Insights Into Renewables and the Grid From Congress
Herman K. Trabish: May 13, 2013
First insight: Both parties see the grid’s sources of electricity are shifting.
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First insight: Both parties see the grid’s sources of electricity are shifting.
Solar advocates and Xcel Energy strike deal for a CSI-like incentive plan.
The state of play in the Arizona, California, Colorado and Texas solar markets
At least 22 states have fights on their hands.
Utilities have to engage with consumers and businesses to make the smart grid work.
Wind’s growing role as a U.S. electricity producer is made clear with record-setting performances in three disparate states.
New numbers suggest it swung the swing states.
Move over water, gas and electricity—geothermal can now operate as a utility.
Who will voters with green jobs in the swing states pick?
Will CPF’s DOE-funded National Solar Permitting Database avoid the pitfalls?
Harry Reid (D-NV), Department of the Interior, AWAEA tout wind capacity milestone, renewables advances at Clean Energy Summit
A new study “blows apart the notion that the ITC is somehow welfare for the solar industry.”
Putting sidelined U.S. Bancorp and BofA money into solar is “a step into the future.”
“Attempting to fit variable renewable energy resources into these operating practices is often like trying to fit a round peg into a square hole.”
They made wind a mainstream energy source, and they will make it through these tough times.
The shift from the centralized utility model is forcing utilities—for the first time in their existence—to figure out how to compete.
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