Posts from ‘January, 2009’

Southern U.S. states are picking up the pace to force electric utilities to diversify fuel resources to include wind, solar, biomass and other renewable power resources, according to regulators.

The new president pledges to increase renewable energy. Here’s what the industry wants to see.

After years of struggling, 2009 finally could be the year that solar energy takes off in Georgia - or so Tim Blackwell hopes.

VietNamNet Bridge - While energy demands are rising and traditional energy sources are limited, the Vietnamese government is encouraging the development of renewable energy as an alternative source. However, few investors have come to the party.

Mayor Ralph Becker has enlisted a geothermal power company to rate Salt Lake City’s potential for generating renewable energy from heat stored in the earth.

MADRID -(Dow Jones)- Renewable energy companies installed between 3,200 and 3, 700 megawatts of new photovoltaic capacity in Spain last year, making it the world’s biggest market for that kind of solar power in 2008, according to an estimate by the National Energy Commission, or CNE.

KJZZ’s Here and Now examined Arizona’s renewable energy policies with Corporation Commission Chair Kris Mayes and Barry Broome, President and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council. Economics Professor Robert Michaels explained why he is opposed to renewable energy standards. The show also touched on the potential of wind power.

Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) — American Electric Power Co., the largest U.S. producer of coal-fueled electricity, agreed to buy the output of a Texas wind power farm that’s being developed by a unit of Babcock & Brown Renewable Holdings Inc.

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, Jan. 15 (UPI) — Cayman Island residents can now generate their own renewable energy at their homes.

Winds of change are blowing across the plains of South Texas, bringing with them the promise of a renewable, inexpensive, environmentally friendly supply of electrical power. These changes are taking shape as wind farms. And with them, come the creation of local jobs and a larger tax base.

Winds of change are blowing across the plains of South Texas, bringing with them the promise of a renewable, inexpensive, environmentally friendly supply of electrical power. These changes are taking shape as wind farms. And with them, come the creation of local jobs and a larger tax base.

A big challenge for any new renewable energy project in the West is moving power to customers. There simply isn’t enough space on existing transmission lines to handle the extra electricity utilities predict will be needed, and states want to produce, in the next 20 years.

Renewable engery sources are the only solutions to power problems in rural India where 50% of households do not have electricity.

The international body that advises most major governments across the world on energy policy is obstructing a global switch to renewable power because of its ties to the oil, gas and nuclear sectors, a group of politicians and scientists claims today. The experts, from the Energy Watch group, say the International Energy Agency (IEA) [...]

A commission that regulates Florida’s utilities is recommending that lawmakers require the state get 20 percent of its electric power from renewable sources.