Last month, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar approved the construction of the nation’s first offshore wind farm. He announced, “I am approving the Cape Wind project. This will be the first of many projects up and down the Atlantic coast.” On May 17, The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ruled that the Cape Wind Project [...]
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After 9-Year Battle, Federal Government Approves Cape Wind Project
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FERC Approves Google Energy as Power Marketer
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted Google Energy, LLC permission to become a power marketer, allowing the company to purchase and resell electricity in wholesale markets. Google will have the authority to sell energy, capacity and ancillary services at market-based rates in the NYISO, PJM, ISONE, CAISO, and MISO markets. Google representative Niki Fenwick explained, [...]
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U.S. Energy Department Affirms Wind Power Potential
According to a study released by the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, wind could produce 20% of the electricity required by households and businesses in the eastern U.S. by 2024, although this would require a $90 billion investment in the power grid. “We can bring more wind power online, but if we don’t have [...]
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Getting Smarter - Smart Grid on the Rise
While the original electrical grid facilitated the industrial innovations of the 20th century, the smart grid will inspire the green advances of the 21st. “Without it, most of the other green technology won’t work,” says Ben Kortlang of KPCB, a Silicon Valley venture-capital firm. While technologies in fields such as communications and medicine have steadily [...]
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Google Aims to Become Electricity Marketer
On Thursday, Google leapt forward into the energy industry in an effort to find reliable supplies of renewable energy for its power-hungry data centers. Google applied for approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to become an electricity marketer, which would give Google the authority to buy and sell bulk power at market [...]
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Ontario Bets Billions on Wind Power
Ontario’s power grid is getting a $2.3 billion makeover as part of an ambitious, three-year effort to create 20,000 jobs and bring more green electricity to homes and businesses across the province.
In all, 20 projects are slated to go ahead. Some will boost capacity of existing transmission corridors, while others involve construction of “enabler lines” [...]
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China - The New Wind Superpower
The numbers are in, and as expected 2008 set a record year for the worldwide wind industry as new wind farms generating a total of 27,000 megawatts of greenhouse gas-free electricity came online, according to the Global Wind Energy Council.
The headline was that the United States overtook the world’s green superpower, Germany, by installing 8,358 [...]
New Mexico National Guard Goes Green
The rapid whop, whop, whop of a wind turbine outside the New Mexico National Guard headquarters hints at a new mission for the military: Going Green.
One of the first sites greeting visitors to the New Mexico Guard’s compound near Santa Fe sees is a slender, 43-foot tall white wind turbine near headquarters. It generates [...]
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2008 a Record Year at 8300 MW of New Wind Power
The U.S. wind energy industry shattered all previous records in 2008 by installing 8,358 MW of new generating capacity (enough to serve over 2 million homes), the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) reported today.
The massive growth in 2008 swelled the nation’s total wind power generating capacity by 50% and channeled an investment of some $17 [...]
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High Efficiency Solar Cells Show Promise
A number of recent technological advances suggest new pathways to solar cells that will convert a large fraction of sunlight into electricity — that is IF the technologies can be commercialized.
In November, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) announced that they have developed an antireflective coating that captures the entire spectrum of sunlight from any [...]
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