Renewable Energy – Renewable Electric Power; NewHYDRO™ is the only renewable energy technology that is lower cost than coal run power stations, and that can also deliver base bas load electric power 24 x7, and that is conveniently locatable within existing grid infrastructure.  Each 108 Megawatt NewHYDRO™ renewable energy basic electric power unit is estimated to be capable of supplying the equivalent of 155,000 Australian homes, and save 9.48 million tonnes of CO2 emissions annually.

Renewable Energy – Renewable Electric Power

Predicting which renewable energy technology will enter the scene and be dominant in ten years time at 2020 for the generation of electric power is reliant on examining current research and innovation for emerging disruptive renewable energy technologies like PCV’s NewHydro™.

Today the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are huge and growing.  Nations and Nation-States have a stringent mandate to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from generating base bas load electric power requiring government, consumers, and businesses to take a hard look at exactly how energy is used in the state and ways to choose a renewable energy system that is less carbon intensive .

Renewable Energy – Renewable Electric Power

Renewable energy for electric power generation is essential for meeting greenhouse gas and carbon pollution reduction goals.

Renewable Energy – Renewable Electric Power websites:

Base Load Renewable Power Stations

Renewable Base Load Electric Power

THE Global Australian Baseload Renewable Energy Company

Baseload renewable energy is the keystone to our clean energy future.

We are an Australian company that is now ready to establish reliable Renewable Energy Power Stations in multiples of 108 MW capacity running on our hydro-hybrid technology called NewHYDRO™.

Baseload Renewable Energy

NewHYDRO™ can be located locally and has a very small footprint. The technology works by lifting water using Atmospheric pressure and letting it freefall through a conventional hydro Turbine.

Baseload Renewable Energy

We see the need simply for laws to be passed to give Green Independent Power Producers mandatory and privileged access to the National Grid to supply baseload renewable energy as the utilities currently monopolise grid connection.

PCV’s role is to develop the collaborative environment for technology development, integration and application.  Our NewHYDRO™ Grid-Connected Demonstration Project Information Sheet is available for download by clicking here.

Baseload Renewable Energy

There is considerable internal inconsistencies [false data] and resulant confusion in the literature in the field of electrical power units relating to what is a Nameplate Capacity Rating for installed equipment, and what is the forecast output of the equipment measured over a time interval. The false data that does exist has grown with solar and wind power plants being specified as so many Megawatt [MW] of installed capacity to compare the capital costs of project costs with traditional fossil fuel burning thermal power plants.

Due to the preponderance of thermal methods of generation, most commonly the capacity of an installed coal-run power plant is rated in Megawatts [MW]. For example, utility scale thermal plants have traditionally started at a rated capacity of 1,000 MW. However, this rating bears no direct comparison to the actual output of the power plant as coal-run plants cannot operate at 100% efficiency. The Nameplate [rated] capacity is never realized and must be reduced for fuel sources that do not burn properly and other operational inefficiencies.

Similarly with solar and wind plants being stated in terms of MW of installed capacity is non-sensical for two reasons.

Firstly, they are not thermal thermal plants being inherently intermittent, and secondly, solar and wind plants operate at efficiencies of around 20% and 40% at the very best due to the inconsistency of weather patterns – sunshine and prevailing winds.

So one could put this another way and say that apples are being compared to oranges, resulting in thermal versus solar & wind project capital cost comparisons being meaningless.

About Electricity Capital Cost Terminology

To compound the above confusions and add a further layer of untruth to stated capacities, some people commonly confuse the nameplate rated capacity stated in MW of output with the actual output which must be measured over a time interval to make sense. The most common time interval is one hour. So we see output correctly stated as so many MW hours -[MW hrs] which means that so many Megawatts are produced consistently for the period of one hour. To say that 1 MW of power is needed is meaningless without stating the time interval, be it output by the second or by the hour.

Small volumes of electricity output are denominated in kilowatts [kW; kW hrs]; larger volumes of output are stated in Megawatts [MW; MW hrs], Gigawatts [GW; GW hrs], and Terawatts [TW;TW hrs]. Electricity pricing is another factor Retail (consumer) electricity prices paid by consumers are most commonly denominated in kW hrs, and Wholesale electricity prices paid to Independent Power Producers for electricity fed into a Grid, or supplied directly to an end user, are most commonly denominated in MW hrs.

1 kilowatt [kW] = 1,000 [one thousand] watts; 1 Megawatt [MW] = 1,000,000 [one million] watts; 1 Gigawatt [GW] = 1,000,000,000 [one billion] watts; 1 Terawatt [TW] = 1,00,000,000,000 [one trillion] watts.

About Electricity Capital Cost Terminology

Planetary Civilisation Ventures calculates the output potential of NewHYDRO™ per second and multiplies that by 60 seconds in the minute, and then 60 minutes in the hour to arrive at a stated output figure of kW hrs, MW hrs, GW hrs or TW hrs on a per hour basis. The only valid basis to compare thermal power plants or solar and wind renewable power plants rated capacity is on the basis of actual output per unit of time.  As NewHYDRO™ does not burn any fuel, is not weather dependent, and operates at 100% efficiency – it is not valid to compare it to thermal, solar or wind on any other basis than actual design output capability per second, or per hour.

