EETD Communications

Report Number: LBNL-62202
Title: Evaluation of a Combined Ultraviolet Photocatalytic Oxidation
(UVPCO)/Chemisorbent Air Cleaner for Indoor Air Applications

Author: Hodgson, Alfred T.; Destaillats, Hugo; Hotchi, Toshifumi;
Fisk, William J.
Report Date: 02/01/2007
Division: Environmental Energy Technologies Division

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http://www-library.lbl.gov/docs/LBNL/622/02/PDF/LBNL-62202.pdf

A new report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the National Association of Energy Service Companies entitled “A Survey of the U.S. ESCO Industry Market Growth and Development from 2000 to 2006” documents that ESCO industry revenues from energy services grew by 20% per year from 2004 to 2006 and totaled about $3.6 billion in 2006. Energy efficiency accounted for almost three quarters of those revenues (or $2.5 billion/year). The authors state that one of the more interesting survey findings is that the private-sector investment in energy efficiency leveraged by ESCOs is comparable to the dollar amount of the authorized spending for utility and public benefit energy efficiency programs.

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program released its first ever Annual Report on U.S. Wind Power Installation, Cost, and Performance Trends: 2006. This report provides a comprehensive overview of trends in the U.S. wind power market, with a particular focus on 2006. The primary authors are Ryan Wiser and Mark Bolinger, both of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, with contributions from other Berkeley Lab researchers Galen Barbose and Andrew Mills, as well as a number of researchers at DOE’s National Renewable Energy Lab and private firms.

Drawing from a variety of sources, the report presents trends in wind power capacity growth, turbine make and model, and among wind developers, project owners, and power purchasers. It then reviews the price of wind power in the market, and how wind power prices compare to wholesale power prices, before turning to trends in installed wind project costs, wind turbine transaction prices, project performance, and operations and maintenance expenses. Finally, the report examines other factors impacting the domestic wind power market, including grid integration costs, transmission issues, and policy drivers.

The need for such a report has become apparent in the past few years, as the wind power industry has entered an era of substantial growth, both globally and in the United States. In the U.S., wind power has been expanding rapidly—by more than 2,400 megawatts of new capacity, an increase of 27 percent.

The report states: “This growth translates into more than $3.7 billion (real 2006 dollars) invested in wind project installation in 2006, for a cumulative total of more than $18 billion since the 1980s.”

To download the report, go here:
http://eetd.lbl.gov/EA/EMP/re-pubs.html

To read the Department of Energy press release, see:
http://www.energy.gov/news/5091.htm