Telluride Buys Green Tag Renewable Energy
As of January 1, 2007, 100 percent of the Telluride Mountain Village gondola and the Town of Mountain Village’s electrical usage, including not only the gondola, but the Town Hall...
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SCE Signs Largest-Ever U.S. Utility Wind Energy Contract
Southern California Edison has signed a wind energy contract with Alta Windpower Development, a subsidiary of Allco Financial Group of Australia, that’s the largest wind energy contract ever signed by a U.S. utility. It secures for SCE customers 1,500 megawatts or more of power generated by new projects to be built in ... Read more »
GM Reports, Again, that Energy Use is Down
General Motors is once again pointing out that it has cut its energy use by 25 percent and added solar and landfill gas as energy sources at its North American facilities over the past five years, Associated Press reports (via the Houston Chronicle). According to our story, and a press release, ... Read more »
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 »
2006 National Green Power Award Winners & Project Descriptions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Center for Resource Solutions recently announced the annual Green Power Leadership Awards, recognizing leading national green power purchasers and suppliers. Descriptions of each award recipient’s efforts are from the EPA. They can be found in the 2006 Awards Ceremony ... Read more »
Power Plant CO2 Recycled into Biodiesel
Arizona Public Service Company has recycled carbon dioxide from the stack gases of a power plant into transportation grade biofuels. Using GreenFuel’s Emissions-to-Biofuels algae bioreactor system connected to APS’ 1,040 megawatt Redhawk power plant in Arlington, Ariz., GreenFuel was able to create a carbon-rich algal biomass with sufficient quality and ... Read more »
TechVision21: Billions in Federal Alt Energy Funding
Speaking before the Electric Drive Transportation Association on Tuesday, TechVision21 CEO Kelly Carnes outlined the billions of dollars in federal alternative energy grants, loan guarantees, and other financial assistance flowing to companies, agricultural producers, universities, state and local governments, and non-profits now and in the years ahead. “The federal government ... Read more »
IRS Approves 610 CREBs Applications
Last week, the IRS announced that 610 projects have been given the authority to issue Clean Renewable Energy Bonds, New Rules Project reports. Projects for the governmental borrowers will receive allocations in 24 states and projects for the cooperative borrowers will receive allocations in 22 states. The allocations for the ... Read more »
Southern California Edison Signs Seven New Renewable Power Contracts
Southern California Edison has signed seven new long-term contracts with independent renewable energy power generators. The agreements secure up to 324 megawatts of clean power, the amount needed to serve 190,000 average homes. “These new contracts help us address two priorities – finding additional generation to meet our customers’ growing energy needs, and securing ... Read more »
City of Millbrae Powers Wastewater Treatment Plant on Kitchen Grease
Millbrae, California’s Water Pollution Control Plant is using inedible kitchen grease from restaurants to naturally produce biogas for generating renewable power and heat to treat the city’s wastewater. The system, engineered and installed by Chevron Energy Solutions, includes a grease receiving station and an expanded cogenerator as well as other ... Read more »
AES Submits Bids to NYPA to Construct Clean Coal and Biomass Facility
AES has submitted two bids to construct a clean coal and biomass facility in Upstate New York in response to a request for proposal by the New York Power Authority. AES’s proposals include a 500 MW generation plant located at AES’s Jennison site in Bainbridge, New York and a 700 ... Read more »
NJ Doubles Solar Capacity in 9 Months
New Jersey has more than doubled its solar capacity in the first nine months of 2006 and now has more than 1840 solar electric systems across the State with over 26 MW of installed solar capacity, according to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. BPU says a combination of state ... Read more »