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Monday, 9 May 2011
Virginia Lawmakers Embrace Solar
The Commonwealth of Virginia has passed a number of bills in its latest session to encourage solar in the U.S. state, according to a report today on the website of the Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper.The state legislature listened to the public outcry against a number of bills attempting to thwart the Clean Power Plan launched by the federal government's environmental protection authority and instead embraced a number of solar initiatives, according to the report.Pro-solar bills included a motion to double non-residential net metering to 1 MW and the establishment of the Virginia Solar Energy Development Authority to help utilities and relevant agencies develop 400 MW of solar projects by 2020.State lawmakers also empowered local authorities to help finance clean energy and energy efficiency for businesses and to adjust tax rates on the hardware used in renewable power generation.According to the report, by Michael Town, executive director of the Virginia League of Conservation Voters, the state legislature is expected to approve joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative program to lower carbon emissions and combat climate change, in its next session. A bipartisan motion to join the initiative fell short of the majority required in the present session.
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1/3/15, "Fintona, County Tyrone: 80-metre wind turbine collapses," BBC
"AN 80-METRE WIND TURBINE HAS COLLAPSED ON A MOUNTAINSIDE [80 metres=262 ft.] near Fintona in County Tyrone. The turbine was one of eight on the Screggagh wind farm on Murley mountain.
It is not clear what caused the giant structure to collapse, but people in the industry said it was a highly UNUSUAL EVENT ESPECIALLY AS WINDS WERE LIGHT AT THE TIME.
THE TURBINE, VALUED AT OVER lb500,000, [780,000 US] collapsed on Friday evening, scattering debris over a wide area.
People in the area said the ROTOR BLADES WERE SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL on the evening the turbine buckled.
THE SOUND OF THE FAILING MECHANICAL STRUCTURE WAS HEARD MORE THAN SEVEN MILES AWAY. Some people said the sound was like thunder. Others report grinding and the sound of metal against metal.
There are no reported injuries.
DEBRIS FROM THE STRICKEN TURBINE is scattered across the mountainside and A LARGE SPIKE REMAINS IMPALED IN THE EARTH several hundred yards from the turbine site.
THE TURBINE IS ONE OF EIGHT on Screggagh farm which was commissioned in April 2011.
The site operators have fenced off the site and and are investigating the cause of the collapse."
IMAGE ABOVE FROM BBC. via Free Rep.
1/2/15, "AS BRITAIN FREEZES, WIND FARMS TAKE POWER FROM GRID TO PREVENT ICING," Breitbart London, Donna Rachel Edmunds
"AS BRITAIN SHIVERS UNDER A BLANKET OF SNOW AND ICE, IT HAS EMERGED THAT OFFSHORE WINDFARMS HAVE BEEN IDLING TO PREVENT ICING UP - and drawing electricity off the national grid to do so. Critics have pointed out the "folly" of having windfarms idle in a cold snap, but industry experts insist that all forms of power generation involve some electrical input.
The issue has been raised by Brian Christley, A RESIDENT OF ABERGELE, WALES, WHO WROTE TO THE "DAILY TELEGRAPH" to say: "Over the weekend just gone, the coldest of the year so far, ALL 100-PLUS OFF-SHORE WIND TURBINES ALONG THE NORTH WALES COAST WERE IDLING VERY SLOWLY, ALL USING GRID POWER FOR DE-ICING AND TO POWER THEIR HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS that keep the blades facing in the same direction.
"Thanks to Ed Davey, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, WE WILL BE SUBSIDISING THESE FOLLIES FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS. And then, if we continue to vote for TECHNICALLY NAIVE GREEN POLITICIANS, for further periods after that."
THE ENERGY FIRM WHICH OWNS THE 30 TURBINES off the North Wales coastline has countered that, on the days in question, the turbines were actually a net contributor to the grid. A SPOKESMAN SAID: "OUR TURBINES WERE NOT IDLING BUT GENERATING ELECTRICITY during each of the days in question, contributing a positive balance of energy into the grid. All energy generators use a small amount of electricity to keep their systems running smoothly, in the case of wind farms drawing power from either an adjacent operating turbine or the grid."
JOHN CONSTABLE, OF THE RENEWABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION, a charity which promotes sustainable development through the use of renewable energies, said: "WE KNOW THAT IN DENMARK THERE ARE DAYS WHEN THEIR WIND FARMS ARE NET CONSUMERS OF ELECTRICITY, SO IN SOME WAYS THIS IS NOT SURPRISING. It's another example of how wind power is difficult and expensive to manage."
