Ten Years Hence Lecture: Wind, Solar and Storage: A perspective from the Global Leader in Renewables
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- Wind, Solar and Storage: A perspective from the Global Leader in Renewables by Mike O’Sullivan, Senior Vice President, Development, NextEra Energy Resources, LLC
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Excellent lecture. I wish we had companies and individual leaders like this in New Zealand. I think it has to be the result of intelligence, vision and a whole lot of hard work by a team over a long period. Perhaps also because the size of the potential market is far larger, with huge industrial infrastructure and supportive universities and research institutions. I almost can't believe how much cheaper electric power is in the USA, but that's the power of competitive forces and innovation in a dynamic market economy with too much scale to be run by an old boys network. Please come to NZ. Shake it up, make it go.
Assume someone comes up with a major high efficient prime mover. What will happen to the older less efficient plants? With power storage this may mean many will go off grid. Can older plants really be efficient enough to be worth while to keep running?
This is the reality of "complicated and messy" applications for Time Timing of wave-package pulses. DOUG and I need the perspective of the Smartphone Operators, and battery buffering of Information flow.
In touch with the reality.
Fair play he handled that first question very well 1 hr 3 mins
51:36 I disagree about offshore wind, I think Statoil is already on path to beat natural gas in
Well you were sure wrong on that one.
This was great to hear an industry insider explain the priorities without politics involved. It helps to pause for each slide. They contain fascinating information. I feel, after watching this, that I have a more whole view of the industry decisions. Thanks for the video.
re: "This was great to hear an industry insider explain the priorities without politics involved."
What are subsidies, except politics? Yeah, politicians deciding to take MY money and reward a non-competitive entity.
I don't see why we need to store it, the sun is ALWAYS shining on one part of the planet, can't we just build a worldwide grid? Admitting this will be a huge endeavor, but a lot more feasible than fusion, fission, storage or not?
Wires to distribute the electricity is costly AND you loose some for every mile you transmit those electrons.
How much would cables cost to get around the world? Do we even have enough copper or aluminium to do it?
Today, in 2017, Li-Ion batteries are economic even in Australia. Tesla batteries saved $30 million in 6 months.
I think it perfectly feasible technically and economically, it's just NOT politically feasible, the world is just not one happy place where you want to rely on another county for your power. YES, there is enough copper, if you know how many cables are already lying on the ocean floor for internet communication. but you could also utilize existing networks and just connect Russia and the USA (technically) YES, there will be loses, but batteries (storage) have loses too. (Li-ion are still the most expensive batteries and don't scale for grid usage.)
Well, considering that the peak consumption of any area coincides with that peak production, it suddenly falls apart.
@@DaveWilsBe, I was thinking in similar fashion. This is a reasonable question to ask. We may not get along with each other however, that doesn't stop nations from collaborating on big ideas. The flow of global energy could be enshrined in a legal framework as an essential service to humanity. The O&M and upgrades could be privately owned and operated by business in their respective national boundaries.
This "talk" about wireless transfer of energy is nuts, crazy actually. THINK about "living inside your microwave oven" ... yeah, GOOD idea ...
Too little about the technology in this talk. He talks like a sales guy.
WIND amounts to TRANSFER PAYMENTS to RENT SEEKERS from a rate-paying public who ends up paying MORE in the ultimate cost in electricity. While there is technically no fuel cost, the COST for HV Transmission lines EATS UP any so-called SAVINGS in the overall.