Legislation Would Require All Vehicles to Be Flexible Fueled

Date: 17 Nov 2005 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

On November 10th, several Senators from midwestern states introduced the Fuel Security and Consumer Choice Act. The bill would require all U.S. marketed vehicles to be manufactured as Flexible Fuel Vehicles (FFVs) within ten years. FFVs can use both regular gasoline and varying blends of renewable fuels like E-85 (motor fuel with 85 percent ethanol content).

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Roseville, CA, Initiates Policy to Expand On-Site Generation in New Homes

Date: 10 Nov 2005 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Many future customers of the municipally-owned utility in Roseville, CA, will have super efficient homes and on-site photovoltaic systems installed on their roofs under a proposal approved recently by the Roseville City Council. The program could result in up to 4,000 new solar-powered homes built in Roseville over the next ten years. The nuts and bolts details of the utility’s Blueprint for Energy Efficiency and Solar Technology or BEST Homes proposal will be developed over the next six months with program implementation on July 1, 2006.

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Clean Renewable Energy Bonding Program – Briefing Summary

Date: 7 Nov 2005 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Held on November 2nd, a national call-in briefing provided information on the new Clean Renewable Energy Bond (CREB) program that was included in the recently enacted Federal energy bill. The program allows eligible nonprofit entities to issue bonds to finance renewable energy projects.

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MN Cooperative Seeks Up to 120 MW of Community Based Energy Development (C-BED)

Date: 4 Nov 2005 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Great River Energy (GRE), a Minnesota-based generation and transmission electric cooperative, has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a total of 120 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy resources. At least 20 MW and up to 120 MW may come from Community-Based Energy Development (C-BED) proposals if the cost of the C-BED projects are not more than 10 percent above the cost of non C-BED projects.

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Mayors Endorse Expansion of Distributed Generation Technologies

Date: 18 Oct 2005 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

A policy resolution was passed at the recent U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting supporting and encouraging the use of distributed generation as a way to supply cities and their citizens with more resilient, reliable and affordable energy supplies.

Full Text of the Resolution:

DISTRIBUTED GENERATION AND DECENTRALIZED ENERGY CREATION/DISTRIBUTION

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Increased Municipal Utility Formation the Goal of Legislation in Massachusetts

Date: 10 Oct 2005 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

In an effort to clarify and strengthen state law, lawmakers in Massachusetts have introduced legislation to enhance the ability of communities to acquire electric distribution equipment from investor-owned utilities in order to form municipally-owned electric companies.

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First City-wide Broadband Over Powerline (BPL) System Brought Online By Muni-Owned Utility in Manassas, VA

Date: 6 Oct 2005 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

After four years of study and pilot projects, the city of Manassas, Virginia, has become the first city in the country to fully deploy a BPL system throughout their city. The system is jointly operated by the city-owned electric utility and Commercial Technologies, Inc. [COMTek]. The city is providing the infrastructure for the BPL system and COMTek is providing the internet services.

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