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PSE Issues Solar-Power Facility RFP

December 5, 2006 by Paul Nastu

Puget Sound Energy has issued an RFP (PDF) to develop the Pacific Northwest’s largest solar-powered generating facility at the company’s Wild Horse Wind Project in Eastern Washington. At 500 kilowatts, the solar project would roughly double the state’s entire solar-powered electricity generation and be four times bigger than any solar facility ... Read more »

EPA Asks Fortune 500 to Double Green Energy Use

December 4, 2006 by Paul Nastu

The EPA has asked Fortune 500 companies to double their current level of green power purchasing. The goal of the green power challenge is to exceed 5 billion kilowatt hours of green power purchases. Five billion kilowatt hours could power more than 400,000 average American homes or avoid the equivalent CO2 emissions ... Read more »

Power Plant CO2 Recycled into Biodiesel

December 3, 2006 by Paul Nastu

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 »

DOE, IRS Give $1 Billion in Tax Credits for Clean Coal

December 1, 2006 by Paul Nastu

The U.S. Department of Energy and the IRS awarded $1 billion in federal tax incentives to nine companies to bring about rapid deployment of advanced coal-based power generation and gasification technologies. Among the winners, $90 million in tax credits was given to British Petroleum to offset the costs of its planned ... Read more »

SunEdison CEO: ‘Pent Up Demand’ for Solar Services

November 30, 2006December 1, 2006 by Paul Nastu

SunEdison CEO Jigar Shah said the company succeeds because it delivers a full-range of services including financing, installation, and maintenance. “I’ve never been in a space where there was such pent up demand for a service as I’ve seen in this industry,” Shah told Marketing Green in a recent interview. “At the end ... Read more »

China to Build 100MW, $766 Million Solar Power Plant

November 22, 2006November 21, 2006 by Paul Nastu

China says it will build the world’s largest solar power station. The 100 megawatt project will cost approximately $766 million and construction will take five years, Reuters reports. Planners chose the town of Dunhuang for the solar plant. “Covering a total area of 31,200 square metres, Dunhuang boasts 3,362 hours ... Read more »

Southern California Edison Signs Seven New Renewable Power Contracts

November 21, 2006 by Paul Nastu

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

November 20, 2006November 20, 2006 by Paul Nastu

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 »

PG&E and Hi-Tech Companies Offer Incentives on Energy Efficient Server Technology

November 16, 2006October 2, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Pacific Gas and Electric has started a utility financial incentive program to support virtualization projects in data centers in northern and central California. VMware, Intel and other high tech leaders have gotten behind the project. Virtualization allows operating system application stacks to be mapped optimally to the underlying hardware resources, increasing ... Read more »

AES Submits Bids to NYPA to Construct Clean Coal and Biomass Facility

November 16, 2006November 20, 2006 by Paul Nastu

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 »

SunPower to Acquire PowerLight

November 15, 2006November 20, 2006 by Paul Nastu

SunPower, a manufacturer of solar cells and solar panels, is positioning itself as a solar power plant designer, developer, and operator with the acquisition of PowerLight, a privately owned solar systems provider. The total price for the acquisition is $265 million upfront plus a retention carve-out of $67.5 million vesting over 2 to ... Read more »

Most Consumers Will Pay More for Renewable Energy

November 15, 2006November 20, 2006 by Paul Nastu

Seventy-six percent of Americans feel it’s extremely important that their electric utility offers power produced from renewable sources, according to Energy Pulse, a study from the Shelton Group, a marketing company. So important, in fact, that 56 percent agreed that utilities should charge a small fee to all of their ... Read more »

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