The East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition--or ETCleanFuels--is managing or collaborating on diverse projects that are moving alt fuels into use in the transportation sector. Learn more here!
1. EVs & Alternative Fuels:
Action for Tennessee
October 2, 2010 --- East Tennessee Solar Tour
Jonathan Overly, Executive Director
East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition
2. 2
Agenda
ETCleanFuels’ 2010 Founding Partners:
1. Who is the East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition?
2. Projects Examples
E85 (& B20) Stations – Nearby and Not-so-nearby
Outreach & Education Work
Leading the Way with Cellulosic Ethanol – UTBI & Genera Energy
3. The EV Project – Particulars and the Need-to-know
4. More EV + Solar Work
3. 3
8-yr old nonprofit in East TN
Designated member of U.S. DOE Clean Cities Program (~90)
Direct fleet & fuel supplier interaction; meetings; workshops;
presentations; adult & K-12 education; multiple newsletters
Focused on transp. sector change:
diversify away from oil & use less!
Who is ETCleanFuels?
4. 4
TN E85 & B20 Stations – We Help
E85 stations – 33 public stations
B20 stations – 32 public stations (most public B20 in U.S.)
Most stations thanks to state funding, ETCleanFuels work, or stations alone.
5. 5
State (through TDOT) offers highway incentive program:
If station will place “E85” (or “B20”) on their sign, TDOT
will erect blue “biofuel” sign… on all 4 exit signs
Getting smart – Let ‘em Know
6. 6
(Not policy, but partnership + progress)
I-75 Green Corridor Project
Add 10 E85 & 15 B20 public
pumps @ 200 mile intervals
Enable driving all the way from
Sault Ste. Marie, MI to Miami, FL
on your biofuel
1,786 miles – will be the longest
biofuels corridor in U.S.
Displace 1.7+ MGY of petroleum
Proposed I-40 last year… didn’t
win
8. 8
K-12 School Presentations
• Presentations focus on relaying the basics &
importance of alt fuels and fuel economy
• ’06-’07 = 700 students reached
• ’07-’08 = 1,700 students reached
• ’08-’09 = 3,600 students reached
• ‘09-’10 = 4,990 students reached
• “1st Graders for Clean Fuels” - hits all 5 of the
senses through an interactive presentation
• “Clean Fuels Jeopardy!” a hit! “The Oil
Timeline” for younger kids
9. 9
Demonstration Scale Cellulosic Ethanol Biorefinery
Switchgrass farmer incentive program
Biomass Innovation Park
Technology demonstrations
Tennessee Biomass Supply Co-op
Seed production capacity
Building a Biomass Industry in TN
www.GeneraEnergy.net
www.UTbioenergy.org
Biomass
10. 10
Demonstration Scale Cellulosic Ethanol Biorefinery
• Collaboration between Genera Energy and DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol (DDCE)
• Vonore, Tennessee: Niles Ferry Industrial Park, Monroe County, 32 acre site
• 250,000 GPY demo plant and Process Development Unit (PDU) pilot plant
• Optimized as precursor to commercial facility; long-term operation as R&D facility
• Started operations December 2009
• Multiple feedstocks: cob & switchgrass
Copyright 2010, Genera Energy LLC, NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION
11. 11
Tennessee Switchgrass Experience
• Contracting with local farmers to produce 6,000
acres of switchgrass
– Nearly 3,000 acres harvested in 2009
– Added >3,000 acres in 2010
– 1,000 acres improved varieties
• UT/Genera contract with local farmers
– ~$450/ac/yr for 3 years
– We provide seed, technical expertise
– Separate storage contracts
– Yield-based component in 2010
• Averaging about 8 tons/ac by 3rd year
– Harvesting ~2 tons in year 1
– ~5 tons in year 2
– ~8 tons year 3 and beyond
12. Switchgrass Contract Farms
• 2008 SFIP Contract
• 2009 SFIP Contract
• 2010 SFIP Contract
Cumberland
Roane
Rhea
Meigs
McMinn
Monroe
Loudon
Blount
Polk
Bradley
Vonore
Knox
Biorefinery
Copyright 2010, Genera Energy LLC, NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION
16. 16
The “EV Project” – Nationwide
14,650 Level 2 (220V) Chargers
310 DC Fast-Chargers
40+ Project Partners
5,700 Nissan LEAF Cars & 2,600 Chevrolet Volt Cars
16 Major Cities
PLUS…
1,200 New Jobs by 2012
5,500 New Jobs by 2017
17. 17
The “EV Project” – What’s Coming to TN
1,000 Residential Charging Stations (Level 2 – 220V)
• Installed at “home” of each LEAF purchased
1,200 Commercial Chargers (Mostly Level 2; 60 “DC Fast Chargers”)
• Installed at strategic business parking lots
150 Public Chargers
• For public use at municipally-owned locations (airports, parking garages)
1,000 LEAFs
• Private Drivers
• Commercial/
Municipal Fleets
18. 18
The “EV Project” – Locations
Hardware “footprint boundary design”
3 major cities, plethora of connected, smaller cities
19. 19
The “EV Project” – Solar Charging
Unique in project to
Tennessee!
TVA SMART Station
– “Smart Modal
Area Recharge
Terminal”
125 total in TN
Level 2 charging
Specific locations
(ORNL, EPRI, others)
Storage = solar-
powered!!
20. 20
Providing 50 electrified spaces for class 8
tractor-trailers
Reducing emissions by 70-99%
Adding solar!!
• Roof-top
• 30-40 kW system
• Will offset much of the initial
TSE usage to zero pollution!!
Intent – work on more transportation
projects that are EV that include solar!
Crossville TSE Project – Solar, too
21. 21
Tennessee – Leading by Example
Follow me on Twitter
– “jgoverly”
“Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path
and leave a trail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jonathan Overly, Ex. Dir.
East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition
jgoverly@utk.edu
865-974-3625