Archive for June, 2010
BLM Proposal Would Keep Vermillion Basin Off Limits to Energy Development
The proposed management plan announced yesterday by the Agency is intended to protect 242,000 acres in the basin from oil and gas development. Offering an opposing view was a Moffat County commissioner who said the move could cost the state jobs and revenues.
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In Their Own Words — Hickenlooper Vs. McInnis Transcript
McInnis: We have so many Colorado products, we have such a great future ahead if, in fact, we get the right leadership in place. Whether it’s clean coal, whether it’s solar, natural gas. Now we’ve got significant oil finds.
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RES Americas Closes on Its Largest Deal —
Sells Cedar Point Wind Project to Enbridge
The Broomfield-based company, one of Colorado’s more prominent New Energy tenants, has inked a $500M agreement with Enbridge to own and operate the 250-megawatt Cedar Point Wind Energy Project east of Denver. Vestas plants in the state will manufacture wind turbines for the project.
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Field Notes — E Light Energizes GEXPRO
Englewood-based E Light Electric Services recently completed a lighting retrofit for Gexpro’s Denver location, and the company’s newest division, E Light Wind and Solar also installed a new, 8.2 kW PV system on the property.
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Colorado Springs Faces Big Hurdles in Renewables
Competition in the renewable energy sector is increasingly intense and many cities are far ahead of Colorado Springs, posing huge hurdles in the region’s effort to gain a foothold in the market, especially since it lacks many of the critical resources essential for solar, wind and biofuels deployment.
26Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
The CLEAN ENERGY Economies of Five Rocky Mountain States — A New Analysis
Colorado’s green economy leads the region with the most clean energy-related jobs (in number and as a percent) as well as busineses. In fact, 50% of all green businesses in The Rockies reside here. Another choice bit of info: the report found that employment in the green economy has grown significantly faster than total employment.
25Jun2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Did the DOE Bet Wrong on Smart Grid?
Consider Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity project in Boulder. A couple years ago the utility began deploying a wide variety of smart grid technologies similar to those funded by ARRA to the city’s 50,000 residents. Now the project costs have ballooned almost three times from an initial estimate of $15 million to more than $40 million, and Xcel has had to raise customer rates to help fund the project.
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New Chapter Unfolds for CSU’s Troubled Maxwell Ranch Wind Project
The University recently inked an agreement with San Diego-based Cannon Power Group to design and develop a wind farm on CSU’s Maxwell Ranch property near the Colorado-Wyoming border. This, after the initial developer, Wind Holding LLC, bowed out because of financial problems.
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Colorado Legislature Brings Power to the People
Governor Ritter recently celebrated the close of the Colorado General Assembly’s 2010 session by signing bills that figuratively, as will as literally, direct power to the people. In taking a long-term view on energy policy, the legislature seems to recognize that no single, silver-bullet solution exists to forge a new clean energy economy.
23Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Now That’s Some GREEN BLING!
SunRun Gets $100M Infusion for Solar Rollout
There is a new bully on the block when it comes to residential PV system installations. SunRun, which already has a limited presence on the Front Range, is about to go big with a hefty cash infusion from California utility giant PG&E — the move has to be making other solar leasing outfits around here feeling more than alittle uneasy.
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Renewable Trust Initiative Breaks Ground at Gala Launch
With an ambitious goal of raising $350 billion in clean energy investments through employee 401(k) and IRA plans, The Renewable Energy Trust Initiative (TREI) officially launched into action last Thursday at the offices of Patton Boggs.
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300,000 Hybrid Trucks and Buses to be on the Road by 2015 — Colorado in the Mix as Center for Alternative Vehicles
These hybrid vehicles promise a reduction in fuel consumption between 5% and 50% depending on design, which will help reduce costs and emissions, making hybrid trucks more attractive for fleet managers.
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First Community-Owned Solar Garden Launches in Roaring Fork Valley
The organization behind the effort is Clean Energy Collective
of Carbondale, and it is the first of several sites the startup has in the works. CEC has developed a model for enabling a community to collectively own a clean energy facility—solar, wind, biomass, micro hydro— and directly reap the benefits.
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 ...