Projects
Douglas County in Major Solar Power
Purchase Agreement
The County’s School District is teaming with Premier Power Renewable Energy Inc. and REgeneration Finance, LLC for development of a blanket PV development project for 31 different campus sites and an athletic stadium. When up and running, the combined facilities will generate more than 3.0 megawatts of solar electric power.
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First Community Solar Garden Goes Live on West Slope
Year-round and seasonal residents of the Roaring Fork Valley have bought individual portions of the array for as little as $725 per panel, or $3.15/kW. Local utility coop Holy Cross Energy will then credit members’ utility bills directly each month at $0.11/kWh based on how much solar each member owns in the array.
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SOLAR Install Tracks –
Snapshots of current projects … R&D news and installations … from Pueblo to Fort Collins, Grand Junction to DIA. Despite a sluggish economy, Colorado continues to embrace the power of the sun in the public and private sectors.
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Electric Cooperatives Join in Solar-Hydropower Study
Holy Cross Energy, Fort Collins Light and Power and the San Luis Valley Rural Electric Cooperative will partner to quantify the economic effects on power providers from linking rooftop solar energy and small hydropower plants into the grid.
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In Depth — Brownfields’ Alternative:
Solar and Wind Energy
NREL is evaluating sites for renewable energy potential on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency because the land is cheap, often abandoned, close to such necessary infrastructure as power lines and roads, usually properly zoned, and void of developer interest.
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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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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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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.
Englewood Close to Getting First Municipal Renewable Energy Project Launched
Later this month the council is expected to give approval for the installation of PV panels on four city buildings. The project would be designed, built, maintained and owned by the private firm, Ameresco.
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ZeaChem Celebrates Groundbreaking of Biorefinery
in Boardman, Oregon
The plant will initially use the Lakewood firm’s core technology, which has been validated by a number of third party vendors, to produce ethyl acetate, a salable chemical intermediate and precursor to cellulosic ethanol.
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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.
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NREL, 3M Launch Technology Partnership
The partnership’s work will range from jointly identifying and developing critical aspects of renewable energy technology to accelerated testing of 3M designs and scaling-up successful prototypes for commercial production.
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CSU to Boost Solar Power and Become Largest University Installation in Nation
The university’s latest move is more than a feel good story for students and faculty, according to Brian Chase, CSU’s facilities director. “It’s not only a commitment to renewable energy - we are ‘The Green University’ - but in this particular case, it makes excellent economic sense.”
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Solar Program for Member-Owned Power Generation Gains Momentum
Carbondale-based Clean Energy Collective has closed on a long-term lease to build its first member-owned solar array at a site owned by the Mid Valley Metropolitan District. CEC’s President, Paul Spencer, says the pilot facility is just the start, and his company is planning a new development that will generate 900 kW, pending approval.
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Clean Transportation Sector –
FedEx Introduces First All-Electric Trucks
The parcel delivery gian is expanding its alternative-energy vehicle fleet with the first all-electric FedEx parcel delivery trucks in the United States. Four purpose-built electric vehicles are slated to hit the road in Los Angeles soon.
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NREL to Test Alcoa’s CSP Parabolic Trough System
The regimen at the Golden facility is part of a process which the manufacturing giant hopes will lead to CSP becoming a viable competitor to glass mirrors currently being used in commercial systems.
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Why is Dirty Energy Still So Cheap?
The clean tech sector has experienced remarkable success in the past few years, yet there still remains one huge roadblock from mass implementation – cheap fossil fuels. Some may think this is simply a matter of free-market capitalism at work. The real truth is that petroleum and coal industries continue to receive massive subsidies from governments around the world, while renewable energy firms receive only a small fraction of that amount.
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