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Friday, September 30, 2011

Renewable Energy for Texas - News, Information and Opinion - Updated 10.9

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Pflugerville sees green technology as economic engine
Austin American-Statesman
The company has two divisions: Atlantic Solar, which will make solar panels, and Green World Systems, which creates "mobile renewable power stations" that are powered by wind turbines and solar panels. Last month, the Pflugerville City Council approved ...
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TruSmart Energy to Acquire dPi Energy
MarketWatch (press release)
Amvensys Capital Group, LLC is a Texas-based diversified investment company. It maintains investments in the telecom, mobile, IT infrastructure, and renewable energy sectors in the United States and India. For more information, visit www.amvensys.com .
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Despite Washington screw-ups, clean energy moves forward
Red, Green, and Blue
As of October 1st, Austin, Texas became the largest city in the nation to rely entirely on renewable energy to power all of its facilities. The city of Houston still purchases a larger amount of renewable energy, but Austin leads the way in meeting all ...
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Red, Green, and Blue
Fitch Rates San Antonio City Public Service's (TX) Electric & Gas System Revs ...
MarketWatch (press release)
In addition, CPS Energy continues to acquire a significant amount of renewable energy through various long-term purchase power agreements. Of the 883.0 MW of purchased power renewable resources, approximately 97% is wind resources from West Texas. ...
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Entrust Energy Expands to More Texas Markets
MarketWatch (press release)
HOUSTON, Oct 04, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Entrust Energy began offering competitively priced term and renewable electricity plans to three new Texas Transmission and Distribution Utilities (TDUs) this month, Texas-New Mexico Power (League City/portions ...
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Kohl's Department Stores Becomes First U.S. Company to Earn LEED(R) Gold ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Other key strategies include waste reduction and recycling, stakeholder and supply chain engagement, emission reduction and energy efficiency. Kohl's is also a leader in efforts surrounding the use and support of renewable energy. ...
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AWS Truepower to attend Fall Renewable Energy Conferences
EcoSeed
ALBANY, NY—October 4, 2011—AWS Truepower, LLC, an international leader in renewable energy consulting and information services, will be attending three renewable energy conferences during October and presenting the latest information on wind and ...
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Talking the New Energy Economy at SXSW Eco
TIME (blog)
Ritter is an interesting figure—he came to office in the Western state in 2006 focusing on what he likes to call the "new energy economy." He had success at the statehouse, increasing Colorado's renewable energy standard to 30%—one of the highest in ...
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City of Austin, Texas, Goes 100% Renewable
Environmental Leader
The City of Austin, Texas, has become the largest municipality in the US to power all of its facilities using only renewable energy. As of Oct. 1 all of the city's municipal facilities subscribe to Austin Energy's GreenChoice renewable energy product. ...
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Environmental Leader
US Department of Energy opts for SciFinder for researchers complex-wide - 04 ...
Knowledgespeak
The complex-wide agreement for SciFinder covers 17 DoE sites nationally, including: National security research facilities (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory); Renewable energy research ...
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SPI 2011: Industry leaders convene in Dallas, Texas
Solar Novus Today
Solar Power International 2011's Conference Program features the latest information for professionals throughout the world. Sessions are organized within six tracks: Finance, Integration, Markets, Texas Markets, Policy, System Design and Technology. ...
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Schneider Electric features complete solar solutions at Solar Power ...
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
Burnaby, Canada Schneider Electric will exhibit solar solutions at Solar Power International 2011, North America's largest solar trade show and conference, from October 17-20 in Dallas, Texas. In addition, senior staff engineer Dr. Andrew Swingler will ...
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Sony joins smart grid market, testing devices in Texas
EcoSeed
