About Us
NewHYDRO™ is the only renewable energy technology that is lower cost than coal run power stations, and that can also deliver base load electric power 24 x7, and that is conveniently locatable within existing grid infrastructure. Each 108 Megawatt NewHYDRO™ basic 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.
Planetary Civilisation Ventures [PCV] is at the forefront of environmental, economic, and technological research and development for the utility scale generation of reliable base load renewable electricity. For it to be feasible to achieve 100 percent cost-effective efficiency with electricity utility programs, new strategies and technologies are essential.
Utility Scale Electricity Generation Options
Based on current commercially availability and use, the utility scale technologies capable of dulpication in mid-2010 are Biomass, Coal Gasification, Offshore Wind, Ocean Wave, and Nuclear. In terms of commercial viability choices in substituting for fossil fuel generated utility scale base load supply, both ocean-wave and offshore-wind technologies are assumed to not be viable until about 2018, and nuclear development has an uncertain future politically.
Predicting The Future Leaders
Predicting which renewable energy technology will enter the scene and be dominant in ten years time at 2020 is reliant on examining current research and innovation for emerging disruptive 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 requiring government, consumers, and businesses to take a hard look at exactly how energy is used in the state and ways to choose an energy system that is less carbon intensive.
Properly Powering Nation-States
Nations are heavily dependent on coal, petroleum and/or natural gas for electricity generation – all of which do not burn properly and give off man-made greenhouse gas pollution – the sellers of these fuels artificially make super profits by not accounting for the environmental and social costs of the products of their businesses. These three thermal technologies face stiff economic, environmental, and regulatory barriers that severely limit their expansion in the future.
Despite nations generally aligning with the benchmark to reduce CO2 emissions at 2020 to 1990 levels, and despite the enactment of mandatory laws requiring renewable energy to supply 20% of national electricity generation early this decade, additional technological pollution reduction options will still be needed to lower CO2 emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Longer term in the 2030 to 2050 time frame renewables adoption will heighten dramatically to service increased electricity demand driven by organic global population growth, the economic development of nations, and generally the desired increased standard of living worldwide. As an example of a Nation-State’s renewable targets, California is the world’s eighth largest economy, third largest consumer of gasoline, and twelfth largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
“A single state cannot stabilize the world’s climate. But California has a reputation for innovation. Other states and countries follow our lead. If history is a predictor of a state’s ability to make a difference on the world stage, California’s actions on climate change will drive global progress.”
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The Technology And The Era For Renewable Generation
Beyond the efficiency measures to lower pollution for vehicle transport, substituting for fossil fuel burning thermal power plants for electricity generation, lighting efficiency, and forestry conservation – revolutionary methods for renewable electricity generation are urgently required worldwide, as is distributed generation.
Renewable energy is essential for meeting greenhouse gas and carbon pollution reduction goals.
• Utilities are falling short of the goal and are not expected to deliver the 20 percent renewables by 2010 although they may have sufficient quantities under contract.
• A target of 33 percent renewables by 2020 is achievable with government initiated programs improvements in transmission siting, dispatchability and reliability, and contract assurance (priority grid access and guaranteed feed-in tariffs).
This will establish renewable electricity generation as a mainstream technology.
PCV’s NewHydro™
PCV is an Australian research and development company established as an enabler of small and utility scale onshore electricity power generation projects using its’ revolutionary low cost reliable Hydro hybrid technology – NewHydro™. The basic fully scalable modular unit is designed at a capacity of 108 MW, and has a footprint of one square meter – with work space and grid connection converter switch gear the occupied space is less than the footprint of a standard parking space.
This revolutionary low cost and reliable renewable energy technology is aimed to deliver environmental and social benefits, and poised to economically capitalize on two significant incomplete market needs in the world:
1. The need to generate electricity that is non-polluting, reliable, low-cost, non-intermittent, portable, efficient, distributable, and
2. The need to locate within the existing transmission grid infrastructure of power markets.
To achieve carbon reduction targets, the public debate has argued that a single dimensional approach focusing on price, such as a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade program, would be the simplest approach for nations to meet their greenhouse emission goals. Others argue that programs for energy efficiency and demand-side management, along with the adoption of non-polluting renewables, should be expanded as these programs will provide the earliest and most reliable emission reductions.
It is obvious now that the most prudent avenue for addressing climate change mitigation issues is to pursue both a pricing and non-polluting renewables adoption program approach. Nations will aggressively pursue and expand their energy efficiency and demand-side management programs as this decade unfolds, as well as dramatically increase their target percent for mandatory renewables for electricity generation.
Business as usual energy efficiency programs will provide early greenhouse gas emission reductions and serve as a solid foundation for the supplementary introduction of cap-and-trade or carbon tax pricing. Taken together all these measures amount to the appropriate economic incentives for renewable electricity generation researchers, innovators and developers.
