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Panel V: The New Energy Economy in Ohio
Panel V: The New Energy Economy in Ohio
Pages 84-93
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It had recently announced a wind farm in Erin, Ohio, which is planned to produce 100 Mw of power. It is the largest wind provider in Pennsylvania, making use of the steady winds along the Allegheny Ridge.
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He then described ambitious plans to develop a solar project "that will be the largest ever constructed east of the Rockies when it is finished in 2014." He began with the dramatic story of how he had come to this vision with virtually no prior experience in solar energy. He grew up in Athens County, in Appalachian Ohio, and had spent much of his life trying to find a way to stimulate economic growth there.
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"Today," he said, "when you study this transitional energy economy, you see the opportunities that exist here. We can build nuclear containment vessels; for natural gas, we have the Marcellus shale and the Utica shale; for carbon sequestration, the Mount Simon formation covers much of western Ohio." "Just as we once led the world innovating in the old form of energy," Mr.
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It is a small group whose core mission is to support the energy technologies that underlie national security, economic security, and environmental security. The agency was proposed in 2006 in the Rising Above the Gathering Storm report by the National Academies and created in 2007 under the Bush administration.
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We're the ‘urgency agency.'" ARPA-e's Active Management Tools The program also uses active management tools to promote eventual project success. "It's not just a matter of putting the money out and saying get back to us and tell us when you've achieved your milestones," Dr.
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Projects were supported in 10 energy areas: renewable power, vehicle technologies, solar fuels, carbon capture, biomass, energy storage, conventional energy, water, waste heat capture, and building efficiency. After that first solicitation, it set out to create more targeted portfolios, beginning with transportation.
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There are three ways to do that: adjust absorption by making the leaves darker or black; adjust metabolism so plants make fuel directly; and harvest plants as we do in agriculture but optimize them genetically to develop crops that are competitive with corn and sugar cane." BUILDING CLEAN ENERGY COMPANIES IN OHIO: WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE Lorry Wagner LEEDCo LEEDCo, the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation, is a private, nonprofit enterprise dedicated to making Cleveland a national and perhaps international leader in offshore wind power.
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But there is a great opportunity for renewables, and that's why we're here. We need secure power, and it has to be affordable." If Ohio is new to offshore wind, it did set the pace in onshore wind as long ago as the 1876, when local inventor Charles Brush erected the first electric wind turbine on downtown Euclid Avenue.
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They are GE, Bechtel, which is the largest engineering construction firm in the U.S., Cavallo Energy, Great Lakes Wind Energy, and a host of others." In addition to the large industrials, LEEDCo has a research consortium that is scheduled to grow over time, and some 100 strategic advisors. One of these is Great Lakes Towing, for example, which has been operating for more than a century and understands the safety and navigational issues of Lake Erie better than any organization.
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For example, the renewable portfolio standard could be met while buying equipment from abroad, which would not help local businesses. He praised AEP, First Energy, and others for focusing on such issues and trying hard to maximize the local and regional economic benefit associated with these projects.
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