BGI's President, Gifford Pinchot III, introduces the new Certificate in Sustainable Energy Solutions

1. Energy Certificate
Gifford Pinchot III
President, Bainbridge Graduate Institute

2. Who the Energy Certificate is For?
 Those with an interest in sustainable energy
who are
 Seeking a job in the sustainable energy sector
 Planning to launch a business in the sustainable
energy sector
 Have a job or a business in the energy sector
 Very curious about this sector, but not yet sure
whether to enter it

3. Four Course Sequence
 How the energy business works today
 Major Technologies: Their role and how they
work
 Creating a business plan for a new venture
or a new product within a larger company
 Practicum: a real world project

4. Course 1: Sustainable Energy Solutions
 Both renewable and non renewable energy
as the are today
 Basic science and vocabulary
 Electricity
 Fossil fuels
 Utilities
 Structure and economics of the energy business
 Utility
 Consumer
 Nation
 New Venture

5. Key Concepts
 Science and vocabulary
 Underlying science of electricity, fossil fuels and
renewable energy sources
 Basic vocabulary related to electricity, fossil fuels and
renewable energy sources
 Economics of energy production and
consumption
 The players and their roles
 Deliverables and qualities
 Pricing by player

6. Key Concepts
 Government’s role and influence
 Taxes, subsidies and incentives
 Regulatory structures
 Public policy issues related to energy

7. Core Competencies
 Grasp of industry basics
 Science, structure and economics
 Evaluation of new energy ideas
 Science, economics
 Impact of government (tax, regulation, subsidies)
 Dynamics of public and private utilities

8. Hybrid Format
 Lectures: Faculty and guests
 Classroom, online, video
 Dialog: Classroom and online
 Field trips
 Projects

9. Physics and Vocabulary
 Generation, transmission, the grid
 Utilities
 Other players
 Field Trip: Seattle Steam

10. Fossil Fuels
 Types and sources
 CO2 impact variations
 Political implications
 Various viewpoints
 Industry
 NGOs
 Perspectives on future role of fossil fuels

11. Renewable Energy Sources
 The varieties of renewable energy
 Solar and wind
 Water: dams, in-stream, tidal
 Biofuels
 Waste
 Crops
 Algae
 Geothermal
 Negawatts

12. Regulatory System
 What gets regulated
 Policy levers
 Impact of policies on various renewables

13. Energy Economics: Perspectives
 National
 Utility
 Consumer
 Small scale generator

14. Distributed Generation
 Issues and Opportunities
 Resilience
 Issues with selling to grid
 Feed in tariffs
 Ecological efficiency

15. Tangerine Power - Stanley Florek
 Goals
 More solar power
 Local community
ownership
 Barriers
 75% of homes unsuitable
 Large up front cost
 Huge minimums
 Projects and owners are
distant
 Answer: Community
supported energy

16. Community Solar Power
 Solar on prominent
community buildings
 Schools, churches,
government buildings
 Reduce NIMBY
 Sun Slices
 $1000 investment
 $100/year return

17. What’s in it for stakeholders?
Property Owner Save Money
Community Investor Make Money
Corporate Investor Pay Less Taxes
Everybody: Make the world better
Confidential. Copyright 2011, Tangerine Power Corporation

18. How to Avoid SEC Restrictions
 Investors all in WA
 Cooperative structure
 User ownership
 User control
 Proportional
distribution of benefits

19. How to Get 10% Annual Return
 WA State Feed-in tariffs
 Guaranteed right to sell
power to the grid
 Guaranteed higher prices
 Combined 4 tariff
multipliers
 Solar +
 Public building +
 Community funded+
 Equipment manufactured in
WA
 ~$0.10/kWhr ->
$1.08/kWhr

20. Sample Customers
 City of Edmonds  Corvallis High
 75kW ($750,000) School
System  Phase 1- 2.1kW
 Phase 2 - 100kW est.
June 2011
Copyright 2011, Tangerine Power Corporation

21. Tangerine Power Lessons
 Understand the
regulatory environment
 Design a new business
model
 Community
participation

22. Economics of New Projects
 Model for evaluation
 Practice evaluating new
renewable energy projects
 Student presentation of projects
 Farm Power field trip

23. Farm Power - Kevin Maas

24. Farm Power Lessons
 Waste = Food
 Work the whole
system

25. Course 2: Sustainable Energy Opportunities
 Major Developments
 Upgrading conventional
systems
 Emerging energy solutions
 Viewpoints
 Technology
 Economics
 Market trends
 Regulatory environment

26. Key Concepts
 The grid: structure, operation and economics
 Distributed generation
 Smart grid
 Clean tech
 Major categories of renewables
 Role of nuclear and fossil fuels
 Staging and use of technology
 Carbon accounting

27. Core Competencies
 Understand and can converse on:
 Renewable energy alternatives
 Power generation, transmission and distribution
 Identifying personal interests in clean tech
 Evaluate smart grid components
 Use common metrics of energy efficiency

28. Class 2: Opportunities
 Sun and wind  Technology
 Water and waves  Trends
 Biofuels
 Economics
 Algae
 Fossil fuels  Markets
 Negawatts and  Regulations
efficiency
 Smart grid
 Transportation
 Clean tech

29. Course 3: Creating New Ventures
 Entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial venture
 Opportunities from course 2
 Doing the process of venture creation
 Business modeling
 Rapid prototyping
 Customer validation
 Making the pitch

30. Key Concepts
 Creating a business model
 Rapid prototyping
 Customer validation
 Industry and competitive analysis
 Financial modeling
 Effective presentation

31. Core Competencies
 New venture conceptualization
 The business model approach
 Quick and dirty prototyping
 Using the prototype
 Using industry and competitive analysis
 Simple financial models
 Presenting and effective case for a new
venture

32. Venture Development Process
 Creativity and design thinking
 Idea screening
 Business model generation
 Critique of business models
 Use of industry analysis and competitive surveys
 Preparing financials
 Presentation and review by panel of experts

33. Course 4: Action Learning Practicum
 Apply tools in an integrated real-world project
 Option
 Continuation from class 3
 New client or work project
 Formal implementation plan
 Stakeholder engagement
 Business case
 Present to:
 Client
 Class: representative experts

34. Key Concepts
 Design thinking
 Problem identification
 Stakeholder identification
 Benchmark identification
 Critical thinking
 Project management and implementation

35. Core Competencies
 Apply sustainable energy solutions thinking
to real world
 Speak and present quantitative information
 Effective presentation of a sustainable
energy case
 Apply systems thinking to a sustainable
energy project

36.  Situation analysis
 Project definition
 Project requirements
 Industry and competitive analysis
 Stakeholder analysis
 Project management
 Deliverables
 Dependencies
 Milestones
 Budget