All Posts Tagged With: "utility-scale solar power"
Renewable Projects Under Pressure From Feds and Environmental Groups
The BLM is removing some of the cheapest and best land for renewable energy projects from the market. What’s more, it drives up the price of the more scarce, available land, making the already thin margins on renewable energy projects even more precarious.
12Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Tessera Solar Withdraws Saguache County Application for Utility Scale Solar Plant
The company is closing the door on plans to build a 1,525-acre industrial solar power plant in the midst of the San Luis Valley’s centennial ranching community. The
San Luis Valley Renewable Communities Alliance and its members favor smaller scale, local solar generation
instead of the massive project.
State’s First Industrial Solar Project Meets Strong Opposition in San Luis Valley
Tessera Solar is proposing to build a 1,525-acre 145 Megawatt field of 5,670 dish Stirling SunCatchers on rangelands in southern Colorado’s high-elevation San Luis Valley for export to Front Range urban centers.
24Nov2010 | admin | 6 comments | Continued
Fort-Collins-Based Advanced Energy Completes Acquisition
The combined company’s comprehensive portfolio of inverter products will serve commercial projects ranging from 30-kilowatts to 1 megawatt utility installations, as well as the residential market with 5-kilowatt and smaller inverters.
5May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
State Solar Tracks —
Noteworthy Installs But a Big One is Dropped
While the CSU installation in Fort Collins and newly commissioned PV system for Alamosa High School were celebrated, news of First Solar dropping its 150 Mw utility-scale project in the San Luis Valley cast doubt in some quarters on the viability of such developments.
23Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Advanced Energy Targets European Market
With Solaron® Photovoltaic Inverter
The Fort Collins-based company is following up its U.S. rollout of the Solaron® platform with the Solaron 500E, a European model of its high-efficiency, transformerless, grid-tie photovltaic inverter.
18Sep2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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
Full Speed Ahead for Large Solar Projects
in Colorado and the West
Under one initiative, 24 tracts of BLM-administered land located in six western states, known as Solar Energy Study Areas, would be fully evaluated for their environmental and resource suitability for large-scale solar energy production. Other actions include the opening of new solar permitting offices and faster reviews of industry proposals.
30Jun2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Pike Research– Renewables DG Market to Exceed $60 Billion within Five Years
The Boulder-based market research firm says global system revenues for sub-utility scale Renewable Distributed Energy Generation (RDEG) rose 76% in 2007 and 2008 to an estimated $29.9 billion by the end of last year.
19Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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