Los Angeles Times Blog | By Kate Linthicum at Los Angeles City Hall | Link to article The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will be coal-free within 12 years under a plan announced Tuesday. Under the plan, the utility would sell off one coal-fired power plant in Arizona and grant approvals for a […]
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Germany’s Energiewende: What Have We Learned So Far?
March 12, 2013
The Globalist | By John Mathews | Link to article After a deep slump at the end of last year, the wind industry is picking up. First Wind, a Boston-based developer and operator that was sitting on a pile of stalled projects with the potential to power roughly 300,000 homes, now expects to go forward […]
Imperial County betting its future on renewable energy
February 27, 2013
Los Angeles Times | By Shan Li | Link to article The county, which has the state’s highest jobless rate, needs the construction boom to spur its economy. But some farmers and Native Americans are crying foul. Situated in the southeastern corner of California, bordering Arizona and Mexico, Imperial County has long depended on agriculture […]
Wind power output tops 10,000 MW in U.S. Midwest
November 20, 2012
Reuters | Pete Danko | Link to article Nov 28 (Reuters) – Wind power output in the U.S. Midwest electrical grid surpassed 10,000 megawatts (MW) for the first time on Nov. 23, representing more than 25 percent of the generation being used at that time. “Wind represents one of the fuel choices that helps us […]
California Array Is Navy’s New Top Solar Gun
October 24, 2012
Greentech Media, Inc. | Pete Danko | Link to article The U.S. Navy has a new 13.78-megawatt solar power plant in the high desert of California — the service’s biggest solar project yet — and it didn’t even have to pay for it. Like tens of thousands of California homeowners, the Navy went the power […]
2.8 MW Fuel Cell Using Biogas Now Operating; Largest PPA of its Kind in North America
October 12, 2012
Fuel Cell Today | Anaergia Inc. | Link to article A 2.8 MW fuel cell system powered by renewable biogas has come on line in California, marking the start of the largest power purchase agreement using such a system in North America. The molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) was supplied by FuelCell Energy. The […]
Fact-Checking Governor Romney’s Debate Numbers on Renewables and Loans
October 4, 2012
By Herman K. Trabish | Greentech Media, Inc. | Link to article DOE loan success rate: 98 percent; Bain Capital success rate: 80 percent Among the many numbers from the first Romney-Obama presidential debate was one in a remark Governor Romney addressed to the President. “In one year, you provided $90 billion in breaks to […]
Chevron Goes After Fran Pavley
October 1, 2012
By Mike Young | California League of Conservation Voters | Link to article I was watching tv the other night when it cut to commercial. Dark, ominous music started as a political ad described a sitting legislator running for re-election who was also an apparent tax dodger. This legislator made $261,000 last year and didn’t […]
Tax Credit in Doubt, Wind Power Industry Is Withering
September 20, 2012
By Diane Cardwell | The New York Times | Link to article “I hope they call us back because they are really, really good jobs,” said Miguel Orobiyi, who was furloughed from Gamesa. FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. — Last month, Gamesa, a major maker of wind turbines, completed the first significant order of its latest innovation: […]
