Ecotricity Presentation

ECOTRICITY
Why do I need to be concerned about global energy

problems?
Answer
The use and cost of energy affects each of us every day of our
lives. Many issues arise from the use of energy:
 greenhouse gas emissions
 acid rain
 climate change
 dependency on depleting supplies of fossil fuels

ENERGY DATA
INDIA Generation capacity (MW) Percentage (%)

COAL 68,434 55.5
NATURAL GAS 12,430 10.0
OIL 1,201 0.9
HYDRO 32,135 26.0
NUCLEAR 3,310 2.7
OTHER 6,158 4.9
Electricity consumption in India has
shown consistent growth in recent years.
Access to electricity supplies in rural areas of India is still relatively

low, with 74% of villages (439,000 of the Indian total 594,000)
having electricity
Population Urbanization
Electrification
Population
Urbanization
Electrification
INDIAN POWER SECTOR
 Demand Growth Outstrips Supply

 Village Electrification Not Complete
 Infrastructure Development weak
 Very High Electricity Losses
 Unmetered Power for Farmers
 Financial Impact on Utilities
 Distribution Reforms
 Long Term Growth Plans
 Transmission Expansion
 Private Investment in Power Sector
Electricity related pollution that is
being produced around the world
 The world produced a combined 19,020,000 gigawatt hours of electricity in 2007.
 Power stations produce nearly 10 billion tons of CO 2 per year and are the planet's
most concentrated source of greenhouse gases.
 Global CO2 emissions in 2004 were 27,245,758 thousand metric tons.
 In 2007, global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil fuel use and cement
production increased by 3.1%
India
 In 2007 India had a net energy production of 665,300,000,000 kilowatt hours.
 In 2004 India produced 1.34 billion metric tons of CO2.
 India's population is 1.21 billion as of 2011.

Effects of CO2 emission:
 Sea level rise
 Impacts on agriculture
 Reduction of the ozone layer
 Increased extreme weather
 Spread of diseases
 Ecosystem change
What is ECOTRICITY ?
how it is related to climate change and
energy conservation?
ECOTRICITY is an energy efficient city, which facilitate deployment of energy
efficient buildings, transport, and energy supply technologies in city design, by
developing quantifiable, system-level models that assess their feasibility and
implementation in the wider context of socio-economic, physical, and
regulatory characteristics of the city.
ECOTRICITY Initiative:
 City planning and design
 Buildings
 Transport
 Energy supply
CITY PLANNING AND DESIGN
Climate-Sensitive Urban Design and Architecture

Solar Park
 Commercial Solar power plants with
with a focus built in urban area
 Solar parks uses thin-film photovoltai

(PV) power system.
 Photovoltaic (PV) technology converts

one form of energy (sunlight) into another
form of energy (electricity)using no
moving parts, consuming no conventional
fossil fuels, creating no pollution, and
lasting for decades with very little
maintenance.
Solar Tree
 The Solar Tree has (PV) solar panels arrayed at the top of its branches to
generate energy from the sun.
Solar Street
PV Panels
 PV materials are categorized as either crystalline or thin film, and they are judged on
two basic factors: efficiency and economics.
 PV panels tend to work much better in cold weather than in hot climates .
 Array currents up to 20% greater than the specified output.
 Thin-film technologies include amorphous silicon, cadmium telluride, copper-indium

diselenide, and others.
 the cost of these panels appears attractive at first, it is important to note that the
efficiencies are comparatively low.
BUILDINGS
Skyscrapers equipped
with wind power turbines
 The two towers are linked via three sky bridges, each holding a 225KW wind turbine, totaling to
675kW of wind power production
 The sail-shaped buildings on either side are designed to funnel wind through the gap to provide
accelerated wind passing through the turbines.
 The wind turbines are expected to provide 11% to 15% of the towers' total power consumption,
or approximately 1.1 to 1.3 GWh a year.
 They are expected to operate 50% of the time on an average day.

Dynamic Skyscraper
 Dynamic Architecture’s wind powered rotating skyscraper.
 The main idea behind their concept involves a central concrete core surrounded by 59
independently rotating levels.
 The skyscraper would generate its own electricity from the massive horizontal wind turbines
that would be stacked in between each floor.
 Each turbine can produce 0.3 megawatt of electricity, compared to 1-1.5 megawatt generated by
a normal vertical turbine (windmill).
ZEH (Zero Energy Home)
A ZEH (Zero Energy Home) is a
popular term to describe a buildings
use with zero net energy consumption
and zero carbon emissions annually.
GE ZEH prototype
Hybrid Solar Lighting
 Using sunlight to light the homes.
Conceptual illustration of a hybrid solar lighting system.
 The hybrid solar lighting system

uses a roof-mounted solar
collector to concentrate visible
sunlight into a bundle of plastic
optical fibers.
 One collector powers about eight

fluorescent hybrid light fixtures,
which can illuminate about 1000
square feet.
 During times of little or no sunlight,

a sensor controls the intensity of
the artificial lamps to maintain a
desired illumination level.
TRANSPORT
Research in the transport module will extend bottom-up models of current

and possible future ground transport technology with the aim of estimating:
 Energy use and emissions
 Embodied energy and environmental impacts (climate and air quality)
 Capital and operating costs

