Weekly Clean Energy Roundup: December 15, 2010

Philadelphia Eagles Power Stadium with Renewable Energy DOE: $400M Loan Guarantee for Abound’s Thin-Film Solar Manufacturing First Companies Earn Industrial Energy Efficiency Certification First Leaf, Volts Shipped DOT Redirects $1.2B in High-Speed Rail Funds DOE: $30M for Next Generation Biofuels Research Philadelphia Eagles to Power Stadium with Renewable Energy The Philadelphia Eagles recently announced it will power Lincoln Financial Field with a combination of onsite wind, solar and dual-fuel generated electricity, making it the world’s first major sports stadium to convert to self-generated renewable energy. SolarBlue will install the system, which includes 80, 20-foot spiral-shaped wind turbines on the top rim of the stadium; 2,500 solar panels on the stadium’s facade; a 7.6 MW onsite dual-fuel cogeneration plant; and a monitoring and switching technology to operate the system. The completion goal is September 2011. SolarBlue will invest over $30 million to build the project, and will maintain and operate the stadium’s power system for the next 20 years at a fixed annual price increase in electricity. The football franchise will save an estimated $60 million in energy costs. The system is expected to provide 1.039 billion kWh of electricity, enabling an estimated 4 MW of excess energy to be sold […]

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