A solar plant built next to a natural gas power plant in Florida. a hydroelectric power plant is required to achieve an expected annual growth of 6 percent in Chile; a coal power plant that burns also biomass in Virginia; and built a solar power plant on a former strip of brown coal mining in Germany. These projects and many more are just a few of the recent winners of the power engineering and RenewableEnergyWorld.com awarded projects of the year.
Every year, we honor the best of the best from all over the world in natural gas, solar, coal, wind, nuclear, biomass, geothermal and hydro/marine. Prizes are awarded at a gala event on the day before the start of the POWER-GEN international and Renewable Energy World Conference & Expo North America, runs this year from November 12-14 in Orlando at the Orange County Convention Center. But you need first to nominate your project!
How does this process work? Simply go online, answer the questions to let us know that you will work together when we ask for pictures and information, and you're done. The editor of two magazines do fun part of assessing each individual designated based on a set of criteria which benefit from environmental impact to innovations such as the community of the project among others. We are looking for the two top scores in each category and to get these two projects, come to Orlando, to find out whether they go with the coveted prize (the winners and the honorable mentions receive a trophy and recognition, so that no one leaves empty-handed).
There is no rule, who may appoint a project. Whether it is the project owner or an entrepreneur, everyone can show how proud they are that their work. The prices are also not only on new buildings, limited. We have re motorized awards for retrofit or upgrade, uprates, or fun and different projects. A brewery, which flow to keep your own by-products, the beer and the lights on, and Entergy go Wi-Fi monitor not used to a nuclear power plant in Louisiana a few examples of projects, the power plants.
Basic rules: Projects had between August 1, 2012 online come and 31 July 2013, also the deadline for registration is get your nominations. You must agree to send in photos or what whatever additional information is required you must visit and 11 at the Hard Rock Live Gala on November. Who wants to miss a three-course dinner, cocktails and music (which is free for eight participants on behalf of the finalist project!) as well as a shiny trophy to boot?
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
The clock is ticking to submit nominations for the projects of the year
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
PACE Financing Concept Provides Hope for Renewable Energy Projects
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Simon Property Group Inc., the largest U.S. shopping mall owner, and Prologis Inc. the world’s biggest warehouse owner, are among borrowers funding projects from rooftop solar panels to energy-savings systems using so-called PACE financing. PACE bonds, sold by cities to investors, are repaid over decades by property owners through their real estate taxes.As banks become less eager to provide long-term capital for renewable energy, PACE bonds offer a way for property owners to fund projects and for investors to capitalize on clean power. Formally known as property-assessed clean energy, the format failed to catch on big with homeowners and is making headway with commercial borrowers. Agencies that arrange these types of loans estimate more of them will be made in 2013 than in the past four years combined.
“This will be the year that we start seeing deal flow,” said Jessica Bailey, director of a PACE program in Connecticut that began arranging loans in January. “This will be the year where the concept of PACE as security for investment is proven out.”
Deutsche Bank AG estimates that U.S. building owners will spend $280 billion through 2022 on systems that reduce power bills, including LED lighting, solar panels and software that manages electricity usage.
Assessment Bonds
The PACE model is an update of so-called special assessment bonds, a financing tool devised more than 100 years ago to fund infrastructure projects that are repaid through property taxes.
There may be a record $150 million in PACE loans extended for rooftop solar panels, energy-efficient LED lighting and power-management systems this year, according to David Gabrielson, executive director of PACENow, a Pleasantville, New York-based advocacy group. It’s an example of the new sources of financing that have been created in recent years as investors show growing interest in renewables.
PACE loans had a slow start since the first program was created in Berkeley, California, in 2008, partly because of doubt over their treatment in defaults. They have supported just $121 million of clean-energy projects at U.S. residential and commercial buildings in six states, according to estimates from PACENow.
In contrast, about $17 billion in special assessment bonds were issued for projects such as street lights, community centers and underground water systems just in the past decade, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Prologis Project
Prologis began its first PACE-funded project in November, a $1.6 million effort at its San Francisco headquarters that includes energy-efficient lighting and rooftop solar panels. The company is considering similar financing for retrofits at some of its Southern California buildings, according to Aaron Binkley, director of sustainability programs.
“Our hope is that in a short amount of time the market far eclipses this one individual, small project and there’s a lot more volume,” Binkley said. The San Francisco project is expected to reduce the building’s energy use by about a third, shaving off $98,000 in annual costs.
Clean Fund LLC, a San Rafael, California-based company that provides PACE financing, funded 90 percent of the project by buying a 20-year PACE bond that pays 6.93 percent, according to Managing Director Derek Brown. That’s more than double the yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds, which are about 2.87 percent.
“It’s got a really nice yield” that’s taxable by the federal government and not the state, he said.
Residential Disputes
PACE financing was initially intended to fund residential and commercial projects. Loans to homeowners sparked legal disputes over concerns that debts used for clean-energy projects may take priority over mortgages in a default.
PACE programs are now focusing on business properties, a move that may spur widespread use, said Bailey, from the Connecticut Property Assessed Clean Energy program. The state has 36,000 commercial buildings, and retrofitting a tenth of them with systems to cut their power bills by about 20 percent will take at least $164 million in investments, she estimated.
More Projects
The program may finance about $20 million worth of projects within six months to a year. Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup Inc., Clean Fund and Ameresco Inc. are among the eight lenders that have agreed to provide loans.
Simon Property of Indianapolis, Indiana, used about $2 million in PACE financing for three energy-efficiency projects in California and Ohio. The long repayment period makes the loans attractive, said George Caraghiaur, Simon Property’s senior vice president of sustainability.
“You can finance these projects over a long enough period of time that the energy savings pay for the assessment,” he said in a phone interview. “It makes sense.”
Once PACE financing becomes more widespread, the debts may be bundled together, Caraghiaur said. “Ultimately, they’ll be able to securitize these loans in bigger chunks and sell them off like mortgage-backed securities,” he said.
“That’s the big goal, to bundle a bunch of these PACE loans together and create a secondary market,” said Clay Nesler, vice president of global energy and sustainability at Johnson Controls Inc., the energy-efficiency technology provider that’s working on the Prologis project.
Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia have approved the use of this type of financing and there are 16 programs arranging loans in seven states, according to Nesler.
“We are very hopeful that 2013 is a bellwether year for this,” he said.
Ygrene Energy Fund Inc. arranges PACE loans in Sacramento, California, and expects to expand into Miami and Atlanta later this year, according to President Dan Schaefer.
“We’ll probably have 1,000 contractors on board by the middle of this year,” Schaefer said. “We think it’s going to be an incredibly powerful momentum builder for us.”
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“This will be the year that we start seeing deal flow,” said Jessica Bailey, director of a PACE program in Connecticut that began arranging loans in January. “This will be the year where the concept of PACE as security for investment is proven out.”
Deutsche Bank AG estimates that U.S. building owners will spend $280 billion through 2022 on systems that reduce power bills, including LED lighting, solar panels and software that manages electricity usage.
Assessment Bonds
The PACE model is an update of so-called special assessment bonds, a financing tool devised more than 100 years ago to fund infrastructure projects that are repaid through property taxes.
There may be a record $150 million in PACE loans extended for rooftop solar panels, energy-efficient LED lighting and power-management systems this year, according to David Gabrielson, executive director of PACENow, a Pleasantville, New York-based advocacy group. It’s an example of the new sources of financing that have been created in recent years as investors show growing interest in renewables.
PACE loans had a slow start since the first program was created in Berkeley, California, in 2008, partly because of doubt over their treatment in defaults. They have supported just $121 million of clean-energy projects at U.S. residential and commercial buildings in six states, according to estimates from PACENow.
In contrast, about $17 billion in special assessment bonds were issued for projects such as street lights, community centers and underground water systems just in the past decade, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Prologis Project
Prologis began its first PACE-funded project in November, a $1.6 million effort at its San Francisco headquarters that includes energy-efficient lighting and rooftop solar panels. The company is considering similar financing for retrofits at some of its Southern California buildings, according to Aaron Binkley, director of sustainability programs.
“Our hope is that in a short amount of time the market far eclipses this one individual, small project and there’s a lot more volume,” Binkley said. The San Francisco project is expected to reduce the building’s energy use by about a third, shaving off $98,000 in annual costs.
Clean Fund LLC, a San Rafael, California-based company that provides PACE financing, funded 90 percent of the project by buying a 20-year PACE bond that pays 6.93 percent, according to Managing Director Derek Brown. That’s more than double the yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds, which are about 2.87 percent.
“It’s got a really nice yield” that’s taxable by the federal government and not the state, he said.
Residential Disputes
PACE financing was initially intended to fund residential and commercial projects. Loans to homeowners sparked legal disputes over concerns that debts used for clean-energy projects may take priority over mortgages in a default.
PACE programs are now focusing on business properties, a move that may spur widespread use, said Bailey, from the Connecticut Property Assessed Clean Energy program. The state has 36,000 commercial buildings, and retrofitting a tenth of them with systems to cut their power bills by about 20 percent will take at least $164 million in investments, she estimated.
More Projects
The program may finance about $20 million worth of projects within six months to a year. Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup Inc., Clean Fund and Ameresco Inc. are among the eight lenders that have agreed to provide loans.
Simon Property of Indianapolis, Indiana, used about $2 million in PACE financing for three energy-efficiency projects in California and Ohio. The long repayment period makes the loans attractive, said George Caraghiaur, Simon Property’s senior vice president of sustainability.
“You can finance these projects over a long enough period of time that the energy savings pay for the assessment,” he said in a phone interview. “It makes sense.”
Once PACE financing becomes more widespread, the debts may be bundled together, Caraghiaur said. “Ultimately, they’ll be able to securitize these loans in bigger chunks and sell them off like mortgage-backed securities,” he said.
“That’s the big goal, to bundle a bunch of these PACE loans together and create a secondary market,” said Clay Nesler, vice president of global energy and sustainability at Johnson Controls Inc., the energy-efficiency technology provider that’s working on the Prologis project.
Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia have approved the use of this type of financing and there are 16 programs arranging loans in seven states, according to Nesler.
“We are very hopeful that 2013 is a bellwether year for this,” he said.
Ygrene Energy Fund Inc. arranges PACE loans in Sacramento, California, and expects to expand into Miami and Atlanta later this year, according to President Dan Schaefer.
“We’ll probably have 1,000 contractors on board by the middle of this year,” Schaefer said. “We think it’s going to be an incredibly powerful momentum builder for us.”
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Department of energy invested $9 million in data-driven SunShot projects
Monday, February 11, 2013
The Department of energy announced on 30 January its selection of seven data-driven projects, to reduce opportunities for solar energy and accelerated deployment of solar energy in the United States dig out. The Department is about 9 million $ in the seven projects to invest in six States: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Texas. The projects are part of the SunShot initiative to make competitive solar energy a joint national effort until the end of the decade with other energies.
$7 Million offer for four projects Energy Department research teams led by Sandia National Laboratories, the national renewable energy Laboratory (NREL), Yale University and the University of Texas - Austin (UT-Austin). These teams will solve industry problems in cooperation with public and private financial institutions, utilities, and statistical and computational tools to be applied to State agencies and lead regional pilot projects in the country, to test the impact and the scalability of their innovations.
For example, will design solar challenge Yale University of researchers partner with SmartPowers New England and implement innovative strategies that guided bulk purchasing programs for solar power can increase the effectiveness of the community. The team of UT-Austin with complex sets of data from six Texas utilities, is working to better understand customer needs, and identify to optimize the installation and networking opportunities. As NREL develop a computer model for the analysis of data from a network of US solar installers and new kinds of community and regional level strategies for financing and delivery costs identification.
The Department to invest $2 million in three projects led by the University of North Carolina - Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), to analyze the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) and SRI International, decades of scientific publications, patents, and information on costs and production. SRI International will develop advanced software that reads and analyzes to discover thousands of scientific publications and patents, to speed up new ways to solar energy technology innovation and commercialization. Meanwhile, UNC Charlotte apply and computational tools for patent, cost and production data to accelerate solar cost cuts and better predict future costs for new energy technologies. See the DOE press release and the full list of projects.
