All Posts Tagged With: "distributed generation"
People Power for DG
It will take a lot of “People Power” to overcome the stranglehold on renewable energy progress in Colorado and much of the U.S., argues Ceal Smith of the San Luis Valley Renewables Community Alliance. She offers three actions you can take now to support point of use “rooftop” distributed generation.
7Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Company Moves Ahead with SLV Solar Farm Plans
Despite Xcel Energy’s intention not to purchase more utility-scale renewable generation, California-based SolarReserve submitted an application for a land-use permit to the Saguache County Board of Commissioners for the two facilities, which would sit on roughly 4,000 acres northeast of Center.
10Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Insight: The Solar Golden Mean
When it comes to solar energy there’s a lot of confusion about size. Still in its infancy, industry claims of “first” and “best” are reminiscent of two toddlers arguing over who’s dad is bigger. While I don’t expect to sort it all out in one short article, some perspective is in order.
22Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Ownership (and Money) a Cure for NIMBY
NIMBY has been misunderstood by the clean energy community. It is not a knee jerk, it’s a market failure. When citizens see a new wind or solar energy project, it shouldn’t be from the sidelines. They should see it from the front seat …
12May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
The Fed Plan for Solar Energy on Public Lands
The Bureau of Land Management wants to lease 22 million acres public lands for renewable energy development, including 148,000 acres in Colorado’s San Luis Valley under a large-scale plan that identifies solar energy zones. The plan has its critics.
7Mar2011 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Distributed Generation: The Cheaper, Faster, Smarter Path to a Renewable Energy Future
According to the recently released Community Power report, installing thousands of decentralized renewables at the point of use in urban areas created significantly more jobs in California than remotely controlled central-station solar and wind power plants. We need to do the same in Colorado - NOW!
15Feb2011 | admin | 4 comments | Continued
Cleantech Investment Reached Record
$243 Billion in 2010
“Growth has been in fairly direct response to government intervention, whether in the form of cheap debt in China … feed-in tariffs for solar or a regulatory push for smart grids. The industry needs to continue to drive down its costs and reduce its reliance on this sort of support,” said BNEFchief executive Michael Liebreich.
21Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
The “Old School” Element of the
New Energy Economy
Generation facilities need to go where the people are, and whether it be a backyard storage shed or a downtown office building, one “neighbor’s” plan to build something is another’s opportunity to oppose it. In contrast to other states, Colorado statutes vest land use & development authority in local governments.
27Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Main Street Power Ramps Up DG Solar Installations
The Boulder-based PV integrator is now several weeks into construction of 2.8 megawatts of distributed solar systems spanning 35 sites for Denver Public Schools, the City and County of Denver, the Colorado Department of Corrections and Pueblo County.
14Sep2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Milestone for Ice Energy’s Storage System
The Windsor-based provider of advanced energy storage and smart grid solutions for the utility industry announced that its Ice Bear energy storage systems have successfully recorded more than five million hours of cumulative field run time.
5Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
GridPoint and SRE Sign Acquisition Agreement
Arlington, VA-based GridPoint, Inc. and Standard Renewable Energy (SRE) have announced that the companies have entered into an agreement for GridPoint to acquire SRE. GridPoint expects to close the transaction in the first quarter of 2010, subject to closing conditions.
2Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Solar Update –
Despite “Dog Days of August,” Deals Still Happening
>> New Belgium Getting Largest Private Solar Array in State
>> Solsource Partnering on Power Plant at Buckley
>> Solar Electricity to Boost DIA Fuel Farm
>> CSU Installing 2-MW System on Foothills Campus
Inventors Banking on Small Scale Renewables
Tomorrow night they’ll be auctioning off their patented idea for installing small renewable power stations — wind, solar and geothermal — along public rights of way nationwide, including in Colorado.
23Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Going ...
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