For people who want solar power but can't put a system on their roof, Xcel will offer an opportunity to invest in a community project.
PARADE | October Sales Tax Holidays: Energy Star Products PARADE Depending on which government agency website you visit, October is either National Energy Awareness Month (the White House), or Energy Action Month (Federal Energy Management Program), or just plain Energy Awareness Month (Energy Star). |
No state agency over the years has so disregarded the interests of both ordinary citizens and business owners as the state Public Utilities Commission.
Energy Department to Award $100 Million for Energy Frontier Research Centers Energy.gov (blog) WASHINGTON – U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today announced a proposed $100 million in FY2014 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a new 21st-century energy economy. |
It now continues through the end of the year, after the state Public Service Commission voted 2-to-1 to continue allocating solar funds for more cost-effective bio-energy projects.
First Solar has added another mega-scale project to its pipeline, helping ensure there's enough to feed its thin-film solar PV manufacturing machine.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/09/first-solar-takes-over-moapa-solar-project?cmpid=rss http://bit.ly/15KdByZApollo's Energy IPO Gives New Life to Quick Flips New York Times Apollo Global Management's latest sale gives new life to the quick flip. Leon Black's shop is taking EP Energy public less than 18 months after leading a $7.2 billion takeover of the oil and gas company. That contrasts starkly with the trend of longer ... |
Rick Small is cruising across Canada on his modified solar trike to raise awareness of the potential of solar energy.
Will Rising Energy Prices End Suburban Sprawl? Forbes I recently drove into downtown Houston twice in one week. I can count on one hand the number of times that's happened in the almost six months since I changed jobs. After my second trip, I bought gas for the first time in a month. My old job required a ... |
Fast Company | Want More Energy? Skip The Coffee, And Call Your Mom Instead Fast Company A microburst is a small activity that has a big energy payoff. Groppel reports that the concept comes from tennis, which he studied while working with the U.S. Professional Tennis Association. Elite players turn out to have very structured recovery ... |
According to the most recent issue of the "Monthly Energy Review" by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), with data through June 30, 2013, renewable energy sources (i.e., biofuels, biomass, hydropower, geothermal, solar, and wind) provided 9.81 percent of U.S. energy consumption and 11.82 percent of domestic energy production for the first half of 2013.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/09/renewable-energy-mid-year-report-10-us-energy-consumption-14-net-electrical-generation?cmpid=rss http://bit.ly/15KdByZIt's Excellent That Renewable Energy Doesn't Create Many Green Jobs For Jobs ... Forbes The Wall Street Journal has an interesting walk through some of the myths about renewable energy. It's not quite (quite!) as expensive as many think, variability isn't entirely a killer and so on. But the one that interests me most is the assertion ... |
During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama touted the prospect that investing in clean energy could produce five million "green jobs." The idea of creating jobs helped underpin the $90 billion clean-energy stimulus in 2009 and later efforts, and remains a staple of administration rhetoric.
Today's global energy market is in the midst of a paradigm shift, from a model dominated by large centralized power plants owned by big utilities to a mixed bag of so-called distributed energy generation facilities — smaller residential, commercial and industrial power generation systems — many of which use renewable resources.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/09/virtual-power-plants-a-new-model-for-renewables-integration?cmpid=rss http://bit.ly/15KdByZEnergy Collective | Climate Skeptics Against Global Warming Energy Collective Over the last decade, progressives have successfully painted conservative climate skepticism as the major stumbling block to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Exxon and the Koch brothers, the story goes, fund conservative think tanks to sow doubt ... Energy secretary: United Nations climate report a 'watershed' Renewable energy technology the key to climate change |
Well I was hoping for a big finish to my fishing season this weekend as I will soon be transitioning into hunting.
Geothermal energy, one of the "forgotten renewables," powers 4,419 MW, or just more than 1 percent, of planned capacity in the U.S., surpassing only planned biomass-fueled capacity in the renewables sector. Geothermal heat currently powers just 2,751 MW.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/09/movin-and-shakin-geothermal-projects-face-a-rocky-road?cmpid=rss http://bit.ly/15KdByZReporter notebook: Searching for energy solutions overseas U-T San Diego The world's energy landscape has shifted drastically in the two years that I have covered the subject as a reporter for U-T San Diego. The Unites States has emerged as a leader in natural resources exploration -- and suffered through a super-storm ... |
Telegraph.co.uk | The Benefits and Perils of Energy Abundance TIME Forty years after the 1973 Middle East oil embargo ushered in an era of energy scarcity, the U.S. is in the midst of a power revolution, driven largely by new technology. Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have allowed energy companies to ... New energy world order shaping up Energy is our friend, not our enemy |
EDF Renewable Energy today dedicated the 143 MWp Catalina Solar project located in Kern County.