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$7 Million offer for four projects Energy Department research teams led by Sandia National Laboratories, the national renewable energy Laboratory (NREL), Yale University and the University of Texas - Austin (UT-Austin). These teams will solve industry problems in cooperation with public and private financial institutions, utilities, and statistical and computational tools to be applied to State agencies and lead regional pilot projects in the country, to test the impact and the scalability of their innovations.
For example, will design solar challenge Yale University of researchers partner with SmartPowers New England and implement innovative strategies that guided bulk purchasing programs for solar power can increase the effectiveness of the community. The team of UT-Austin with complex sets of data from six Texas utilities, is working to better understand customer needs, and identify to optimize the installation and networking opportunities. As NREL develop a computer model for the analysis of data from a network of US solar installers and new kinds of community and regional level strategies for financing and delivery costs identification.
The Department to invest $2 million in three projects led by the University of North Carolina - Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), to analyze the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) and SRI International, decades of scientific publications, patents, and information on costs and production. SRI International will develop advanced software that reads and analyzes to discover thousands of scientific publications and patents, to speed up new ways to solar energy technology innovation and commercialization. Meanwhile, UNC Charlotte apply and computational tools for patent, cost and production data to accelerate solar cost cuts and better predict future costs for new energy technologies. See the DOE press release and the full list of projects.
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Friday, February 08, 2013
Energy Department Expands Technical Assistance for Tribal Energy Projects
Friday, February 08, 2013
The Energy Department on January 30 announced the second round of the Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Program, which provides federally recognized Tribal governments with technical assistance to accelerate clean energy project deployment. Additionally, the Energy Department plans to seek information from tribes interested in launching or expanding utility services in their own communities, which will help establish a new START Utility Program (START-UP). Additional details on this effort will be available on the Office of Indian Energy website in the coming weeks.
Over the past year, the START program has helped nine Tribal communities advance their clean energy technology and infrastructure projects, from solar and wind to biofuels and energy efficiency. The second round of technical assistance awards will build upon the initial successes of the START program and further help Native American and Alaska Native communities increase local generation capacity, enhance energy-efficiency measures, and create local entrepreneurial and job opportunities. In the contiguous United States, Energy Department and national laboratory experts will provide technical assistance on tribes' clean energy project development. In Alaska, the Energy Department and the Denali Commission will help rural Alaska Native communities conduct energy awareness and training programs and pursue new renewable energy and energy efficiency opportunities. Applications are due by March 15, 2013. See the Energy Department press release and the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs webpage.
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Over the past year, the START program has helped nine Tribal communities advance their clean energy technology and infrastructure projects, from solar and wind to biofuels and energy efficiency. The second round of technical assistance awards will build upon the initial successes of the START program and further help Native American and Alaska Native communities increase local generation capacity, enhance energy-efficiency measures, and create local entrepreneurial and job opportunities. In the contiguous United States, Energy Department and national laboratory experts will provide technical assistance on tribes' clean energy project development. In Alaska, the Energy Department and the Denali Commission will help rural Alaska Native communities conduct energy awareness and training programs and pursue new renewable energy and energy efficiency opportunities. Applications are due by March 15, 2013. See the Energy Department press release and the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs webpage.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Energy Department Invests in Pioneering U.S. Offshore Wind Projects
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
The Energy Department has taken another step toward establishing U.S. offshore wind energy projects in the same way turbines like these harness wind power in Europe.
Credit: Seimens
The Energy Department on December 12 announced seven awards for offshore wind projects in Maine, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia. These engineering, design, and deployment projects will support innovative offshore installations in state and federal waters for commercial operation by 2017.
In the initial phase, each project will receive up to $4 million to complete the engineering, design, and permitting phases of this award. The Department will select up to three of these projects for follow-on phases that focus on siting, construction, and installation and aim to achieve commercial operation by 2017. These projects will receive up to $47 million each over four years, subject to Congressional appropriations.
The seven projects selected for the first phase of this six-year initiative are located on the East and West Coasts, in the Gulf of Mexico, and Lake Erie. On the East Coast, Fishermen's Atlantic City Windfarm plans to install up to six direct-drive turbines in state waters three miles off the coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey, with expected commercial operation by 2015; Statoil North America of Stamford, Connecticut, plans to deploy four 3-megawatt wind turbines on floating spar buoy structures in the Gulf of Maine off Boothbay Harbor at a water depth of approximately 460 feet; the University of Maine plans to install a pilot floating offshore wind farm with two 6-megawatt direct-drive turbines on concrete semi-submersible foundations near Monhegan Island; and Dominion Virginia Power of Richmond, Virginia, plans to design, develop, and install two 6-megawatt direct-drive turbines off the coast of Virginia Beach.
In the Gulf, Baryonyx Corporation, based in Austin, Texas, plans to install three 6-megawatt direct-drive wind turbines in state waters near Port Isabel, Texas. On the Pacific Coast, Seattle, Washington-based Principle Power plans to install five semi-submersible floating foundations outfitted with 6-megawatt direct-drive offshore wind turbines in deep water 10 to 15 miles from Coos Bay, Oregon. And inland, the Lake Erie Development Corporation, a regional public-private partnership based in Cleveland, Ohio, plans to install nine 3-megawatt direct-drive wind turbines on "ice breaker" monopile foundations. These are designed to reduce ice loading on Lake Erie, seven miles off the coast of Cleveland.
Offshore wind offers more than 4,000 gigawatts of electricity potential in the United States. According to a new report commissioned by the Energy Department, a U.S. offshore wind industry that takes advantage of this abundant domestic resource could support up to 200,000 manufacturing, construction, operation, and supply-chain jobs across the country and drive over $70 billion in annual investments by 2030. See the Energy Department press release, the Offshore Wind Technology Web page, and the Wind Program website.
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
ARPA-E Awards $130 million for 66 power engineering projects
Saturday, December 15, 2012
The Energy Department on 28 November announced 66 research projects by the advanced research projects Agency (ARPA-E) energy total $130 million received in funding through its program, selected "OPEN 2012". ARPA-E seeks transformational technologies that show promise fundamental technical but are not ready for private-sector investment. The selected projects include 11 technology areas in 24 States.
The OPEN 2012 projects focus on a wide range of technologies, including advanced fuels, vehicle design and materials, building efficiency, grid modernization, energy storage, and renewable energy.
