A proposed federal mandate to force power companies to provide up to 25 percent renewable energy by 2025 is likely to have little impact on electric prices though 2020 and negligible impact after 2030, the Energy Information Administration said in a study Monday.
Posts on ‘April 29th, 2009’
Renewable Energy Emerging Markets conference (San Francisco Chronicle)
The renewable power boom sweeping much of the world has barely touched Africa, South America and the Caribbean. Windmills are sprouting across the American plains, while solar panels spread over rooftops in China. But they’re rare in places like Mozambique…
GE Energy’s Jenbacher Biogas Engines Expanding The Use Of Agricultural Waste As Renewable Power Source (PollutionOnline)
With the international community seeking to expand the development of different types of renewable energy, more farmers in North America and Europe are using GE Energy’s ecomagination-certified Jenbacher engines to generate onsite power from biogas created from converted animal waste and other agricultural organic materials.
DuPont, GM, J&J Reach Joint Renewable-Energy Goal a Year Early (Bloomberg)
April 28 (Bloomberg) — A group of U.S. businesses, including DuPont Co. , General Motors Corp . and Johnson & Johnson said it’s reached a 2010 goal of buying enough renewable energy to equal the power produced by a large coal-fired plant.
AEP to double renewable energy goal (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
American Electric power, one of the nation’s largest power generators, said Tuesday that it plans to double its goal of adding 1,000 megawatts of renewable energy to 2,000 megawatts by the end of 2011.
