September 2010 Small Wind Newsletter
Archive for August, 2010
Arizona ACC Continues to Debate FIT Options
Friday, August 27th, 2010Arizona utility regulators are designing rules that would require power companies to buy electricity from solar developers at prearranged prices. The “feed-in tariff” aims to guarantee profits for solar developers, while encouraging more solar-power generation in Arizona. Advocates of the tariff say it is needed because solar-power developers need to be fairly certain that they ... Read More
Regional Wind Conferences Focus on Community and Small Wind
Friday, August 27th, 2010Windustry continues a series of two-day regional conferences on Community Wind and Small Wind. The series, entitled Community Wind Across America, kicked off in October with the first regional conference in Denver, Colorado. The conferences feature a two-track program, covering both Community Wind and Small Wind. Each track will include practical “how to” information, overviews ... Read More
California issues Feed-in Tariff proposal
Friday, August 27th, 2010California state regulators have spent the last few years trying to revise a program that was meant to boost small-scale renewable energy generation but wasn’t popular because it wasn’t lucrative enough to attract many takers. Now, a new proposal has emerged that would up the project sizes allowed and rely on auctions to pick winners ... Read More
Power for the People: AWEA’s Small and Community Wind Conference December 7-9, 2010
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010The AWEA Small and Community Wind Conference & Exhibition will unite wind industry leaders with economic development groups, municipalities, and consumers eager to play a bigger role in the use and expansion of wind energy and its economic potential. The conference is designed to foster networking and encourage strategic thinking for the use of small ... Read More
KANSAS: Riley County Receives $3 Million DOE Grant for ‘Resourceful Kansas’
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Program Will Harness Economic Stimulus Benefits to Strengthen Communities and Businesses U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Riley County, Kansas, in partnership with GBA Architects and Engineers, GBA Builders, and Kansas State University, a three-year, $3 million grant. The grant will be used to implement “Resourceful Kansas,” a program designed to engage communities throughout the ... Read More
State & Stakeholder Newsletter, August 25, 2010
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Volume #9, Issue #17 Editor: Jane Pulaski The IREC State & Stakeholder Newsletter is a foremost resource for current information on green workforce training, credentialing programs, state activities and best practices on renewable energy and energy efficiency. This free newsletter is distributed semi-monthly to email subscribers and published on IREC’s website. If ... Read More
Solar Salt Lake: Large PV Installations in the Queue
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Salt Lake City: home of the 2002 Winter Olympics, Rowland-Hall St. Mark’s School, the U of U, a highly evolved food culture, and if Utah Clean Energy (UCE) has anything to do with it, Utah will be home to some significant solar installations. On a gorgeous August morning, I met Sara Baldwin, Senior Policy and ... Read More
Skystream Dealer Training receives IREC Accreditation
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010Southwest Windpower announced in early August that it is the first distributed wind manufacturer to receive training accreditation from the Interstate Renewable Energy Council, Inc. (IREC). IREC has implemented the Institute for Sustainable Power Quality (ISPQ) framework of standards and metrics to provide a means to compare content, quality, and resources across a broad range ... Read More
WISCONSIN: Village Installs Two Wind Turbines at Wastewater Plant
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010With the start-up of two 100-kilowatt (kW) wind turbines, the Village of Cascade became the first Wisconsin community to power its municipal wastewater treatment plant with 100 percent locally produced wind energy. The impetus behind Cascade’s embrace of wind power was the avoided utility expenditures associated with operating a wastewater treatment plant. In the first ... Read More