For example, is the electron energy develop for the growing market of electric vehicle motors and generators for wind turbines, Corporation in Landisville, Pennsylvania, a technology for the production of permanent magnets, the less cost and are stronger than they are today. For another project of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota, develop an air-cooled unit for power plants, which offers low environmental impact and helps maintain water and energy efficiency in power generation.
The projects were selected by a process on the basis of merit by thousands of concept paper and hundreds of applications. They are based in 24 States with approximately 47 per cent of the projects conducted by universities, 29% of small businesses, 15% of large enterprises and 7.5% from national labs and 1.5% from non-profit organizations. The announcement brings ARPA-E projects total approximately 285, for a total amount of around 770 million $ awards. See Energy Department press release.
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The OPEN 2012 projects focus on a wide range of technologies, including advanced fuels, vehicle design and materials, building efficiency, grid modernization, energy storage, and renewable energy.
For example, is the electron energy develop for the growing market of electric vehicle motors and generators for wind turbines, Corporation in Landisville, Pennsylvania, a technology for the production of permanent magnets, the less cost and are stronger than they are today. For another project of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota, develop an air-cooled unit for power plants, which offers low environmental impact and helps maintain water and energy efficiency in power generation.
The projects were selected by a process on the basis of merit by thousands of concept paper and hundreds of applications. They are based in 24 States with approximately 47 per cent of the projects conducted by universities, 29% of small businesses, 15% of large enterprises and 7.5% from national labs and 1.5% from non-profit organizations. The announcement brings ARPA-E projects total approximately 285, for a total amount of around 770 million $ awards. See Energy Department press release.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
What stops banks lending to energy efficiency projects?
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Four years after the US credit market crashed, continue to fight energy efficiency projects to secure the financing.
What is the problem? A weak economy, of course. But if it leads deeper to energy efficiency, and renewable energy on-site - the problem.
It is not the lack of interest in green electricity. On the contrary, says Angela Ferrante, Director of the alternative energy solutions at Energi, a Massachusetts has Ruckversicherungs Gesellschaft, the insurance and risk-management products for the energy industry.
Installations are banks lending, projects, partly because the number of customers now knocking on their doors, who are interested in funding for energy efficiency and Solar Green.
"If they hear it from their customers, much convincing as hearing about green so and so in the newspaper it is" she said.
Also see the banks of energy efficiency as a new market opportunity. Energy efficiency is fast growth and strong Government support, especially in the expensive energy markets in California and the Northeast are experiencing.
"Banks with new rules face and try to see what products they in can diversify", Ferrante said.
But lenders are terrified when they begin to evaluate the risks associated with energy efficiency and on-site solar.
For example, energy efficiency and solar companies often based their sales pitch to the customer about the guaranteed energy savings. Many deals are structured in such a way that the customer for the geothermal energy with money on energy costs saved pays. What happens if something goes wrong and the energy savings do not materialize? Is the Bank for the loan may collect? And what serves as collateral? Is the loan in default, the Bank go into the House, Office building or factory and ribs from the solar panels, lighting, efficient engines or insulation? Probably not.
Energi tries, "green energy projects for lenders and energy developers with new products from insurance and warranty-de-risk". Such a product warranty insurance, energy savings backstops the promised energy savings, even for small contractors and energy service companies (ESCOs).
Larger ESCOs could such guarantees on their own due to their size and their clientele, the market often provide financially stable 'Mash'--urban/College/schools/hospitals. But it was difficult for smaller businesses and entrepreneurs to provide companies and households, to do the same.
In order for such insurance products could be "Game changer," said Kevin Kaminski, Energi senior Vice President for alternative energy solutions. Warranty insurance smaller energy companies have the same favourable conditions as the bigger players - offer your customers the option, and the smaller companies can take literally the deals of the Bank as a low-risk proposition.
Federal funding and incentives are scarce, is the green energy industry innovation in financing such as Energi probably more and more to see the products. Solar gardens are another example of the emerging innovation as well as real estate investment trusts and master limited partnerships (MLPs), a form now allows for oil and gas investment but non-renewable energies. To learn more about solar gardens and MLPs, see my article "U.S. renewable energy: new financial models" in the issue of November 2012 in Platts Energy Economist. More information on green energy and risk find Energi free Guidebook, ' risk reduction for reference Guild for new energy finance. "
ELISA Wood is a long-time energy efficiency energy markets, their free newsletter is available at RealEnergyWriters.com
What is the problem? A weak economy, of course. But if it leads deeper to energy efficiency, and renewable energy on-site - the problem.
It is not the lack of interest in green electricity. On the contrary, says Angela Ferrante, Director of the alternative energy solutions at Energi, a Massachusetts has Ruckversicherungs Gesellschaft, the insurance and risk-management products for the energy industry.
Installations are banks lending, projects, partly because the number of customers now knocking on their doors, who are interested in funding for energy efficiency and Solar Green.
"If they hear it from their customers, much convincing as hearing about green so and so in the newspaper it is" she said.
Also see the banks of energy efficiency as a new market opportunity. Energy efficiency is fast growth and strong Government support, especially in the expensive energy markets in California and the Northeast are experiencing.
"Banks with new rules face and try to see what products they in can diversify", Ferrante said.
But lenders are terrified when they begin to evaluate the risks associated with energy efficiency and on-site solar.
For example, energy efficiency and solar companies often based their sales pitch to the customer about the guaranteed energy savings. Many deals are structured in such a way that the customer for the geothermal energy with money on energy costs saved pays. What happens if something goes wrong and the energy savings do not materialize? Is the Bank for the loan may collect? And what serves as collateral? Is the loan in default, the Bank go into the House, Office building or factory and ribs from the solar panels, lighting, efficient engines or insulation? Probably not.
Energi tries, "green energy projects for lenders and energy developers with new products from insurance and warranty-de-risk". Such a product warranty insurance, energy savings backstops the promised energy savings, even for small contractors and energy service companies (ESCOs).
Larger ESCOs could such guarantees on their own due to their size and their clientele, the market often provide financially stable 'Mash'--urban/College/schools/hospitals. But it was difficult for smaller businesses and entrepreneurs to provide companies and households, to do the same.
