Power Novato

By Sam, Peter, Simon, and Izagani

12 mil. kwh
Amount of energy Novato consumes (based on our calculations compared to
National Averages and known information about Novato)
Alternative
Energy We have found 3 different
ways to generate
Solutions electricity

In addition to this we also

found a new way to store
all of it
 Our 4 Different Ideas
Basic overview of what we would like to implement

Solar Hydroelectric Wind Redox Flow

We would like to put more We would like to do more
solar panels around work on the already
Novato in order to help existing Stafford Lake Dam
generate more power in order to make it capable
of generating electricity
Batteries
We would like to put wind We would like to store
turbines in different, windy energy using large redox
places around Novato flow batteries
Source 1: Solar Panels

● Clean alternative to fossil

fuels
● Free after installation
besides maintenance
● Unlimited energy as long
as sun exists
 Cost of Solar

● Becoming cheaper by the day

● 82 watts per square foot
● 1 solar panel produces 1 kwh in a day
panel size ( 51/2 feet tall, 3 ft wide)
● Cost 11.5 million dollars to power all of
the novato school district using solar
(just to put it into perspective
● If we put a 5kw solar panel system at
half of the houses in novato it will
produce 1 million kw a day
 ● For buildings and facilities used
by the city of Novato, we would
like to advocate for the city to
invest largely in renewable
energy
How we want ● For citizens and independently
owned businesses, we believe
to implement that it is vital to provide
education on the benefits of solar
solar ● Provide information on
placement of panels (facing
south, with 28 degree angle
during winter, 52 degree angle
during spring/fall, 76 degree
angle during summer)
Source 2: Hydroelectric
● Reliable
● Safe
● Cheap to maintain
● Sturdy systems
○ Put generators on stafford lake
dam
○ Many parts of the world today use
hydroelectric
○ Currently, more than 25 countries
in the world depend on
hydropower for 90 % of their
electricity supply (99.3 % in
Norway)
How it works

Step 3
Step 2 If needed during
Step 1 different seasons, water
The water will spin a
Water from Stafford can be stored and
turbine on the generator
lake will go through the pumped
dam
Cost of Hydroelectric

○ Relatively cheap
■ Hydropower costs reportedly equal
the lowest levelized price of
electricity compared to all major
renewable energy and fossil fuel
sources
■ However, large up front investment
■ Because the dam already exists,
the cost is significantly less
■ There is not set price, because
costs vary from dam to dam,
however, if we estimated, we would
say $4 million
Source 3: Wind Energy

Wind on mount burdell/bel marin

keys/stafford lake surroundings
● Clean, renewable energy
● Cost effective
● Uses modern technology
● Potential of growth
● Large power supply
● Has different effects in different
areas
 ● An average onshore wind turbine
with a capacity of 2.5–3 MW can
produce more than 6 million kWh in
a year – enough to supply 1,500
average EU households with
electricity.
● Siemens gemini turbine for offshore
What we want and other Siemens turbine for
onshore
○ Put wind turbines on top of Mt.
to use Burdell and the surrounding
areas of Stafford where it is
relatively windy because it is on
top of a peak
○ Put offshore ones in bel marin
keys because flatter area with
more wind
○ At different times of day,
different wind in different
Cost of Wind Power

○ A 10 kW wind turbine
costs approximately
$48,000 and even more to
install
○ Creates jobs
○ Drought resistant (reliable
based on how it is used)
Wind Turbines Better for Air Quality

○ “Wind power produced $7.4 billion a year in public

health savings in 2016 by cutting pollutants that
create smog and trigger asthma attacks and
other lung diseases, according to the Harvard
School of Public Health.”
○ Cuts down on pollutants
 ● Onshore and offshore

Why winds come on at

different times of the
day

Placement
● Onshore winds will
most likely get the
turbines not in Bel
Marin Keys

Matters ● Offshore winds will

most likely get
turbines on water
Storage: Redox Flow
Batteries

● “A flow battery, or redox flow battery

is an electrochemical cell energy is
provided by two chemical components
dissolved in liquids contained within the
system and separated by a membrane.”
● Flow batteries do not catch fire like
lithium ion
● They are becoming standardized by
the international electrochemical
commision
 Liquid with electroactive
How it works Chemicals
How redox flow batteries will FLOWS
store our energy

Electrochemical Cell

WHICH

Creates electricity
 ○ Japan has already one such

A
battery
○ Berlin has a plan to create one
that is capable of powering

CONCEPT
the whole city
○ China is already building one
○ In terms of price, competitive

IN
with lithium ion and maybe
even cheaper
○ On its own in an emergency,

TESTING
the battery has the capacity
to power the whole city
 Cost of
Battery
USD$650 per kWh of capacity by 2019, once around 7GWh or $4bn of projects had been installed.

Vs.

33GWh of installations to reach the same level. This would take until 2023 and cost $94bn (lithium ion)
 ● Realistically, we will not be able to run all on the

Possible
sources from earlier
● We will put in extra generators for our other needs
● Use 600 kw generators that are $130,000 each

Generators
Generators to give our system a kick
Distribution of power
With Generator
● 16 600k kw generators (6,000,000 kw in
all) for $2,080,000 with ongoing fuel costs
● 235k kw dam generator for $4mil
● 100 wind turbines creating 24k kw for
$4,800,000
● 16k 5kw systems (about 2 mil kw)
$235mil
● All together, a bit over the needed power,
but very expensive at $245,880,000
Without Generator
● 235k kw dam generator for $4mil
● 1000 wind turbines creating 240k kw for
$48,000,000
● 80k 5kw systems (about 10 mil kw)
$880mil
● All together, not even enough power, the
whole system costs nearly $1bil! This is
wildly ineffective and super expensive
 While the amount of
money spent on this
overall project is A LOT,
we believe that even the
OVERALL addition of one aspect
will help the city of
Novato in the long run.
This is mostly just a
proof of concept to show
all feasible options for
our town going into the
future