Renewable Energy Optimization Report for Naval Station Newport

Technical Report · Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1036906· OSTI ID:1036906

Robichaud, R; Mosey, G; Olis, D

In 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched the RE-Powering America's Land initiative to encourage the development of renewable energy (RE) on potentially contaminated land and mine sites. As part of this effort, EPA is collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to evaluate RE options at Naval Station (NAVSTA)Newport in Newport, Rhode Island. NREL's Renewable Energy Optimization (REO) tool was utilized to identify RE technologies that present the best opportunity for life-cycle cost-effective implementation while also serving to reduce energy-related carbon dioxide emissions and increase the percentage of RE used at NAVSTA Newport. The technologies included in REO are daylighting, wind, solarventilation preheating (SVP), solar water heating, photovoltaics (PV), solar thermal (heating and electric), and biomass (gasification and cogeneration). The optimal mix of RE technologies depends on several factors including RE resources; technology cost and performance; state, utility, and federal incentives; and economic parameters (discount and inflation rates). Each of these factors wasconsidered in this analysis. Technologies not included in REO that were investigated separately per NAVSTA Newport request include biofuels from algae, tidal power, and ground source heat pumps (GSHP).

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Environmental Protection Agency; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1036906
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-6A20-48852; TRN: US201207%%60
• Resource Relation: Related Information: A Study Prepared in Partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency for the RE-Powering America's Land Initiative: Siting Renewable Energy on Potentially Contaminated Land and Mine Sites
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ALGAE
BIOFUELS
BIOMASS
CARBON DIOXIDE
COGENERATION
DAYLIGHTING
ECONOMICS
GASIFICATION
GROUND SOURCE HEAT PUMPS
HEAT TREATMENTS
HEATING
IMPLEMENTATION
LIFE CYCLE
NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY
OPTIMIZATION
SOLAR WATER HEATING
TIDAL POWER
US EPA
VENTILATION
NAVSTA
Newport Rewable Energy
technologies
contaminated land mine sites
NREL
renewable energy optimization tool