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South Dakota PUC Issues New Interconnection Rules
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New rules by the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) that make it easier for small electricity generators such as wind turbines and solar panels to connect to the electric grid were approved by the Legislative Rules Review Committee. The rules will be effective at the end of this month. The new rules streamline the interconnection process for small generators [read more]
Canada Moving Forward With Offset System For GHG
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Canada's Environment Minister Jim Prentice has announced that the government is moving forward with its Offset System for Greenhouse Gases (GHG). "This system is one of several steps we are taking as we finalize our domestic regulatory framework for greenhouse gas emissions, and marks a major milestone as we move towards establishing a carbon market in Canada," says Prentice. The [read more]
Capital Safety Introduces New Safety Lifeline
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DBI-SALA, a subsidiary of Red Wing, Minn.-based Capital Safety, has developed a self-retracting lifeline (SRL) called the Ultra-Lok RSQ SRL with Rescue. The Ultra-Lok RSQ offers dual-mode operation that provides fall arrest and rescue/descent in one product. The Ultra-Lok RSQ SRL with Rescue allows the worker to select either the traditional fall-arrest mode or a rescue/descent mode. If a [read more]
AREVA, PJM Join To Find Smart-Grid Solutions
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AREVA's Transmission and Distribution (T&D) and PJM Interconnection have formed a strategic alliance to better address the challenges related to smarter transmission grids in the northeastern U.S. PJM and AREVA T&D will work on improving system resiliency and efficiency in the new paradigm of smarter grids. Their joint efforts will focus on enriching AREVA T&D's e-terra applications suite with smarter [read more]

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Costa Del Mar Purchases Wind Power
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Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Costa Del Mar sunglasses has partnered with Renewable Choice Energy to offset 100% of the electricity use at its headquarters with the purchase of 422,896 kWh of renewable energy certificates (RECs) from U.S. wind farms. The company also purchased carbon offsets to balance the carbon emissions associated with all of its employees' business travel, including air [read more]
Western Wind Receives Zoning Approval For Wind Project
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Vancouver, British Columbia-based Western Wind Energy has received unanimous consent from the Kern County board of supervisors for the zoning approval of its 120 MW Windstar wind energy project in Tehachapi, Calif. Western Wind has a 20-year power purchase agreement to supply Southern California Edison with approximately 400 million kWh of energy annually. The contract is worth more than C$700 [read more]
EnerNOC Signs DR Agreement With Green Mountain Power
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Boston-based EnerNOC Inc., a developer and provider of clean energy solutions, has signed a partnership agreement with Green Mountain Power, an electric utility that transmits, distributes and sells electricity in Vermont. Under the terms of the partnership, customers currently enrolled in Green Mountain Power's demand response (DR) program will be rolled into EnerNOC's DR network. In addition, Green Mountain Power [read more]
Dickerman Joins KEMA As Principal Consultant
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Larry Dickerman has joined Burlington, Mass.-based KEMA Inc., a global provider of business and technical consulting for the energy and utility industry. Dickerman is joining KEMA's transmission and distribution (T&D) practice as a principal consultant, and is expected to further the firm's planning and engineering strengths, as well as contribute to KEMA's existing leadership in smart-grid integration services and solutions. [read more]

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NextGen Research Sees A Surge In Global Wind Power Generating Capacity
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A new market study by Oyster Bay, N.Y.-based NextGen Research, "Global Wind Power Market: The Outlook for Renewable Energy Generation by Wind Turbines, Wind Farms," forecasts that global wind-based electrical generation capacity, which totaled just under 121 GW in 2008, will reach 318.5 GW by 2013. Spurring this growth will be a boom in China's renewable energy industry; government [read more]
ACEEE Analysis: Climate Change Bill Would Save Americans Money
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The federal energy-efficiency provisions included in H.R.2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, could save consumers approximately $750 per household by 2020 and $3,900 per household by 2030, according to a preliminary analysis by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). The energy-efficiency provisions in the bill would reduce the transitional costs of capping carbon pollution. Savings [read more]
Ontario Proposes New Rules For Green Energy Projects
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The government of Ontario is seeking the public's input on approval requirements for renewable energy projects, including setbacks for wind, solar, hydro, biogas and biomass projects, which build on and strengthen the environmental and health protection components of current regulatory requirements. Proposed approval requirements for renewable energy projects include the following: - Wind turbines would not be permitted less than [read more]
Duke Energy Partners With Cisco For Smart-Grid Development
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Duke Energy has announced a three-year partnership with Cisco Systems Inc., a network communications company, to fast-track development of Duke Energy's smart grid. Cisco, working closely with Duke Energy, will develop a refined, end-to-end, smart-grid communications architecture. The newly created architecture will be based on Internet protocol-based open standards - an approach that permits easy accommodation of new and emerging [read more]
ATC Energizes New High-Voltage Line In Wisconsin
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Completing the construction ahead of schedule, American Transmission Co. (ATC) recently placed into service 75 miles of a 345 kV power line between the Werner West Substation near New London to the Gardner Park Substation adjacent to the Weston Power Plant in Wisconsin. Construction work is continuing in Shawano County between the Highway 22 and White Clay substations in [read more]
Poll: Transmission Constraints Are Greatest Barrier To Development
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For the second year in a row, transmission/interconnection constraints were identified as the greatest barrier to wind energy development, according to a poll conducted by NRG Systems at the American Wind Energy Association's WINDPOWER 2009 conference last month. Forty-nine percent of respondents cited transmission or interconnection issues as the single greatest barrier to wind development in the U.S. This year, [read more]
Tower Tech Holds Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony At Texas Facility
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Naperville, Ill.-based Broadwind Energy Inc., a provider of components, logistics and services to the wind power market, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the newly constructed Abilene, Texas, tower manufacturing facility of its subsidiary, Tower Tech Systems Inc. The event commemorated the beginning of serial production of wind towers at the plant and included an initial run of towers for customers [read more]
PECO To Replace Its Electric Transmission Operating System
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Philadelphia-based PECO, an electric and natural-gas utility subsidiary of Exelon Corp., has selected GE Energy to provide a new energy management system (EMS) to monitor and control the regional electric transmission system. GE's XA/21TM EMS was selected after an extensive competitive review process involving several suppliers. The new multimillion-dollar EMS will be installed and tested by next spring and will [read more]

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