In order for such insurance products could be "Game changer," said Kevin Kaminski, Energi senior Vice President for alternative energy solutions. Warranty insurance smaller energy companies have the same favourable conditions as the bigger players - offer your customers the option, and the smaller companies can take literally the deals of the Bank as a low-risk proposition.
Federal funding and incentives are scarce, is the green energy industry innovation in financing such as Energi probably more and more to see the products. Solar gardens are another example of the emerging innovation as well as real estate investment trusts and master limited partnerships (MLPs), a form now allows for oil and gas investment but non-renewable energies. To learn more about solar gardens and MLPs, see my article "U.S. renewable energy: new financial models" in the issue of November 2012 in Platts Energy Economist. More information on green energy and risk find Energi free Guidebook, ' risk reduction for reference Guild for new energy finance. "
ELISA Wood is a long-time energy efficiency energy markets, their free newsletter is available at RealEnergyWriters.com
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Universities to Lead Energy Department-Funded CSP Projects
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The Energy Department announced on August 28 new investments totaling $10 million for two university-led projects to advance innovative concentrating solar power (CSP) system technologies. The five-year projects are under the Department's SunShot Initiative, a collaborative national effort to make solar energy cost competitive with other forms of energy by the end of the decade.
CSP technologies use mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto receivers that collect solar energy and convert it to heat that can be used to produce electricity. Heat transfer fluids are a key component of CSP systems that transfer heat from a receiver to the point where the heat is needed to drive a turbine. The investments will improve heat transfer fluids to increase efficiency and lower costs for CSP systems.
Two university teams were selected to develop new heat transfer fluids. The University of California–Los Angeles will lead a team with researchers from Yale University and the University of California–Berkeley to investigate liquid metals as potential heat transfer fluids with the ability to withstand higher temperatures. And the University of Arizona, the second awardee, is teaming with researchers from Arizona State University and Georgia Tech to develop and demonstrate new, molten salt-based fluids as possible alternatives to traditional heat transfer fluids.
The projects will focus on making dramatic improvements to fluids that gather thermal energy from the sun and transport it to the power block, where the energy is used to drive a turbine that generates electricity. Today's state-of the-art heat transfer fluids are capable of operating at temperatures up to about 1,050 degrees Fahrenheit. Temperatures in excess of 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit are needed to reach efficiencies greater than 50%, which allow CSP plants to capture more energy from solar power. The selected projects are working to develop heat transfer fluids that can operate at temperatures up to 2,350 degrees Fahrenheit, while simultaneously maintaining high levels of performance. See the Energy Department press release.
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CSP technologies use mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto receivers that collect solar energy and convert it to heat that can be used to produce electricity. Heat transfer fluids are a key component of CSP systems that transfer heat from a receiver to the point where the heat is needed to drive a turbine. The investments will improve heat transfer fluids to increase efficiency and lower costs for CSP systems.
Two university teams were selected to develop new heat transfer fluids. The University of California–Los Angeles will lead a team with researchers from Yale University and the University of California–Berkeley to investigate liquid metals as potential heat transfer fluids with the ability to withstand higher temperatures. And the University of Arizona, the second awardee, is teaming with researchers from Arizona State University and Georgia Tech to develop and demonstrate new, molten salt-based fluids as possible alternatives to traditional heat transfer fluids.
The projects will focus on making dramatic improvements to fluids that gather thermal energy from the sun and transport it to the power block, where the energy is used to drive a turbine that generates electricity. Today's state-of the-art heat transfer fluids are capable of operating at temperatures up to about 1,050 degrees Fahrenheit. Temperatures in excess of 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit are needed to reach efficiencies greater than 50%, which allow CSP plants to capture more energy from solar power. The selected projects are working to develop heat transfer fluids that can operate at temperatures up to 2,350 degrees Fahrenheit, while simultaneously maintaining high levels of performance. See the Energy Department press release.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
New York Offers $107 Million for Large Solar Power Projects
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on August 9 announced that $107 million is available for a major solar power incentive program that will increase the amount of electricity generated by photovoltaic (PV) systems throughout New York. The NY-Sun Competitive PV Program, administered by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, seeks proposals for PV systems greater than 50 kilowatts to be installed at larger commercial and industrial customer sites.
The newly established NY-Sun Competitive PV Program will make $36.4 million available in 2012 and $70.5 million in 2013. This phase of the program is available through the end of 2013 for PV projects in New York City and upstate New York at eligible customer sites. This is an expansion of a two-year-old program that previously focused on large PV systems for the commercial, industrial, and municipal sectors exclusively in New York City, Westchester County, and the lower Hudson Valley. All projects will require co-funding to best leverage state resources with funding capped at $3 million per project. See the New York press release and the NY-Sun Competitive PV Program initiative website.
The governor also signed a series of bills on August 17 as part of the NY-Sun initiative that will make solar energy more affordable for homeowners and businesses. The new laws include statewide tax credits for the lease of solar equipment and power purchase agreements, statewide sales tax exemptions for commercial solar equipment, and an extension of the real property tax abatement in New York City for solar installations. See the New York press release.
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The newly established NY-Sun Competitive PV Program will make $36.4 million available in 2012 and $70.5 million in 2013. This phase of the program is available through the end of 2013 for PV projects in New York City and upstate New York at eligible customer sites. This is an expansion of a two-year-old program that previously focused on large PV systems for the commercial, industrial, and municipal sectors exclusively in New York City, Westchester County, and the lower Hudson Valley. All projects will require co-funding to best leverage state resources with funding capped at $3 million per project. See the New York press release and the NY-Sun Competitive PV Program initiative website.
The governor also signed a series of bills on August 17 as part of the NY-Sun initiative that will make solar energy more affordable for homeowners and businesses. The new laws include statewide tax credits for the lease of solar equipment and power purchase agreements, statewide sales tax exemptions for commercial solar equipment, and an extension of the real property tax abatement in New York City for solar installations. See the New York press release.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Obama seven fast tracks renewable energy infrastructure projects
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
These infrastructure projects would produce almost 5,000 MW of clean energy. As part of an executive order, issued in March 2012 the Office of management and budget pays with a government-wide effort to make, in the approval and review process for infrastructure projects of more efficient and more effective, time saving during the journey better for the environment and the local communities. Additional accelerated infrastructure projects will be announced in the coming weeks.
