Clean Power Investing
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Economics and Politics
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A DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY
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The talks between Boulder and Xcel are keyed by the fact that in November 2011. That's when the city's voters agreed to allow the City Council to issue bonds to purchase Xcel’s local system if certain criteria related to rates, reliability, bonding revenue, more renewable energy and goals for lowering greenhouse gas emissions can be met.
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Heartland Institute and ALEC are Risking Relevance
The renewed push by those think tanks averse to portfolio standards is coming when policymakers at all levels are trying to meet in the middle. And while the Heartland Institute and ALEC believe in their cause, they may end up undermining their arguments and reducing their relevance at a time when the Obama administration holds most of the cards.
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The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) has more than doubled electric generation capacity from its Solar Incentive Program since employing a streamlined program management solution by Black & Veatch and Clean Power Research one year ago.
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The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) has more than doubled electric generation capacity from its Solar Incentive Program since employing a streamlined program management solution by Black & Veatch and Clean Power Research one year ago.
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If common ground exists between the Obama and Romney campaigns, it is in the area of energy efficiency. But even such a non-contentious issue must still get parsed out and removed from the back burner where it has long been sitting.
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Oregon's Renewable Energy Standard (RES) is one of the most thoughtful policies to promote clean energy in the country, a working model for other states to consider. In passing the RES in 2007, Oregon legislators created an effective mechanism to drive new markets, job creation and clean energy business investments
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Conservative thinkers are playing host to a liberal idea: the enactment of carbon taxes. The issue is making news right before the national elections in the fall, and it could gain increasing momentum.
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ScottMadden, Inc., one of North America's leading energy consulting firms, recently released The Energy Industry Update.
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In its upcoming Energy Industry Update (EIU), ScottMadden, Inc., a leading general management consulting firm, will examine pivotal issues, including solar and wind industry developments.
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A company that has spent a quarter century developing natural gas generation has closed financing for its first solar venture. Independent energy company Tenaska has closed financing for Imperial Solar Energy Center South, a utility-scale photovoltaic solar generating plant in southern California.
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The ongoing global fiscal situation may require national governments in Greece, Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Portugal and even Poland to reduce national expenditures. Some of these governments may face the prospect of wary investors declining to buy their government bonds.
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GenerationHub.com, Energy Central's new online intelligence service for the electric power generation industry, is now live.
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Renewable energy capacity will more than triple, while doubling its overall percentage of the U.S. energy mix, by 2036. In addition, natural gas could overtake coal as the primary fuel for U.S. power generation.
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Duke-Progress may be a trend
The longer term prognosis suggests that power companies will continue to merge in an effort to cope with greater environmental costs. State regulators, which have been skeptical of bigger-is-better, may change their tune given that larger enterprises would be better positioned to buy clean generation and spread the cost of compliance.
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While the call for reduced dependence on coal-fired power plants and nuclear reactors to fuel the U.S. electricity grid is not a new concept, it is one that continues to grow louder. Renewable energy is the alternative generation source preferred by many, but non-hydro renewables made up less than five percent of the fuel mix in 2010, despite net generation from renewable sources more than doubling over the last decade.
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Kyoto’s heir apparent is just around the corner. But the next round of global climate talks is unlikely to result in mandatory carbon reductions.
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Is EPA creating or destorying jobs?
The national discourse centers on a hodgepodge of environmental regulations and their effects on human health and the economy. The debate will carry forward and help determine next year’s presidential race.
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The firm and seemingly irrevocable conclusion of Professor Ferdinand Banks in his article "A New Lecture on Electric Deregulatory Failure" Energy Pulse October 24 2007 and repeated in his latest article "A Short but Disobliging Version of my Recent Lecture on Electric Deregulation", has placed a wet blanket on my research efforts towards creation of a realistic and sustainable power capacity in energy deficient third world countries.
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