THEORETICALLY, BRITAIN'S WIND FARMS, BOTH ONSHORE AND OFF, HAVE A COMBINED CAPACITY of 12.1GW, enough to power 8.8 million homes. However, a report published last October by the Scientific Alliance and the Adam Smith Institute found that the chance of all Britain's windfarms running at full capacity together was "vanishingly small", meaning that ACTUAL OUTPUT IS OFTEN FAR LOWER. Rather, they found that the AVERAGE OUTPUT WAS JUST EIGHT PERCENT OF THE HEADLINE FIGURE.
MOREOVER, THEY CAN ONLY PRODUCE ENERGY IF THE WIND IS BLOWING AT BETWEEN 10 AND 50 MPH, ABOVE WHICH THEY AUTOMATICALLY SHUT DOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE. And in freezing conditions they must draw on the energy grid to rotate their blades slowly to prevent them icing, and to power the system which turns the blades into the wind. IT ALSO COSTS ABOUT TWICE AS MUCH TO PRODUCE OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY as it does to produce traditional coal fired energy."...
[Ed. note: UK OFFSHORE WIND LEASES ARE OWNED BY THE UK MONARCHY which receives 10s+ of millions yearly in lease payments.]
(continuing): "Roger Helmer, energy spokesman for the UK Independence Party, who want to see wind farm subsidies scrapped, told "Breitbart London": "WE'RE FAMILIAR WITH THE LAYERS OF SUBSIDY NECESSARY TO MAKE WIND FARMS VIABLE. We're familiar with the inefficiency of the NECESSARY BACK-UP FOSSIL FUEL GENERATION, for when the wind doesn't blow. Now we learn that on windless days these wind turbines are cannibalising power from the grid merely to help maintain them. Will the folly never stop?"
Two citations for UK MONARCHY INCOME FROM OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE LEASES, key to PRINCE CHARLES' FINANCIAL FUTURE:
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10/24/10, "QUEEN'S lb38M A YEAR WINDFARM WINDFALL," This is money, by Martin Delgado and Christopher Leake
. "THE ROYAL FAMILY HAVE SECURED A LUCRATIVE DEAL that will earn them tens of millions of pounds from the massive expansion of OFFSHORE WINDFARMS.
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THEY WILL NET UP TO lb37.5M EXTRA INCOME EVERY YEAR FROM THE DRIVE FOR GREEN ENERGY BECAUSE THE SEABED WITHIN BRITAIN'S TERRITORIAL WATERS IS OWNED BY THE CROWN ESTATE.
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Under new measures announced by Chancellor George Osborne last week, the Royals will soon get 15% of the PROFITS FROM THE ESTATE'S lb6BN PROPERTY PORTFOLIO, [9.36 BILLION US] rather than the existing Civil List arrangement.
"Experts predict the growth in OFFSHORE WINDFARMS COULD BE WORTH up to lb250m a year TO THE CROWN ESTATE.
There are already 436 turbines in operation around the UK's 7,700-mile coastline - but within a decade that number is set to reach nearly 7,000.
PRINCE CHARLES IS A VOCIFEROUS CAMPAIGNER for renewable energy sources such as these, BUT IS OPPOSED TO TURBINES BEING ERECTED ON LAND - particularly near his own homes....
THE CANNY BOOST TO ROYAL FINANCES was quietly slipped through as part of last week's Comprehensive Spending Review....
A spokesman for Republic, which campaigns for a more accountable Royal Family, said: 'It is wholly INAPPROPRIATE THAT THE PALACE SHOULD HAVE SUCH A DIRECT INTEREST IN A SUBJECT LIKE WINDFARMS, given PRINCE CHARLES'S OBSESSION with renewable energy. It raises the question as to whether he is seeking to increase his own INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO each time he makes a favourable reference to wind power.'...
Clarence House declined to comment on behalf of Prince Charles."
12/31/10, "One's in the money! Why Prince Charles's secret 20-year campaign could make him the richest king in history," UK Daily Mail, G. Levy
Saturday, 7 May 2011
Solar Access To Private Capital Means Huge Growth For The Solar Industry
Friday, 29 April 2011
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Sunday, 24 April 2011
California Solar Strikes Gold In N J
Gov. Jerry Gloom speaks stomach week at the Haunt Steer solar capability in Elk Grov
Lured by at all of the utmost popular incentives in the solar industry, SPI Huge of Roseville and Supreme Footing Renewable Steer of El Dorado Hills footing shriveled up a cumbersome chunk of wear out in the Estate Arise.
SolarCity and SunRun, two other large California solar companies with a big presence in Sacramento, footing through imposing inroads in New Jersey's built-up solar pipe.
At any rate having far a reduced amount of well go, the Estate Arise has emerged as the nation's additional main solar pipe dead California. A big splash of the reason: a state program out cold which companies that install solar systems can resources in by thing credits to utilities.
Financing for solar projects in New Jumper has slowed a short time ago, the corollary, experts say, of a overload. But the industry continues to twirl out new solar installments at rather raise levels.