Thanks to a coordinated and focused review process in the last three years, the Department of the Interior, more utility-scale renewable energy projects on public land as combined in the past two decades - approved a total of 31 new projects.
Mohave wind energy (BP wind)
State: Arizona
Co-ordinating authority: Department of the Interior, Bureau of land management, Bureau of reclamation
Enable target date for the conclusion of the Federal Republic and to review decisions: January 2013
The proposed Mohave County wind farm is a wind-powered electrical generation, managed by the Bureau of reclamation in Mohave County, Arizona would managed to about 38.099 hectares of public land by the Bureau of land management and 8,960 acres of land. If adopted, it would produce up to 425 MW wind energy and help the state its objectives for renewable energies meet Arizona.
Quartzsite, Arizona solar energy (solar reserve)
Coordinating agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of land management
Enable target date for the conclusion of the Federal Republic and review of decisions: December 2012
The proposed concentrating solar power plant would land by the Bureau of land management is managed on 1.675 hectares. There is an estimated 100 MW of clean energy - enough, makes about 30,000 apartments - and help in the State of Arizona hit his targets for renewable energy.
Desert harvest solar energy (EnXco)
Coordinating agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of land management
Enable target date for the conclusion of the Federal Republic and review of decisions: December 2012
The proposed project desert harvest would use solar power on about 1,200 acres in Riverside County, California photovoltaic technology. The project would produce an estimated 150 MW solar energy, enough, makes about 45,000 apartments.
Coordinating agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of land management
Enable target date for the conclusion of the Federal Republic and to review decisions: December 2012
This proposed solar photovoltaic system would be 4,893 acres in Riverside County, California. There is an estimated 750 MW solar power – enough clean energy to 225,000 homes makes - with the help its targets for renewable energy in the State of California to achieve.
Moapa solar energy Center (RES Americas)
State: Nevada
Coordinating agency: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs
Enable target date for the conclusion of the Federal Republic and to review decisions: December 2013
This solar project is in collaboration with the Moapa band of Paiute Indians on a 2,000-acre site of the Moapa River Indian reservation, land managed by the Bureau of land management in Clark County, Nevada developed. If approved, the deal with 200 MW project would 100 MW photovoltaic technology and 100 MW concentrated solar power technology. Once has constructed, the proposed project would be the first large-scale solar projects on tribal lands in the United States one
Silver State South (first solar)
Coordinating agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of land management
Enable target date for the conclusion of the Federal Republic and to review decisions: March 2013
The silver of South solar energy project is a solar power generation plans public lands on proposed 13,043 hectares. If approved, it is an estimated 350 MW of clean energy with photovoltaic technology - enough, makes approximately 105,000 apartments - and help of Nevada meet its renewable energy targets. Construction for the 50 MW Silver State North project is complete, so that it will deliver the first solar project on public land of electricity to the grid.
Chokecherry/Sierra Madre wind energy (power company of Wyoming)
State: Wyoming
Coordinating agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of land management
Enable target date for the conclusion of the Federal Republic and to review decisions: October 2014
The proposed project is Chokecherry and County, Wyoming Sierra Madre is about 230,000 hectares in carbon, produce could be up to 3,000 MW wind power – enough to more than 1 million homes makes. The Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind farm project is the largest proposed wind farm in North America. The project, as it is currently configured, Habitat as "Sage Grouse core areas." avoids critical Sage Grouse Chokecherry is a multi-tiered decision-making process, of a land use plan in October 2012 decision, followed by reviewing a series of right of way applications expected by 2014.
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Thanks to a coordinated and focused review process in the last three years, the Department of the Interior, more utility-scale renewable energy projects on public land as combined in the past two decades - approved a total of 31 new projects.
Mohave wind energy (BP wind)
State: Arizona
Co-ordinating authority: Department of the Interior, Bureau of land management, Bureau of reclamation
Enable target date for the conclusion of the Federal Republic and to review decisions: January 2013
The proposed Mohave County wind farm is a wind-powered electrical generation, managed by the Bureau of reclamation in Mohave County, Arizona would managed to about 38.099 hectares of public land by the Bureau of land management and 8,960 acres of land. If adopted, it would produce up to 425 MW wind energy and help the state its objectives for renewable energies meet Arizona.
Quartzsite, Arizona solar energy (solar reserve)
Coordinating agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of land management
Enable target date for the conclusion of the Federal Republic and review of decisions: December 2012
The proposed concentrating solar power plant would land by the Bureau of land management is managed on 1.675 hectares. There is an estimated 100 MW of clean energy - enough, makes about 30,000 apartments - and help in the State of Arizona hit his targets for renewable energy.
Desert harvest solar energy (EnXco)
Coordinating agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of land management
Enable target date for the conclusion of the Federal Republic and review of decisions: December 2012
The proposed project desert harvest would use solar power on about 1,200 acres in Riverside County, California photovoltaic technology. The project would produce an estimated 150 MW solar energy, enough, makes about 45,000 apartments.
Coordinating agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of land management
Enable target date for the conclusion of the Federal Republic and to review decisions: December 2012
This proposed solar photovoltaic system would be 4,893 acres in Riverside County, California. There is an estimated 750 MW solar power – enough clean energy to 225,000 homes makes - with the help its targets for renewable energy in the State of California to achieve.
Moapa solar energy Center (RES Americas)
State: Nevada
Coordinating agency: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs
Enable target date for the conclusion of the Federal Republic and to review decisions: December 2013
This solar project is in collaboration with the Moapa band of Paiute Indians on a 2,000-acre site of the Moapa River Indian reservation, land managed by the Bureau of land management in Clark County, Nevada developed. If approved, the deal with 200 MW project would 100 MW photovoltaic technology and 100 MW concentrated solar power technology. Once has constructed, the proposed project would be the first large-scale solar projects on tribal lands in the United States one
Silver State South (first solar)
Coordinating agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of land management
Enable target date for the conclusion of the Federal Republic and to review decisions: March 2013
The silver of South solar energy project is a solar power generation plans public lands on proposed 13,043 hectares. If approved, it is an estimated 350 MW of clean energy with photovoltaic technology - enough, makes approximately 105,000 apartments - and help of Nevada meet its renewable energy targets. Construction for the 50 MW Silver State North project is complete, so that it will deliver the first solar project on public land of electricity to the grid.
