DULUTH, MN—People considering solar energy as a choice for their homes or businesses will welcome an enhanced program being launched by Minnesota Power in conjunction with the 22nd Annual Energy Design Conference & Expo, Feb. 21-22, 2012, at the Duluth Entertainment & Convention Center (DECC). Minnesota Power’s newly updated SolarSense program makes solar energy more affordable to residential and [...]
Consumers Energy will be conducting an information session on March 5 in Saginaw, Michigan for residential and business electric customers interested in learning about customer-installed solar energy systems. The session will be held at Saginaw Valley State University. The session is free of charge, open to the public and will take place from 5:30 PM [...]
MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC has agreed to settle its liability in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in a settlement with the United States valued at $90 million, announced the Department of Justice, the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today. Approximately $45 million of the $90 million settlement is going directly [...]
“Duke Energy: no dirty rate hikes. Be a good neighbor.” CHARLOTTE, NC— This week, six North Carolinians built and ascended two 20-ft tall tripods in front of Duke Energy’s headquarters with a banner between them that read “Duke Energy: no dirty rate hikes” wearing t-shirts that said, “Be a good neighbor.” “Duke Energy has gone [...]
Suniva, Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells and modules, today announced that the 500 kilowatt (kW) rooftop solar array at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina will be Powered by Suniva™. The company also announced that its solar modules are powering an electric vehicle (EV) charging station located next [...]
Sierra Club calls for responsible transition for workers at the plants West Virginia – In a victory for clean air and local residents’ health, Ohio-based First Energy Corp. announced the retirements of three of its coal-fired power plants in West Virginia. The plants are slated to close on September 1, 2012. Today’s news follows last [...]
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced today that its 2011 solicitation for new supplies of renewable energy brought in more than 300 offers, a new record for the utility. PG&E’s energy procurement staff are reviewing them closely to determine the most viable and cost-effective projects to meet customers’ long-term clean-energy needs. “The highly competitive [...]
Pilot Project Will Help Maintain Grid Reliability and Reduce Costs as More Renewable Energy is Added to Island Grids Honeywell has announced a pilot program with Hawaiian Electric Co. in Honolulu to demonstrate how demand response technology can help integrate more intermittent renewable energy to the electric grid. During the two-year pilot, the utility will [...]
The Tennessee Small Business Development Center (TSBDC) at ETSU and the Kingsport Office of Small Business Development & Entrepreneurship (KOSBE) and Aries Energy will host a Renewable Energy Grant Workshop on Friday, February 17 from 8:30 – 9:30 a.m., at the Kingsport Chamber of Commerce, 151 E. Main Street, downtown. The workshop is offered free [...]
LOS ANGELES, California– VYCON, a designer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly, high-speed energy storage flywheel systems, today announced that Austin Energy ( www.austinenergy.com ), the nation’s ninth largest community-owned electric utility, has chosen to protect its new Control Center with clean backup power from VYCON. With 400,000 customers and a population of almost one million, [...]
IRVING, Texas–Fluor Corporation FLR-1.82% announced today that Arlington Valley Solar Energy II, LLC (AVSE II), a member of LS Power Group, has awarded the company a lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, as well as a separate contract for ongoing operations and maintenance services (O&M) for its new nominal 125-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) facility [...]
PHOTON`s 7th Solar Electric Utility Conference convenes on Feb. 2 in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, California –In his 2012 State of the State speech on Jan. 18, California Governor Jerry Brown said the Golden State is on track to meet “and substantially exceed” a requirement he signed into law last year for utilities to supply 33 [...]
MELBOURNE, Florida. National Solar Power today announced the company has entered into a solar farm development agreement with Liberty County, Florida. Under the agreement, National Solar Power will build an up to 100MW solar energy project on property in Liberty County—adjacent to the company’s Gadsden County, Florida solar farm project. The project, representing a $350 [...]