Pacific Gas and Electric Co. signed a long-term agreement to purchase wind energy from the Arlington Wind Power Project LLC, a subsidiary of Horizon Wind Energy LLC. Horizon will deliver 240 gigawatt hours of renewable wind energy annually to PG&E customers in northern and central California.
The Rattlesnake Road Wind Power Project is currently under construction [...]
Duke Energy Corp. will buy privately held Catamount Energy Corp. for $240 million, plus assumed debt, to bolster its wind energy generation capability.
Duke bought the Rutland, Vt.-based renewable energy company from private-equity firm Diamond Castle Holdings LLC.
Catamount currently operates facilities providing 300 megawatts of renewable energy.
In May 2007, Duke bought Austin, Texas-based Tierra Energy, which [...]
A new report from Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) says the cost of building a new power plant has more than doubled since 2000.
Wind energy showed the biggest rise in costs — 6 percent since the third quarter of 2007 and 108 percent since 2000 — as rising demand for wind turbines boosted equipment costs [...]
The New Zealand Wind Energy Association said Contact Energy’s announcement that it intends to build a wind farm in the Waikato will help the Government reach its goal of 90% renewable electricity without building new gas-fired power plants. The farm is expected to generate up to 650 MW of electricity for Waikato and Auckland consumers.
Wind [...]
Texas, as everyone knows, does everything big. Its giant oil and gas fields dominate America’s energy patch. It is now the nation’s largest wind power producer, with more than 2,000 turbines gathering some of the country’s strongest currents. It gets the booby prize for being the biggest producer of greenhouse gases.
And now Texas faces [...]
HOUSTON – Texas, as everyone knows, does everything big. Its giant oil and gas fields dominate America’s energy patch. It is now the nation’s largest wind producer, with more than 2,000 turbines gathering some of the country’s strongest currents. It gets the booby prize for being the biggest producer of greenhouse gases.
And now [...]
Several Texas energy companies offered Thursday to build a string of wind, gas and coal-fired power plants and transmission lines across the Panhandle that could lessen the state’s future dependence on coal while supplying enough electricity for more than a million Texas homes.
More than 15 proposals were filed with the Public Utilities Commission to [...]
Xcel Energy, which is planning a wind power marketing initiative in North Dakota, wants to charge too much for the renewable electricity, wind energy development supporters say. State regulators are wondering whether any premium is justified.
Xcel’s Windsource program would offer North Dakota customers 100 kilowatt-hour blocks of wind energy for about $3, if [...]
Austin Energy is considering using so-called clean coal to meet the city’s future power needs. The utility’s plans to secure long-term land and water rights on property in Matagorda County, in partnership with San Antonio’s public utility, were publicized prematurely by an Austin American-Statesman article on Jan. 20. Now, Austin Energy says it must accelerate [...]
Pomeroy announces proposal to extend wind energy tax credit WEST Fargo, N.D. (AP) Congressman Earl Pomeroy says he’s introducing legislation to extend the production tax credit for wind and other renewable energy projects until 2014.
Pomeroy says the wind energy industry has been disrupted when the tax credit expired three times since 1999. He’d like to [...]
