All Posts Tagged With: "renewable energy sources"

Army’s Largest Renewables Project Part of $61 in Million Energy Contracts

At Fort Carson, the Army partnered with a local energy provider to build a photovoltaic solar array on top of a closed landfill. The White Sands Missile Range project in New Mexico will provide the Army with 4.44-megawatts of installed photovoltaic capacity, saving 10 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually.

6Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

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

Renewables Share of Domestic Energy Production Passes Nuclear

“Congressional Republicans continue to press for more nuclear energy funding while seeking deep cuts in renewable energy investments,” said Ken Bossong, Executive Director of the SUN DAY Campaign. “One has
to wonder ‘what are these people thinking?’”

6Jul2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

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

GE Power Plant Design Works Bettter with Renewables

The FlexEfficiency 50 Combined Cycle design is reportedly 61 percent efficient and provides unprecedented operational flexibility, including with intermittent wind and solar resources.

3Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

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

Viewpoint: Slow Down on Wind Energy

If we over-balance the electrical load on the grid with too much or too many wind turbines we may not be able to balance the electrical grid system.

15Mar2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued

Like Herding Cats! — Federal Agencies and Obama Administration Attempt to Streamline Grid Siting Requirements for Renewable Projects

Many proposed renewable energy and transmission projects have been delayed by the bureaucracy of authorization within multiple federal agencies, leaving in doubt the ability to reach to goal of doubling clean power generation by 2012.

11Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

Renewable Energy, Meet the New Nimbys

At a wind-energy conference in Wyoming last month, Gov. Freudenthal delivered a stern warning to wind-turbine developers, telling them to make sure their projects don’t harm a small bird called the sage grouse. “What I have is an obsession with making sure that the economy of this state continues to function, and it won’t if that bird gets listed,” according to his office’s transcript of his remarks.

7Sep2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

Passage of Waxman-Markey Bill Praised by President — Panned by Industry

The CEO of Anadarko echoed many when he said that a tax on carbon dioxide would be more straightforward than the bill’s so-called cap-and-trade plan, which seeks to “hide the ball” and targets production instead of consumption. The climate bill would result in higher energy prices, and “green” jobs would be created at the cost of some conventional work.

29Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued