The Utilization and Characteristics of Renewable Energy

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Since the 70s of last century the energy crisis broke out, a large number of countries have been striving to develop renewable energy in order to become less dependent on the traditional energy resources. At the same time, the ever-increasing demand of environmental protection made developing regenerative energy an important technical method to keep ecological balance.
Chart 2 includes statistics of renewable energy in some developed countries. From the chart, we can see clearly that biomass energy, wind power and waste heat utilization play important roles. There is obvious regional limit in utilization of geothermal energy (traditional deep- layer geothermal energy) and the percentage of solar electrical energy generation is very small.                
Chart2, renewable energy composition of national                
               

 

Chart2, renewable energy composition of national  Electrical network in some developed countries, 2003

Renewable energy
composition in
electrical network

Including

Biomass                Energy

Wind                Energy

Solar
               Energy

Geothermal                Energy

Waste   Heat

Photovoltaic
Energy

USA

2

71

<1

16

Germany

5

11

16

43

1

Denmark

17

16

15

Holland

8

42

33

<1

Japan

2

75

<1

11

11

12

<1


P.S: The chart is extracted from Development Reports of no hydraulic renewable energy, February2005, EIA.                
               
Our country considers developing renewable resources as an important means to improve the ecological environment and a strategic objective of sustainable development. At present, proportion of regenerative energy at average is 13.6%: 6% in developed countries and 7% in our country. Our government plans that the utilization amount of regenerative energy quadruple that of nowadays, reaching to 10% in 2010 and 15% in 2020.
               
At present, renewable energy such as solar energy, wind energy, biomass energy and hydropower are not appropriate to be used as stable energy resource of building heating. All of them have advantages, however, to be used as stable heating resources. Wind power and solar energy all need traditional energy resource as alternation or reservation. Biomass energy is of great significance to country and suburb with crops. However, it is not appropriate to be widely promoted as city heating source. The geothermal energy collection focuses on the deep-layer energy. Because of the regional limits, complicated technology, rather high investment and demands for environment protection, geothermal energy can not be put into use widely, except that they are facing difficulties of proper utilization. Other energies such as tidal power have the problems of high investment and dependent of government subsidy. Therefore, they are not appropriate to be used solely as direct energy supply of buildings at the present stage.

By contrast, there is rich reservation of geothermal energy, which is clean, regenerative, easy to collect and of low investment. In this way, the energy is appropriate to be used as buildings heating resource, which matches the principle of 鈥淭emperature matches, energy cascade use鈥 pointed out by Chinese famous thermal engineering expert Zhonghua Wu. The energy has not been exploited and collected effectively and efficiently for a long time because for shortage of reliable energy collection technology.  
 
 Our company鈥檚 Earth鈥檚 Energy Heat pump System has the exclusive ownership over 鈥淪ingle Well Supplying and Returning Water鈥 technology, which is international advanced technology of utilization and collection shallow geothermal energy at large scale. Our initiative 鈥淪ingle Well Supplying and Returning Water鈥 technology solves various technical difficulties in utilization and collection of shallow geothermal energy successfully. In this way, shallow geothermal technology becomes first-choice alternative resource in order to utilize graded energy resource properly and offer strong guarantee. Chart3 is constituted with comparison of characteristics of several renewable energies which can be used in building heating and cooling.
   
  Chart3 Comparison between several renewable energies

Items

Unit

Regenerative Energy

Solar energy
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Biomass Energy

Wind Energy

Water energy

Shallow geothermal
energy 锛坕ndirect
utilization of solar energy 锛堻/span>

Geothermal
           Energy

1

Main functions

Heating water, electricity generation

Fuel of electricity generation, cooking, heating in country

Electricity Generation

Electricity generation, irrigation

Heating supply, cooling ,            heating water

Heating Bath

2

Characteristics
             of buildings
             utilization and
             the limits in
             heating/cooling

1銆乴arge investment
           in heating                
               2銆丅ecause of the intermittence
               of energy, energy
               storage or auxiliary
               power is needed

1.Seasonal 2.staining

periodic

1銆乺egenerate
           quickly, rich
           reservation            
           2銆乧onvenient
           collection and
           small investment 锛            
           3銆 proper to be
           used as alternative energy of buildings heating/cooling and living hot water

1. regional limits
             2. collection hazard and
             high investment              
             3. The injection made subterranean pollution

Not proper for urban
           heating /cooling

3

The most
           proper functions
           at present

Heating water

Fuel cooking

Electricity generation

Electricity generation

Heating/cooling, heating water

Heating
             shower

4

Main corollary equipments
           of heating
           and cooling

Heat Collector

Cooking range

Water turbine

Heat pump

Heat
           Exchanger

锛旤/span>

Heating Charge

銆€Yuan/銕狘/span>

锛嶏紞锛岦/span>

锛嶏紞锛岦/span>

锛嶏紞锛岦/span>

锛嶏紞

121 days
           heating in
           Beijing area
           <30yuan/銕狘/span>

鈥斺€擖/span>

锛朁/span>

Potential reservations

kW

It can be
           regenerated
           520 million  
           Kw per year.
           kW

500-600 million tons of coal equivalent

One billion
           Kw can be regenerated
           per year.

60000billion
           can be regenerated
           every year

About 2.8
           million kw

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Pollution degree
           of heating/ cooling

N/A

Pollution
           of burning

N/A

N/A

Pollution in discharging

 

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