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Alternative Solar Energy Systems
Genesis White Paper
Overview:
Genesis systems utilize heat from the sun instead of purchased
energy to drive a highly efficient integrated system to co-generate
electricity, heat and cooling. These systems are especially cost
effective because they are uniquely capable of using the full
spectrum of the sun’s radiation falling upon the earth around the
clock to deliver high temperature heat to drive best of breed, off
the shelf commercial systems.
When such a system serves a city district, campus or group of
buildings such as a chicken farm, it is called combined heat and
power (CHP) or district energy. CHP systems provide significant
increases in efficiency compared to the conventional, non-
integrated approach where electric, heat and cooling are provided
by separate, independent means. Utilizing the high temperature
heat to drive small turbines to generate electric, and using the
turbine exhaust to drive hot water or steam heat as well as
absorption chillers for cooling, with a much higher efficiency factor
than normal air conditioning, overall 30% for conventional systems.
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How Does The Solar System Work?
Our Solar Systems utilize breakthroughs in solar energy
technology developed by sister company (EPI). The EPI Solar
Dishes and Troughs that form the core of the System and are able
to economically and efficiently gather energy from the sun in the
form of high temperature heat not only during the day but at night
and in bad weather as well. Simply put, EPI Solar Thermal systems
are capable of gathering almost 6 times as much energy per day
as photovoltaic can on a good day, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
365 days a year, at the same cost. This energy can be used to
produce not only electric, but heat to replace purchased fuel
needed for farm’s existing heating needs and to provide cooled or
air conditioned air.
How does Genesis do this?
As energy from the sun falls upon the earth in the form of visible
and invisible light, it carries huge amounts of energy. Visible light
energy reaches the earth during the day in good weather, while an
approximately equal amount of invisible (UV & IR) light energy
reaches the earth regardless of weather day and night, 24 hours a
day.
Unlike photovoltaic cells, which gather only a limited amount of
visible light during the day when the weather is clear and not too
moist or dusty, Genesis and its affiliate group have developed and
proven a way to also gather the invisible light energy that is
constantly available day and night, year round.
Genesis is pursuing several options:
- Negotiating with the utility companies the power purchase
agreements. - Negotiating the power purchase agreements in forms of JV's
with large power consumers, under the guidelines of the
PSC. - Negotiation with the various players with industrial
applications e.g. Poultry Industry, Meat Industry,
Manufacturers, etc...
Our green energy plants are in a position to provide the production
on flexible terms of scale according to project needs utilizing solar,
cooling with the use of absorption chillers and pending wind
factors, vertical wind turbine that conform to aesthetics of urban
structures.
- Our Solar Systems range from 24 kW up to solar farm of
50+MW. - Our energy systems incorporate storage solutions able to
release stored energy on demand at peak periods and
capable of storing energy for more than a week.
A key factor of our process is that funding is available if requested,
against power purchase agreements for new energy installations in
the USA. These credit facilities may be provided by one of our
associates such as, Wedgewood Investment Group, LLC., with
whom we are engaged in multiple projects. Wedgewood is an
strategic partner of the technology provider.
Typically a trough system weighs no more that high efficiency PV
panel, per square meter and can produce 6 times the electrical
energy and provide thermal energy for heating and drive an
absorption chiller for cooling.
Price Indication:
Depending on where the system is located, cost can vary from as
low as $1,000,000 a MW and seldom cost more than $2,000,000 a
MW, Typically our storage solution cost $1500 a kW which is the
lowest cost of any system on the market with these capacities.
System can be installed within 10-18 months. Pending the
negotiated tariffs, ROI may be between 3 to 5 years. Approximate
system footprint for 1 MW is around 1 acre. Smaller stand alone
systems can start around $100k. in multiple quantities.
Genesis has several clients in Northwest, Arkansas who have
committed to provide the required land for the projects. Each client
has close to 1,000 acres of available land and each Client is within
the proximity of the following service consumers:
Poultry Farms
Large Box Retailers
Manufacturing & Industrial Plants
Municipalities (District Heat)
Sample Solutions & Benefits:
Energy agility: flexibility to design the most affordable & appropriate
energy system architecture that provides fuel/energy source
flexibility to suit the requirements of each specific project.
- Solar Thermal Systems: 24 x 7 x 365 Energy Collection
- Renewable steam & heat for industrial processes
- Renewable heat for power generation & industrial processes
reduce fuel use & emissions - Renewable steam for electric generation direct from solar
energy - Solar energy-driven heating & refrigeration Thermal Storage
(make or store electric (induction coils) provides flexibility &
uniformity: · Used as heat “capacitor” allows for short-term
thermal load following and intermittent demand - Used as a thermal “battery", provides for distribution and
load leveling over days, weeks - Thermal storage used as an “energy converter” (e.g.,
convert electric to storable heat”) - Solid State Thermal Transfer reduces costs, enables
increased efficiency & flexibility - Enables more affordable, effective heat integration over a
broader geography - Effectively capture, move & utilize waste heat within plant,
between locations - Efficient district heat over miles of separation
- Improved primary heat distribution & flexibility of use
- Flexibility & effectively gather and move waste heat from flue
gas in stack - Enables utilization of simple, cheap stack gas cleanup
approaches - Solar Thermal Driven Absorption Chillers are 10x more
effective than mechanical chillers: - Use energy from sun & waste sources to air condition,
refrigerate, freeze applications - Recover clean potable water from air
- Cool flue/stack gas: more affordable, flexible, easier cleanup
of criteria pollutants and CO2
For additional information, please contact:
Genesis Capital, LLC.
479-361-1211
