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Western Wind Energy Negotiates California and Arizona Projects

On December 14, Western Wind Energy Corp. announced that it has entered into an agreement together with a municipality in California to jointly acquire 60-MW of wind energy assets. Forty percent of the purchase price of the turbines will be supplied by the city. The remaining 60% will be secured by Western Wind Energy through a long-term debt facility. The name of the city will remain confidential until the assets are acquired. In separate news, Western Wind Energy announced that it had signed an agreement with Mitsubishi Power Systems, Inc., to purchase 15 1-MW wind turbines. Delivery is scheduled for October, 2006, and will be installed pursuant to the company’s power sales agreement with Arizona Public Service. When completed, the 15-MW wind energy facility in Arizona will be the first utility-scale project in the state. According to the company, the purchase price is over $15 million. During the past year, Western Wind Energy reports that it has executed over $800 million of power sales agreements totaling 159.5 MW from the sale of wind energy electrical generation to three separate utilities. The Company executed a power purchase agreement in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada, and the State of Arizona, and […]

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NFL and Environmental Groups Partner Over Global Warming

Three leading environmental organizations have partnered with two NFL teams to fight global warming and encourage fans to take action. National environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), StopGlobalWarming.org, a bi-partisan effort to bring all Americans together to fight global warming, and NativeEnergy, the only Native American owned marketer of carbon offsets and green energy solutions, have partnered with the St. Louis Rams and Philadelphia Eagles to offset the carbon pollution from energy that was used during Sunday’s game at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis. Energy to heat the dome and power lights and equipment comes from fossil fuel sources, which means energy for Sunday’s game also produced about 58 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution. Organizers arranged for clean energy from a Native American wind project in the midwest and energy from a Pennsylvania dairy farm methane project to be put onto the grid to offset the global warming impact of energy used on the playing field and in fan seating areas. The impact was the same as powering some of the dome with wind turbines or taking 500 cars off the road for a week. The major source of game-related CO2 came from travel activities and […]

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