Energy corridor should get look Bismarck Tribune Allete and Allete Clean Energy operate a transmission line on this route. The idea is to widen (and extend) the right of way to 150 to 200 feet to make room for other energy carriers — natural gas and crude oil pipelines. This beats siting and buying ... |
TG Daily | NASA spacecraft track energy through space TG Daily Scientists have provided the most comprehensive details yet of the journey energy from the sun takes as it hurtles around Earth's magnetosphere. Understanding the changes energy from the sun undergoes as it travels away and out into space is crucial ... Source of energy that powers northern lights discovered Source of Space Weather Near Earth Discovered |
The Guardian | Ed Miliband's energy cap: policy on the hoof or a calculated blunder? The Guardian The contending factors over energy policy include sustainability, climate change, security of supply, competition between domestic suppliers, generation v transmission, arm's length regulation and the size of the bribe needed to get the French or ... |
IKEA, the world's biggest furniture retailer, is to sell solar panels at its British stores, the first time it has offered the devices and marking an attempt to tap growth in the heavily subsidised green energy market.
The Guardian | Chris Grayling: fracking is 'solution' to high energy bills The Guardian An inquiry by the House of Commons energy committee found in January it is "too early to say whether domestic production of shale gas could result in cheaper gas prices in the UK", and it would be wrong to assume that prices would come down as a result ... |
T. Boone Pickens' well-publicized financial woes in the wind farm business apparently haven't deterred other Texans from seeking their fortune in the emerging energy market.
Credits to Spur Renewable Energy Sources Seen Set to End: Taxes Bloomberg Tax credits for the production of wind power and other renewable energy sources face expiration at year's end amid few signs Congress will decide to continue them, tax lobbyists and other analysts say. Failure to extend the 16 tax credits could stymie ... |
Bill Gates Backs New Renewable Energy Storage System OilPrice.com The two bottlenecks inhibiting further use of renewable energy systems are cost and the fact that the sun doesn't always shine or the wind blow-in one word, storage. While mass production of components such as solar photovoltaic cells means that their ... |
Verve energy drink recruiting college kids New York Post School is back in session and dorm room refrigerators are once again stocked with energy drink favorites like Red Bull and Monster. But in recent years, a third brand, Verve, is trying to elbow its way into student life. The brainchild of Benson K ... |
China's Ministry of Finance announced it will offer tax breaks to manufacturers of solar power products on Sunday, as China moves to support an industry still struggling to deal with massive overcapacity and weak demand.
Abita Brewing Co. is approaching its goal of becoming one of the most energy-efficient breweries in the country as it now is using a 340-panel rooftop solar system to power its brew house.
NZ PM Key sees lower asset sale proceeds, no Solid Energy sale Reuters "Definitely it's going to be near the lower end than the higher end, but Solid Energy isn't going to come to the market," Key said on Television New Zealand, reiterating a similar forecast Finance Minister Bill English made last week. The state-owned ... |
Proposed energy transmission lines transmit energy, opposition Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette Illinois has become the frontline in the battleground of Midwestern energy transmission. But for many residents, the argument isn't with wind energy production itself. Instead, the controversy lies with how to get that wind energy from point A to point ... |
By signing Senate Bill 4, a severely compromised fracking bill, Gov. Jerry Brown has shown a lack of optimism and confidence in California's future at a time when the state has its greatest chance – and need – to move beyond oil and gas to clean energy.
The lessons of analyzing energy use will power Energy Innovation Center Pittsburgh Post Gazette It's not about being green and it's not about being sustainable, says Joseph Jacobsen, executive director of academic programs at the Energy Innovation Center, which is rising, slowly but surely, inside the former Connelley Trade School in the Hill ... |
More than any other country, Iceland has access to incredible amounts of geothermal energy, used to heat entire communities and to produce electricity.
Who cares about birds? What about humans being killed by wind farm accidents? Last week a study by U.S. Fish and Wildlife researchers on the number of eagle deaths by wind turbines ruffled some feathers in the industry , but industry supporters were quick to note that other human activities kill more, so who cares? Does this same philosophy hold ... (more)
The lessons of analyzing energy use will power Energy Innovation Center Pittsburgh Post Gazette It's not about being green and it's not about being sustainable, says Joseph Jacobsen, executive director of academic programs at the Energy Innovation Center, which is rising, slowly but surely, inside the former Connelley Trade School in the Hill ... |
The wind energy industry , putting renewable energy above treasured wildlife, is seeking America's first ever permit to kill golden eagles .