Chokecherry/Sierra Madre wind energy (power company of Wyoming)
State: Wyoming
Coordinating agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of land management
Enable target date for the conclusion of the Federal Republic and to review decisions: October 2014
The proposed project is Chokecherry and County, Wyoming Sierra Madre is about 230,000 hectares in carbon, produce could be up to 3,000 MW wind power – enough to more than 1 million homes makes. The Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind farm project is the largest proposed wind farm in North America. The project, as it is currently configured, Habitat as "Sage Grouse core areas." avoids critical Sage Grouse Chokecherry is a multi-tiered decision-making process, of a land use plan in October 2012 decision, followed by reviewing a series of right of way applications expected by 2014.
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Friday, August 17, 2012
White House accelerates the seven most important renewable energy infrastructure projects
Friday, August 17, 2012
Obama management announced on August 7 that seven major solar and wind energy projects in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Wyoming are to be speeded up. These infrastructure projects would nearly 5,000 megawatts (MW) electricity produced, enough to makes about 1.5 million apartments generate;
As a part of a presidential executive order this year issued, that pays to make a government-wide effort in the approval and review process for infrastructure projects more efficient and more effective, with the Office of management and budget. BP wind projects include proposed Mohave County wind farm, McCoy solar energy project, a solar photovoltaic array is located on approximately 47,000 acres of public land in Arizona with a capacity of up to 425 MW of electricity and the NextEra proposed would California be 4,893 acres in Riverside County, settled and would produce an estimated 750 MW solar energy. See the White House press release.
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As a part of a presidential executive order this year issued, that pays to make a government-wide effort in the approval and review process for infrastructure projects more efficient and more effective, with the Office of management and budget. BP wind projects include proposed Mohave County wind farm, McCoy solar energy project, a solar photovoltaic array is located on approximately 47,000 acres of public land in Arizona with a capacity of up to 425 MW of electricity and the NextEra proposed would California be 4,893 acres in Riverside County, settled and would produce an estimated 750 MW solar energy. See the White House press release.
View the original article here
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Tuesday, August 07, 2012
Time, the major renewable energy projects to honor
Tuesday, August 07, 2012
There is nothing more important as celebrating the victories of an emerging industry. The wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and hydropower industries have been projects put online this year with enthusiasm. Although project development can slow down in 2013 for some of these industries, now is a good time to some of the outstanding achievements of the past year to honor.
With this in mind, you should be a renewable energy project to win a project of the year nomination. This year the awards ceremony with great fanfare at a dinner will be held 2012 11-13, and the co-located renewable energy World North America and power-GEN international nuclear power international events in Orlando, Florida, December.
If your project came online between August 1, 2011 and July 31, 2012, a project of the year is to win. But in order for the editors to see, it through our nomination form, you will find under this link nominate.
Expect we see this time fairly large projects in the nomination pile and we are happy us celebrate their victories and cheer on their continued success. As always, project of the year winners magazine and RenewableEnergyWorld.com be written after top renewable energy world and video of the winning projects are created and broadcast on our 200,000 readers.
As an industry is only still, it is important for us to stop once in a while and take a moment to see how far we've come. The project of the year is our time to do. Nominate your project now. (Hurry, close nominations at the end of August.)
View the original article here
With this in mind, you should be a renewable energy project to win a project of the year nomination. This year the awards ceremony with great fanfare at a dinner will be held 2012 11-13, and the co-located renewable energy World North America and power-GEN international nuclear power international events in Orlando, Florida, December.
If your project came online between August 1, 2011 and July 31, 2012, a project of the year is to win. But in order for the editors to see, it through our nomination form, you will find under this link nominate.
Expect we see this time fairly large projects in the nomination pile and we are happy us celebrate their victories and cheer on their continued success. As always, project of the year winners magazine and RenewableEnergyWorld.com be written after top renewable energy world and video of the winning projects are created and broadcast on our 200,000 readers.
As an industry is only still, it is important for us to stop once in a while and take a moment to see how far we've come. The project of the year is our time to do. Nominate your project now. (Hurry, close nominations at the end of August.)
View the original article here
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Monday, July 30, 2012
California Awards $1.1 Million for Energy Research Projects
Monday, July 30, 2012
The California Energy Commission on July 11 awarded $1.1 million for energy research projects, including a variety impacting renewable energy and energy efficiency. Funds for the 10 projects come from the Commission's Public Interest Research Project program. Commissioners approved $300,000 to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego in order to better understand differences in regional climate model projections for California and how they impact hydropower generation forecasting.
The remaining nine projects are from PIER's Energy Innovations Small Grant program. The program provides money to small businesses, non-profits, individuals, and academic institutions to conduct research establishing the feasibility of new, innovative energy concepts. These grants are capped at $95,000. Among the projects is a project dealing with small soluble organic molecules designed to increase the lifetime and reliability of photovoltaics, and a study of enhanced cooling towers for cooling buildings. See the California Energy Commission press release.
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The remaining nine projects are from PIER's Energy Innovations Small Grant program. The program provides money to small businesses, non-profits, individuals, and academic institutions to conduct research establishing the feasibility of new, innovative energy concepts. These grants are capped at $95,000. Among the projects is a project dealing with small soluble organic molecules designed to increase the lifetime and reliability of photovoltaics, and a study of enhanced cooling towers for cooling buildings. See the California Energy Commission press release.
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Friday, July 20, 2012
New ARPA-E Projects to Boost Natural Gas Vehicle Technologies
Friday, July 20, 2012
A refuse truck powered by compressed natural gas in Washington state.
Credit: Western Washington Clean Cities
The Energy Department on July 12 announced $30 million in funding for 13 research projects designed to find new ways of harnessing natural gas supplies for cars and trucks. Researchers in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin will work on the initiative. The grants are made through the Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). The projects are part of Methane Opportunities for Vehicular Energy, which aims to engineer lightweight, affordable natural gas tanks for vehicles and develop natural gas compressors that efficiently fuel a natural gas vehicle at home.