Due Diligence NewHYDRO™

Clean Power Stations; When it comes to confronting the threat of climatic destruction and the possibility of the extinction of humanity, quite naturally, people involved in coal-fired generation of Greenhouse Gas pollution become very defensive about the matter – and perhaps their worst nightmare would be to see parity pricing for clean renewable power stations established.

The extreme vested interests bent only on entrenching the burning of fossil fuels for as long as possible remark that the world population’s concerns about what burning coal does to the atmosphere and quality of life is ridiculous, unimportant, or deserved as a consequence of people’s demand for electricity. And of course we see the coal lobby debasing efforts to curtail the clean power station and carbon price lobby industry with cries that the clean power station energy lobby has the potential of very important, very bad, and irremediable impacts on the affairs of these vested interests.

And in the view of these vested interests, anything that the clean power station energy lobby could do is without real value, and is better handled by the vested interests.

Clean Power Stations

In the last Renewable Energy Finance Forum that was held in New York City, Lisa Frantzis, managing director of Navigant said “It’s only about two rate cases away. It’s not 20 years out. It’s right around the corner, and a lot of these utilities are becoming more and more aware of that.” Frantzis who is an energy expert stated that several U.S states could reach grid parity by 2014.  However, his idea of a clean power station embraces only solar and wind farms.  As the sun only shines so many hours a day – its’ hard to imagine how the technology will ever do better than the 20% or so efficiency factor it historically enjoys.  Wind clean power stations – better known as farms – in the USA have an installed wind power capacity in the U.S. of 35,603 megawatts thanks to the addition of 10,050 megawatts in 2009, mostly in Texas, California and Oregon.  However, these figures must be reduced as wind rarely performs better than 40%.

Clean Power Stations

Planetary Civilisation Ventures Pty Ltd [PCV] is an Australian registered company [ACN: 141 203 385] that has evolved the world’s first reliable method for generating electricity from natural supply that is lower cost than traditional fossil fuel and all other renewable energy sources including solar and wind technologies – which means that clean power stations are becoming available, long before 2014.

Clean Sustainable Renewable Power Stations able to provide 24 hour electricity generation are made possible by the evolution of the NewHYDRO ™ modular power plant technology innovated by Planetary Civilisation Ventures Pty Ltd of Australia [PCV].

The top 10 regions for natural expansion of electricity demand and investment in transmission grid infrastructure from 2010 to 2020 that provides a tremendous  market opportunity for the worldwide development of Clean Sustainable Renewable Power Stations are as follows:

Clean Sustainable Renewable Power Stations

For the sake of us all, not just the small group of vested interests, we must innovate. Now that the centralized monopolies of electricity monopoly have been broken by governments, almost worldwide, the artificial entrenchment of the burning of coal, so akin to the primitive Man that discovered fire, can be dispensed with. Fortunately, the European governments took the lead with the introduction of incentives for solar and wind farms granting priority grid access and subsidized pricing to these technologies.

The struggle continues to manifest new ways to use permanently available natural supply to deliver electricity which is not an Atmospheric threat to the planet and that poses no future threat of environmental contamination, and is not needed to be subsidized by the public purse.

In the refreshing clear view of dawn, in the eternity of time, dispensing with the thermal burning of fossil fuels is the only chance we have as a global civilization.  Read more …

PCV’s NewHydro™ clean power group is an independent developer of onshore power generation projects using the latest NewHydro™  technology which is poised to capitalize on two significant incomplete market needs in the world, by generating electricity that is reliable, non-intermittent, portable, efficient, distributable, low cost, and within the existing grids of power markets.

NewHydro

New non-intermittent and portable renewable power plants are necessary to meet the growing energy demand and the escalating demand for new renewable supply. New technologies, such as NewHydro™ provide advantages over traditional renewable energy technologies like solar and wind.  Unlike solar and wind power, NewHydro™ has no fluctuating supply, and due to its relatively small footprint has no visual impairment in the environment.

NewHydro

Australian Renewable Energy Developer Planetary Civilisation Ventures Pty Ltd [PCV] is an Australian registered company [ACN: 141 203 385] that has evolved the world’s first reliable method for generating electricity from natural supply that is lower cost than traditional fossil fuel and all other renewable energy sources including solar and wind technologies.

Australian Renewable Energy Developer

An appropriate non-polluting renewable energy power station technology must be optimized to meet the following requirements of mankind:

1) be non-polluting
2) be distributable within existing grids
3) be reliable 24/7
4) be competitive in terms of price
5) be capital efficient
6) be free of fuel use

Companies and countries that choose to use this new technology will be self-sufficient for electric power and be able to provide power to neighbouring and far away countries through existing and planned grids.

Australian Renewable Energy Developer

Discussions are now open with parties interested to sponsor Renewable Energy Power Station project companies.

Renewable Energy Power Station Developer; an Australian registered company currently focused on project development initiatives worldwide to secure financial and project management cooperation with interested parties including Independent Power Producer Consortia and Government.

Australian Renewable Energy Power Plant Developer