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 […]
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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: […]
Overheard at BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Power Tower
August 7, 2012
By Herman K. Trabish | Greentech Media | Link to article In conjunction with the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, hosted by Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) and featuring former President Bill Clinton as the keynote speaker, BrightSource Energy (BSE) invited media on a tour of its now half-complete Ivanpah solar power plant. Co-owned […]
Spinning Facts to Suit Industry Interests: New California Manufacturers & Technology Association report is full of holes
July 11, 2012
Source: EDF Blog – California 2.0 | Link to article By Jamie Fine, PhD and Ruiwen Lee Jamie Fine is EDF’s Senior Energy economist, and a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Energy Resources Group; Ruiwen Lee is an economics fellow and graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. California’s energy and […]
Wind credit with bipartisan backing gets lost in election-year fray
July 4, 2012
Source: E&E Publishing, LLC | Link to article The ongoing campaign to extend a tax break vital to the wind industry is experiencing something of an identity crisis. On the one hand, the credit has broad bipartisan support and efforts to extend it have been championed even by some freshman Republican lawmakers swept into office […]
