Alternative Energy Company Brochure
In groups of two you will create a fictional electrical energy
supply company. Your company can exist anywhere in the United
States. Your company must use alternative energies as a method
creating electricity. You are to make a large sized colorful
pamphlet about your company. The pamphlet needs to include the
following:
1) A company name and logo
2) The electricity must be produced by two alternative energy
technologies your customers can choose from.
3) Since the pamphlet is an advertisement, you must have at
least 10 statements as to why people should use your
company. The statements should be bullet format. Your
statements should include the advantages over fossil fuels.
4) You must give a detailed explanation of how each of your
technologies works in paragraph form.
5) You must research and estimate cost per kilowatt hour for
each source. The cost needs to added to choices of the
consumer
6) Several pictures, drawing, and a colorful pamphlet.
Grading
Design, pictures, neatness, and graphics - 4 pts
Advertising statements and consumer energy choices – 6 pts
Explanation of the technologies – 5 pts
Total – 15 points
For information and examples check out the following websites:
General:
U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
www.eere.energy.gov
The Alternative Energy Institute
www.altenergy.org
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Green Communities website and links to many
other websites: www.epa.gov/greenkit/q5_energ.htm
U.S. Energy Information Administration, website: www.eia.doe.gov
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
www.nrel.gov
New York state energy Research and Development Authority
www.nypa.gov/es.htm
Business Council for Sustainable Energy
www.bcse.org
Canadian Association for Sustainable Energy
www.newenergy.org
Solar Power:
U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy – Solar
Energy
www.eere.energy.gov/RE/solar.html
Kyocera Solar, Inc., solar systems manufacturer, www.trianglesystems.com 126 Ideaho
Avenue, Plattsburge, NY 12930
International Solar Energy Society
www.ises.org.
Wind Power:
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Community Resources
for Wind Development
www.powernaturally.com/programs/Wind/toolkit.asp
U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Wind power
www.eere.energy.gov/RE/wind.html
Green Power Network
www.eere.energy.gov/greenpower
American Wind Energy Association
www.awea.org
Canadian Wind Energy Association
www.canwea.ca
Patel, Mukund. Wind and Solar Power Systems. CRC Press, 1999
Biofuels:
National Biodiesel Board
www.biodiesel.org
United States Department of Energy Biomass Program
www.eere.energy.gov/biomass
Commoner, Barry. The Poverty of Power. Bantum Books, July 1980.
Geothermal Energy:
U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy –
Geothermal Energy
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/renewable/geothermal.html
http://geothermal.marin.org/
Hydropower:
U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy –
Hydropower
www.eere.energy.gov/RE/hydropower.html
Hydrogen Fuel
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030206-2.html
http://www.commutercars.com/h2/
http://www.nrel.gov/hydrogen/
www.eere.energy.gov/RE/hydrogen.html
Oceans:
U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy – ocean
energy
www.eere.energy.gov/RE/ocean.html
Biomass Energy:
U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable EnergyBioPower Program
www.eere.energy.gov/RE/biomass.html
Alternative Fuel Vehicles:
Advanced Transportation Technology Institute
www.etvi.org
Alternative Fuels Data Center
www.afdc.doe.gov
Electric Auto Association
www.eaaev.org
Natural Gas Vehicle Association
www.ngvc.org
Society of Automotive Engineers. Alternative Fuels: Technology & Developments. 1997
Other
http://www.eere.energy.gov/ (all kinds of alternatives)
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/contents.html
http://www.greenmountain.com/ (good example of a real company)
http://www.changingworldtech.com/ (These are the turkey oil people)
http://www.awea.org/ (American wind energy)
http://geothermal.marin.org/geomap_1.html (geothermal)
http://www.bera1.org/ (biomass)
http://www.ases.org/ (solar energy)
http://www.solarenergy.org/ (solar energy
The following are additional links by topic
U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Pennsylvania
a.Economics
b.Environmental Benefits
c. Risk Management
d.Energy Assurance
e.Reliability
f. Public Demand
g.Why Consider Alternative Energy?
2.
The Alternative Energy Institute
Selected Sections required:
a.Nonrenewable Energy Sources: 1) Coal 2) Natural Gas; 3) Nuclear Energy; 4) Petroleum
b.Renewable Energy Sources: 1) Biomass Energy; 2) Geothermal Energy; 3) Hydrogen and
Fuel Cells;
4) Hydropower; 5) Nuclear Fusion; 6)Oceanic Energy ; 7) Solar Energy; 8) Wind Energy
c. Solutions
3.
Pollution Prevention Outside Your Home - DEP Fact Sheet
4.
Pollution Prevention Inside Your Home - DEP Fact Sheet
5.
PA Advanced Energy Toolkit
6.
PA Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard
7.
Solar Energy Basics
8. a.Birds and Bats
b.Other Potential Env Impacts
c. Economic and Socioeconomic Impacts
d.Wind Energy Myths
9. a.Save the Loon
b.Wind Energy and Noise
c. Wind Energy the Power of the Future
d.Wind Wildlife FAQ
e.The Three Cs
f. If Not Wind, then...?
g.Comparative Air Emissions of Wind and Other Fuels
10. Wind Farming - DEP Fact Sheet
11. Small Wind Energy Systems
12. Biodiesel Basics
13. Biodiesel FAQs
14. Biomass Program
a.Biomass Benefits
b.National Energy Security
c. Economic Growth
d.Environmental Benefits
15. Methane EPA
16. US Department of Energy Biomass Program
a.Biomass Basics
17. Geothermal Topics
a.Geothermal Basics
18. Underground Thermal Energy Storage
19. Hydropower Topics
a.Hydropower Basics
b.Hydropower Advantages and Disadvantages
c. Hydropower Energy from Moving Water
20. Hydrogen Topics
a.Hydrogen Basics
21. Ocean Topics
a.Ocean Energy Basics
22. Alternative Fuel Vehicles
a.Electricity
1. What is Electricity
2. Electricity Benefits
b.Ethanol
1. What is Methanol
2. Ethanol Benefits
c. Methanol
1. What is Methanol
2. Methanol Benefits
d.Natural Gas
1. What is Natural Gas
2. Natural Gas Benefits
e.Propane
1. What is Propane
2. Propane Benefits
f. Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant Program
g.Alternative Fueled Vehicles
23. Transportation Energy
24. US Energy System Factsheets - NEW
25. Energy Consumption - NEW
26. U.S. Primary Energy Consumption chart - NEW
27. The 1973 Oil Crisis - NEW