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Eloncity Will Power the World Virtually Free By Revolutionize the Way We Use Electricity

Industry: Environment

California (PRUnderground) January 3rd, 2019

Comparing with how people used to live a century years ago, we are modernly accustomed to a luxury lifestyle that the electricity helps to convene. With the demand level for this necessity continues to rise, we are still not yet finding the ideal solution to supply our life with a sustainable energy that can be cost-effective. While it seems to be a popular opinion that the renewable and alternative energy is the future, the conventional energy is still our primary source of the energy. So what had stopped us from using more renewable energy? Is it accessibility, popularity, practicality, technology immaturity or perhaps all of them? With these questions buried in mind, I was able to find the answers by conducting an interview with Mr. Andy Li, the founder and chief evangelist of the Eloncity. Andy has 11 years of Principle Engineer experience in Cisco Systems and two years experience in Infrastructure Architecture at the Alibaba Cloud Computing. In the past four years through Eloncity, Andy has fully engaged in balancing the supply and demand of the renewable energy so it will someday become the primary source of the energy. To accomplish that, the Eloncity’s overall objective is to manifest the belief that can ultimately make the community’s cost of using clean energy such as electricity virtually free. After more than an hour-long conversation with Andy, I found his vision and solutions are meticulously inspiring and admirable.

Eloncity believes the essence of renewable energy should be targeted at functionality and affordability. To accomplish that for now, it will take more than just the scientific and technological innovations. It has to be a revolution. He thinks we cannot rely on renewable energy to save our future without creating a reserve energy-sharing network that involves everyone’s participation first. The project of ELONCITY aims and focuses are on censuring the current power infrastructure and replacing it with cheaper, cleaner, and self-sustainable modules. One of the goals of this project is to create an open for Eloncity’s technology such as Eloncity Decentralized Energy Architecture (EDEA), an ecosystem of decentralization technologies and crypto economic tools to enable the shared regenerative energy economy to make electricity virtually free. The modular design facilitates tailored deployment of Eloncity microgrid for diverse communities around the world. By decentralizing the power infrastructure into millions of self-sufficient microgrids, it will make sustainable energy available 24/7 locally produced at the price that is much more affordable than what utilities can provide today.

In Mr. Li’s eyes, the fundamental reason for us not able to use renewable energy as the primary source of the energy is the cost. If there is a way to make renewable energy very cost effective than utilities, then declaring the victory will be inevitable. The complex process before electricity reaches into the residents’ home is currently the same everywhere, and it can be broken down into three basic stages: generation, transmission, and distribution. The first is the generate electricity stage. At present, we have hydropower plants, thermal power plants (Gas, Diesel), nuclear power plants, and renewable Energy based power plants (Solar Power, Wind Power, Geothermal, Tidalwave etc.). As all of those power plants come with their pros and cons, and the majority of people like to settle their endless debate solely base on the first stage features. They completely gloss over the other two critical parts of the puzzle, which is transmission and distribution.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, electricity is generated at power plants and moves through a complex system, sometimes called the grid, of electricity substations, transformers, and power lines that connect electricity producers and consumers. However, those centralized power architectures are facing significant challenges in providing safe, reliable, secure, and affordable energy services. Mr. Li explained to me just how much of energy was lost by using the complex transmission and distribution system. Ultimately, all of those losses are reflected off of our utility bills. He said, “right now the electricity wholesale price is only about 2.1 cents, however throughout the United States, most people are paying 14 cents or higher through their utility for the same energy”. According to the article “Making Renewable Energy Affordable 0.97”, the price rate of electricity in California now is about 22 cents or higher. Based on this data, the average Americans are paying 10 times more money for the delivery of their electricity than the actual electricity itself. If this happens to the Pizza Hut, I doubt anyone would still order for delivery.

By decentralizing the power infrastructure into self-sufficient microgrids that located in every household will prevent the loss of energy not only throughout the transmission stage but more importantly, the distribution stage. Distribution under the current system is where the energy lost and more importantly the cost of delivering energy suffer a heavy toll due to its complex network and the associated costs. Mr. Li also addressed my concern, which shares with many others over the high cost of producing renewable energy through solar panels. “In Eloncity, it offers more than just the software and hardware engineer technology, it is also a community, a society concept”. Right now, the solar panels are not as cost effective as many people expect them to be because people suffer too many unnecessary resistances for having solar panels than it should. The Eloncity believes the installation process should be streamlined, and that will cut the cost by more than half from the current market. Right now, for national installers such as SunRun, their minimum charge for consumers is $3.6/WP. That is simply too high! In Eloncity’s calculation, it should cost no more than $1.8/WP. “Any energy power plants will take money to build and install, upkeep, and repair. We never heard of people complaining about the thermal power plants or the nuclear power plants being too expensive to install and upkeep when in fact, they cost much more than solar panels. We have to do a better job at making it affordable”. By looking at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Long-Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan, the goals were already being set for all new residential buildings are being Zero Net Energy by 2020, and all new commercial buildings being Zero Net Energy beginning in 2030. To accomplish those goals, now it will be a good time to orchestrate the Eloncity’s technology by applying the decentralized microgrids into every community budget code, it will simplify the installation process even more. Imagine every new home is built with solar panels and the Battery Energy Storage Systems that are already installed when the tiles are laid out on the roof. Without repetitive procedures, it can potentially save the actual labor costs, the roof insurance premium, the high fund rate and marketing cost, et cetera.

“Other main concern people have about solar panel energy is will it generate enough of electricity for the domestic use on account of only having a limited time frame in a day for generating energy?” I asked Mr. Li. That is when he introduced me the key technologies of the Eloncity model, which is the commercial operation intelligent network BESS (Battery Energy Storage Systems. The system consists two main components:  1) power storage, 2) power converter electronics, as well as auxiliary equipment: monitoring system, control system, electrical equipment, building structures, etc.). The BESS system deploys on the customer premises to harmonize local electricity supply-demand by collaborating the needs for spinning reserve, costly capacity and ancillary services. Since all human beings are entitled to the sun exposure, the extra converted energy will be able to share within the community for a better use. It is much more efficient than wasting these energies through the transmission and distribution stage. Mr. Li also acknowledged the fact that the Eloncity model might be deficient when it comes to heavy metropolitan areas such as commercialized skyscraper buildings. “Chances are these areas will still need to apply some utilities to supply all the needed electrical energy. However, with the Eloncity’s storage and collaboration system, it will even the demand throughout the day and hence relieve the congestion on the T+D networks. The elimination of network congestion means a much lower cost of electricity for residents in metropolitan areas”.

In the end, Mr. Li shared the Eloncity’s ultimate vision with me about the global scale of interest in Eloncity’s project, and that is transforming the mass market for the distribution of the Eloncity model to all target markets in the world. This large-scale project will require competition with the current energy giants all over the world. In reality, to build a completely renewable energy systemic community, it will take collaborations from all sources such as scientific and educational institutions, government agencies, local utilities, and financial organizations, et cetera. While the Eloncity’s model is still in the premature stage compare to its ultimate goal, I think the concept is headed toward the right direction for our future. The undeniable truth in the 21st Century is as the technology of electrical generation improves, and environmental concerns rise, the very concept of large centralized generating stations is coming into question. To make things possible, the pedestal of the Eloncity’s triumph deserves to be discerned prevalent through the public eyes.

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