All Posts Tagged With: "Colorado wind energy"
Vestas Has Dismal First Quarter
Most illustrative of its continued slump: Vestas didn’t deliver a single machine to a U.S. wind farm during first quarter of this year, according to the company’s financial report.
9May2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Wind Power Industry Touts Record Year
The industry installed 13,124 MW with 4Q numbers showing 2012 was best year ever. In fact, for the first time it became the number one source of new U.S. electic generating capacity. Texas, California, Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois are leaders,
with Colorado ranking 10th.
TECH UPDATE
Boulder Company Raises the Bar for High Performance Wind Power Applications
Boulder Wind Power says its modular full scale power converters set new precedent for high performance and low cost in wind power applications.”This design does more with less,” says the company’s Swarnab Banerjee.
22Jan2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Vestas to Supply Wind Towers for Third Party Projects in North America
Job fairs to be held in Pueblo and Colorado Springs this week. The company has signed an agreement to supply towers for a number of non-Vestas wind power projects during the next two years.
16Jan2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado Energy: An ‘All of the Above’ State
Says Senator Udall
I strongly believe that any national energy policy we develop should reflect the success Colorado has had as an all-of-the-above energy state. Great states make things – and great countries produce their own energy. Wind power is taking us closer to the goal of a clean energy future and a strengthened manufacturing sector.
15Jan2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Seventeen Percent of Xcel’s Electricity From Wind, But Future Cloudy
The future of wind power in Colorado is uncertain because although the Fiscal Cliff deal extended the Production Tax Credit for 2013 projects, Xcel Energy recently noted that it has all the renewable energy it needs to meet state requirements.
2Jan2013 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Congress Extends Wind Energy Tax Credits for Projects That Start in 2013
The extension of the wind energy Production Tax Credit(PTC), and Investment Tax Credits for community and offshore projects, will allow continued growth of the energy source that installed the most new electrical generating capacity in America last year.
2Jan2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado Delegation, Minus Lamborn, Presses
on Wind-Tax Credit
With thousands of wind manufacturing jobs already gone — including 500 in Colorado — eight of nine members of the state’s delegation say they are furiously working to try to save
the wind-energy tax credit before it expires in six weeks.
Vestas Wind Energy Jobs Cuts Hit Northern Colorado Hard
From the company’s official statement: The wind industry has slowed, largely due to the uncertainty of the federal Production Tax Credit extension at the end 2012. This has led to a significant reduction in turbine orders for 2013, and the market slowdown is affecting Vestas’ manufacturing facilities in Colorado.
14Oct2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado Company Gets Fed Clearance for Grid Project
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this week approved a request by Lucky Corridor LLC that clears the way for the company to start selling transmission rights and services to energy developers on what would be 93 miles of beefed-up power lines.
6Oct2012 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedWind Energy Leader Vestas Consolidates U.S. R&D Locations to Brighton, Colorado
The Denmark-based wind turbine manufacturer has confirmed the closing of its research and development facilities in Houston; Louisville, Colo.; and Marlborough, Mass., and transferring those locations’ employees to its Brighton, Colo., location where it manufactures blades.
6Oct2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
NREL Study Shows Renewable Energy Potential
in Every State
The report is valuable for decision-makers and utility executives because it compares estimates across six renewable energy technologies and unifies assumptions and methods. It shows the achievable energy generation of a particular technology given resource availability – solar, wind, geothermal availability, etc.
31Jul2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Udall’s Push for PTC Extension
For the past few weeks, I have taken to the U.S. Senate floor to convince my colleagues to save a bright spot in American manufacturing jobs: the wind industry. The wind energy sector employs 75,000 hard-working Americans in well-paying jobs – 6,000 jobs in Colorado alone. Those jobs have a tremendous positive ripple effect in their communities that extends to our economic and energy health.
3Jul2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Oil/Gas Industry: Trust us! We care, we really do. The rest of the us: No! 
Thanks for the info Fred! 
I think its a 10% mandate not 5%. 
To see this exciting change as "scary" seems incredibly short-sited to me. Between the increasing power demands caused by ...
Thanks for highlighting all the great work the Northern Colorado Chapter of CRES is doing. One small but important correction--the ...