03.03.2010 | Eric Lindeman
For its third round of solicitations, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy is making available $100 million in Recovery Act funding for innovative technological approaches to grid-scale electricity storage, power conversion, and air conditioning...
02.19.2010 | Jeff Beattie
Kansas-based Westar Energy Inc. wants to charge intermittent power generators for the costs of keeping its grid balanced, and the wind energy industry is outraged, maintaining Westar has inflated the costs and difficulties of integrating wind power and is...
02.02.2010 | Eric Lindeman
Following two days of hearings, the Arizona Corporation Commission’s (ACC) Line Siting Committee has voted unanimously to approve of a certificate of environmental compatibility for Mohave Sun Power’s proposed 340-megawatt Hualapai Valley...
01.26.2010 | Eric Lindeman
Two large Korean companies will top a consortium that will build 2,500 megawatts of renewable energy projects—mostly wind but some solar power—in the Canadian province of Ontario. The $6.7 billion program, announced January 21 by Premier Dalton...
01.26.2010 | Eric Lindeman
Large amounts of wind power capacity can be reliably integrated into the grid for the eastern United States at manageable costs, the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory says in a major study of high-penetration wind scenarios...
01.19.2010 | Eric Lindeman
In a massive project the two companies says would create many thousands of jobs, POET and Magellan Midstream Partners, LP, are teaming up to assess the feasibility of building an 1,800-mile ethanol pipeline that would stretch from production facilities in the...
01.14.2010
In an analysis of government-wide stimulus spending through 2009, the White House Council of Economic Advisors said January 13 that $90.2 billion of the total $787 billion in tax cuts and economic stimulus spending is earmarked for clean energy programs that...
01.12.2010 | Jeff Beattie
In a position utilities describe as “puzzling” and flawed, the Justice Department’s solicitor general has urged the Supreme Court not to take up a high-profile case on the scope of FERC authority to overrule states on power line siting. The...
01.11.2010 | Eric Lindeman
In what will be the world’s largest expansion of wind energy, the U.K. government has granted energy companies rights to coastal seabeds in nine zones for development of an additional 32 gigawatts of offshore wind power—capacity that would likely...
01.11.2010
In another green energy transmission project, LS Power has announced plans to develop a 160-mile power line in Indiana and Illinois that the merchant energy company said was primarily aimed at serving new wind farms to be built in the states. The company said...
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