SOLAR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATIVE

Lighting the Way With Creation's Original Remedy

ABSTRACT

Civilization has embraced a highly refined essence of culture for well over 2,000 years.

Commerce and quality of life have danced in a delicate and at times bold interplay

throughout the evolution of humankind. Yet, never so precariously as it does, today.

The earth with its abundant blessings and resources sway on a pendulum in orbit

between the drive for survival and the corruptibility of commerce. Decisions regarding

global resources are now -more than ever -entertwined with the very essence of global

survival. We must put responsible energy products in reach and within budget, today.

Sound market deployment of building-integrated photovoltaics are focused within core

industrialized nations where the technology and related systems may be proven on a

broad scale with closely monitored installations primarily self-financed with Solar Bond

incentives. The 100 Headrick Solar-Voltaic Dome™ Power Stations By 2000 Program

advances a unique mid-size 21,000 SF solar array to increase peak output on an acre

four times (60 kWp to 260kWp) with 34,000 SF leasable.

Formal ceremonial signing of this commitment by leaders of the United States, the

European Commission and Japan is an important step to encourage commercial real

estate industries of these nations advance this program to assure photovoltaics timely

achieves its rightful position as a viable World Trade Commodity of the 21st Century.

KEYWORDS

Strategic Market Deployment of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics; Packing Density;

Headrick Solar-Voltaic Dome™ Power Station; Economics of Energy Resources

CASE FOR LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT OF BUILDING-INTEGRATED PV

Due to low production and use world-wide building-integrated photovolaics share a

reputation with remote site PV of being considered an expensive form of renewable

energy. There is a tendency in economic evaluations to insist photovoltaics adhere to

economic formulas based on remote site formats characteristic of coal, nuclear, hydro,

Sustainable Energy Strategy: Clean & Secure Energy

for a Competitive Economy; United States Energy Policy Plan 1995

US Primary Energy Used for Electricity Consumption 1975 & 1994

Figure 1 Photovoltaics is one line in other category of 0.6% US Electricity Consumption 1994

natural gas and petroleum energy resources. It is unnatural and unrealistic to focus

economic formulas for photovoltaic deployment on remote site production because the

primary benefits of building-integrated photovoltaics producing electricity from sunlight

on location are unique. Solar energy through photovoltaics creates a unique structure

of production, deployment management and economics. A program of incentives

focused on restoration of existing buildings, new construction and large-scale

deployment of building-intergrated photovoltaics will produce attractive proformas for

local and state commercial real estate developments.

Production Level Must Be Emphasized In Energy Source Cost Comparisons

We strongly discourage continued cost evaluations comparing photovoltaic with fossil

fuels and nuclear energy unless they include clear delineation of the market production

levels represented by those comparative costs. Clarification of the cost/productioon ratio

will help to consolidate fragmented efforts of small-scale cost reduction schemes that

could more efficiently be integrated within strategic large-scale mainstream deployment

programs naturally increasing the production level of PV, and thereby significantly

reducing costs across a broad-scale marketplace. An energy pie chart in Primary

Competitive Economy clearly illustrates the extreme disproportion of production

levels between photovoltaics and coal. (See Figure 1 - Similar to graph shown in 3D)

The pie chart indicates the other category constitutes only 0.6% of the entire

energy marketplace of the United States. PV represents only one small line in the other

category. Coal dominates with the highest production level representing 55%

of the present United States energy pie. The other category was 0.5% in 1975.

It has only grown 0.1% in twenty years, while coal consumption for electricity generation in

the US has nearly doubled in the past twenty years. Even proponents for photovoltaics

continue to falsely emphasize photovoltaics as an expensive commodity compared to depletable

energy sources such as coal, natural gas, nuclear and hydro energy. Consumers often do not

understand the dynamics of energy economics. PV has reduced from $500 watt in 1974 to $5 watt in 1990.

Often the price quoted for coal and nuclear production do not include known and significant externality

expenses paid for by citizen taxes or increased utility rates for government funded clean-up, hazardous

radioactive waste storage fees, decommission of nuclear plants or when coal plant damage the atmosphere.

The threat of global warming due to depletion of the ozone layer has only been a measurable problem since 1979.

In 1995, Professor Roland and an associate at the University of California in Irvine were awarded the

Nobel Science Prize in Chemistry and Physics for identifying the substance of the ozone layer finally establishing

significant proof of the seriousness of the changes in the ozone layer. Photovoltaics is the least expensive,

cleanest, most flexible, sustainable and easy to maintain energy technology in existence, today.

STRATEGIC MARKETING PLAN FOR BUILDING-INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS (BI-PV)

NOTE: Read through BI-PV PEP USA for more information and the

Advent of the Headrick Solar-Voltaic Dome(TM) Power Station to find a figure of the graph.

Deploy PV Through Commercial Real Estate Industry of Industrialized Nations

Historically, third World Nations rely on large scale deployment of energy technologies

embraced on a mass level in industrialized nations. (Wu Naito; Energy Sector Seeks

More Foreign Cooperation, Beijing Review, April 1994). Coal, nuclear, hydro, natural

gas and petroleum are widely deployed as primary energy technologies in Third World

Nations because they are well-known through billions of dollars of research and

production. Coal has been a pollution problem since the 1800s. Despite proven

externality hazards and expense, fossil fuels and nuclear energy continue to be deployed

in fresh markets as primary energy resources. From our research, it is clear that a

realistic large-scale market deployment process for building-integrated photovoltaics

must focus on core industrialized nations to timely evolve photovoltaics as a viable World

Trade Commodity of the 21st Century.

The missing incentive for rapid deployment of photovoltaics into the mainstream

accelerate mass production and use of PV electricity within industrialized nations.

Decision-making analysis reveals a significant potential market for building-integrated

photovoltaics within the commercial real estate industry of the United States, Europe

and Japan that is virtually untapped. (Baumann, et al.1995) Solar Bonds provide

production costs during market deployment of building-integrated photovoltaics. (See

Figure 2) February, 1996 Washington Post article, Whoąs Afraid of Global Warming?,

indicated -global insurance and banking industries have come to realize CO2

emissions put at risk literally trillions of dollars worth of insured property and long-

term investment. Government, utilities and/or insurance companies could guarantee

the Solar Bonds for these projects. By 2050, utilities will be transformed from

energy producers to grid mangers as 50% of the energy mix is produced by building-integrated

PV arrays. The 1000 PV Roofs Program in the German States established precedence

for large-scale PV deployment installing over 6 MWp PV power. The Program proposed herein

provides installation of over 26 MWp in three nations focused on one solar configuration demanding

630,000 meter squared of PV surface by 2000 world-wide.

100 HEADRICK SOLAR-VOLTAIC DOME(tm) POWER STATIONS BY 2000 PROGRAM