Plunging Wind Into the Grid
The California ISO's intermittent resource program addresses a key market barrier to wind power: how to schedule wind energy in forward markets.
Renewable Energy
Federal Interconnection Standards: Putting DG in a Box
Is FERC overstepping its jurisdiction and attempting to force a standard into a one-size-fits-all category?
Technology Corridor
Will state budget shortfalls threaten tax credits and subsidies?
Green Generation Feels the Squeeze
Large-Scale Green Power: An Impossible Dream?
Chasing after windmills and photovoltaics could well be the stuff of fiction.
Chasing after windmills and photovoltaics could well be the stuff of fiction.
Wind and solar cells (photovoltaics or PVs) are two renewable energy technologies that many hope will eventually provide the United States with massive amounts of clean, sustainable electric power for the indefinite future. Indeed, it is often suggested or implied that the United States can look to a future where most, if not all electric power can be provided by wind and photovoltaics [1, 2].
Off Peak
The utility teaches school kids about solar power.
AEP Spreads the Sunshine
The utility teaches school kids about solar power.
A merican Electric Power (AEP) has launched an innovative program that uses solar power to teach school children about renewable energy while-hopefully-getting them interested in math and science. The "Learning from Light!" program was started in 1999 by AEP, and now boasts membership of its 100th school.
It's a hands-on project for the kids.
The Production Tax Credit: Getting More Credit Than It's Due?
State government may have done more for wind power than PTC ever did.
There are many other factors stimulating growth in U.S. wind power development that are more important than the PTC.
Wind Power, Poised for Take Off?
A survey of projects and economics.
An industry advocate touts the recent rise of projects in the pipeline and forsees remarkable growth in wind farms over the next twenty years — more, perhaps, than others would concede.
Distributed Generation: Doomed by Deployment Details?
The industry makes strides, but messy issues like air quality and building codes could be showstoppers.
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Mergers & Acquisitions
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