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Just the Tip of the Bloomberg Mayor has big clean-energy goals for NYC		20 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 10:54 AM on 20 Aug 2008 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg touted clean energy Tuesday at, aptly, the National Clean Energy Summit. He said his city has issued a formal request to companies for ideas on how to source electricity from the wind, sun, and waves. "Perhaps companies will want to put wind farms atop our bridges and skyscrapers, or use the enormous potential of powerful offshore winds miles out in ...
Topics: business, energy, local politics, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, wave and tidal power, wind power (all these topics)

Splitting Airs N.Y. wind rush brings corruption complaints, divides rural communities		18 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 8:28 AM on 18 Aug 2008 Lured by generous state subsidies, the wind industry is having its day in the sun breeze in upstate New York. But the scramble for turbine-friendly land has led to complaints of corruption and caused schisms in rural communities. At least two wind companies are being investigated for shady dealings, and evidence of possible improper influence or conflicts of interest have emerg ...
Topics: business, energy, New York, news, placemaking, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

The solar billionaires' club First recorded solar billionaire in China, U.S. billionaires persue wind	Joseph Romm	07 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- Hunter Lovins is one of the country's premier prophets of the prosperity we can achieve if we move quickly to establish a post-carbon economy. Vast new markets and investment opportunities are opening worldwide for clean technologies. 'Those who recognize this opportunity will be the first to the future and the billionaires of tomorrow ...
Topics: business, energy, investing, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

T. Boone's new ad	David Roberts	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Lots of wind, no mention of natural gas:
Topics: advertising, business, energy, renewable energy, video, wind power (all these topics)

When 'picking energy winners,' don't ignore past investment Marketplace commentary gives a misleading picture of government's role in energy use	Liz Borkowski	01 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In a commentary on Thursday's Marketplace, the Cato Institute's Will Wilkinson critiqued T. Boone Pickens' new energy plan. In doing so, he painted a misleading picture of the government's role in our energy usage. Pickens wants wind energy to replace natural gas in electricity generation, and use the freed-up natural gas to fuel vehicles so we can use less foreign oil. There are problems with this energy plan, but Wilkerson is most concerned that the government ...
Topics: electricity grid, mainstream media, wind power, renewable energy, energy, oil (all these topics)

Houston, we have a solution? Four encouraging signs from Big Oil's backyard	Josh Dorner	28 Jul 2008	Gristmill
After Nerdi Gras (Netroots Nation), I took a couple days off to dry-out and trotted over to Houston to visit my parents. It came as no surprise that Houston is booming due to the skyrocketing price of oil. But I also learned a few surprising things that gave me hope that brighter days are ahead for the rest of us well. Because if Houston can get it right, who can't? 1. 100 percent wind power is now cheaper than dirty electricity in Texas. If folks didn't know ...
Topics: electricity, energy, renewable energy, Texas, video, wind power (all these topics)

Turbine of the Times Wind power in China is 'huge, huge, huge'		25 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 4:44 PM on 25 Jul 2008 China, known for its environmental struggles, is looking to have a success story in wind power. "China's wind energy market is unrecognizable from two years ago," says Steve Sawyer of the Global Wind Energy Council. "It is huge, huge, huge. But it is not realized yet in the outside world." China's wind generation has increased by more than 100 percent per year since 2005, and the ...
Topics: China, energy, news, progress, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

You say that like it's a bad thing Minnesota utility plans wind farm over coal reserves	JMG	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Story at Wind Watch: A Minnesota utility said it's planning its own mega wind farm in Oliver County, meaning Oliver and Morton counties could some day be home to as many as 1,000 new wind turbines across the hilltops.At the same time the turbines are capturing mile after mile of wind, they could cover up substantial coal reserves along that southern stretch of Coal Country ...
Topics: coal, energy, Minnesota, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Scenarios for a low carbon, no-nuke future Renewables and efficiency would provide more GDP than fossil fuels	Gar Lipow	14 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The attached Excel spreadsheet takes specific technologies, the known cost of implementing them, and various scenarios for responses to such implementation and technical improvements (including no technical improvement!) and calculates costs and benefits. This is intended to be an open source model. The comment section will be used to revise the spreadsheet with links to the old versions added to the bottom of this post as revisions are made (for the sake of transparency.) ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, renewable energy, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

