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Sustainable and Cheap and Reliable Electricity (and Water; and Food)
A Future; Help me turn a dream into reality

1. Sustainable & Cheap & Reliable Electricity An Implementation Strategy for Net Metering By David Lipschitz My Power Station Technology 28 th August 2012 Phone: [phone] [email protected] ; skype: MyPowerStation (c) My Power Station Technology cc 2012 Permission is given to copy parts of this presentation as long as the author is acknowledged 1

2. Why I’m here I’m asking people to join me in a business venture that will save us all money We get to critical mass when we reach 50,000 residences At 50,000 residences out of 14 million we become one of Eskom’s biggest customers / suppliers To discuss: Grid Parity and Net Metering Virtual Power Stations and Smart Grids Business, Homeowner Responsibility Government Responsibility (c) My Power Station Technology 2012 2

3. Grid Parity And Net Metering Grid Parity Repayments on our installed systems cost the same as buying electricity We become Power Producers economically Net Metering A payment system Different types of “Net Metering” Buy and sell at the same price Buy and sell at different prices (c) My Power Station Technology 2012 3

4. Reaching Grid Parity in July 2012 Graph in Rand per kWh (ex VAT) (Also at Grid Parity inc VAT) (c) My Power Station Technology 2012

5. Fix your price and save (c) My Power Station Technology 2012 5

6. Virtual Power Stations & Smart Grids Virtual Power Stations A collection of small power producers and consumers look like a Normal Power Station in the grid Smart Grids Intelligent, computerised, dynamic, electricity grids The user tells the grid what it needs The grid tells the user what is available Price changes depending on demand and supply (c) My Power Station Technology 2012 6

7. Business / Homeowner Responsibility Can we help? How? Why? What do homeowners need? Cheap, reliable electricity (on demand) What does business need? Cheap, reliable electricity on demand (c) My Power Station Technology 2012 7

8. Government’s Responsibility “Government should create an enabling environment to allow renewable energy technologies to compete with fossil-based technologies .” Government’s White Paper on Renewable Energy, 2003 With electricity growth at 3% per annum, Eskom meets half of the electricity demanded. With coal, oil, nuclear, we can never catch up with the demand . (c) My Power Station Technology 2012 8

9. Government So, has government created an enabling environment? If not then because: Myopia? Changing the rules? Too many rules? Greenwashing ? Electricity revenue? Up to 95% of some cities income 60% of city of Cape Town’s income; up from 40% 5 years ago Lack of insight into the possibility of South Africa (c) My Power Station Technology 2012 9

10. The Cities Worry about losing revenue due to homeowners, etc , making their own electricity What model allows cities to make more money with Renewable Energy than with Fossil Fuel Energy? What about City growth? (c) My Power Station Technology 2012 10

11. Let’s look at “the gap” (c) My Power Station Technology 2012

12. What’s electricity for anyway? It’s an enabler to get the economy moving The cost of unserved energy: R70 / kWh (c) My Power Station Technology 2012 12

13. Electricity Challenges For City Dwellers without electricity, NO: Water, Banking, Petrol, Transport, Food, Life Only 4 days of food in the supply chain Everything we do depends on electricity We need security of supply We need price certainty So, how do we: Create security of supply? Quickly? How do we start reducing prices? Quickly? (c) My Power Station Technology 2012 13

14. Why are electricity prices increasing rapidly? At 3% electricity consumption growth (c) My Power Station Technology 2012 14

15. Our Environment: GDP World GDP Growth (c) My Power Station Technology 2012 15

16. Video We Live in Exponential Times 5 minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= lUMf7FWGdCw This exponential growth depends on exponential availability of inexpensive electricity (c) My Power Station Technology 2012 16

17. Electricity from Wind (c) My Power Station Technology 2012 17