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DOE Loan Guarantee Supports World’s Largest Wind Project DOI Signs First U.S. Offshore Wind Lease DOI Approves First Solar Tower Project on Public Lands U.S. Energy Consumption Up 2.7% for First Half of 2010 DOE Awards Third Grant for U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center Federal Energy and Water Management Award Winners DOE Loan Guarantee Supports World’s Largest Wind Project On October 8, the Dept of Energy (DOE) announced a conditional commitment for a partial guarantee of a $1.3 billion loan for the world’s largest wind farm, the 845 MW Caithness Energy’s Shepherds Flat project in eastern Oregon. Sponsored by Caithness and General Electric (GE) Energy Financial Services, the project consists of 338 GE 2.5xl turbines, which are being deployed for the first time in North America. Southern California Edison is buying all the electricity through 20-year fixed-price power purchase agreement (PPA). According to Caithness, the project will directly create 400 construction jobs, followed by 35 permanent wind jobs on site, while avoiding emissions equivalent to 212,000 passenger vehicles, or 1.2 million tons of carbon dioxide a year. The Shepherds Flat project is the largest project to date to receive a conditional commitment for a loan guarantee under the Financial Institution […]
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The Green Week in Review is a podcast, hosted by SustainableBusiness.com News Editor Bart King. It’s posted every Friday morning and is about 15 minutes long. You can listen to it through your browser or download it to a portable media player. Sign up for our General News RSS Feed and it will be automatically downloaded to your computer each week. In this week’s show… White House To Get New Solar Installation DOI Green-Lights First-Ever Solar Energy Projects on Public Lands China Permitting Wind, Solar Faster than U.S. Federal News Roundup: Guides for Green Marketers, GHG Reporting Solar, Bay Area Tops in Cleantech Jobs Report Plus, a summary of the week’s top cleantech headlines. ++++ Email comments or questions to bart@sustainablebusiness.com
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First Large Scale Solar Projects Approved on Public Lands EPA, DOT Prepare Fuel Economy Standards for 2017-2025 Solar Returns to the White House 8 Countries Launch Electric Vehicles Initiative Long-Term Viability of U.S. Coal Plants is at Risk Clean Energy Conferences Abound Through Year End Interior Department Approves First Solar Projects on Public Lands Also on October 5, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) approved the first large-scale solar plants ever to be built on U.S. public lands. The U.S.-based solar firms behind the projects are getting access to almost 6,800 acres of public lands for 30 years to build and operate the plants. The plants could produce up to 754 MW of solar energy, or enough to power 226,000-566,000 typical U.S. homes. The projects will generate almost 1,000 new solar jobs. Two kinds of solar technology will be deployed. Tessera Solar’s Imperial Valley Solar Project will use Stirling Energy System’s SunCatcher technology on 6,360 acres in California’s Imperial County. 28,360 solar dishes will produce up to 709 MW, enough to power 212,700-531,750 homes. The Chevron Lucerne Valley Solar Project, proposed by Chevron Energy Solutions of California, will employ solar PV technology on 422 acres in San Bernardino County. […]
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The Green Week in Review is a podcast, hosted by SustainableBusiness.com News Editor Bart King. It’s posted every Friday morning and is about 15 minutes long. You can listen to it through your browser or download it to a portable media player. Sign up for our General News RSS Feed and it will be automatically downloaded to your computer each week. In this week’s show… Obama Committed To Energy Reform in 2011 Offshore Wind Has More Energy Potential than Oil, Gas Combined DOE Portal Aims To Connect Technologies With Entrepreneurs Plus, a summary of the week’s top cleantech headlines. ++++ Email comments or questions to bart@sustainablebusiness.com
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The Green Week in Review is a podcast, hosted by SustainableBusiness.com News Editor Bart King. It’s posted every Friday morning and is about 15 minutes long. You can listen to it through your browser or download it to a portable media player. Sign up for our General News RSS Feed and it will be automatically downloaded to your computer each week. In this week’s show… Renewable Electricity Standard Bill Introduced in U.S. Senate Ethanol-Powered Vehicle Wins Automotive X-Prize Massive Coral Die-Off Underway Globally Heinz Foundation Announces 10 Environmental Awards Plus, a summary of the week’s top cleantech headlines. ++++ Email comments or questions to bart@sustainablebusiness.com
