All Posts Tagged With: "Solar Energy Study Areas"

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Salazar Talks Solar and Mining Projects Near
the Grand Canyon

On sustaining the solar tax credits, the Interior Secretary said “incentivizing these new entrants into the energy market is important. We give tax breaks to the oil and gas companies all across the country … There is every reason to provide incentives to the solar-energy world because of their importance.”

16Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM Sets Rental Rate for Solar Plant Sites

“While oil and gas companies have received more than 74,000 permits to operate on federal lands in the past two decades, utility-scale solar developers have received zero,” said Rhone Resch, president of The Solar Energy Industries Association, as he praised the move.

11Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Turbine Development Sought Along
Stretch of I-70

Picture yourself heading westbound out of Denver for a day of skiing, only imagine it is two or three years into the future. No, you won’t see a high-speed train racing along side; but you may encounter dozens of wind turbines rotating high above on the mountain ridges between Idaho Springs and Georgetown.

9Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Solar Power on Public Lands: Salazar’s Latest Take

“This past year we have prioritized identifying public lands’ suitability for the large-scale production of renewable energy,” said the Secretary, “both from an environmental and resource perspective, including 24 tracts of Bureau of Land Management-administered land, in the West as Solar Energy Study Areas.”

16Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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The Feds Wants YOU! — To Comment on BLM’s Plan for Big Solar Projects on Public Lands

The Colorado locations that are part of the study include De Tilla Gulch, Los Mogotes East, Antonito Southeast, and the Fourmile East areas in the southern part of the state, and they could generate up to 4,182 megawatts of solar power if fully developed, according to the Department of the Interior.

15Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued


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