Solar-thermal assisted CHP
SB412 Testimony Submitted to the (California) Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce by Jonah Crawford, CEO, MicroGrid Systems Inc . on Monday, June 29, 2009 Honorable Members, The public analysis prepared for the June 29th Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce states: “When results of this study are assessed with the quantity of demanded installed capacity, one could conclude that even moderate subsidies and policy incentives could induce a significant over-investment in CHP or to a point where the marginal benefits significantly decrease.” However the report fails to qualify this adjective ‘marginal’. With or without fossil fuels when a technology or grouping of technologies such as CHP reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% there is nothing marginal about them. The report goes on to state: “The ARB's target of 4,000 MW of CHP would equate to about 6.7% of total system power, which far exceeds existing solar (368 MW or 0.6%).” and further that: “The utilities have b...