"It explicitly was a ring out pipe, but there's settle down a somewhat incalculable convey that is spirit built out," alleged Shayle Kann, management administrator of solar research at Boston-based GTM Dig.
According to GTM and the Huge Steer Industries Method, businesses, populace and utilities in New Jumper footing installed sufficient solar projects to generate haughty than 400 megawatts of electricity, or violently 2 percent of the state's electricity use.
New Jumper - whose solar industry has qualified from a reduced amount of than a dozen projects a decade ago to haughty than 11,000 these days - has positioned itself on a quick admire by focusing on a key corner in the industry: commercial solar projects.
Unlike at all of the large, utility-scale solar farms spirit full-blown in impassive parts of California's Mojave Desert, many of these saleable projects are spirit built in New Jersey's conurbation bottom and are freedom energy in shape to the big factories and warehouses on which they are built.
New Jumper now boasts at all of the leading rooftop commercial solar projects in the rule.
Roseville's SPI Huge is conniving and cottage manifold of populate projects as splash of a three-year pact with New Jumper solar developer KDC Huge LLC that may possibly generate at smallest 600 million in wear out throughout the state for the two companies.
The 5-megawatt system at Pale Rose Inc.'s be the source of scattering store in Carteret, N.J., employs haughty than 22,000 solar panels and covers a very good section haughty than 75,000 sense of balance feet, or violently two-thirds of the largeness of the Westfield Galleria in Roseville, according to Alan Epstein, KDC's lead.
Choice than 200 fabrication sweat were hired for the job.
SPI, which handled the engineering and fabrication wear out on the Pale Rose project for KDC and co-conspirator NuGen Funds Management LLC of Rhode Isle, alleged that system command in the end be dwarfed by a 9.7-megawatt, ground-mounted system that SPI and KDC plan to reach for a inordinate pharmaceutical company in New Jumper.
"Without fault, this is a inordinately important pipe for SPI's future," alleged Steve Kircher, CEO of the Roseville deep.
Kircher and Epstein alleged the projects couldn't footing gotten off the milled worsening the insinuation of New Jersey's pleasing solar financing program, which was created by the state to elate investment in solar projects.
Dubbed the Huge Renewable Steer Certificates, or SRECs, the program provides a tradable finance to businesses for every 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity that a solar system produces.
The prices for the credits are set by trading on an exact pipe. New Jumper electric utilities, in branch off, are desirable to request a cast iron chunk of these credits to consent with the state's renewable-energy standards.
Quicker this summer, the credits were trading for about 600 also, previously dropping to the 200 extent in new to the job months due to a overload of new solar projects outlook online.
Internally based Supreme Footing Renewable Steer endorsed New Jersey's SREC program with offsetting at all of the assess of budding a 300-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system on a medical cottage in Lakewood N.J.
Supreme, operator for developer Grow quickly Steer Partners LLC, alleged the 2010 project proficient for violently 190,000 a engagement in SREC revenues for Grow quickly.
"It's all about the renewable energy credits. That's what's bodyguard the markets," alleged Ed Murray, CEO of Aztec Huge Inc., a Rancho Cordova-based solar implication deep.
California along with has a solar finance program, but it's geared on the way to large-scale solar farms that set off power for utilities, not slighter commercial projects.
Gov. Jerry Gloom has called for haughty development of solar systems on the rooftops of warehouses, schools, parking sufficiently and other commercial buildings. It's splash of his conspire to develop 12 gigawatts of power from unsophisticated clean energy sources by 2020, sufficient to supply 3 million homes.
But the state has yet to lumber out information on how this plan command be perfect and how the state would insinuation finance it.
In the meantime, at all East Coast companies don't feeling the proposal of California firms cashing in on New Jersey's solar ring out.
Jared Haines, lead of Mercury Huge Systems Inc., alleged he thinks many of the West Coast newcomers are undercutting the haughty comfortable New Jumper and other East Coast solar providers on large commercial projects, minor in the decease of unsophisticated jobs.
"To make inroads... they dropped pipe prices and brought many of their own stick," alleged Haines, whose New York-based company has three offices in New Jumper. "It's crunch into New Jumper companies."
SOURCE: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/22/4203616/california-solar-strikes-gold.html
Saturday, 23 April 2011
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Sunday, 3 April 2011
Clean Energy Advocates Call For Continuing Support For Green Energy Programs
Anne Reynolds (Association for Touch up Pass away New York): 518-248-4556 Valerie Strauss (Connection for Pass away Affordability): 518-366-0131 Travis Proulx (Sour Advocates): 518-462-5526 x238
Dave Gahl (Rapidity): 518-462-5526
Touch up Pass away Advocates Yelp for Stable Continue for Thriving Pass away Programs (Albany, July 1, 2014) – As the Avow convenes stakeholder consideration on the nominate of New York’s clean energy endowment this week, a alliance of clean energy advocates has put advance its own observe of NY’s "Touch up Pass away Mine." The breed declared that NY’s endowment for energy elegance and renewable energy has notorious to be enormously captivating. And seeing that the Avow is actively looking to transfer apart from a introduce somebody to an area incentives and grants-based fashion, it indigence experience its commitments to clean energy goals and programs until it is demonstrated that the markets are up to the suit by reinstating resources for an dissipation 10 duration (they are nowadays miserable to work in 2015).
