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The U.S. Energy Bill signed at the end of 2007 increased the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) to 36 billion gallons by 2022. But with the rising cost of consumer goods, this mandate has come under fire recently as the primary reason land is being used to grow crops for fuel instead of for food production.
Camelina, an oilseed crop in the same family as mustard, offers a solution for reaching this biodiesel production goal by providing a sustainable, low-input biofuel feedstock option that does ... [more]
The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) recently gave initial approval for the construction of approximately $5 billion in transmission facilities to bring wind energy from West Texas to the central part of the state to provide more renewable energy. Environmentalists and renewable energy supporters hailed the decision as one of the most significant orders in the nation. With the transmission lines in place, thousands more wind turbines can be built, more than doubling the state’s renewabl... [more]
EI Solutions has announced their partnership with The North Face ®, the supplier of outdoor apparel, equipment and footwear, to design, build and install a 1MW solar electricity system at its West Coast distribution center located in Visalia, Calif. Scheduled to be completed by the end of this year, the system will be financed, owned and operated by San Francisco-based Recurrent Energy. 100% of the electricity will be sold to The North Face under a Power Purchase Agreement.
EI Solutions’ desi... [more]
The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and Euromoney Energy Events (EEE) will host this year’s 5th annual Renewable Energy Finance Forum on June 17-19th at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
REFF-Wall Street is the largest finance forum in the renewable energy sector. Attendance has grown significantly, and over 600 executives are expected to gather at this year’s event. Attendees include senior financial leaders in the US renewable energy industry, as well as key internat... [more]
Delmarva Power and Synergics Wind Energy have signed long-term contracts under which Delmarva would purchase up to 100 megawatts of land-based wind power to help meet its renewable energy goals in Delaware.
The contracts provide Delmarva Power’s customers with wind energy and renewable energy credits (RECs) at prices lower than those offered under Bluewater Wind’s offshore proposal.
“These contracts demonstrate that, with land-based wind power, we can obtain clean, renewable energy for our... [more]
Kyocera Solar, Inc. and East Los Angeles College (ELAC) have celebrated the inauguration of a 1.2 megawatt (MW) solar electric generating system at ELAC’s Monterey Park campus.
As part of the Renewable Energy Plan of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), the project represents a major achievement toward the goal of making all nine LACCD colleges more energy independent.
The complete solar electric generating system, designed and built by Chevron Energy Solutions, consists of... [more]
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