Free cars for energy hogs U-T San Diego FILE - In this June 22, 2012 file photo, Tesla CEO Elon Musk waves during a rally at the Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif. Musk on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 unveiled a concept for a transport system he says would make the nearly 400-mile trip in half the ... |
Arizona Republic | Building better energy efficiency Arizona Republic Buildings that use the government's Energy Star guidelines use 35 percent less energy than similar buildings and cost 50 cents-per-square-foot less to operate, according to the Energy Department. Part of the reason small buildings are forgoing ... |
The boss of a company planning to roll out a series of solar farms in rural locations across north Essex has urged communities to give the technology a chance.
Biomass Gets A Slice Of Army's $7 Billion Renewable Energy Pie CleanTechnica We've been following the US Army Corps of Engineers' ambitious $7 billion renewable energy plan, and it looks like the first round of contracts has concluded with smooth sailing. The public-private initiative will use Department of Defense properties ... Phoenix Energy to Exhibit Eco-Friendly Electricity & Heating Solutions at ... |
Some students in High River have been crammed 55 to a room, while others have been forced to take classes in packed gymnasiums as they await the arrival of modular classrooms that were promised to be ready by the start of the school year.
Energy Collective | Google Nearly Doubles Wind Energy Portfolio Energy Collective For the past few years, Google has been at the forefront of some of the largest projects between the renewable energy industry and the private sector. Collectively, the company has committed over $1 billion to renewable energy projects since 2010. But ... |
Fixing California: The energy revolution U-T San Diego Hydraulic fracturing — fracking — has been used to extract oil and natural gas from shale rock for decades. But technological improvements in recent years have made the process far more efficient. It's expanded use in states like North Dakota, Texas ... |
Reform for Mexico's energy sector offers US opportunity Houston Chronicle Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has spoken forcefully about his plan to address the challenges that have impeded Mexico's economic and social progress. And recently, he laid out his intention to address perhaps the most contentious: Mexico's ... |
The Republic | Xcel Energy plan to steer 'solar gardens' push Minnesota Public Radio ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Minnesota is looking to grow its share of electricity fueled by the sun and is counting on community solar gardens to help make it happen. A sweeping state energy law approved this spring demands that utilities generate or ... World's Largest Solar Thermal Plant Syncs to the Grid |
The Guardian | Labour's energy price freeze chimes with the spirit of 1997. It's not 'back to ... The Guardian As the Tories' conference begins this weekend, their rattled response to Labour's promise to tackle energy prices betrays their fear about its effectiveness. "Back to the 70s" has been their response. But will anyone take seriously their claims that we ... |
Christian Science Monitor | Solar garden: Model T of renewable energy? Christian Science Monitor A sweeping state energy law approved this spring demands that utilities generate or procure 1.5 percent of their power from solar sources by 2020 — a big step up from where the state is now. Under that law, Xcel Energy Inc. has until Monday to tell ... |
There is a deep irony at work in the intersection of energy and the environment.
Grid sets green energy record U-T San Diego A view of Tenaska Imperial Solar Energy Center South, a utility-scale photovoltaic solar plant taking shape across nearly 950 acres of private agricultural land in the Imperial Valley. — Tenaska. · ; ✉; - Comments. Power production from renewable ... |
Xcel Energy plan to steer 'solar gardens' push Pioneer Press Minnesota is looking to grow its share of electricity fueled by the sun and is counting on community solar gardens to help make it happen. A sweeping state energy law approved this spring demands that utilities generate or procure 1.5 percent of their ... |
Minnesota is looking to grow its share of electricity fueled by the sun and is counting on community solar gardens to help make it happen.
New York Times | A Fresh Set of Grades Measures Energy Use in Residential Buildings New York Times In its waning days, the Bloomberg administration is issuing a final batch of grades, this time to rate the energy use of the city's largest residential buildings. This week, officials released energy consumption data for large multifamily buildings ... The Best Way to Cut Down Energy Use Energy efficiency placing burden on government agencies Ecotech Institute's Energy Efficiency Program Now Provides Building ... |
Salt workers make a salt pan in front of a wind mill in Kuda village in Gujarat January 29, 2009.
Eagle conservation effort at Solano wind energy project is first of its kind Sacramento Bee Wind energy is known to be environmentally friendly, except for one persistent concern: The spinning turbine blades often kill birds, especially raptors such as eagles. Now, a wind energy project in Solano County may become the first in the United ... |
