Renewable Power Pathways A Review of the U.S. Department of Energy's Renewable Energy Programs (2000) / Chapter Skim
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4 Overall Assessment of the Office of Power Technologies
4 Overall Assessment of the Office of Power Technologies
Pages 92-102
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and the deputy assistant secretary for power technologies were reorganizing OPT to the extent allowable under governmental constraints. The reorganization included the development of a strategic plan, an attempt to capitalize on the synergies between the technology development programs, and the hiring of new people.
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Before OPT continues with R&D, a thorough road map of each technology should be developed, along with associated cost analysis models, to show the net present value of the technology and the cost required to make the technology competitive. Finding.
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Restructuring in the electric power industry, and the divestiture by many former utilities of their electric power production and R&D programs, have led the private sector to focus on short-term development with payback periods of less than five years. In this environment, much less attention is being paid to long-term issues and the development of new electric power technologies.
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Restructuring of the electric power industry will mean that more of the R&D on renewable energy technologies will have to be underwritten by states and the federal government. OPT will have to undertake a detailed analysis of the energy market to determine how well various renewable energy technologies can be used in various applications.
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Government participation will be critical in the electric power sector because long-term R&D supported by the private sector has been virtually eliminated. Well developed criteria can also depoliticize debates about the role of the government in R&D.
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OPT is not likely to reach its capacity goals unless it works with state programs. The restructuring of the electric power industry has created new opportunities for the development and deployment of renewable power technologies.
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OPT could evaluate the effectiveness of policy instruments (i.e., renewable energy portfolio standard requirements, federal tax rebates, home owner tax incentives or rebates for renewable energy systems, and community incentives for small, remote distributed generation) to accelerate the development of renewable energy technologies.
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complementary R&D activities that primarily promise private benefits and can be left to the private sector. The roadmapping process should include an evaluation of how the technologies under development by OPT could contribute to the evolving electric power supply system, an identification of barriers to technical and market success, estimates of costs for reaching important milestones, and clarifications of federal priorities for development under budget constraints.
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The challenges posed by the restructuring of the electric power industry, the use of distributed resource technologies, the need for storage technologies for many intermittent renewable technologies, and opportunities in the international market could be the integrating themes. One mechanism for facilitating integration among the individual programs would be to establish crosscutting teams to identify enabling opportunities and critical roadblocks and/or barriers to the development of technologies.
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should provide funds for the direct support of graduate students through a DOE fellowship program leading to an advanced degree related to renewable energy research and development. This would ensure that an adequate supply of scientific and energy talent is available to the emerging industry and that new and inventive ideas continue to flow into the program.
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