Energy Trends and Their Impact on Farms, Rural Residents and Agribusiness in Ohio August 2002

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OFBF Self-Help Energy Programs
Energy Trends Their Impact
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Energy Markets Current Trends
Crude Oil
Natural Gas
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Electric Generation
Energy markets impact each other...
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Energy Trends and Their Impact Exploration
Infrastructure

• Shrinking Capacities - 30 Year Trend
• Fuel - Drilling, refining, pipeline
• infrastructure, transportation, receiving
• storage facilities
• Electric Generation, transmission
• and distribution
• Refitting Cost 2 trillion
• for the United States

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Energy Trends and Their Impact Resurgent
Emerging Technologies

• No Silver Bullets
• Fuel - Prepare to use cellulosic biomass
• to meet increasing fuel demand
• Electric Move to a decentralized system
• development of interconnection
• technology
• Teamwork approach
• to energy

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Energy Trends and Their Impact Resurgent
Emerging Technologies

• Need Coal Nuclear Technology
• Handle electric base load capacity
• Clean coal technology development
• USDOE FutureGen projects
• Coal to liquids
• (CTL) programs
• Enhanced nuclear
• technology

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Energy Trends and Their Impact Resurgent
Emerging Technologies

• Renewable Technology
• Commercial/utility applications
• Distributive (on-site)
• generation opportunities
• Wind turbines
• Photovoltaics (solar sells)
• Solar Heating (vacuum
• tube)

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Energy Trends and Their Impact Resurgent
Emerging Technologies

• Electric Interconnection
• Consumer-Friendly Interconnection
• Standards Relationships with utilities
• will change.
• Access to Technology AMI,
• new metering hardware and
• software energy efficient
• equipment and on-site
• generation.

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Energy Trends and The Impact on Communities

• Natural Gas Oil
• Federal Interstate pipeline development
• and storage field capacity expansion.
• State Intrastate/utility development
• and renewed interest
• in local oil gas
• exploration.

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Energy Trends and The Impact on Communities

• Biomass, Biofuels and Agbioresouces
• Corn Beans Movement to expand
• yields will warrant appropriate expansion
• and enhancement of farm drainage.
• Beyond Corn Beans
• Incorporation of new
• feed stocks
• and technologies.

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Energy Trends and Their Impact New Challenges,
New Benefits

• Consumers and the Community
• Access to Resources Land and open space,
• state and national leaders are relying on
• agriculture to maintain its leadership role
  to
• produce food and fiber, and take a
• leadership position in energy production.
• Make decisions and create
• tools to control energy costs.
• Create new economic
• opportunities and jobs.

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OFBF Self-Help Energy Programs
Dale Arnold, Director, Energy Services Ohio Farm
Bureau Federation 280 North High Street
Columbus, OH 43218 Phone [phone] E-Mail
darnold_at_ofbf.org