The electric cars and solar roofs are all designed to work in unison with smart appliances and home energy management systems provided by Best Buy and Whirlpool Intel and Sony. Smart meters from Switzerland-based Landis+Gyr will string all the products ...
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EcoSeed
Walnut High Solar Car Team Finishes Third in National Race
Patch.com
The Walnut City Council last week honored the team, which took third place in the open division of the Winston Solar Car Challenge this past summer. By Melanie C. Johnson Walnut High School students put their knowledge of solar power and their passion ...
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Just Energy Group Inc. Announces Closing of the Fulcrum Acquisition
MarketWatch (press release)
Just Energy has also launched, Hudson Solar, a solar project development platform in New Jersey. Fulcrum has an established and diverse customer base in the State of Texas. Tara Energy, Amigo Energy, and Smart Prepaid Electric sell fixed and index ...
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Science Obama Says he Has No Regrets on Wasting $535M on Failed Solar Startup
DailyTech
They've launched a probe into the loan and the Department of Energy's overall loan infrastructure. States Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), a member of the House Energy panel's investigative subcommittee, "We need to hear from Secretary Chu and [White ...
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Increase in small wind turbine use around the area
KFDA
The market for small wind turbines has seen a 26 percent increase within the United States. Texas has seen its fair share since many say that several factors make the product worth the several thousand dollar price tag. Cesar Ramos strongly believes in ...
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Susan King Reacts To Wind Turbine Fire On Her Taylor County Ranch
KTXS
By Cassandra Garcia, KTXS News ABILENE, Texas -- Texas State Representative Susan King is speaking out about the fire on her Taylor County ranch that was sparked by a wind turbine. Just after 10 o'clock Sunday night, Buffalo Gap, View and Ecca ...
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NRG Energy (NRG) Shares Given New $23.00 Price Target by Deutsche Bank (DB ...
LocalizedUSA
In December 2009, NRG completed its Langford project, a 150 megawatt wind farm located in Tom Green, Irion, and Schleicher Counties, Texas. Shares of NRG Energy opened at 19.93 on Tuesday. NRG Energy has a 52 week low of $18.22 and a 52 week high of ...
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Alternative energy at forefront of science event
StarNewsOnline.com
(Richter, who works for GE Nuclear Services, once spent a summer inspecting wind turbines in Texas.) "At our house, we've been discussing having a small wind generator, so this gives them a chance to see what I've been talking about," he said. ...
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Strength in Numbers: 5 Partnerships That Could Expand Renewable Energy
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
Using them in combination has proven beneficial so far for Western Wind Energy, which recently opened its Kingman I solar and wind project in Kingman, Ariz. The 10.5-MW facility is the first utility-scale operation designed to use both technologies. ...
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Michaels errs on wind power's contribution
REVE
Those rolling blackouts would have been significantly worse had wind energy not kept producing at and above the levels the grid operator was expecting, providing enough power to keep the lights on for millions of Texas residents. ...
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Canadian Wind
Today's Energy Solutions
Worldwide, wind has rebounded from a weak 2010, adding 18405MW of capacity in the first six months of 2011, according to the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA). The US wind industry now totals 42432MW of cumulative wind capacity, led by Texas, ...
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Small wind power is gaining in popularity
REVE
P&K recently completed installation of a turbine for a waste water treatment facility in Guthrie, and Taylor recently returned from bidding a turbine for a school district in Corpus Christi, Texas. One of its earlier installations can be seen at Enid's ...
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ERCOT to pay fines for 2008 errors
FuelFix (blog)
State power plant operators have also improved their ability to accurately predict the impact of weather on Texas wind power production since those incidents. Upon approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the fine will be paid out of the ...
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Wind Energy Program at Texas Tech University
Green energy programs are on the rise in colleges and universities all over the country. Texas Tech University offers Wind Energy as an undergraduate minor, ...
www.xomba.com/wind-energy-program-texas-tech-university
 
