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California is weighing how to avoid a looming electricity crisis that could be brought on by its growing reliance on wind and solar power. ...the surplus generating capacity doesn't guarantee steady power flow. Even though California has a lot of plants, it doesn't have the right mix: Many of the solar and wind sources added in recent years have actually made the system more fragile, because they provide power intermittently.
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Northern Pass seen as focus of five bills
February 13, 2013 by Bill Smith in Manchester Union Leader
February 13, 2013 by Bill Smith in Manchester Union Leader
"Recently we have seen a number of proposals for new energy facilities, specifically wind farms and transmission lines, that will have an important and lasting impact on our state," Arnold said.
Arnold said the Legislature should act quickly on a bill giving the SEC a broad range of authority in considering proposed facilities.
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New Hampshire]
Energy efficiency has cut need for $260m worth of power-line upgrades
December 12, 2012 by David Brooks in Nashua Telegraph
December 12, 2012 by David Brooks in Nashua Telegraph
Energy-efficiency programs in the six New England states have proved so effective at reducing demand that we can put off building a quarter-billion dollars' worth of planned upgrades to electric transmission towers and lines, according to the agency that runs the region's power grid.
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Connecticut]
Germany's revolutionary switch to renewable energies is stalling and the country's new environment minister has now admitted as much by casting doubt on the ambitious goals set last year. Media commentators say that he and the rest of Chancellor Merkel's government must do more.
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Germany]
Northern Pass isn't best option, rival study says
June 13, 2012 by Annmarie Timmins in Concord Monitor
June 13, 2012 by Annmarie Timmins in Concord Monitor
A rival energy group to Northern Pass said yesterday that its new study shows the hydropower project is no longer economically viable because natural gas is increasingly becoming a cheaper alternative.
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New Hampshire]
While lower off-peak prices may contribute to a reduction in the annual average price of power, other costs may go up. For example, if the wind generation is a ‘must-take' for the grid operator, then the operator is forced to redispatch other types of generation out of economic merit order to compensate for the additional wind on their systems, Elliott said.
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USA]
Germany stalled on the expressway to a green future
May 22, 2012 by Frank Dohmen, Alexander Jung, Michael Sauga and Andreas Wassermann in Spiegel Online
May 22, 2012 by Frank Dohmen, Alexander Jung, Michael Sauga and Andreas Wassermann in Spiegel Online
Germany's energy revolution has hardly begun, but it's already running out of steam. There is a lack of political decisiveness and companies are complaining of a dearth of incentives to invest billions in necessary infrastructure. Progress or no progress, taxpayers continue footing the bill.
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Germany]
"There's a long road ahead for us," said Robin Kaye, a spokesman for the group Friends of Lana'i, which opposes a proposed wind farm project on the island's north end because of the development's cultural and environmental impacts. "Our focus in the next six to nine months is to educate folks on Oahu how much this is going to cost."
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Hawaii]
And as representatives from utility companies, the energy industry and the banks that fund them convene to discuss the future of the state's power grid, local officials and residents who fought NYRI say they are hopeful their plans won't hurt local communities.
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New York]
New rules could boost region's renewable power
January 23, 2012 by Jay Lindsay in The Associated Press
January 23, 2012 by Jay Lindsay in The Associated Press
A federal order issued last fall is intended to make it easier to construct transmission lines, costly and controversial projects that are notoriously tough to build.
Power lines opponents claim success at swaying official opinion
November 2, 2011 in Champion Newspapers
November 2, 2011 in Champion Newspapers
Rep. Gary Miller issued a statement through his campaign committee, blaming short-sighted Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento who in 2002, with Gov. Gray Davis at the helm, mandated power companies in California to generate a greater percentage of "so-called" green energy.
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California]
Rose said MISO wind has averaged 3% curtailment over a recent 14-month period, but some locations with particular transmission constraints experienced as much as 20% curtailment. That means projects are losing not just the revenue from selling those megawatt-hours, but also the production tax credits and renewable energy credits.
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USA]
Wyoming is an ideal place to generate electricity from wind. But getting current from turbines to customers is a political and economic puzzle. How it plays out will have lessons for renewable-energy projects nationwide.
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Wyoming]
What Hallquist did acknowledge to questioner Pat O'Neill (an active opponent of the wind project) is that if Co-op members vote down the proposal, Green Mountain Power's alternative route would not just cost more; Green Mountain Power would also need a new or amended certificate of public good from the Public Service Board.
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Vermont]
Governor vetoes controversial last-minute energy bill
June 18, 2011 by David McGrath Schwartz in Las Vegas Sun
June 18, 2011 by David McGrath Schwartz in Las Vegas Sun
"To increase utility rates on Nevadans struggling to emerge from a severe economic recession would result in the imposition of an unnecessary and unfair burden on our recovery," he wrote.
The bill, critics said, could have put ratepayers on the hook for $1 billion in transmission lines.
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Nevada]
Northwest wind power to double but inconsistency creates grid nightmare
May 6, 2011 by Ted Sickinger in The Oregonian
May 6, 2011 by Ted Sickinger in The Oregonian
Even the lower end of the range -- which assumes no development for California -- is a substantial amount of power, and would exacerbate transmission issues and volatility in wholesale power prices. Wind development has already outstripped growth in regional demand. And an already clogged transmission system means the energy generated can't always be exported.
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Oregon]
A proposed two-year extension of Wyoming's moratorium on wind developers' eminent domain powers passed another legislative hurdle Wednesday.
By a voice vote, state senators passed House Bill 230 on first reading. If left unchanged, the legislation must pass two more Senate votes before heading to Gov. Matt Mead for his signature.
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Wyoming]
Alternative energy still facing headwinds
February 17, 2011 by Peter Slevin and Steven Mufson in Washington Post
February 17, 2011 by Peter Slevin and Steven Mufson in Washington Post
The three-year fight over the Sunrise Powerlink, which is designed to carry solar, wind and geothermal energy, typifies the serious challenges facing President Obama and many of the nation's governors as they tout the power of renewable energy to put people to work and rescue the planet from the effects of climate change.
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Cape Wind to partake in utility merger review process
January 21, 2011 by Kyle Alspach in Mass High Tech
January 21, 2011 by Kyle Alspach in Mass High Tech
The administration of Gov. Deval Patrick has been pushing for a tougher standard of review for the proposed merger, saying the utilities should have to prove the merger would help the state's clean energy goals. NStar has been criticized by administration officials for its lack of interest in the Cape Wind project and its decision to focus instead on bringing Canadian hydropower to New England.
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Massachusetts]
Hydroelectric power could be key to state cutting gas emissions
December 31, 2010 by David Riley in MetroWest Daily News
December 31, 2010 by David Riley in MetroWest Daily News
Hydro Quebec, NStar and Northeast Utilities are working on the Northern Pass project with the Patrick administration's support. Project organizers say the new line could provide another 1,200 megawatts of hydro electricity, enough to power nearly a million houses.
The project is still in early engineering and study phases, with the goal of wrapping up in 2015, the Northern Pass website says.