Maglev Transport
 Maglev (derived from magnetic levitation), is a
system of transportation that suspends, guides
and propels vehicles, predominantly trains, using
magnetic levitation from a very large number of
magnets for lift and propulsion.
 The power needed for levitation is usually not a

particularly large percentage of the overall
consumption; most of the power used is needed
to overcome air drag, as with any other high
speed train.
 New transportation mode has occurred that can

clearly compete with planes in both speed and
safety. They are called MAGLEV trains. The full
form and the basic working principle of MAGLEV
is called magnetic levitation.
Magnetic Levitation
 The principle of magnetic levitation is that a vehicle can be suspended and propelled
on a guidance track made with magnets.
 The vehicle on top of the track may be propelled with the help of a linear induction
motor.
 Although the vehicle does not use steel wheels on a steel rail they are still referred to
as trains as by definition they are a long chain of vehicles which travel in the same
direction.
 The track along which the train moves is called the guide way. Both the guide way as
well as the train’s undercarriage also have magnets which repel each other. Thus the
train is said to levitate about 0.39 inches on top of the guide way.
Solar Road Ways
 The Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered

solar panels that are driven upon. The idea is to replace all
current petroleum-based asphalt roads, parking lots, and
driveways with Solar Road Panels that collect energy to be
used by our homes and businesses.
Piezo Electric systems for green
environment
 Piezoelectricity is based around the

ability of some materials, notably
crystals and certain ceramics, to
generate electrical field in response to
applied mechanical stress.
List of next gen Piezo electric systems
 Streetlights powered by sidewalks

 Innowattech’s Energy Generating Roadways
 Zeri Phone
 STREAM Portable Power
Generator
Fuel cell vehicle
 A fuel cell is a chemical engine that produces electricity from

hydrogen, emitting only water vapor.
 The electricity produced is used for driving a vehicle with an electric

motor.
 The hydrogen fuel can be produced in various ways, but currently the
most viable method is steam reforming of fossil fuels using a nickel
catalyst.
Energy Supply
Technologies investigated in this remit will

include:
 Solar fusion.
 Geothermal systems, including ground source heat pumps integrated with

building foundations (also known as energy piles).
 Combined heat and power (CHP) systems - especially those that run on
alternative biofuels. In addition to district heating, the viability of emerging
micro-CHP for domestic applications will also be assessed.
SOLAR FUSION
 The Sun is the Power House for the entire Solar
System. It is a fairly typical star that is not burning, but
is fusing together Hydrogen to form Helium. In so doing,
it releases energy in vast quantities. The process that
powers the Sun is called nuclear fusion.
 The fuels needed to create a nuclear fusion reaction—

the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium—are
abundant in seawater and thus are virtually limitless.
And there are no harmful byproducts of the reaction: no
radioactive, toxic wastes to dispose of.
 Fusion power is a clean, renewable energy source with

the potential to dramatically change how we generate
electricity.
CONCLUSION
The Green kind – energy which won’t run out or pollute – from the
Wind, the Sun and the Sea. We have coastline from which to
harness the Sea, some Wind energy and, though it doesn’t always
seem so, we even have the Sun.
The Way it is NowThe Way it Could Be

Ecotricity is the future of the mankind in
building healthier and energy efficient
planet.
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ECOTRICITY

Why do I need to be concerned about global energy

 greenhouse gas emissions

 dependency on depleting supplies of fossil fuels

INDIA Generation capacity (MW) Percentage (%)

Access to electricity supplies in rural areas of India is still relatively

 Demand Growth Outstrips Supply

 Global CO2 emissions in 2004 were 27,245,758 thousand metric tons.

 In 2004 India produced 1.34 billion metric tons of CO2.

 India's population is 1.21 billion as of 2011.

 Reduction of the ozone layer

 Increased extreme weather

 City planning and design

Climate-Sensitive Urban Design and Architecture

 Solar parks uses thin-film photovoltai

 Photovoltaic (PV) technology converts

 Array currents up to 20% greater than the specified output.

 Thin-film technologies include amorphous silicon, cadmium telluride, copper-indium

 They are expected to operate 50% of the time on an average day.

 Dynamic Architecture’s wind powered rotating skyscraper.

 The hybrid solar lighting system

 One collector powers about eight

 During times of little or no sunlight,

Research in the transport module will extend bottom-up models of current

 Energy use and emissions

 Embodied energy and environmental impacts (climate and air quality)

 Capital and operating costs

 The power needed for levitation is usually not a

 New transportation mode has occurred that can

 The Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered

 Piezoelectricity is based around the

 Streetlights powered by sidewalks

 A fuel cell is a chemical engine that produces electricity from

 The electricity produced is used for driving a vehicle with an electric

Technologies investigated in this remit will

 Geothermal systems, including ground source heat pumps integrated with

 The fuels needed to create a nuclear fusion reaction—

 Fusion power is a clean, renewable energy source with

The Way it is NowThe Way it Could Be

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