Today's natural gas vehicle technologies require tanks that can withstand high pressures. They are often cumbersome, and are either too large or too expensive to be suitable for smaller passenger vehicles. ARPA-E's new projects are focused on removing these barriers, which will help encourage the widespread use of natural gas cars and trucks. For example, REL, Inc. in Calumet, Michigan, will receive $3 million to develop an internal "foam core" for natural gas tanks that allows tanks to be formed into any shape. This will enable higher storage capacity than current carbon fiber tanks at one-third the cost.
The projects will also focus on developing natural gas compressors that make it easier for consumers to re-fuel at home. The Center for Electromechanics at the University of Texas at Austin will use $4 million to develop an at-home natural gas re-fueling system that compresses gas with a single piston. Unlike current four-piston compressors, these highly integrated single-piston systems will use fewer moving parts, leading to a more reliable, lighter, and cost-effective compressor. See the Energy Department press release and the complete list of projects .
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Credit: Western Washington Clean Cities
The Energy Department on July 12 announced $30 million in funding for 13 research projects designed to find new ways of harnessing natural gas supplies for cars and trucks. Researchers in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin will work on the initiative. The grants are made through the Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). The projects are part of Methane Opportunities for Vehicular Energy, which aims to engineer lightweight, affordable natural gas tanks for vehicles and develop natural gas compressors that efficiently fuel a natural gas vehicle at home.
Today's natural gas vehicle technologies require tanks that can withstand high pressures. They are often cumbersome, and are either too large or too expensive to be suitable for smaller passenger vehicles. ARPA-E's new projects are focused on removing these barriers, which will help encourage the widespread use of natural gas cars and trucks. For example, REL, Inc. in Calumet, Michigan, will receive $3 million to develop an internal "foam core" for natural gas tanks that allows tanks to be formed into any shape. This will enable higher storage capacity than current carbon fiber tanks at one-third the cost.
The projects will also focus on developing natural gas compressors that make it easier for consumers to re-fuel at home. The Center for Electromechanics at the University of Texas at Austin will use $4 million to develop an at-home natural gas re-fueling system that compresses gas with a single piston. Unlike current four-piston compressors, these highly integrated single-piston systems will use fewer moving parts, leading to a more reliable, lighter, and cost-effective compressor. See the Energy Department press release and the complete list of projects .
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Saturday, April 07, 2012
Obama Administration Announces Great Lakes Wind Projects Agreement
Saturday, April 07, 2012The Obama Administration joined the governors of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, and Pennsylvania on March 30 to announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) streamlining offshore wind development in the Great Lakes. DOE, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and the Great Lakes Offshore Wind Energy Consortium are among the signatories.
The MOU will enhance collaboration between federal and state agencies to speed review of proposed offshore wind projects. Specifically, the agencies will develop an action plan that sets priorities and recommends steps for achieving efficient and responsible evaluation of proposed offshore wind power projects in the Great Lakes region. The area has the potential to produce more than 700 gigawatts of energy from offshore wind, about one fifth of the total U.S. offshore wind potential. DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that each gigawatt of offshore wind installed could produce enough electricity to power 300,000 homes.
To safely and responsibly develop offshore wind resources, federal and state agencies—which share jurisdiction in the Great Lakes—must fully evaluate the potential social, environmental, safety, and security impacts of projects. See the DOE press release, a fact sheet
, and the complete MOU.
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Interior Department OKs Renewable Energy Projects in California, Oregon
Friday, January 13, 2012The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on December 29 the approval of two renewable energy projects—a solar plant in California and a wind farm in Oregon—that will be built on private lands and will use power lines that cross public lands to connect to their respective power grids. When built, the projects will deliver 379 megawatts of power, enough to power 112,500 homes.
In California, the Centinela Solar Energy Project is a 275-megawatt solar energy power plant that will be located on 2,067 acres of previously disturbed private land near El Centro, California. Interior approved the right-of-way for 19 acres for the power line on public land, and Imperial County gave a green light to the solar power plant on December 27, 2011. The project would support at least 367 jobs and deliver enough electricity to power about 82,500 homes. In Oregon, the North Steens Transmission Line Project is a 44-mile, 230-kilovolt power line that will carry power from a proposed wind power project. The wind project, proposed on private land near Diamond, Oregon, would generate 104 megawatts, enough to power about 30,000 homes.
Both projects underwent extensive environmental review, and they reflect strong efforts to mitigate potential environmental impacts, such as requiring funding for the acquisition of 80 acres of additional habitat for the flat-tailed horned lizard in California and implementing requirements that minimize audio and visual impacts from the Oregon project. See the DOI press release.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
DOI OKs Two Major Renewable Projects, Takes Step for Offshore Power Line
Wednesday, January 04, 2012The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on December 20 the approval of two utility-scale renewable energy projects, including the first renewable project on public lands in Arizona and a solar energy project in California. Combined, the two projects will generate nearly 500 megawatts (MW), enough to power 150,000 homes, and create 700 jobs during peak construction. Also, DOI announced the first major step in developing an offshore wind transmission line on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf.
DOI approved the Sonoran Solar Energy Project, proposed by a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, making it the first-ever renewable energy project approved for construction on public lands in Arizona in the desert southwest of Phoenix. The project's photovoltaic (PV) panels are expected to generate 300 megawatts, and the project will create 374 jobs through construction operation and maintenance. Also approved was the Tule Wind Power Project, located 70 miles east of San Diego, which will produce 186 megawatts of electricity via 62 wind turbines sited on public lands, or enough to power up to 65,000 homes. Proposed by a subsidiary of Iberdrola Renewables, the project is expected to create 337 jobs.
DOI also set the next step toward developing a Mid-Atlantic Wind Energy Transmission Line. Atlantic Grid Holdings, LLC has requested a right-of-way grant to develop a high-voltage direct current line that would collect power generated by wind turbine facilities off the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia. With the new line would, up to 7,000 MW of wind turbine capacity could be delivered to the grid. DOI's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement opened a public comment period on the potential environmental effects of the proposed project. The agency is also asking whether other developers are interested in constructing transmission facilities in this area in order to determine whether there is overlapping competitive interest. See the DOI press release, a DOI fact sheet on onshore renewable energy, and a fact sheet on offshore renewable energy.
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