All Posts Tagged With: "renewable energy"

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The 10 Biggest Cleantech Victories in 2008

There were some disappointments, including electric car maker Tesla hitting a wall and T. Boone Pickens putting his massive wind power project on ice. But the nascent industry also saw a lot of
significant milestones in 2008. Here are some of the green highlights.

2Jan2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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State Grants $620,000 to Ag-Related Renewable Projects

The Advancing Colorado’s Renewable Energy program awarded 14 grants to such projects as using agriculture waste to produce energy, biodiesel production and gauging wind resources at livestock operations.

2Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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View From Across the Pond:
U.S. Renewables Will Weather Bad Economy

The country’s well-established culture of innovation will continue driving high levels of investment and development momentum by leveraging a resilient venture capital industry, the prospect of a new ‘greener’ administration and strong existing state-level regulatory frameworks and incentives.

31Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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2009 Energy Outlook: How Supply, Demand Will Affect Prices

Oil prices have become something of a contrarian indicator for alternative energy. While some analysts say demand, and therefore prices, will continue to be depressed because of the economy, others say OPEC’s plan to cut supplies will cause prices to increase later in the year.

29Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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San Luis Valley Home to Most Productive Utility-Scale
Solar Power Plant in the Nation

The 82-acre SunEdison station north of Alamosa generated enough power this year to serve 1,652 homes, making it the largest plant of its kind in the nation.

24Dec2008 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Durango to Pull Plug on Renewable Power Purchases

Green power purchases have been part of the municipal budget for two years but the city is now recommending that it stop buying power from renewable energy sources because of the need to to cut the 2009 budget by more than $500,000.

22Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar Accepts Nomination to Head the Dept of Interior

In accepting the nomination, the Colorado Senator said he “will do all I can to help reduce America’s dangerous dependence on foreign oil.”

18Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Konarka - Total Agreement Sign of What’s to Come?

Total’s Philippe Boissea said the agreements with Konarka will be instrumental in helping his oil and gas company secure its future in solar energy, in particular the thin film segment.

17Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Editorial: Colorado’s Energy Future:
Strong Yet Vulnerable

Common wisdom overlooks several energy problems that are both unique to Colorado and that put us in a vulnerable position over the next decade.

17Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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The Times They Are-A-Changin’

Marathon Oil, a major oil and gas player with operations in the Piceance Basin, says it will join the movement toward greener energy. This, according to the company’s chief executive Clarence Cazalot. How and when he left unsaid.

15Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Ritter to Obama: Give Us Infrastructure and Energy Funds

Last week the Governor wrote a letter to the President-Elect asking for help with construction of $1.4 billion worth of transportation projects and paying for new natural gas pipelines and clean-coal technology development in Colorado.

15Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Solar Project to Offset 6 Percent of Traditional Power

The $1.5 million Bella Energy solar systems will be part of the largest municipal solar-electric project in the Rocky Mountain area and part of Boulder County’s Sustainable Energy Plan,

13Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Infant Algae Industry Makes Its Case

Aerospace companies and airlines are betting that algae — simple organisms that come in some 30,000 species, many of which can be genetically modified — will prove to be a green fuel that can power jet planes.

8Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Financial Support for Energy Efficiency Sought

Pitkin County has been asked to approve more than $2 million in grants to a variety of governmental and private renewable energy projects and programs around the Roaring Fork Valley.

6Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Energy Software Key to Xcel’s Wind-to-Battery Project

Xcel Energy says incorporating GridPoint’s software in the wind-to-battery project is part of their efforts to modernize and upgrade the grid to allow easier integration of variable renewable energy sources.

4Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Governor’s Energy Office Releases Annual Report

The GEO uses Clean Energy Funds to advance renewable energy and energy efficiency in Colorado and this annual report provides plenty of details on the programs being implemented and their impacts.

2Dec2008 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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