All Posts Tagged With: "renewable energy deployment"

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The Solar and Wind HOA Debate

While interest in installing solar panels and wind turbines (even Home Depot has started selling small wind turbines) is at an all time high, many people are running into a problem–that problem is the homeowners’ association.

11Jul2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Ecotech’s Impressive New Digs in Aurora

Students are now taking classes in the career college’s freshly minted facility at 1400 South Abilene Street. The school has transformed a vacant, large-footprint building into a progressive campus focused on educating future particpants in the renewable energy and sustainability industries.

15Jan2011 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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US Renewable Energy Market Likely To Fall
Without Incentives

The domestic wind-power industry, which has struggled this year amid low power demand and depressed prices for fossil-fueled power generation, will continue to slide if the cash-grant program is not extended, said Michael Garland, chief executive of wind-power developer Pattern Energy.

11Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Green Civil War: Projects vs. Preservation

“Are there conflicts between large-scale renewable energy development and land preservation?”, asks Udall. “Sure — but let’s keep things in perspective. When it comes to energy, Americans are spoiled. We insist on consuming our body weight in petroleum each week, but god forbid we see an oil well. Over the last half century, our energy appetites have been supersized.”

13Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Recent IPO Activity Puts Wind Back into
Alternative Energy Sails

For whatever reason – anticipated turnaround in the economy, loads of cash sitting on the sidelines, endowment funds looking to make up for the losses of 2008 and even the potential for higher energy prices – money is starting to pour into the market in general, and alternative energy companies in particular.

5Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Jackson Hole Revisited: Notes and Reflections on the Western States Energy Symposium

We headed south out of Jackson Hole last week, skirting the mountain ranges of Western Wyoming and across the ribbon of highway that intersects impossibly vast reaches of the open range. With my wife behind the wheel from Jackson to Rock Springs, I had ample time to reflect on the unique gathering we had just attended.

3Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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DOE’s New Private Sector Partnership to Accelerate Renewable Energy Projects

The Financial Institution Partnership Program will expedite the Federal agency’s loan guarantee underwriting process and leverage private sector expertise and capital for the efficient and prudent funding of eligible projects, according to the DOE.

8Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Feds Move Fast to Kick-Start Renewables –
$500 Million Awarded 12 Projects

It was only on July 31st when the Treasury Department opened the application process, pledging to award grants within 60 days of receiving a completed application. The projects receiving the money range from $157,809 for a solar PV project at a fitness facility in Colorado to $114.1 million for a wind farm in Texas.

8Sep2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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State PUC Begins Debate on More
Oversight of Tri-State

A packed Public Utility hearing room in Denver was the scene on Thursday as officials from Tri-State Generation & Transmission and environmentalists squared off over whether the COPUC should oversee the state’s second largest utility as it does Xcel Energy.

17Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued


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