Tag: Renewables
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How Texas Became Wind Energy’s King
By Mike Jacobs Press reports of Texas completing new transmission lines for wind describe an energy boom with a difference—this is carbon-free wind energy. The grid operator in Texas, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), says agreements are already done for 7,500 megawatts (MW) of new wind power, most of which will be using the new…
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Bipartisan Governors Coalition Wants to Prepare Nation’s Grid For More Wind Energy
[caption id="attachment_323900" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] A coalition of governors who advocate for wind energy want to work with the nation’s energy regulators to prepare the grid for more wind. Members of the Governors Wind Energy Coalition got the ball rolling earlier this month in a meeting with Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioners (FERC), discussing transmission…
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New Wind PTC Proposal Would Dramatically Decrease Incentive Before Eliminating It
[caption id="attachment_323668" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] If the latest proposal for the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) is approved, it would dramatically decrease the incentive’s amount and eventually phase it out altogether. Introduced on Thursday by U.S. House of Representative Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, (R-MI), the new proposal would retroactively…
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How a Solar Incubator Aims to Make Oakland the Industry’s ‘Epicenter’
Danny Kennedy couldn’t stop after seeing his own company, Sungevity, add more than 200 employees since 2009. He has since created SfunCube, an incubator and accelerator that he believes could make Oakland, CA “the world’s epicenter for solar entrepreneurship.” In a New York Times feature, the incubator’s founders, inhabitants and even a California energy commissioner…
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Mexico to Replace Oil Power Plant With Latin America’s Largest Solar Farm
By Ari Phillips Last week President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Mexico for what’s traditionally called the “Three Amigos” meeting. In the daylong rendezvous, energy issues were slated to play a major role, with Obama and Harper jockeying for room when it comes to the impending decision on the controversial Keystone XL…