Solaqua's Energy Future Project :: Context of the Project

 

Project Proposal (to be updated)

Section 1.1 Impending Energy Challenges

Section 1.2 The Rising Cost of Energy

Section 1.2.1 Energy Composition

 

Consumption Assessment

 

Assessment of the consumer benefit gained by the introduction and acceptance of the F-SPES technology to commercial and industrial end-users in the energy class above mentioned will be conducted by a case study on the same facility proposed to produce these units. The case study will be conducted on a site located in Chatham, NY that currently houses a Magnetics manufacturing facility and 100,000 square feet of abandoned warehouse space. The facility is home to a proposed adaptive reuse project demonstrating renewable energy technologies and focusing that energy on performing and industrial arts. Specific proposed technologies to be incorporated in the facility include a hydroelectric generating turbine, PV, solar-thermal collectors, wind, and a hydrogen generation system, likely an electricity driven electrolyzer until a more efficient technology becomes accessible. The facility, Solaqua Power & Art, will be a demonstration center illustrating the innovative and practical ways that renewable energy technologies can be used and incorporated into certain sectors of society. The implications of the demonstration of the practicality of a renewable energy-driven arts center include the extrapolation of that demonstration to any facility of comparable size and energy needs, which could be a manufacturing, research, or service-based operation. The case study will evaluate energy demand of the facility at projected completion levels, including energy for producing the F-SPES technology and energy requirements for all proposed consumption equipment. This will allow all energy costs associated in the production of the technology to be encapsulated by the energy budget of the facility, and ultimately, by the renewable energy plan for the facility. Proposed equipment includes hydrogen-fired kilns, furnaces, and torches as well as commercial lighting, retail, and manufacturing components. The energy analysis will be complex and site specific. An example of the complexities this entails is the hydrogen kilns proposed for the facility. Energy needs for hydrogen production will be assessed by electrolyzer efficiency rates and integration of renewable energy production sources to provide that electricity. Hydrogen demand will be evaluated by BTU conversion of existing kilns running on natural gas and interviewing the artists who will actually be using the kilns will assess operation demand. By connecting these dots of the energy consumption picture the overall energy needs become realistically measurable. Additionally, steps will be taken to utilize available benefits in New York that promote energy efficiency and reduced energy consumption.

 

 

 

 

New York State Research and Development Authority PON 909. “Commercial/Industrial Performance Program.”

 

 

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