# Presentation: 237418

## Wind and Hydropower

- Workshop on Electrolysis Production of Hydrogen from Wind and Hydropower
- Washington, DC
- September 9, 2003
**Peter Goldman**
- Program Manager
- Wind and Hydropower Technologies

**Wind and Hydropower**
** ****R&D Priorities**

## U.S. Wind Power Cost, 

- Capacity (MW)

- Cost of Energy (cents/kWh*)

- *Year 2000 dollars

**U.S. Wind Power Cost, **
**Capacity Trends**

**Notes:**
DOE partnerships with industry over the past 20 years have lead to a significant decrease in the cost of energy from wind and an increase in capacity.

More gains are on the horizon.

## Factors Influencing Future Development 

- Transmission
- Production Tax Credit Extension
- Renewable Portfolio Standards
- Wind-Hydro Integration
- FERC Relicensing for Hydro
- Air Emissions and Climate Policy
- Offshore Development
- Hydrogen
- Clean Water

## Program Mission

- Enhance the level of technology development and deployment of the Nation’s fastest growing and the most widely used renewable energy resources.

**Notes:**
Mostly will talk about wind energy but I hold the hydropower portfolio as well.

Hydro is not as big as the wind program, but a crucial element of our national energy mix.  Our job will be to maintain the hydropower contribution and explore exciting opportunities for wind/hydro work that will strengthen both simultaneously.  

More on that later...

## Research Priorities

- Wind:
- Low Wind Speed Technology
- Large
- Distributed
- Systems Integration
- Address wind power grid operating impacts
- Systems planning – transmission, emerging applications
- Hydropower:
- Increase production at existing facilities
- Harness untapped capacity without new dams

## Low Wind Speed Opportunity

**Low Wind Speed Opportunity**

**Notes:**
Here’s why we’re looking at low-wind speed technology...

Red areas are where most of development taking place today.

With a LWST we can access the green areas too.

## Low Wind Speed 

**Low Wind Speed **
**Technology Development**

- By 2012, reduce COE from large systems in Class 4 winds 3 cents/kWh onshore or 5 cents/kWh offshore

***Large Systems ( > 100 kW)***

***Small Systems ( ******≤ ******100 kW)***

- By 2007, reduce COE from distributed wind systems 10-15 cents/kWh in Class 3

## Offshore Wind Power

- Higher-quality wind resources
- Reduced turbulence
- Increased wind speed
- Economies of scale
- Avoid logistical constraints on turbine size
- Proximity to loads
- Many demand centers are near the coast
- Increased transmission options
- Access to less heavily loaded lines
- Potential for reducing land use and aesthetic concerns

## New England Potential

**Preliminary Analysis**

**New England Potential**

## Deep Water Potential

**Deep Water Potential**

## Megawatts

**Megawatts**

**Notes:**
The FY 2004 budget has been a long time coming.  What I mean by that is we have been building this budget for several years through policy development and a lot of hard work.  It began in May 2001 when the Administration released the National Energy Policy and its five priority energy challenges for the Nation: modernize energy conservation, modernize our energy infrastructure, increase energy supplies, accelerate the protection and improvement of the environment, and increase energy security.  EERE plays a significant role in meeting each of these challenges.  
Our Strategic Program Review, released in March 2002, included months of program and project evaluation, as well as a series of public meetings held across the country.  The review identified program activities to be expanded, those to be ended, those to be refocused, and those to be “watch-listed.”
Just last October, we published a new EERE Strategic Plan that includes a new mission statement and nine clearly defined priorities reflecting the Nation’s new emphasis on security.  The plan, and this budget, reflect Secretary Abraham’s challenge to “leapfrog” the status quo and pursue “dramatic environmental benefits.”
Good plans and “smart” budgets are an important start.  However, it is effective and efficient management that will deliver the goods and ultimately serve people.  We took the President’s Management Agenda very seriously.  So seriously, that I felt we needed to turn EERE upside down and start over with a whole new program and business management paradigm.  Our new business model and reorganization took effect this past July.  I will tell you what we did in just a few minutes.
For years, EERE was all about maintaining a careful balance across all energy sector interests and maintaining stakeholder status quo.  In this budget, you will see 11 focused programs compared to last year’s 31, and you will see that these 11 programs support 9 clearly defined priorities.   

## Outlook

- Sustain strong collaboration with** **Hydrogen Program
- Build effective partnerships with industry, academia, stakeholders
- Joint team to lead analysis, R&D, and outreach needed to advance the clean production of hydrogen