Pickens Choose Texas oilman unveils Pickens Plan to avert U.S. energy crisis		08 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 12:48 PM on 08 Jul 2008 T. Boone Pickens. Photo: University of Texas America has a problem, and T. Boone Pickens has a solution. "U.S. dependency on foreign oil has reached an economic crisis point," says the infamous Texas oilman, who in response has unveiled The Pickens Plan. The 80-year-old billionaire proposes that private investors fund the construction of thousands of wind turbines from Texas n ...
Topics: energy, innovation, natural gas, news, renewable energy, United States, wind power (all these topics)

Delawind? Delaware to have offshore wind farm in 2012	Joseph Romm	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- On Tuesday, the utility Delmarva announced a 25-year contract with Bluewater Wind Delaware, a subsidiary of the Babcock & Brown, to purchase 200 megawatts of power from a wind farm that would be constructed 11.5 miles in the Atlantic off Delaware's Rehoboth Beach. First power is expected in 2012. The contract locks in the price Delmarva will pay per kilowatt-hour. Bluewater has ...
Topics: Delaware, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Renewable Vigor Britain lays out plans for renewable-energy 'revolution'		26 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 4:45 PM on 26 Jun 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown set out goals Thursday to increase renewable-energy use in Britain tenfold by 2020. Brown's vision for a "green revolution" is heavily reliant on wind power, with plans for 7,000 new turbines -- 4,000 onshore and 3,000 offshore. The North Sea could turn "into the equivalent for wind power of what the Gulf of Arabia is for the oil industry,& ...
Topics: energy, news, renewable energy, United Kingdom, wind power (all these topics)

Sustainable economy 101 Lessons from Europe and Japan	Jon Rynn	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The following article appeared in Foreign Policy in Focus, and was reposted at commondreams.org. When New York City wanted to make the biggest purchase of subway cars in U.S. history in the late 1990s -- more than $3 billion worth -- the only companies that were able to bid on the contract were foreign. The same problem applies to high-speed rail today: Only European or Japanese companies can build any of the proposed rail networks in the United States. The U.S. has als ...
Topics: business, economy, energy, greenish companies, renewable energy, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

Cool idea of the day	David Roberts	12 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Floating wind turbines that can be placed farther out at sea (and in heavier wind) than typical anchored offshore turbines. Next: high-altitude wind!
Topics: energy, innovation, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Somebody forgot to tell Rockport that coal is cheap	David Roberts	26 May 2008	Gristmill
How much would your town pay to stabilize the electric bills of every home and business in it for the next 25 years?
Topics: energy, energy at home, Missouri, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

