$1.9 Billion Power Line Opens Renewables for San Diego

The Sunrise Powerlink transmission line under construction in California.
Credit: San Diego Gas & Electric

The $1.9 billion Sunrise Powerlink, a 500,000-volt transmission line linking San Diego to the Imperial Valley, is now in service after a five-year permitting process and 18 months of construction. San Diego Gas & Electric announced on June 18 that the line will connect San Diego with one of the most renewable-rich regions in California. For environmental reasons, nearly 75% of the tower locations required helicopters to set the tower structures and it took more than 28,000 flight hours to complete the aerial construction.

The Sunrise Powerlink will soon deliver a significant amount of wind and solar power to San Diego. Over the past three years, San Diego Gas & Electric signed eight renewable agreements for more than 1,000 megawatts of solar and wind power from projects in Imperial County. In 2011, more than 20% of the utility's power came from renewable energy, and by 2020, it will get 33% from renewable resources. See the San Diego Gas & Electric press release.

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Biomass cogeneration facility opens at the site of Ministry of energy

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The Department of energy and Ameresco, Inc. marks the successful operational launch of a new $ 795 million biomass-powered cogeneration plant at DOE's Savannah River site (SRS) in Aiken, South Carolina, on 12 March. The 20-megawatt project an estimated 800 jobs created, and if it is full, the plant will employ 25 full time jobs locally and supports the logging of the local community. The facility replaces a deterioration and inefficient 1950s years era coal power plant and oil fired boiler and is estimated at 944 million dollars in savings in fuel costs in the next 20 years and generate costs for operation and maintenance. Biomass, consisting of local forest residue and wood chips, and bio-fuels are the primary source of energy for the tech renewable energy facility, which burn the capacity annually has residue 385,000 tons forest. The projects "renewable" the 2012 renewable energy World Excellence was also in renewable energy Awardfor biomass project of the year. SRS dedicated a DOE's industrial complex environment key management and cleanup to nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship and nuclear materials disposition in support of U.S. nuclear non-proliferation efforts.

The project is also the largest renewable energy savings performance of specific contract (ESPC) in U.S. history. DOE 20 years fixed price with Ameresco, a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy companies in 2009 to fund, design contract one, construct, operate, maintain and fuel pump the new biomass website. ESPCs are contracts in which private companies, finance, install and wait new and water energy-efficient equipment for federal facilities. The Government pays no up-front, and the company investment in the course of time by the Agency from the cost savings generated will be returned by the new instrument. This makes it possible for the Government with the private sector buy more energy-efficient systems and improve the energy efficiency of their facilities without additional cost to the agency or the tax payers. Find the SRS press release and Ameresco press release.

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DOE-Backed EV Battery Maker Opens New Plant

DOE recognized on February 14 EnerG2, which recently opened its new manufacturing facility for electric vehicle (EV) battery components. Supported in part by $21.3 million in DOE funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Albany, Oregon, facility will produce nano-engineered carbon materials for batteries and other energy storage devices that can be used in EVs. EnerG2's proprietary freeze-drying process to make its specialized carbon material was developed in laboratories at the University of Washington. At full capacity, the EnerG2 plant is expected to be able to produce enough advanced carbon material to support 60,000 electric drive vehicles each year.

EnerG2 is one of 30 advanced battery and electric drive manufacturing facilities supported by the Recovery Act. At full scale, these factories will be able to supply batteries and components for more than 500,000 electric drive vehicles. This support for both manufacturing and research and development is contributing to the revitalization of the U.S. auto industry and will help meet President Obama's goal of reducing oil imports by one-third by 2025. See the DOE press release and the Vehicle Technologies Program website.

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New Licensing Agreement Opens Energy Patents to NGOs, Non-Profits

The technology to improve access to fuel, electricity, and clean water for some of the world's poorest people may already be in the patent portfolios of DOE's national labs. The challenge, however, can be finding dedicated organizations willing to develop the technology and bring it to market, which can mean bringing energy technology to the most remote parts of the world.

As part of President Obama's Global Development Policy, a new licensing agreement opens a number of DOE patents to qualified non-governmental and non-profit organizations. Just as was offered to innovative startups with America's Next Top Energy Innovator Challenge, selected organizations only pay an upfront fee of $2,000 and a royalty of up to 2% of gross sales of licensed products.

Through new technology, the goal is to accelerate progress toward improved health, energy sustainability, and economic growth in some of the poorest countries in the world, many of which are in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Many organizations already have a presence in these countries, educating populations, caring for the sick, and improving standards of living by advancing the technology used to perform their most rote and domestic of tasks, like how they cook their meals. Read the complete story in the DOE Energy Blog.

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Saudi Aramco Opens New Yanbu Gas Network

Monday, October 17 - 2011 at 09:42 UAE local time (GMT+4)

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PEMEX opens bidding for revised energy contracts

MEXICO CITY - State oil company Pemex announced on Tuesday, the first "exploration and production integrated" contracts, to allow greater private participation in strictly controlled area.Petroleos of Mexicanos offers six fields in three areas that many oil produced in the 1960s, but have since been largely ignored.The company said the fields in the Gulf Coast State of Tabasco to produce about 13,000 barrels per day, but as much as 50 000 with the right technology might arise.You have probably about 200 million integrated contracts called barrel crude oil equivalent, according to the Unternehmens.Aufgefordert, heated DebateSo - see which companies the responsibility for a wide range of services and paid are, at least partially based on the performance - were in October 2008 after a heated debate and protests by Mexicans worried about ceding control of an important symbol of national sovereignty approved.Mexico has used private contractors for decades, but financial arrangements were largely limited to fixed payments for a specific service.In the future, PEMEX hopes that the integrated contracts bad must be to attract private funding and know-how for the deep sea more easily accessible reserves exploration as Mexico's Verfall.Mai State of just a decadeMexico's proven, probable and potential reserves at about 43 billion barrels in 2010. But, that total proven reserves were only 14 billion barrels - and could be exhausted in little more than a decade, officials have warned that unless deep exploration is carried out.The contracts offered Tuesday an average of 2.57 million barrels a day will use the Land.Pemex of oil production in 2010, by 1 per cent from 2.6 million per day in the previous year. oil is Mexico's largest source of foreign income and finances about 40 percent of the annual budget.

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