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Microturbines can help the impending capacity impasse that is being felt worldwide. In the US alone, the Department of Energy (DoE) estimates that 13% to 15% of the total power output is consumed by the Internet and telecommunication business, a figure expected to grow to 50% by 2021. While electric utilities may be able to supply this power, generally they cannot provide the required availability and reliability of “nine nines.”1 To supplement the obtainable 99.9% reliability of the grid, e-business consumers are turning to a combination of distributed generation and energy storage. Some energy storage devices that are already in such use are battery banks, flywheels and zinc oxide fuel cells. These electricity storage devices are to maintain seamless power continuity during micro-outages, voltage sags and frequency fluctuations. Electrical power is increasingly not just kiloWatt- hours; it is more and more becoming a matter of reliability and quality. California has become “ground zero” for microturbine applications made possible by partial deregulation of the energy market. With electricity demand at times nearing full capacity, insurance against outages and disruptions as well as production losses is no small matter. Even a momentary outage can damage sensitive computers, servers, production processes, expensive chemical or pharmaceutical batches, etc., costing companies millions of dollars in lost product and lost productivity. Further, charges for peak demand have more than doubled to most Californian commercial and industrial users. And any new capacity (other than on emergency basis) must be clean emitting and quiet. The microturbine manufacturers who have a presence or who are likely to soon have a sizeable presence are: (1) Capstone Turbine Corp., (2) Bowman Power Systems (3) Elliott Turbomachinery Co., Inc., (4) Ingersoll - Rand Energy Systems, and (5) Turbec AB. Brief descriptions of these firms are included in Appendix A. Other firms for now appear to have peripheral roles. These include: Canadian Microturbine Systems, DTE Energy Technologies, and Solo Energy Corp. The current drawbacks to microturbines are: (1) Technology is relatively expensive; (2) Like all technological advances undergoing commercialisation, the sustained progress of microturbine technology requires the collective and integrated climbing of learning curves by the end-user, installer/integrator, and equipment distributor communities; and (3) The main thrust of this budding industry is not LP Gas applications. The main thrusts are natural gas and “waste” (landfill, wastewater, livestock/agricultural and upstream oil) gases, diesel and (primarily in Asian markets) kerosene applications. 1 99.9999999% of the time 8PDF Image | Glotec Global Technology Network LP Gas Use in Microturbine Applications
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