Posts from ‘February, 2009’

EUROPEAN spending chiefs are preparing to hand over 150m to help fund an offshore renewable energy “power station”.

PG&E is pursuing two massive renewable electricity storage projects, so its customers get the benefit of clean power when it’s really needed.

As lawmakers prepare to debate the construction of two coal-fired power plants again this session, a renewable group released a new poll this past week.

After being accused of flip-flopping on its carbon pollution reduction scheme, the Federal Government is at risk of also losing support for its renewable energy target.

Renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels Holdings, Inc. , today announced that it is supplying Delta Chemical Corporation of Baltimore, Maryland, with its renewable biofuel in an evaluation program at Delta Chemical’s Baltimore facility.

The Four Corners area could soon be getting a new power plant. City officials in Farmington announced Friday talks are underway to build a new plant–one that could utilize renewable energy.

Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding PCL. signs the Share Purchase Agreement and Shareholders Agreement with Renewable Energy Corporation Co., Ltd. for a 60-MW Wind power project’s development in

California’s goal of getting 33 percent of its electricity from the sun, the wind and other renewable sources by 2020 might be more feasible than previously thought, according to a new government report. If all the renewable power projects proposed in the…

As incentives for renewable energy rise elsewhere, Texas’ system creates uncertainties.

Electric power Equipment Company (EPECo), manufacturer of test equipment and custom switchgears, announced the formation of a strategic alliance with Englewood, Colo.-based Vista International, a leader in renewable energy technologies and project development, along with its affiliate Vista International Technologies, Inc. (VVIT.OB).

ABB solution provides increased operational flexibility, reliability, security Raleigh, North Carolina, January 30, 2009 - ABB, the leading power and automation technology company, announced today that it has received an order for its ABB Network Manager(TM) SCADA from Brookfield Renewable power Inc. of Gatineau, Quebec. ABB Network Manager(TM) SCADA will consolidate remote control, status and [...]

Moving the country towards renewable power when coal remains a cheap fuel source has been a challenge, one that a number of states are addressing by setting hard targets for their utilities. Two of the states that will require their utilities to provide a fixed percentage of renewable power in the next decade or so, [...]

By David Sneed — A bill co-authored by Assemblyman Sam Blakeslee is intended to significantly increase the amount of renewable energy in the state, but some fear that it will pre-empt local control of energy proposals. AB 64, as it is now written, would create a nine-person Renewables Infrastructure Authority, which would oversee the permitting [...]

A House committee endorsed a bill Thursday that ties two proposed coal-fired power plants in southwest Kansas to proposals for promoting wind and other renewable energy sources. Supporters used the same strategy last year in an unsuccessful effort to clear the way for the coal plants despite Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ opposition. Like three bills [...]

U.S. Geothermal Inc. a renewable energy company focused on the production of electricity from geothermal energy, announced recently that an interconnection agreement for the Neal Hot Springs project has been signed with the Idaho power Company