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Integrated system to supply power and fuel to rural districts using renewable resources
ASEM 2014, 35th Annual National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management, Virginia Beach, VA, US, Oct 15-18, 2014, pp.485-492
01 Jan 2014
Abstract
Corporations expecting diminishing traditional markets must reposition themselves to develop new markets to stay competitive. Many mid-level engineers within such companies are both technically and management savvy, and also understand the relationship between career and corporate success. They are ideal candidates to form groups of intrapreneurs to develop and implement innovative concepts using the corporate resources of a large industrial entity in a fresh, lean new venture subdivision. This paper describes a response to the opportunity presented by the public for support of sustainable and renewable energy initiatives. Specifically, the High Plains of the United States are a rich source of wind power and biomass feedstock, but are distant from urban markets, and distributed at low intensity. We analyze the feasibility of a new venture to use local sources to satisfy rural residential and industrial / agricultural power demand and also, to process fuels for local and export sales. Excess wind power could support local industrial uses that can tolerate interruptible supply and use local raw materials, a rural equivalent of cogeneration. In particular, wind energy can be converted to and stored as marketable biofuels when peak load is less than peak energy output. The intrapreneurs of this new venture will determine that it is better to focus on producing liquid and gas fuels than to transmit highly variable wind power in real time to distant markets.
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- Title
- Integrated system to supply power and fuel to rural districts using renewable resources
- Creators
- Carlo CilibertiJoseph P MartinAnthony S Deese
- Publication Details
- ASEM 2014, 35th Annual National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management, Virginia Beach, VA, US, Oct 15-18, 2014, pp.485-492
- Conference
- ASEM 2014, 35th Annual National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management, 35th (Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, 15 Oct 2014 - 18 Oct 2014)
- Publisher
- WTI-Frankfurt-digital GmbH
- Number of pages
- 1
- Resource Type
- Encyclopedia entry
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Construction, Engineering, and Project Management and Systems Engineering [Historical]; Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
- Identifiers
- 991019174516504721