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The latest utility energy transition news and best practices related to net-zero, renewable energy and plant retrofits.

Duke's Anderson: Tax Carbon Emissions

Duke’s Anderson: Tax Carbon Emissions

Taxing carbon emissions will produce immediate, economywide gains in energy efficiency and new, carbon-free energy production, Duke Energy Chairman Paul Anderson said last week at a Sierra Club workshop in San Francisco on what to do about global warming. “All the other approaches will take decades,” Anderson said, Inside Bay Area reports. “A ... Read more »
Truckee Utility Rejects Wholesale, Coal-Fired Power Deal

Truckee Utility Rejects Wholesale, Coal-Fired Power Deal

California’s Truckee Donner Public Utility District board of directors has rejected a proposed 50-year deal to buy wholesale-priced power from a proposed coal-fired power plant in Utah after dozens of ratepayers and renewable energy advocates testified that Truckee should not be supporting an energy-generating system that contributes to global warming, ... Read more »
Colorado Democrats Plan Renewable Energy Bills

Colorado Democrats Plan Renewable Energy Bills

Colorado, with Democrats in control of the governor’s office as well as the state Senate and House, has a good chance of signing a dozen or so renewable energy bills – three times the number introduced last year – into law, Rocky Mountain News reports. According to the article, the following ... Read more »
PG&E to Launch Carbon Offset Program for Customers

PG&E to Launch Carbon Offset Program for Customers

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is launching a carbon offset program for residential and business customers. ClimateSmart, which PG&E is calling a first-of-its-kind program, is scheduled to launch in spring 2007. PG&E customers can sign up voluntarily and pay extra on their monthly utility bill based on energy usage, which ... Read more »
First Commercial Biomass Unit in U.S. in Final Stage

First Commercial Biomass Unit in U.S. in Final Stage

Siskiyou Opportunity Center in Mount Shasta, California is in the final stage of beginning to produce its own biomass electricity from wood chips, the Mount Shasta Herald reports. The biomass machine, designed and built by Colorado-based Community Power Corporation, will be the first commercial biomass machine of its kind in the ... Read more »
Honeywell Energy Plan Saves School District $129,000

Honeywell Energy Plan Saves School District $129,000

A five-year energy savings plan at York School Department buildings in Maine cut $128,903 in energy costs its first year, the Portsmouth Herald reports. In 2004, the School Department, working with Honeywell, designed a $776,000 plan that would pay for itself in five years. Now, with the higher cost of ... Read more »
Motorola Powers BSTs with Wind, Solar

Motorola Powers BSTs with Wind, Solar

According to tests by Motorola, a combination of solar cells and wind turbines can generate 1,200 watts in a continual cycle to drive a mid-sized remote GSM Base Station (BTS) and support a microwave backhaul installation. Motorola says that powering BTS sites in both developed and emerging markets is a challenge ... Read more »
UK Wind Farms Miss Production Targets

UK Wind Farms Miss Production Targets

Wind farms in England and Wales are not producing as much electricity as the government had forecast, according to a Telegraph article, because England and Wales are not windy enough to allow large turbines to work at the rates claimed. A study by the Renewable Energy Foundation shows that Wind ... Read more »
Merryvale Vineyard's Production Facility Goes Solar

Merryvale Vineyard’s Production Facility Goes Solar

Napa Valley’s Merryvale Vineyards has installed a 277kW solar electric system for Starmont Winery that will generate enough clean electricity each day to power 78 average homes. Installed by SolarCraft Services, the new system will spare the air nearly 473 tons of harmful greenhouse gases annually. Over the next 30 years, the air ... Read more »
Energy-Efficient Server Bill Passed by Senate

Energy-Efficient Server Bill Passed by Senate

The U.S. Senate has approved H.R. 5646, a bill that proclaims it is “in the best interest of the United States for purchasers of computer servers to give high priority to energy efficiency as a factor in determining best value and performance for purchases of computer servers,” CNET reports. President ... Read more »
IPPNY: DEC's RGGI Pre-Proposal 'Myopic'

IPPNY: DEC’s RGGI Pre-Proposal ‘Myopic’

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has released a preliminary draft set of rules to implement the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in New York which includes the auction of 100 percent of emissions allowances. Comments are due by January 12. RGGI is a market-based cap-and-trade program to reduce carbon ... Read more »
Milford, CT: Solar Panels, Windmills Not Enough

Milford, CT: Solar Panels, Windmills Not Enough

Milford, Connecticut is falling short of its goal of getting 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2010, forcing the Board of Aldermen to approve the purchase of energy certificates representing seven percent of the city’s annual kilowatt-hour consumption, The Connecticut Post reports. “Realistically, purchasing these certificates is ... Read more »


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