Archive for May, 2010
What’s in a Name? Plenty Says Longtime
Denver Oil & Gas Player
Based in the Mile High City for more than a century, St. Mary Land & Exploration will be now be known as SM Energy Company starting June 1st.
31May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Gevo Gets $10 Million Investment From Lanxess AG
The Englewood-based biofouels and biochemical firm began to produce biobutanol on a demonstration-scale in the second half of 2009, and expects to complete its first retrofit of an existing ethanol plant to biobutanol production by 2011.
29May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Vestas, Siemens Wind Bets at Risk on Cheap Gas,
Subsidy Loss
They’re betting that the U.S. will pass a law that requires utilities in every state to buy power from renewable resources. State support helped new wind farms match natural gas plant additions over the past two years, but absent a federal mandate, turbine factories, touted as job creators by President Obama, may sit idle.
28May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Commentary: Colorado’s Big Carbon Spill
In recent weeks, Xcel has begun full operation of the new 750 MW coal plant in Pueblo. While Pueblo bears all of the pollution from the coal plant, essentially all of the electricity will be used in places like Denver and Boulder; Pueblo, already the home of two other Xcel coal plants, gets almost none of the electricity.
27May2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Straight Talk About Wind at the AWEA Conference
O’Sullivan said that while the overall future for the wind industry is promising, the financial markets would be ruthless in determining which projects and developers are worthy of extending capital. “I think there’s going to be a few less people in this room (next year),” he told the audience at this week’s American Wind Energy Association conference.
27May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Large Scale Solar vs. Point-of-Use DG –
The Debate Heats Up in the San Luis Valley
Residents support solar, but are wary of centralized, large-scale photovoltaic arrays in the rural valley. Small-scale solar projects near existing sub-stations make more sense, say supporters.They advocate phased-in local, point-of-use renewable energy generation.
25May2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
National Tracks >>
Salazar Orders Division of Federal Oil Regulator
As BP prepares to launch its latest effort to plug the oil leak in the gulf, the Interior Secretary says the agency will be split into three arms to oversee leasing, safety and royalties.
24May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
New Study Presents Positive Outlook for Integrating
Renewables Into the Grid
“This is further validation of what we’ve been saying - that obtaining 20% or more of America’s electricity from wind turbines is an achievable and desirable goal for our economy, environment, and energy security. Now the only question is whether Congress and the Administration will step up and enact the policies that will allow us to get there.”
24May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Simple Solar Files for Bankruptcy
The Boulder-based PV installer attributes its financial troubles to straying from its core of residential and small commercial jobs to chase utility-scale projects. The move signals a big fall considering the #4 ranking Simple Solar enjoyed in a local 2009 list of fastest growing companies.
23May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
SmartRegs Gets Its Legs; Takes Some Heat
Boulder City Council began its first reading of the much-discussed SmartRegs proposal at their meeting on May 18.
In witness of an over-capacity meeting hall, Mayor Susan Osborne said it was, “the most important issue we’ll tackle this year, and the most complex.”
State Orders Cotter to Clean up Uranium Mine Fouling JeffCo Drinking Water
Environmentalists and local politicians Friday cheered a Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety order late Thursday directing Denver-based Cotter Corp. to begin curtailing drinking water contamination from an inactive Jefferson County uranium mine this summer.
20May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
In-Depth — Hydraulic Fracturing:
A View From Down Under
The technique in shale gas extraction is taking on added importance from both an industry and policy perspective. Amidst this backdrop, Colorado Energy News checks in with the CEO of a tech company using advanced realtime GIS systems to monitor underground fracturing processes.
20May2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Xcel Energy to Purchase 250 MW from New Wind Farm in Weld County
Although the site is not far from a Vestas Wind Systems blade-manufacturing plant in Windsor, BP Wind Energy said it will use turbines manufactured outside of Colorado by GE and Nordex because of existing contracts.
20May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
We need to promote export terminals to liquify and ship natural gas to markets in Asia and Euroupe. The US ...
Natural Gas can be consumed so efficiently that the WATER can even be recovered from the combusted exhaust gases.
Going ...
Lack of funding is a serious obstacle for implementation of audit recommendations. Even small rebates will have little impact ...
Re: Natural gas generation wasn’t included in the final analysis but is generally assumed to emit about half as much ...
Disclosure MIGHT prevent pollution if there was a watchdog agency that ruled yes or no on particular chemicals before they ...
Having just read Tom Gray's article 'Fred Udo's bogus numbers' I get the feeling I haven't understood whats going on. ...
I agree with you kirsch. I knew this article had the stench of industry money as soon add I read ...
Can someone explain how disclosure prevents pollution? They can still release air toxins and they are still not held ...