The renewable energy beneath our wings Bush DOE says wind can be 20 percent of U.S. power by 2030 -- with no breakthroughs	Joseph Romm	13 May 2008	Gristmill
The Bush administration has signed off on a stunning new report [PDF], '20 Percent Wind Energy by 2030: Increasing Wind Energy's Contribution to U.S. Electricity Supply.' I am working on a big wind article for midweek, but here are the key conclusions of what is easily the most comprehensive and credible report released on wind power in a decade: Annual installations need to increase by only a factor of three from current levels by 2018. Costs of integrating intermitt ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Puff Piece U.S. could get 20 percent of energy from wind by 2030, says DOE		13 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:52 AM on 13 May 2008 Wind power could meet 20 percent of U.S. energy demand by 2030, according to Energy Department calculations, even though currents currently provide a mere 1 percent of U.S. electricity. Making the leap would be "ambitious" but "feasible," says the report: it wouldn't require technological breakthroughs, but would necessitate the construction of 75,000 new and improved ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, news, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Life after coal We can't wait for new nukes, so what do we do now?	Joseph Romm	09 May 2008	Gristmill
Suppose the leaders of this country were wise enough to put a moratorium on traditional coal (the most urgent climate policy needed, as discussed here)? How will we meet our steadily growing demand for carbon-free power over the next decade? And to get on the 450 ppm path, we don't just need to stop U.S. emissions from rising -- we should return to 1990 levels (or lower) by 2020. Nuclear Nuclear is an obvious possibility, beloved of conservative Francophiles like McC ...
Topics: coal, energy, energy efficiency, nuclear power, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Kennedy clan vs. clean power Your last chance to be heard about Cape Wind	Charles Komanoff	19 Apr 2008	Gristmill
A friend once described Nantucket Sound as a body of water surrounded on three sides by money. The outcome of the six-year-long effort to use a small part of that water to house a 130-turbine, 468-megawatt wind farm -- still the largest proposed renewable-energy project in the eastern U.S. -- will help determine whether we, as a nation, are serious about confronting the climate crisis.The federal agency in charge of the formal review of the Cape Wind project, the Mi ...
Topics: energy, grassroots activism, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Don't look now, but clean tech is contributing to climate progress New report on massive growth of renewables last year	Joseph Romm	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Climate Progress is the title of my blog posts' main home, as much as the 'progress' part strains credulity at times. I only see two major quantitative areas of sustained progress: clean energy deployment (especially in Europe) and private sector clean-tech funding. Those folk at Clean Edge, who wrote the best 2007 book on clean tech, The Clean Tech Revolution, have quantified these gains -- and made predictions about the future -- in a new report you can read here. S ...
Topics: biofuels, business, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Why FutureGen had to die The blind alley of more coal	John McGrath	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Thomas Homer-Dixon, whose book I adore, has written an op-ed in The Globe and Mail arguing in favor of large government investments in carbon capture and sequestration technology. His advocacy of CCS has long confused me -- my reading of his book suggested (to me, anyway) that large-scale CCS was precisely the kind of technology we should avoid like the plague. To recap: Homer-Dixon builds on the work of Joseph Tainter, who argues that societies respond to pressures ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, coal, energy, fossil fuels, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Should we laugh or cry? Florida Power & Light on wind power	Sean Casten	13 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Florida Power & Light is fairly notorious as a utility that embraces competition so long as it doesn't happen in their service territory. On the regulatory side, they have worked pretty hard to make sure that no one can build power in their state except themselves. But on the unregulated side, their sister company FPL Energy has been one of the leading installers of wind turbines. (Not coincidentally, you will find that they tend not to do projects anywhere near F ...
Topics: energy, Florida, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Blow by Blow Company creates global map of wind patterns		04 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 04 Mar 2008 Any way the wind blows, weather-consulting service 3Tier wants to map it. The company has created a global map of weather patterns that's available free on the internet, allowing anyone to check whether there's strong enough air movement -- and transmission capacity -- to power property in a certain area. 3Tier plans to do a similar project to show the potential of solar energy, to keep the renewable-energ ...
Topics: business, energy, greenish companies, innovation, news, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

When the wind blows Wind power gets a bad rap after the Texas blackouts	Sir Oolius	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The Competitive Enterprise Institute's Iain Murray warns of the dangers of renewables: While we're on the subject of renewables: here's further proof that wind power is no panacaea for the nation's looming electricity crisis. The wind dropped in Texas, and caused blackouts. Indeed, an unexpected demand spike not met by coal-fired power plants wind power caused irreparable harm by unfairly favoring the unwashed masses over 'large industrial customers who are paid to ...
Topics: electricity grid, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Wildcatting the wind in Texas Conventional energy vs. renewable energy	Joseph Romm	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- As all eyes turn toward Texas this week in advance of the Democratic primary, we will see a state that is beginning its transition to a new energy economy. Texas is grappling with a shift the entire nation faces -- and as usual, it's doing it on a big scale. When it comes to energy and to carbon emissions, Texas is a place of super ...
Topics: coal, energy, nuclear power, oil, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

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