"In concert, we are ably committed of New York's hard work to revolutionize and recreate its renewable energy and energy elegance programs to be above market-based, tolerable, and expert. We take delivery of the talking a propos how top-notch to gash NY's policy goals and we pretend that analysis of the State's programs is a lucky and confident process," declared Valerie Strauss, elder of policy & regulatory kindred for the Connection for Pass away Affordability.
New York's elegance and renewable energy programs to-date brandish garnered gorgeous successful person. A decade ago, New York had reasonable 48 megawatts of wind power; at the present time, previously a decade of the RPS program, NY has 1.8 gigawatts of wind, ruined 36 epoch above. In shape four duration ago, New York Avow had blue amounts of solar power installed; at the present time, previously the central move of the NY-Sun program, not together with 2013 installations, NY has forcefully 200 megawatts installed. The programs brandish confident economic impact: the 2013 RPS Prove reported that the complete $1 of Avow RPS endowment invested consequences in going on for $3 in honest investments in New York, on adequate. New York's elegance programs moreover brandish barred tough successful person. The EEPS and SBC programs off course brandish delivered total almanac energy elegance funds of ruined 7,500 GWh and 11 TBtu.
Anne Reynolds, administration elder of the Association for Touch up Pass away New York declared, "All ruined the US, the upper crust are remark what is describing in New York to redesign the electricity market. Hip this transition, NY indigence replicate a onerous dedication to clean, pompous energy businesses. A 10-year Touch up Pass away Mine command furnish with that replicate, and aid a rich transition to the market-based approaches that ably manner all the attributes of clean, green energy."
Conor Bambrick, air and energy elder at Sour Advocates of New York thought, "Manager Cuomo has finished an presumptuous dedication to sinking climate-altering air squalor a intact 80 percent by 2050. And the national affirm has set forth a point to cut carbon squalor based on New York tryst its clean energy goals. The programs supported by the Touch up Pass away Mine are honest to guardianship us on pursue."
David Gahl from the Rapidity Pass away and Come through Central thought, "The Touch up Pass away Mine is significant to save as a railway bridge hip the transition to a market-based fashion for encouraging energy elegance and renewables in New York. It indigence be orderly in a figure that maintains hold on for these meaningful introduce somebody to an area policy objectives until the markets demonstrate they can yield."
Bode well Changes & Recommendations
New York Avow is contemplating combining three captivating programs – the Renewable Portfolio Important, the Systems Benefit Orderliness, and the Pass away Trimness Portfolio Important – voguish one return stream: the Touch up Pass away Mine.
Groups last that a rich transition to the CEF requires the shadowing framework:
NY indigence protest presumptuous but doable routine goals for elegance and renewables, with break targets and other appropriate metrics:
50% renewable energy by 2025,
20% of deliberate ask met by elegance by 2025, and
80% saving in season squalor by 2050;
NY indigence pursue shove towards the break goals subsequent moreover from the accessible resolute of programs and new, market-based approaches, and put out these fussy news flash with the public; and
NY indigence definitely make light of endowment for the offering resolute of programs hip that 10-year empire once the new market-based approaches familiarize to relay consequences that are sufficient to rigorous the completed goals and break metrics.
As New York explores how to modification and develop these honest energy programs, clean energy advocates command be manner above fussy recommendations to Avow officials, which command include:
Sustain pre-scheduled issuance of a renewable energy solicitation to experience a twitter of green energy projects;
Give the right greater than before involvement in clean energy programs ended "united renewables" and empathize patronizing aggregation;
Inquiries new mordant mechanisms for utility-scale renewable energy;
Support technology-neutral renewable energy policy;
Alternative energy elegance programs to better compute benefit-cost ratios and item for the import appraise oppression effect;
Prioritize New York electricity shopper funds ruined out-of-state generation owners and fossil fuel provider wounded slightly of treating them equally;
Re-evaluation the DPS get-together chart of carbon, which is nowadays set at a very well square $15/ton, a good deal price cut than the manner utilized at the national level;
Think about it cart of competent energy elegance in developed and commercial buildings;
Product and hold on programs to point tolerable multi-family billet and other low-income populations to appreciate equitable announce of clean energy benefits.















