Chicago Tribune | By Michael Hawthorne | Link to article Just south of the Chicago Skyway bridge, a dusty byproduct of the Canadian oil boom is piling up in huge black mountains along the Calumet River. More is on the way. A lot more. By the end of the year, the oil giant BP is […]
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Solar Plant Generates Power For Six Hours After Sunset
October 11, 2013
KCET.org/ReWire | By Chris Clarke | Link to article A solar thermal power plant in the Arizona desert just showed that solar power doesn’t have to stop working when the sun goes down. On Wednesday, Abengoa Solar announced that its 280-megawatt Solana plant near Gila Bend, Arizona, which just started delivering power to Arizona’s largest […]
V. Manuel Perez pushes for renewable energy bill support
September 19, 2013
The Desert Sun | By K Kaufmann | Link to article Pèrez lining up support for plan that puts added focus on Salton Sea’s potential PALM DESERT — Assemblyman V. Manuel Pèrez is looking for support from Coachella Valley officials and business leaders for an ambitious bill to push California utilities to procure more than […]
Why the U.S. Power Grid’s Days Are Numbered
August 22, 2013
Bloomberg News/businessweek.com | By Chris Martin, Mark Chediak, and Ken Wells | Link to article There are 3,200 utilities that make up the U.S. electrical grid, the largest machine in the world. These power companies sell $400 billion worth of electricity a year, mostly derived from burning fossil fuels in centralized stations and distributed over […]
California cannot afford a Teapot Dome
August 12, 2013
SFGate.com/SF Chronicle | By Fran Pavley | Link to article In 1922, U.S. Interior Secretary Albert Fall secretly gave away the rights to oil fields in Elk Hills, just west of Bakersfield, and Teapot Dome, Wyo., for a pittance. After a series of congressional hearings revealed that these natural resources had been leased at millions […]
Massive Solar Plant A Stepping Stone For Future Projects
August 1, 2013
KQED Morning Edition | KQED report The largest solar power plant of its kind is about to turn on in California’s Mojave Desert. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System will power about 140,000 homes and will be a boon to the state’s renewable energy goals, but it was no slam dunk. Now, California is trying […]
Solar power plant tours in Nevada, California enlighten Interior Secretary Sally Jewell
July 3, 2013
Las Vegas Review-Journal | By Henry Brean | Link to article Calling them trailblazers in an industry she expects to grow and improve, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on Monday applauded the developers of two very different solar energy projects built with federal help on public land near Primm. “It’s paving the way for […]
California Grid Operator Asks Geothermal to Help ‘Feed the Duck’
June 28, 2013
Greentech Media | By Herman K. Trabish | Link to article By 2015, the need for grid support will double. California’s 33-percent-renewables-by-2020 mandate is becoming a reality, and the state’s electricity system operator wants the geothermal industry to help keep the grid stable as more generation comes from variable resources. By 2020, due largely to […]
Fact Sheet: President Obama’s Climate Action Plan
June 25, 2013
The White House | Office of the Press SecretaryComplete release President Obama’s Plan to Cut Carbon Pollution Taking Action for Our Kids We have a moral obligation to leave our children a planet that’s not polluted or damaged, and by taking an all- of-the-above approach to develop homegrown energy and steady, responsible steps to cut […]