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$63M for Clean Energy Commercialization $20M for Geothermal Technologies Grants: Renewable Energy Feasibility Studies for Rural Businesses Automotive X Prize Winners Announced Leading State Energy Efficiency Programs Announced Clean Energy Investments Help Meet Poverty Reduction Goals DOE Awards $63 Million to Advance Clean Energy Commercialization On September 15, DOE announced it would award $63 million to support commercialization of clean energy technologies, including $57 million for small businesses and $5.3 million for universities. The awards to small businesses include nearly $11 million from the Recovery Act. They will help 33 small businesses across the country develop manufacturing processes to scale up production of their technologies. Those technologies include 21 renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, as well as six new technologies for power grids, three for next-generation nuclear power, and three for cleaner fossil energy. The awards are the first under DOE’s Small Business Phase III Xlerator program, which builds on the successes of DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. 21 commercialization projects will receive nearly $38 million of the total $57 million for small businesses. They include: algae-based biodiesel; four fuel-cell technologies, including two designed for biomass fuels; high-temperature electrical insulation for geothermal energy […]
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The Green Week in Review is a podcast, hosted by SustainableBusiness.com News Editor Bart King. It’s posted every Friday morning and is about 15 minutes long. You can listen to it through your browser or download it to a portable media player. Sign up for our General News RSS Feed and it will be automatically downloaded to your computer each week. In this week’s show… DOI Orders Gulf Operators to Plug 3,500 Unused Wells Federal Agencies Unveil Plans to Cut Carbon Footprint U.S. Offshore Wind Potential is 4,150 GW – NREL Pro Sports Leagues Endorse Solar Power Plus, a summary of the week’s top cleantech headlines. ++++ Email comments or questions to bart@sustainablebusiness.com
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ACORE Releases State-by-State Renewable Energy Report $9.6M for Transformational Energy Research $5.2M for Wind Forecasting, Turbine Development $37M for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy $16.5M for Biomass R&D $30M for State Energy Efficiency Projects Energy Efficiency Enforcement Penalties for 27 Companies ACORE Releases State-by-State Report on Renewable Energy The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) released a report that’s intended to be an executive summary of the renewable energy sector in each state. It compiles data on renewable energy developments, resource potential, and financial, market, and policy information on a state-by-state basis. The state summaries show the wide range of renewable energy development in the U.S. Louisiana has the hardly any: a measly 200 kW of grid-connected solar and production capabilities for 1.5 million gallons of biofuels a year. On the other end of the spectrum, California has 2.7 GW of wind, 2.6 GW of geothermal, 1.1 GW of grid-connected solar, 705 MW of biomass, and production capabilities for nearly 200 million gallons of biofuels per year. The report also notes the state policies that helped to accomplish that scale of deployment. In California, such policies include a renewable energy requirement; a mandate for utilities to provide grid connections and net […]
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by Kevin Krajick Many lawmakers have been listening seriously since the 1980s to scientists’ warnings that humans are altering the global atmosphere. In 1988 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) formed and started tracking the state-of-the-art consensus. After a drumbeat of news about record-breaking yearly temperatures took hold in the public mind, National Geographic declared 2004 the year that global warming "got respect." In 2007 the IPCC won the Nobel Peace Prize. In late 2009 the nations of the world prepared to gather in Copenhagen to "seal the deal," in the words of U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, to abate rising levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Then governments hesitated. Copenhagen was declared dead before arrival. During the run-up, hackers used e-mails stolen from top researchers in Britain and the US to suggest they had systematically exaggerated the threat. This January, it came to light that the IPCC had no peer-reviewed evidence to support its contention that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) (who calls the threat of catastrophic global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people"), began calling for criminal investigations of scientists. Bloggers and anonymous e-mailers flooded websites and scientists’ in-boxes with […]
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The Green Week in Review is a podcast, hosted by SustainableBusiness.com News Editor Bart King. It’s posted every Friday morning and is about 15 minutes long. You can listen to it through your browser or download it to a portable media player. Sign up for our General News RSS Feed and it will be automatically downloaded to your computer each week. In this week’s show… China Tops U.S. As Attractive Location for Renewables Federal Cash Grant Program For Renewables Is Due To Expire DOE Announces Centers for U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Insurance Model Pushed As Adaptation Solution for Climate Change Plus, a summary of the week’s top cleantech headlines. ++++ Email comments or questions to bart@sustainablebusiness.com
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