Sept. 1, 2010– Plans to add utility-scale solar power facilities by PNM Resources’ New Mexico utility, PNM, were unanimously approved yesterday by state regulators. The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission approved 22 megawatts of utility-scale solar power facilities that will involve various sites throughout New Mexico. <<Read more>>
Sept. 1, 2010 — Portugal has made dramatic changes in its energy policy over the last five years under the government of Prime Minister José Sócrates. The country’s installed renewable energy capacity more than tripled between 2004 and 2009, from 1,220 megawatts (MW) to 4,307 MW, and renewables now represent roughly 36 percent of electricity consumed. <<Read more>>
What is the future for utility scale solar? According to recent reports and commitment from utilities in the Southwest and East coast USA, the future is optimistic. SEIA recently announced that utilities’ solar megawatts added to the grid grew from 169 MW in 2008 to 279 in 2009, a growth of 66 percent in a year when electricity demand as a whole declined as the result of an economic downturn.
Aug 27, 2010 — San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) today announced that it has signed and submitted for approval a second 20-year power-purchase agreement with an LS Power subsidiary to procure up to 45 megawatts (MW) of solar energy from the proposed Centinela Solar Energy facility, to be located 90 miles east of San Diego in California’s Imperial Valley. <<More>>
Aug. 25, 2010 — The Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) has expressed its support for Tucson Electric Power’s plan to purchase the output of 10 new renewable power projects that together will generate nearly 150 megawatts (MW), enough energy to power more than 30,000 Tucson homes. <<Read more>>
A 60-kilowatt power plant can look kind of small in a world that usually measures generating capacity in thousand-times-bigger increments of megawatts. But the little tidal plant in Eastport represents a giant achievement because it promises so much for the future. Maine is overdependent on
Aug. 23, 2010 — AT&T and SunEdison activated a new 296-kilowatt roof top solar power installation in San Diego yesterday. In addition to the installation in San Diego, AT&T has contracts with SunEdison to deploy five other solar power installations in California by the second quarter of 2011, equating to approximately 2 megawatts (MW) of total solar capacity for all six sites, to help offset its energy use. <<Read more>>
If you want to know how much electricity Ontario is using at
any one point, go to www.theimo.com/imoweb/siteShared/demand_price.
asp? sid=ic . Power usage is graphed on the hour. On August 19 at 4 o’clock, the province was using just over 20,000
megawatts. The summer high, set August 1, 2006, was
Georgia Power is doubling the amount of solar energy it will buy from independent producers, the chairman of the state Public Service Commission announced Thursday. Speaking to a conference of solar entrepreneurs, Chairman Lauren McDonald said the utility will buy another 2.5 megawatts of
The state’s adoption of an economic development law has provided a
major boost to two renewable energy projects in Salisbury. The legislation, signed into law by Governor Deval Patrick on Aug. 5,
includes a provision increasing from two to six megawatts the maximum size at
which a solar project is
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