All Posts Tagged With: "ARRA"

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A Shining Star of Bipartisan Cleantech Support

Amid all the negative publicity that Solyndra’s failure has brought to the Administration’s cleantech efforts, one program has received broad bipartisan support: the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency. It’s the one government initiative that can help seed the disruptive advances needed in our energy economy.

8Feb2012 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Two Years Into The Stimulus

LIke it or not, one thing is clear according to a new report –
The Recovery Act is poised to achieve its goal of doubling clean energy capacity over the next two years. The Transportation Sector received the greatest stimulus boost in terms of sheer dollar allotment with more than $22 billion to promote the development, production, and purchase of energy efficient transportation solutions and technologies.

1Feb2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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The ARRA: Working for Colorado

It really is hard to overstate the effects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. ARRA investments in Colorado are supporting a broad range of clean energy projects, from energy efficiency and the smart grid to solar power and biofuels. Through these investments, the state’s businesses, universities, non-profits, and local governments are creating quality jobs today and positioning Colorado to play an important role in the new energy economy of the future.

9Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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IN-DEPTH: Renewable Project Finance –
How to Decide Whether to Use Investment or Production Tax Credits

Companies are scrambling this year to use another carrot that Congress passed with the economic recovery legislation, the up-front cash grant in lieu of the investment tax credit for wind, biomass and geothermal projects. Observers expect the grant program to expire at year’s end.

14Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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$91 Million in Stimulus Grants Go to Three Colorado Companies for Clean Coal Research

Boulder-based Eltron R&D is receiving the largest share of the DOE funds for work on advanced techniques to capture and store CO2 from fossil fuel combustion. The other two are ADA Environmental Solutions in Littleton and North American Power Group of Greenwood Village.

8Sep2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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U.S. Business Leaders Call for Revolution in Energy Technology Innovation

The key, they say, is reforming and strengthening U.S. investment in energy innovation — the most critical element to securing America’s future. This isn’t just another clean energy advocacy group. Members range from Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Chad Holliday, former CEO of DuPont, to GE’s Jeff Immelt and Lockheed Martin’s former chair, Norm Augustine.

1Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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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.

24Jun2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Feds Join Efficiency Push — House Approves Incentives for Home Energy Renovations

The legislation is endorsed by the National Association of Manufacturers, National Association of Home Builders, environmental groups, and a coalition of more than 1000 businesses and organizations, including the Blue Green Alliance, Dow, Home Depot, Marvin Windows and Lowe’s.

7May2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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GEO Leads Effort for $25M Efficiency Retrofit Grant

The dollars will be leveraged with private investment to fund large-scale energy efficiency work in neighborhoods and commercial districts in the Denver, Boulder and Garfield County regions.

22Apr2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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‘RECHARGE COLORADO’ Consumer Rebate Program Set to Launch April 19th

“Recharge Colorado brings the incentives offered by utilities and local governments across Colorado to a single place, creating a one-stop clearinghouse of information and resources regarding products, rebates, tax breaks and other benefits,” says the GEO’s Tom Plant.

7Apr2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Doing the Math –
Stimulus Plus Solar = One More Colorado Install

The recipient this time is a joint venture design-build contract for a 3.2 megawatt system at the Denver Federal Center. Getting more than $17 million in project funding are Denver-based Centerre Government Contracting and E Light Wind and Solar of Englewood.

28Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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You Can Go Home Again — A Colorado Energy Veteran Leads RePower’s Rise

Colorado Energy News recently caught up with RePower USA’s Steve Dayney, nearly six months after the initial announcement that his wind turbine company would be relocating from Portland to Denver.

8Feb2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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The DOE Loan Guarantee Program: Too Little Too Late?

The hitch, as always, is in how the government has implemented this program. Indeed, since the first round of loan guarantee solicitations in 2006, only one project has been awarded a loan guarantee. DOE’s cumbersome and slow application process has created huge backlogs of project proposals.

26Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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