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The Energy 2030 Mapping Project is Forum-led initiative that aims to visualize scalable practices and approaches that align with recommendations and strategies in the Energy 2030 Equinox Blueprint, worldwide on a virtual map.

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Christchurch Micro Urban Village

New Zealanders are picking up pencils, tools and instruments to create a pop-up transitional urban village that brings together small innovative buildings, housing, shops, music rooms and cafes. The SHAC Micro Urban Village is in the earthquake damaged city of Christchurch, New Zealand.

Renewable Energy Smoothing and Integration with Vanadium Redox Batteries

The intermittent nature of wind makes adequate storage of the electrical energy generated a crucial part of a robust solution for modern electrical grids. In collaboration with the China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI) Prudent Energy has leveraged the 30 wind turbines with 78 MW of generating capacity at the National Wind Power Integration Research and Test Centre operated by CEPRI to demonstrate at a grid scale the ability of vanadium redox flow batteries to store intermittent energy generated by wind turbines before smoothly supplying this energy into the grid.

Village Entrepreneur

The initiative started in Ifaty, a village in South Madagascar. Ifaty has no connection to electricity and has a population of more than 15,000 people. The government of Madagascar has no plans to install an electricity grid nearby before a 2040 -2050 timeframe. ToughStuff saw an opportunity to launch a project for the distribution of solar lights to the residents of the village. The Village Entrepreneur program leverages the microfinance model to encourage independence and self reliance.

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Revolutionary Geothermal Drilling Technology: PLASMABIT

With drilling costs at 40-70% of the overall project costs in geothermal energy development, any small advance in drilling technology can significantly benefit project economics. Fundamental changes in how companies drill for heat resources has the potential to create revolutionary change in the cost of geothermal project development.

One such fundamental change would be a transfer from conventional bit technology to thermal-based drilling technology.

EGS Fracture Technology and Demonstration: AltaRock Energy

Geothermal Power production is determined by the mass flow rate, which is related to the temperature of the resource and the flow rate (fluid movement to surface). Even with quality heat resources, if the natural fractures system does not allow economic flow rates than projects fall short of their economic hurdles. The ability to increase permeability, or ‘enhance the geothermal system’ (EGS), improves the flow rate, decreases overall geological/drilling risk, and improves overall project economics.

Modular Geothermal Power Plants: Green Energy Group

Traditional deployment of geothermal power plants takes many years from project start to power online and involves prohibitive investments costs to complete. The design and implementation of modular, container based geothermal flash plants can significantly help to accelerate the execution of geothermal power projects and reduce overall project risk.

Drake Landing Solar Community

Canada has a reputation for being a cold country, not the place you would expect a world leading solar-thermal community to be but the Drake Landing Solar Community in the town of Okotoks, Alberta Canada is just that. The community, with an average annual temperature of 40C, is the first of its kind in North America and is unprecedented in the world in providing 90% of the space heating requirements of each of the 52 homes in the community with solar energy.

Optimized Geothermal Exploration: Borealis Geopower

Canada’s Geothermal energy industry made a big-step forward with a $2.4 million investment by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) in Calgary-based Borealis GeoPower’s optimal geothermal exploration project. Borealis GeoPower’s optimized geothermal exploration methodology is a carefully ordered set of processes and technologies that builds up an increasingly accurate picture of a geothermal resource, allowing the drilling of production wells precisely where they have the highest probability of hitting commercially-viable amounts of hot water.