Wael Al-Mazeedi’s Bet on Fossil Fuel Plants on the Same Electric Grid with Wind Farms

Wael Al-Mazeedi, CEO and Founder of the BTU Group, sizes up the hybridization of renewable energy resources and fossil fuels in its early stages.

From BDNewsLive

Energy sources are allies, not enemies in the world of grid operation. In Chuck Lenzie, the 1102 MW gas-fired plant in Nevada, the steam heated out of solar power streams into the steam cycle of fossil plants, which in turn send it out during sun-less days. Case reversed, the sun emits low-cost energy.

This is not the only significant crisscrossing between natural power from the sun and wind and non-renewable reserves coal, oil, and natural gas. Hybridization is underway, and it is not merely a technological play but an industry’s maturation signified.

From Inhabitat

Wael Al-Mazeedi, Mitsue Oishi, and fellow directors at the BTU Industries share the vision of seizing hybrid combination projects and work hand in hand with like-minded industry leaders. Propelled to resolve the disturbing phenomenon of intermittency of the electric grid, they vouch for the supplementation of fossil fuels when renewable sources are less reliable or unproductive.

Mr. Al-Mazeedi and company tout the backdrop of this bridge to a potential industrial revolution as its “watershed moment.” The CEO extols the conventionality of fossil fuel plant designs, as opposed to disruptive “new energy technologies” that go against the rigidity of the industry to embrace radical change. Hybrid generation, he adds, will promote the co-existence of both resources and not just a substitution of one of the other.

From Novinite

More information about Wael Al-Mazeedi can be accessed at www.btupower.com.