U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday again proposed granting 30-year permits to wind farms that would forgive them for thousands of eagle deaths expected during that time frame from collisions of the birds with turbines, towers, and electrical wires.
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Renewable Energy Update – May 2015
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We will never sell or share your information without your consent. See our privacy policy.Energy News Roundup: Keystone Bypass, Bidgely’s Latest Funding & Arizona Energy Controversy
By Conor O'Sullivan
The company behind the Keystone XL pipeline has asked for its US permit application to be put on hold – a move that would leave the final decision on the controversial tar sands oil project to the next U.S. President. [The Guardian] Bidgely closed a $16.6 million Series B round on Tuesday to expand its HomeBeat… Keep reading →
Energy Department Recognizes Arizona’s Dysart Unified School District For Leadership In Better Buildings Challenge
By U.S. Department of Energy
PHOENIX, AZ – As part of the Obama Administration’s effort to cut energy waste in the nation’s buildings, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today recognized Arizona’s Dysart Unified School District (USD) for increasing the use of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies at 25 schools. Through the department’s Better Buildings Challenge, Dysart USD has… Keep reading →
Q&A With Office Of Indian Energy Director Chris Deschene
By Matt Dozier | U.S. Department of Energy
CHRIS DESCHENE MAY BE NEW TO THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT, BUT YOU COULD SAY HE’S BEEN PREPARING FOR THIS JOB HIS WHOLE LIFE. Just eight weeks into his new role as director of the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, Deschene is navigating what he called a “crash course” in the agency using his decades… Keep reading →
APS Proposes $21 Monthly Fee For Residential PV, Launches Home Energy Storage Pilot
By GreenTech Media
An Arizona solar installer is glad that “a utility in our state is saying, ‘We see a place for solar.’” Arizona utility APS just proposed that its regulator increase the grid access charge for solar “from 70 cents per kilowatt — or approximately $5 per month — to $3 per kilowatt, or roughly $21 per… Keep reading →
A Major Settlement Could Make Arizona the Next Growth Market for Storage
By GreenTech Media
“This is an open door for the storage industry to play if they are able to match the value and economics of a peaker.” A groundbreaking agreement between Arizona Public Service (APS) and Arizona’s ratepayer advocate could create a surge of new storage deployment in the state over the next seven years. Late last week,… Keep reading →
The Obama stimulus planted the seeds, and now big solar is sprouting in the desert Southwest. The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday announced that the Agua Caliente solar project in Yuma, Arizona, was now fully online, producing up to 290 megawatts of power, making it the world’s largest photovoltaic plant. Agua Caliente was backed… Keep reading →
A new plant being built in Glendale, Arizona, promises to be the nation’s first landfill facility to transform waste into energy when it opens in April. The facility, located just a few miles west of the University of Phoenix Stadium, will create electricity through a process called pyrolytic gasification, a technology purchased from The Hoskinson… Keep reading →
The U.S. residential solar segment witnessed record growth in Q3 2013 with 31,000 individual installations. On December 10, 2013, GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) released a report analyzing U.S. solar market performance across 28 states and the District of Columbia during Q3 2013. According to the report, Q3 2013 represents the… Keep reading →
Who’s the biggest turkey of them all? Creating year-end lists is usually an exercise in positive thinking and congratulatory back-slapping. But as the popularity of this year’s list of deceased solar companies showed us, GTM’s readers are far more interested in the morbid and the sarcastic. In celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday, here is our… Keep reading →