Carbon cap-and-trade programs will introduce yet another financial driver for renewables in addition to the existing patchwork of various mandatory preferential grid-access laws and guaranteed Feed-In Tarrifs like in Europe, and the uncapped and guaranteed minimum price Renewable Energy Certificates scheme introduced in mid-2010 in Australia.
Companies generating electricity that are interested in lowering both CO2 emissions and fuel costs in light of the above noted industry evolution can get involved in PCV’s Grid-Connected Demonstration Project to gain organisational knowledge about the performance, integration, and costs of NewHYDRO™ hybrid technology systems for grid integration. Entities interested in accelerating the development of NewHYDRO™ Utility Scale Renewable Energy Power Stations for base load generation should also participate. PCV’s Grid-Connected Demonstration Project Information Sheet is downloadable by clicking on this link.
The Opportunity
The top 10 regions for natural expansion of electricity demand and investment in transmission grid infrastructure from 2010 to 2020 are as follows:
PCV’s NewHydro™ clean power group is currently focused on project development initiatives worldwide to secure financial and project management cooperation with interested parties to sponsor and manage REPS [Renewable Energy Power Stations] in all these regions.
PCV has developed a REPS development template trademarked as GreenIPP [Green Independent Power Producer] per the diagram below:
Click here for our “Renewable Energy Power Plant Development Template”
Background
PCV’s NewHydro™ clean power group commenced research in 2007 in recognition of the tremendous opportunity that exists to create new capacity to accommodate the recent growth in new natural power generation industry, and the need to locate non-intermittent naturally powered power plants onshore for capital cost and operational efficiency.
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.
Our goal is to develop large scale, onshore, power generation assets globally.
As demand for electricity continually increases without end caused by ever rising organic population growth world wide, and as fossil fuels are in disfavour with governments, and near extinction around mid-century at any rate, PCV’s technology is well placed to serve the needs of clean electricity project development and consumers, and fill the gap created by the drive to replace fossil fuels.
The closer we come to mid-century, and as fossil fuel supplies become more scarce, their supply will become increasingly erratic, and their prices more volatile at ever increasing higher levels. This is all well evidenced by classical demand-and-supply economic thought, and the obvious ever increasing price of electricity.
As PCV’s envisioned plant is weather independent, it can be located anywhere, and is free of the need to use long-distance-electricity-transmission-grids.
“The key item as a global progression agenda is a worldwide skill set for creating
and operating clean power assets for their rapid spread across the planet”.
Good grand strategy goes with the major flows of the age. It exploits technologies that must appear.
It tries to get in front of major resource and money flows, sensing that is where the future infrastructure will be built.
It utilizes the undeniable forces of the era to effect its desired ends. At its heart, good grand strategy is both economically deterministic and technologically opportunistic.
Smart global firms are abandoning the multinational corporate model completely and turning themselves into system administrators of entire production, and buyer even of R&D chains, employing it upon the larger global economy.
By jumping into the field of clean energy production from natural supply, not only will companies get smarter, they will learn how to sell the opportunity for clean power supply to the highest corporate returns in coming decades.
As the global clean power build-out unfolds and escalates, shifting our time to embrace all countries of the world as a whole, we are clearly going to see an increase in the demand-pull for clean technologies to totally replace fossil fuels being burned to generate electricity.
Globalization has entered an age of demand-pull private sector builders.
We are engaged in a Proof of Concept for our Clean Power Farm template, and we plan to sell upgrades of it throughout the world, partnering with some of the world’s largest system integrators, utility providers, deal-brokers, logistical firms, and the like.
Despite the current focus on global climate change and the push to reduce CO2 emissions, the big “going-green” shift of the next couple of decades will be more about reducing energy costs than about pollution per se: because of the overall rising energy demand, we’re unlikely to lower carbon emissions worldwide for quite some time.
The two big shifts will concern the movement to a far more distributed model of power generation, and the shift from coal and natural gas generation of electricity generation to clean power.
So the key item as a global progression agenda is a worldwide skill set for creating and operating clean power assets for their rapid spread across the planet.
The aspect that cyclone Katrina that devastated New Orleans in the USA caught most Americans imagination was the theme of environmental collapse. Katrina became a touchstone in public debates about unsustainable environmental policies in a world increasingly marked by global warming – another “inconvenient truth” not yet confronted.
The world wants a different organizing principle to animate global strategy.
Our ultimate goal should not be the reduction of Greenhouse Gases or global warming per se, but “to improve the quality of life and the environment for future generations”.
It’s a work for humanity’s future.
We will not leave the oil age because we have run out of oil, any more than we stopped using whale oil because we ran out of whales.
Instead, humanity moves progressively down the carbon chain for the simple reason that each step we take brings us higher efficiency and less environmental damage – a veritable win-win.
The peak oil advocates daily decry our global economy’s “looming collapse” – the real target of the theory.
China’s stunning economic trajectory, combined with its weak environmental regulation, inevitably will lead it to a near-term ecological “collapse”. It is destined for a complete environmental collapse.
Humanity faces incredible challenges in the decades ahead, and social entrepreneurs face incredible opportunity.
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