Texas College Gets Grant For Wind Training
EarthTechling
The grant money, along with money provided by the college, helped pay for the technology to provide hands-on training for students, as well as a new, 50-foot, 3.5 kiowatt wind turbine on the Eastfield campus. Right now, Texas is said to be facing a ...
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Central Texas' top stories of the week
Austin American-Statesman
New transportation chief:Phil Wilson, an energy company lobbyist and former top aide to Gov. Rick Perry, was chosen by the Texas Transportation Commission to be the next executive director of the state's Transportation Department and will be paid at ...
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Austin American-Statesman
Rick Perry global warming video: "We live in a big ball"
Examiner.com
“They've never created one bit of energy the best I can tell,” Perry joked in reference to the DOE. Perry also showed a greener side to his persona at times, noting that, “Texas in the last decade became the leader in wind energy. ...
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Today, Austin becomes an all-green municipal operation
Austin American-Statesman
In late 2008, Austin Energy, the city-owned utility, agreed to buy relatively expensive electricity from a West Texas wind farm as part of the Climate Protection Plan. But the utility has been unable to persuade many customers to buy that wind farm's ...
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Landowners seek new energy forms
Sulphur Springs Country World News
In Texas, it is more likely to see people install small wind turbines for their personnel use on their farm or ranch. There are some incentives for installing wind and solar energy production devices like the 30 percent residential federal tax credit ...
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Sun Edison to develop solar vehicle-charging stations for smart grid
BrighterEnergy.org
Solar power company SunEdison has joined a smart grid demonstration project in Texas, through which it will work to help develop advanced home solar photovoltaic (PV) charging systems for Chevrolet Volt electric vehicles (EV). ...
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Sky Power Solutions, (OTCBB: SPOW) Affirms Unveiling of Scaled Prototype of ...
SunHerald.com
In 2011, over 1100 companies from all vertical markets in the solar power spectrum will exhibit in a space of more than 1 million square feet. Sky Power will display a working prototype of the Sky Power Solutions' Residential, Standalone, ...
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NRG Energy buys US's largest tracker PV project from SunPower
EcoSeed (blog)
NRG had said it would bounce back from significant first quarter losses with more utility-scale solar power plants in the coming months following its decision to abandon the development of two nuclear plants in Texas. Affected by the write-down, ...
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Still-new San Patricio County wind farm already undergoes upgrade
Corpus Christi Caller Times
By Editorial Board CORPUS CHRISTI — The temporary stoppage of the wind turbine blades in San Patricio County was a signal that wind energy in South Texas is not temporary. The blades were stopped so the wind farm could switch from its temporary ...
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Texas Wind: Duke Takes Another Bite
EarthTechling
by Pete Danko, September 29th, 2011 With Los Vientos I under way and a power-purchase agreement locked up, Duke Energy is off and running on the second part of that big Texas wind-power project: The company formally announced plans to build and operate ...
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EarthTechling
Wind-power industry faces a sustainability issue of its own
San Antonio Business Journal
Most turbine makers and wind energy investors have not yet addressed the future problem of retiring or replacing old parts, largely because the industry is still very young. HOUSTON — As thousands of wind turbines go up throughout the United States, ...
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Billionaire oilman to speak about the natural gas industry
Danville News
Wind energy also is part of the plan, but Pickens has scaled back on that of late. Wind energy “is priced on a margin, and the margin is natural gas,” he said. Natural gas “is so cheap, it's hard to finance a wind deal.” Natural gas prices dictate the ...
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All sides speak out on proposed EPA rules for drilling sites
Fort Worth Star Telegram
"I buy wind power for my home ... but there's only so much individuals can do." That's why the federal government needs to get more involved in regulating pollution from Barnett Shale drilling and production operations in North Texas, Briggle said. ...
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EPA honors Geauga County schools for energy efficiency efforts (with video)
News-Herald.com
All four schools within the district were awarded Energy Star certification. In Ohio, 113 schools have received the distinction. Other Geauga County School districts are making strides toward energy conservation as well. Kenston's wind turbine project ...
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SunEdison Leads Development of Home Solar Charging Systems for Chevrolet Volt ...
PR Newswire (press release)
30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SunEdison, a leading worldwide solar energy services provider and a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (NYSE: WFR), today announced that it has joined the Pecan Street Inc. smart grid project. As part of its role, ...
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Austin Studies Power Grid, Including Plug-In Cars
New York Times
Expanded coverage of Texas is produced by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news organization. To join the conversation about this article, go to texastribune.org. Diane Gierisch uses solar panels to provide her electricity. Residents of the Mueller ...
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New York Times
What it Will Take to Make Renewable Energy a Reality in the US
The Indypendent
Most people don't think of Texas as “a progressive, innovative state on energy,” says Kapner, “but in reality it is.” Solar's technological advances have evolved, rather than come through major breakthroughs, he says. Silicon is still the most common ...
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The Indypendent
Steven Chu, Oh Where Are You? (Solyndra Roundup)
Reason Online (blog)
The DoE's impeccably timed $737 million loan to the Solar Energy Project is also smelling worse by the day. It can't be a good sign when one of the most prominent beneficiaries of the loan is former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California)'s ...
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Reason Online (blog)
DOE to issue last batch of clean energy loans
Politico
But the political fallout could potentially climb to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who has been summoned to testify about his handling of the loan operation. Rep. Mike Burgess (R-Texas) took to Fox News on Wednesday to air his concerns about the ...
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Politico
Last Minute Preps for State Fair of Texas
33 KDAF-TV
Fair goers can see the Home of the Future -- a net-zero energy house. Mike Scarlett with Scarlett Custom Homes said, "This particular home is truly a custom home. There isn't another home that's gonna be like it. We've got solar hot water heater ...
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Wind a big factor in ISU-Texas football game - off the field
DesMoinesRegister.com
For the game, the stadium will be 100 percent powered by wind through the purchase of renewable energy certificates to offset energy used. The American Wind Energy Association and Iowa State's College of Engineering will join Mid-American Energy, ...
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New technologies won't erase fossil fuels, energy expert says | Philadelphia ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Andrew Maykuth With all the excitement over renewable energy, it might be reasonable to assume that fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas will go the way of the steam engine in the next 20 years. Not so fast, says Daniel Yergin, ...
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Ram Power, Corp. Announces Selby F. Little as Acting Chief Financial Officer
MarketWatch (press release)
Ram Power is a renewable energy company based in Reno, Nevada, engaged in the business of acquiring, exploring, developing, and operating geothermal properties. Ram Power has an interest in geothermal projects, primarily in the United States, Canada, ...
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Solamon CEO Graeme Boyce Set to Address CREF Attendees
PR.com (press release)
Graeme Boyce will be joined by other 3 other Solamon executives at the Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum. Toronto, Canada, September 30, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Solamon Energy Corp. is proud to announce the company will be attending the Caribbean Renewable ...
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posted by Jeff - 9.30.2011

1 comment:

  1. I think it’s really time to worry about the energy sources that are disappearing. So it’s better to use natural resources for electricity. So I am also thinking to use solar panels at my home and office.

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