All Posts Tagged With: "electrical grid"

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HB 10:1001 — Colorado’s
“Retail Distributed Energy” Game Changer

This is a big step! It means that no longer will our state’s investor-owned utilities be focused on 250-plus MW wind faclities to meet their RES requirements. They will of necessity be required to encourage retail distributed generation by the people who are consuming it, not just huge generation companies.

14Mar2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Is the Sustainability Revolution Sustainable?

It’s July 20, 1789. Smith and Jones, two English businessmen, are walking down the street. Smith turns to Jones and says, “How about this Industrial Revolution we’re having?” Sounds implausible? Of course it does. Because the industrial revolution was not really a revolution.

1Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Ritter Emphasizes Need for Expanded State Power Grid
to Accommodate Renewables

At the annual New Energy Conference yesterday, the Governor stressed the need for new transmission lines in Colorado if solar and wind energy are to become a core source of electricity for the state. A report from the GEO says the state will need $2 billion in new and upgraded transmission lines to meet load growth and access wind and solar resources.

21Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Montrose Officials Approve Uranium Mill Plant

The commissioners voted 3-0 to approve a special-use permit submitted by the Canadian company Energy Fuels more than a year ago. In doing so, all three emphasized they were making a land-use decision, up-zoning from general agricultural, that fits into the county’s master plan. Health and environmental concerns are up to the state and federal governments, they insisted.

1Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel Flips Switch to Make Boulder First
“Smart Grid City”

Already a key objective is being achieved — early results of the smart-grid systems are helping the company predict what equipment will fail and fix it before the power goes out. “We have learned a tremendous amount from our installation of SmartGridCity,” says Xcel’s Tim Taylor.

9Sep2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Western States To Lose Control Over Transmission Siting?

Newly added provisions to the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, next slated to be voted on by the U.S. Senate, give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission final say over the siting of electric transmission lines in Western states including Colorado —but not in any other part of the country.

14Jul2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Seven Trends That will Dominate Intersolar

All of this creates a difficult market for solar companies. Expect a lot of the talk at the show to be centered around how to overcome tough margins for solar manufacturers (cut production costs) and how to deal with potential consolidation in the industry.

13Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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‘NIMBY’ Attitude Stalling U.S. Growth,
Says AEP Chairman, Michael Morris

“Now is the perfect time to build out a better electricity network. It’s great for jobs [and] if we’re ultimately going to make this country greener and less dependent on fossil-based fuels, it’s essential,” Morris says. “Federal legislative control and a legislative federal cost allocation authority would really take down barriers.”

8Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Any Way You Slice It — This is a MEGA MARKET
in the Making

Sure, he’s a Wall Street investment guy, but these figures from the Renewable Energy Finance Forum Wall Street are utterly amazing, no matter what the motivation is for sharing them. Like $217 billion — which is the amount of new investment capital coming cleantech’s way by 2012.

24Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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In Focus —
The Colorado Cleantech Industry Association

Founded only last year, the Colorado Cleantech Industry Association is nearly a 60-strong member organization already making its mark in the state’s rapidly growing clean tech sector.

28Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Regional Focus–
Connecting the Dots for the Wheatland Wind Corridor

It’s obvious that a major shift is underway for electrical generation in North America. Wyoming, specifically, deserves closer inspection. Let’s examine why the Wheatland area, in particular, is positioned to benefit from wind energy’s rise.

19Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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New Energy Threat

Everyone agrees that some form of regional or national program for building - and, equally importantly, locating - new transmission facilities is critical to creating new and sustainable sources of power in the next decade. Just how to get there, however, remains a matter of argument.

18Mar2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Market Overview:
The Potential for Alternative Energy Storage

“What is interesting is not in the masses among which these technologies do not take hold, but the niches where interest has mushroomed,” says Frost & Sullivan’s Malavika Tohani.

16Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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