All Posts Tagged With: "wind energy"

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NCAR Wind Forecasting System Saves
Millions for Utility

By issuing forecasts that are 35 percent more accurate than previous forecasting methods, the system enables utility operators to constantly anticipate the amount of energy produced by wind farms across Xcel Energy’s service area in neighboring Colorado.

14Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | 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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September Perspective –
Monopoly Energy or Energy Democracy?

Its been a discouraging year. I found myself confronted with the hard truth that we local, distributed clean energy advocates, climate and anti-frack/fossil fuel activists, and regular folks who just want affordable energy that doesn’t wreck the environment, are losing. No, it’s worse than that.

6Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Cleantech Investment Reached Record
$243 Billion in 2010

“Growth has been in fairly direct response to government intervention, whether in the form of cheap debt in China … feed-in tariffs for solar or a regulatory push for smart grids. The industry needs to continue to drive down its costs and reduce its reliance on this sort of support,” said BNEFchief executive Michael Liebreich.

21Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Subcommittee to Meet on Wind Energy Tax

The group will meet at Mills City Hall on August 31st. The wind industry released a study in June showing Wyoming’s tax structure to be the most onerous of Rocky Mountain states.

19Aug2010 | 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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Clean Energy Economy for Five Rocky Mountain States — A New Analysis

Wyoming trails badlly in every major category — in clean energy business, job creation and investment –and the Cowboy State ranks only 49th for public funding from competitively-awarded federal stimulus grants by the Department of Energy

17Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Connecting the Dots for the Wheatland Wind Corridor

It’s obvious that a major shift is underway for electrical generation in North America. Wyoming, specifically, deserves closer inspection. Let’s examine why the Wheatland area, in particular, is positioned to benefit from wind energy development.

17Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Energy E-Ticket: Yellowstone’s Geothermal Potential

Recent studies show that the park may be a prime location for producing geothermal energy and down the road it could significantly add to the nation’s store of renewable energy.

23Feb2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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FERC Shows Flexibility in OK Of Wyoming
Wind Power

“Consumers will benefit from this type of pioneering thinking, because it will expand our transmission grid’s capacity to enhance development of our nation’s renewable energy potential,” said FERC Acting Chairman Jon Wellinghoff.

22Feb2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State’s CO2 Storage Research Heats Up

The project could help make Wyoming a major player in the emerging science of CO2 sequestration. It could also help make the state an attractive destination for underground storage of CO2 from America’s coal-fired power plants.

6Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Power Spurring Land Rush in SE Wyoming

A quiet land rush is under way among the buttes of southeastern Wyoming, and it is changing the local rancher culture. The whipping winds cursed by descendants of the original homesteaders now have real value for out-of-state developers who dream of wind farms or of selling the rights to
bigger companies.

4Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Seven Questions for U.S. Sen. John Barrasso

“If you’re going to continue to send that overseas, to people who are not our friends, they’re going to use that money to make us weaker. It just seems it’s in our best interest to be energy self-sufficient because it’s not just energy security, to me, it’s national security.”

12Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Low Gas Prices Doesn’t Diminish Need For
Energy Independence

It’s amazing how quickly people resume old practices when gas prices drop. Everyone is enjoying much lower gas prices than just a month ago, but we should not forget that this turns on a dime, and our top priority - short of stabilizing our economy - is to become self-reliant when it comes to energy.

28Oct2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued