The Hawaii Build & Buy Green Conference and Expo, held May 8-9 in Honolulu, attracted about 400 people who attended sessions and browsed an expo featuring exhibits from 49 companies. The State of Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT) cosponsored the conference, and also supported registration fees for 69 personnel from various ... Read More
Archive for May, 2007
Anaheim Public Utilities Launches New Program to Improve Home’s Overall Performance
Monday, May 21st, 2007Anaheim Public Utilities has launched a program, called the Home Investment Package (HIP), a first of its kind to be implemented by a municipal utility in California, that could result in homeowners receiving more that $15,000 in incentives for their participation. HIP will provide Anaheim‚ s residential homeowners the opportunity to: lower utility bills and ... Read More
SEPA Releases Online Tool to Facilitate Utility Exchange of Solar Experiences & Lessons Learned
Monday, May 21st, 2007The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) announced that it has released an online Utility Peer Match tool. The tool is available at no cost to all investor owned, municipal, and rural electric cooperative utilities interested in solar electric power. Utility Peer Match is a unique service that connects utility employees with ‚ solar savvy‚ peers ... Read More
Wisconsin Public Power Debuts 100+ MPG Plug-in Hybrid
Monday, May 21st, 2007Drivers tired of paying gas prices hovering over $3 per gallon are likely to be interested in a new vehicle making its way onto local roads. Sporting a personalized license plate reading ‚ GAS SIPR‚ and wrapped in eye-catching graphics featuring clean skies and organic images, the look of Wisconsin Public Power Inc.‚ s new ... Read More
KidWind Teacher Training Continues to Grow
Friday, May 18th, 2007Summer wind workshops for teachers will kick off June 3 at WindPower 2007 in Los Angeles. This full day teacher workshop, held in conjunction with theNational Energy Education and Development (NEED) Project and AWEA, will be held Sunday with teachers attending the opening reception of wind conference. This is the first of 10 teacher training ... Read More
NORTH CAROLINA – First Wind Energy Project in Eastern NC
Friday, May 18th, 2007After over a year since its summer 2005 installation, the Coquina Beach wind turbine was dedicated as a part of NC GreenPower on Friday, April 20, 2007. It is the first wind power project in eastern North Carolina. The project was a partnership between the NC Solar Center at NC State University, the Rochester Institute ... Read More
COLORADO – Wind Grants for Schools Program
Friday, May 18th, 2007The Colorado legislature approved H.B. 1087 and created the Wind Grants for Schools Program, which provides Colorado schools or community colleges with up to $5,000 for wind projects. The school or community college must be work with NREL and Wind Powering America on the project and the total program budget must be at least $50,000. ... Read More
NREL Releases Updated US Solar Radiation Database
Thursday, May 17th, 2007NREL and collaborators have released the updated 1991-2005 National Solar Radiation Database containing solar and meteorological data for 1,454 sites in the United States and featuring a 1998-2005 satellite-derived data set of 10-km resolution hourly solar data for most of the U.S. Complete information is available in the NSRDB User‚ s Manual (pdf-14 MB). For ... Read More
DOE Announces Solar America Showcases; Three Proposals Selected for TA
Thursday, May 17th, 2007The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced its selections for the first round of Solar America Showcases (SAS). The Department selected three proposals for technical assistance during FY 2007: Forest City Military Communities, ‚ Residential Hybrid Solar Electric & Thermal Systems in Hawaii.‚ DOE will help determine the feasibility of incorporating hybrid solar-thermal electric systems ... Read More
Small Wind at WINDPOWER 2007
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007Small wind issues will be addressed at the WINDPOWER 2007 Conference, June 3-6, 2007 in Los Angeles. Included is a small wind pavilion at the exhibition, a special workshop, conference sessions and posters, and committee meetings. SMALL WIND PAVILION AT EXHIBITION Back by popular demand for the third year, the Small Wind Pavilion will be ... Read More
