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Wyo Infrastructure Authority Winter Meeting Set

Topics to be covered include Energy Gateway Project, TransWest Express Project, Zephyr Project and the Wyoming Colorado Intertie Project. The date is January 31 at the Snow King Resort in Jackson.

26Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Duke-American Acquires Zephyr Project for Wyoming Wind Power

The newly formed joint venture says it is commited to using at least 2,100 MW of the transmission line’s capacity to provide wind power to California and the southwestern United States from the wind-rich areas of eastern Wyoming

4Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Obama Pledges Rapid Permits for Seven Major Transmission Projects

The White House said the move will create “thousands” of construction and operations jobs, while transforming the nation’s electric system into a “modern, 21st century grid” that is safer and more secure, giving consumers more energy choices. Two of the projects involve Wyoming.

6Oct2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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The Power Struggle for Wyoming Wind

There are political obstacles, but the main problem is this: Wyoming has run out of power lines connecting it to the rest of the country. And until it gets more, that epic wind is just moving dust and dirt eastward, one gust at a time.

30Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Drive Like the Wind

The report examined grid conditions in the Northwest Power Pool, including Wyoming. “Electric vehicles, coupled with grid-friendly charging, offers a great opportunity, right now, to help electric companies integrate additional windpower into our electric system,” said Michael Kintner-Meyer, PNNL staff scientist and study co-author.

27Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Western Grid Group and Others Urge State Leadership on Clean Energy

The report entitled Western Grid 2050: Contrasting Futures, Contrasting Fortunes finds that with intentional policymaking and planning today, the West can successfully transition to a clean energy economy that will deliver job, environmental and public health benefits for decades to come.

25Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Transmission Cost Blueprint for Renewables
on FERC Agenda

The potential impact for getting distributed renewable energy generation from remote locations to load is huge, of course. Boiled down to its basics, the FERC is considering who pays, how much, under what circumstances and in what geographic footprint — a tall order to be sure.

30Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Multi-State Power Line Project to Test Policies
on Grouse, ‘Wild Lands’

Backers of the proposed TransWest Express electricity transmission project are trying to accomplish something that has stymied developers in recent years: build a power line that crosses multiple state boundaries and bisects hundreds of miles of federal and private property.

15Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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The Dirty Little Secret Behind China’s Wind Power

In 2010, China overtook the US as the global leader in installed wind power capacity, representing yet another triumph in the much-hyped clean tech race between the world’s two largest economies. Looking beyond the numbers, however, the true nature of China’s wind energy development appears far more bleak.

7Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Comments Sought on Extra-High-Voltage
Power Line

The 600-kilovolt, direct-current line would transmit up to 3,000 megawatts per year of electricity from planned renewable energy facilities in south-central Wyoming to southern Nevada to help meet anticipated increased demand in the Southwest.

4Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Report Says New EPA Rules Will Erode
Power Grid Reliability

Four federal environmental regulations to improve water and air quality could by 2018 chop by nearly half the amount of projected reserve energy available to the US power grid, according to the NERC report.

27Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Efficiency Bright Spot in Otherwise Deflated
Clean Energy Investment Market

As Nick Hodge of Green Chip Stocks points out, the crux of the problem is that if VCs and private equity fund managers don’t see a profitable exit, they aren’t going to lend money in the early rounds. Lower fossil fuel prices and uncertainty in the regulatory arena have exacerbated the problem.

11Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Part of Bullish View of Western
Wind Power

The authors of the comprehensive NREL study tackled the intermittency supposition head on and found it largely baseless. It concluded that in the West, the broad distribution of wind turbines and solar generation would essentially smooth out the supply of renewable power.

2Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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New Study Presents Positive Outlook for Integrating
Renewables Into the Grid

“This is further validation of what we’ve been saying - that obtaining 20% or more of America’s electricity from wind turbines is an achievable and desirable goal for our economy, environment, and energy security. Now the only question is whether Congress and the Administration will step up and enact the policies that will allow us to get there.”

24May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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