Powering Novato

By James, Kaleb, Ethan F, and Daniel B

How much Power

● Novato uses about 1.5 million kwh per day

● About 45 million kwh per month
Why We want to do this

- Decrease energy consumption cost for future generations

- To reduce unhealthy energy consumption
- To look better than San Rafael
Solar Panel Placement
What we want to do

- Place solar panels in a smart configuration

- Maximise energy efficiency with this placement
- Save as much money as possible
 Place solar panels in a smart
configuration (energy used in one
month)
- Apartment complexes (27,000,000 kWh)
- Hospitals (1,023,000 kWh)

Our Mission with Solar Panels

To Obtain 28,023,000 kWh of energy
Cost of Solar
Apartment Complexes

- Roughly 30,000 people live in apartment complexes (60% of

residents)
- Approximately 45 apartment complexes in the area
- This means about 666 people per complex
- Required amount of panels (based on power consumption per
person): 1,800 panels
- Total Cost: $990,000
Hospitals

- 3 Hospitals and Medical Labs in Novato

- Square footage approximately 50,500 feet per location
- Required amount of panels: 300
- Total Cost: = $352,000
Total Cost:
$1,342,000
Wind Power
Skystream 3.7 Wind Turbine

● 12 mph wind zones

● $0.16 per KWH

● 10674 KWH of electricity per year

Payback Period:
18.2 years

Estimated yearly output of Skystream 3.7 Wind Turbine: 3304 KWH

Percentage of power provided: 30%

Estimated installed cost: $13750.00

Federal Tax Credit of 30%: $4125.00

Hydro Power
Replicate Taum Sauk

- Storage Capacity of 3,600 MWh or 3,600,000 KWh

- Upper reservoir located on Mt Burdell
- Connected to Stafford Lake
Taum Sauk Info

- Approximately 7,000 by 4,000 feet

- Pumped storage hydroelectric plant
- Holds 1.5 billion gallons of water
- Costs around $500 million to construct
Storage
How much energy should we store

● Novato uses about 1.5 million kwh per day

● About 45 million kwh per month
● Store about 70 million kwh of energy for 1.5
months of blackout storage.
 ● Stores 210 kwh
1 PowerPack ● Outputs 50 kw
(Tesla) ● Cost about
$145,000
Cost:

150,000 Tesla PowerPacks storing 35 million kwh - 21 billion

dollars

2000 hydrogen station storing 35 million kwh - 400 million dollars

Total Cost- $21,400,000,000

21.4 billion dollars can buy - 1.1 Elon Musk, 2.5 million bitcoins,
0.25 Bill Gates, 750,000 holstein cows
Placement: 6 (6 acre) lots

1. Marsh lands near Gnoss Feild - Powers northern Novato

2. Stafford lake - Powers Pleasant Valley and San Marin
3. Downtown Novato - Powers Downtown
4. Ignacio - Powers the area near San Jose Middle
5. Vintage Oaks - Powers the stores
6. Hamilton Field - Powers the Hamilton area.
Total Cost: $24.5 billion
Thank You!
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