Invest in NI - Olive Hill - CBI NI Annual Energy Forum 2009

1. CBI NI Annual Energy Forum
Olive Hill
Director of Technology & Process Development
Date, Wednesday 28th January 2009

2. Evidence of a changing climate?

3. Mounting Evidence

4. Energy ????…. (NREL)

5. Where is it going? (NREL)

6. State Policy Framework
Renewable Portfolio Standards (NREL)

7. Headlines
• “ $16 trillion (or $550 billion per year) will need to be spent on the energy
supply infrastructure globally between now and 2030”
International Energy Agency
• “35 GW of new renewable energy capacity involving an investment of some
£100 billion is needed by 2020”
UK Renewables
• “On site renewables worth up to £36 billion a year by 2016”
Renewable Advisory Board (UK)

8. Invest NI Interest
Government Policy
-Climate Change Targets
-Renewables
Energy Efficiency
- Competiveness
Growing Market – Opportunities
- Competiveness
R&D Capabilities
- Innovation

9. Short-term0-5 Medium-term5-15 Long-term
Years Years 15-25 Years
Diversity Inc onshore wind Offshore Wind Wave/Tidal
Electricity, Dynamic Large Hydrogen storage
Infrastructure scale power e.g. Dynamic high efficiency
Clean coal
Transport Bio fuels 4th generation Nuclear
Energy “nodes”
Demand side
management
Decentralise Community wind, AD energy from Marine Biomass
biomass district MSW, Biomass Fuel cells, Virtual power
heating, Anaerobic gasification stations
digestion for farm Community CHP
wastes
Decrease Air-source retrofit Enhanced Micro-chp Nano-based insulations
Heat Pumps Low cost Vacuum PV Concentrators
Solar thermal Insulated Panels Organic PV
Advanced Glazing

10. Technology Options Are Evolving (NREL)
Low High
Concept Prototype KW MW GW
Study Testing Scale Scale Scale First Generation PV: Crystalline Silicon
Utility Wind Trough - Solar Only
(Land based)
Trough – Indirect 2-Tank Molten Salt Storage
Offshore Wind
(Bottom Mounted)
Second Generation PV: Thin films
Offshore Wind Trough – Advanced Direct Storage
(Floating Turbines)
Concentrating PV
Marine Energy *
Power Tower – Direct 2 Tank
(Wave, Tidal, current)
Molten Salt Storage
Distributed Wind Dish Stirling
(communities-residencies)
Third Generation PV:
Organic / Plastic, nanostructures
Organisations leading the R&D Organisations leading the R&D
Industry leaders with government Government Laboratory Contactors
support Lab / Academia
Government-Industry Partnership Academia & Small Startups Industry
Low High
Ethanol
Biodiesel
Geothermal Heat Pumps
Green diesel
Direct Thermal Applications
Syngas Liquids
Bio-oil Derivative
Conventional Hydrothermal Generation
H2 From Biomass
Enhanced Geothermal
Diesel from Algae Systems
Hydrocarbons from Carbohydrates
Organisations leading the R&D
Organisations leading the R&D
HVAC
Grain / Agriculture Coal Chemical Industry Industry, Academia, DOE
Petroleum Forestry Academia & Startups Industry DOE, Academia, Industry

11. Existing Research and Development Commitments
• Advanced Fuel Cells • Fluidized Bed Conversion
• Advanced Motor Fuels • Heat Pumping Technologies
• Bioenergy • High-Temperature
• Buildings and Community Superconductivity (HTS) on the
Systems (ECBCS) Electric Power Sector
• Clean Coal Sciences • Hydrogen
• Demand-Side Management • Hydropower
• Emissions Reduction in • Ocean Energy Systems
Combustion • Photovoltaic Power Systems
• Energy Storage • Renewable Energy Technology
• Energy Technology Systems Deployment
Analysis Programme (ETSAP) • Solar Heating and Cooling
• Enhanced Oil Recovery • Wind Energy Systems
UK UK and Ireland

12. Technology Innovation Challenges Remain
The Next Generation
• Wind– Improve energy capture by 30%
– Decrease costs by 25%
• Biofuels– New feedstocks
– Integrated biorefineries
• Solar– Improved performance through, new
materials, lower cost manufacturing processes,
concentration
– Nanostructures
• Zero energy buildings– Building systems
integration
– Computerized building energy optimization tools
• Advanced vehicles– Plug-in hybrids/electrics
– Alternative fuels

13. Four areas of development opportunity
• Integrated Building Technologies
• Offshore energy (including wind, tidal, wave)
Wind
GB - 7,000 offshore turbines / £64 billion
ROI - £4 billion / 5 years
Marine
UK - £36m Marine turbine research
£50 m Wave power research
• Bio Energy
AD
Bio fuels
• Energy Storage
Current annual £21 billion globally, 55%, £33 billion by 2012

14. Making Transformational Change
Requires an integrated approach (NREL)