ($)
Non-product (waste)
• Notes for previous slide
The visual in the bottom right-hand of the slide is the “core” principle in sustainability. Maximizing energy efficiency and minimizing waste creates increased product and thus increased profits. As an added “bonus,” waste itself can be converted into energy with the right systems and technology. The overall beauty of a cyclical approach to business production models is that they mirror the cyclical way that the earth “functions,” making us a responsible part of our planet.
• Extractive As supplies dwindle, prices rise
Quantity, or supply, decreases
Costs increase
• Clean Increasing returns, not diminishing returns
Ideas
New Products &
Services
New Jobs
Prosperity
Clean
Ideas as “base” for economy means a “sustainable” source; as the base increases, value and opportunity increase
• Extractive Energy Economy vs. Clean Energy Economy
Extractive Energy Economy
Decreasing opportunity
for prosperity for all
Increasing costs and
waste
Diminishing and declining
feedstocks
Clean Energy Economy
Expanded opportunity
for prosperity
for all
Systems-approach for decreasing
waste
Increasing “feedstock” of new ideas
• The Extractive Economy: Huge Potential Threat
• The Clean Economy: Huge Market Opportunity
“Peak Oil” is not a question
of “if” but “when…”
This “gap” can be “filled” by energy efficiency and clean energy solutions
• Notes for previous slide
We have a better way to do things…if you had the choice to ride across country in a horse and buggy or to ride across country in a horse-less carriage (what we called cars back when autos were the competition) which would you pick? “Alternative” energy is a recognition that clean, renewable sources of energy are the competition for extractive energy, but it is a choice that an informed person will likely make when given the options. This movement towards clean energy is so important when we realize that as oil and other extractive energy feedstocks decline, there will not be enough available to meet growing demand. This gap between available resources and need can be made up by providing other sources of non-extracted energy and energy efficiency measures (getting more “bang for our buck” from the energy we are using).
• The Clean Energy Economy
Policies Markets
Reducing
Risk
Mobilizing Capital
Technologies
Source: NREL
Innovations can occur in all three areas: Tech, Policy, & Markets
Clean Energy Economic Growth
• Notes for previous slide
Technology: Innovation usually occurs in the lab, more efficient solar cells, better designs for wind power (jet stream), etc.Policies: Innovation example: Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) where up front costs are paid for by the city, and paid back through property taxes (like property assessments that goes towards the public good of streetlights and sidewalks)Markets: Innovation example: Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) where a company (manufacturing factory, for example) would agree to purchase power from the solar company that installs the building’s solar system at a set rate for a set number of years, and the solar company finances the up-front costs of the system itself. WE DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR “TECHNOLOGY” DEVELOPMENTS TO ADDRESS THE “HIGH COST” ISSUE….Would you pay for your $250K house in cash up front? There is a better way to do things…
• The Clean Energy Economy: Silver Buckshot
Markets
Generation
Distributed
Residential
Commercial/Industri
alMicro
Utility Scale
Distribution
Smart Grid
Physical Cyber
Alternative Fuels
Alternative Vehicles
Efficiency/”Negawatts”
Services Materials
Technology
RE
EERE Tech Portfolio
Nano TechEmerging
Tech
EE
AMIIT/Softwar
eBldg.
Materials
Policy
RE/EE Specific
Generation
Distribution
Transportation
Entrepreneurial
Specific
Low-Carbon Specific
Finance
Clean Energy Markets: Megawatts & Negawatts
Generation: How do we create value propositions for increasing CE megawatts?
Distribution: How do we accelerate the flow of CE megawatts through the grid? How do we increase the flow of clean fuels to end users? How do we build the market for clean energy vehicles?
Efficiency: How do we build business models for marketing “negawattage?” How do we retrofit physical infrastructure to optimize energy usage?
• Notes for previous slide
oClean Energy is complex and there is no “silver bullet” it is “silver buckshot.”
oMost big energy companies have a minute fraction of their business that they invest in clean energy sources, but many have speculated that these companies are simply waiting to see what clean energy will be the “silver bullet” and that then they will acquire it. The problem is that in the meantime, these same companies from the extractive industry don’t really have much “skin in the game” yet and it could be argued that they therefore still are protecting their extractive resource strategy as this is where their profits come from. When added to a very real perspective that there will never really be a silver bullet solution, it becomes increasingly difficult to expect that extractive energy interests are going to change their business model.
oWe are asking horse-and-buggy manufacturers to “play nice” with Henry Ford. The great opportunity in this complex landscape is that each of these types of businesses can create demand for jobs….and if we can figure out how to re-train, or “retrofit” the extractive energy professionals and technicians, we can have a win-win…while the CEO at BP might not be able to do what he does in this new economy, many hard-working employees could potentially have a “new relationship” with energy (aside, we are already talking with folks from oil & gas who are interested in Ecotech programs…individuals are smart, “people” sometimes aren’t….)
oWe know that the many people already employed in this new, clean energy economy are within much smaller companies than transnational extractive corporations. This is another win-win in terms of the great opportunity in this space, which such diversity…and we also have large corporations like GE and others that are actually growing their divisions for CE within their organizations.
oOn a broad scale though, it is still a “David vs. Goliath” picture when comparing PNLs…(profit and loss statements)…as an aside, because of the $5B that just U.S. extractive energy companies get in “subsidies” every year, when one looks at BP’s books, for example, their reporting of their profits is not actually representative of their fiscal value…
CE Markets= finance in the form of investments, etc…CE Technology = finance in the form of R&D grants, etc…CE Policy= finance in the form of political contributions, etc….
• The Clean Energy Economy: Silver Buckshot Part 2
Each of these elements of the modern, or “smart,” grid creates demand for experienced workers…
• Wind Energy Career Snapshots
• Abengoa’s PS20 solar plant, the largest commercial solar tower plant in the world.
• Solar Industry Career Trends- Employment
Solar jobs landscape; outline the way visualization tools are being used to enhance the intuitive understanding of complex data. This translates into wider ability to discuss the opportunity with decision-makers in communities.
• The Clean Energy Economy: Silver Buckshot Part 3