Paul Klinkman
Username
Paul Klinkman
Proposer First Name
Paul
Proposer Email
info@klinkmansolar.com
Proposer Last Name
Klinkman
Proposer Phone
(401) 351-9193
Proposer Job Title
Principal
Proposer Additional Info
I'm sending three concept papers to ARPA-Energy in collaboration with the UMass Renewable Energy Extension.
Proposed Session Description
The REC marketplace is developing some major shortcomings. I want the current Renewable Energy Credit market modified by creating peak load energy credits. A marketplace for peak demand electricity will allow electricity storage and negawatt companies to pre-fill marketplace niches for nightly power shortfalls, for once a month shortfalls and for once a year shortfalls.
Manitoba Hydro, among other utilities, is already adding extra generation capacity to its dams. Whenever the wind doesn’t blow, Manitoba Hydro generates an extra 100 megawatts.
I aim to develop gravity-based electricity storage using an assembly line system. I aim to develop seasonal solar geothermal storage for steam turbine generation in winter.
I aim to develop heat pumps that squirrel away solar-sourced heat within houses. Pre-emptive home heating/cooling might become our strongest tool for short term renewable electric load shifting.
We need a price structure so that many factories and offices will prefer to voluntarily give most of their employees a day off during catastrophic ten-year peak demand events.
Why is this session important?
Texas legislators went miles out of their way to try to blame “The Green New Deal” for their own recent catastrophic electric grid shutdown. The same shrill voices shall certainly blame our climate change champions for the first real renewable energy peak load crunch. We need to be proactive.
Texas wind companies have been selling renewable energy credits for around 1/10 of one cent per kilowatt-hour to Northeast companies, despite the fact that Texas isn’t on the same electric grid as the eastern United States. Equally, PV farms are selling RECs for sunny spring day power to companies that actually use winter and summer nighttime power.
Diversity and Inclusiveness
The climate crisis hurts the world's poor the hardest. Refugees report that it no longer pays to farm in Guatemala or in Bolivia.
I'm a senior.
Learning Objectives
Be politically empowered to change Renewable Energy Credits to Peak Load Energy Credits
Understand and speak on several dimensions of shifting peak load power, and how we are likely to approach 100% renewables fairly quickly
Has this session been presented before?
No
Additional Comments
We need electricity consumers alliances to step up to the plate.
For five years my wife and I typeset and proofread Helio, RISEA's newsletter, compiled by RISEA President Domenic Bucci.
NYC 2021 Areas of Focus
Target Audiences Level of Expertise
Level 1 - No prior knowledge needed.
Session Format
Interview or structured conversation among panelists
Recommended Length
60-minute session
Strongest Content Connection - NYC 2021
Anything else you'd like to tell us about your session proposal?
I'm asking for the exercise of NESEA's collective conscience. We have made money off of selling Renewable Energy Credits in the past. However, either we shall collectively be the adults in the room or else the fossil fuel industry shall try to cut us apart for not being realistic about peak demand events. We're the engineers in charge of inhibiting the climate crisis, or else nobody is. May we be strong.
Reviewer 1
Dietz, Elihu
Proposal #
157
Committee Decision
Rejected