World Wind Energy Assn sees 1,900 GW by 2020

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Excerpt: World Wind Energy Association (WWEA), a non-profit organization, aims to have world energy come from renewable technologies with wind energy as a cornerstone. With almost 500 members, the organization says it advises national governments and international organizations on favorable policies for impl …

French “nuclear miracle” crowds out renewables

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Excerpt: Recent analysis shows French approach touted by some for a U.S. reactor build-up is a failed model. U.S. wind and solar industries would suffer under “French nuclear socialism.” The so-called “French nuclear miracle” embraced by some U.S. policymakers as a model for this nation is a misco …

A few financing lessons for renewable energy projects

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Excerpt: At the recent Freshwater Wind conference, the President of Power Advisory LLC John Dalton spoke of financing challenges faced by several renewable-energy projects. He spoke on power purchase agreements, requests for proposals, and feed in tariffs and related the experience of projects such as Deepwa …

Border Energy Forum

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Excerpt: A vibrant and growing economy with a clean and healthy environment for both sides of the U.S.–Mexico border has been the vision shared by Border Energy Forum participants and organizers since the first forum was held in El Paso in 1994.The latest forum is slated for Chihuahua, Mexico, Sept 30 to O …

NIST finishes smart grid security guidelines

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Excerpt: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized its initial set of smart grid cyber security guidelines. Issued as NIST’s Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security (NISTIR7628), the document includes high-level security requirements, a framework for assessing risks, an eval …

AWS Truewind wins California ISO forecasting competition

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Excerpt: The California Independent System Operator Corporation's (California ISO) announced AWS Truewind as winner of the year-long forecasting competition. Of the three companies that responded to the challenge, AWS Truewind provided the most accurate and cost effective information, showing a 20% impro …

California PUC decision could greatly impact its tradable REC

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Excerpt: California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) recently proposed to end a moratorium on the approval of tradable renewable-energy credits (TREC) transactions, and raise the cap for large investor-owned utilities to 40%. RECs are tradable energy commodities that represent 1 MWh of electricity genera …

Massachusetts Supreme Court grants Cape Wind all state and local permits

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Excerpt: First off-shore U.S. wind farm moves ahead, will bring 1,000 green jobs to Massachusetts The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld the ruling of a state energy board that had granted all state and local permits to Cape Wind, clearing the way for America’s first off-shore wind farm to pr …

China agrees to buy American

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Excerpt: A Chinese maker of turbines is headed to a Texas wind farm, agreeing to buy steel from U.S. producers after lawmakers objected to the foreign production of the equipment. The United Steelworkers Union announced that Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd based in Shenyang, China and Shenyang Power Gro …

NREL to explore legal routes to state feed-in-tariffs

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Excerpt: In a technical report NREL issued, “Renewable Energy Prices in State-Level Feed-in Tariffs: Federal Law Constraints and Possible Solutions,” the organization discusses how state legislatures and their utility commissions seeking to attract renewable energy projects are considering arrangements …