Baintree’s Municipal Utility Testing On-Site Energy Systems for Residential Customers

Date: 2 Dec 2005 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Baintree Electric Light Department (BELD) is partnering with Climate Energy to install and test out a 1 kW Micro-CHP (combined heat and power) systems. The units consists of a natural gas-powered Honda generator tied to a high-efficiency furnace.

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Orange County Will Save Millions By Generating On-Site Heat and Electricity

Date: 2 Dec 2005 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Supervisors in Orange County, California, are planning to install a cogeneration system to meet the energy needs of some of their government offices at the Santa Ana Civic Center. Total system costs are estimated at $34 million for a little over 10 MW and would save the county from $4 million to $5 million a year.

The county would buy two 5.2-megawatt natural gas-fired generators to produce electricity. The equipment would also use the energy produced to fire boilers to heat and cool the government buildings.

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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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Ontario Developing Standardized Pricing for On-Site Renewable Electricity

Date: 15 Sep 2005 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Ontario’s Premier, Dalton McGuinty, has directed the Ontario Power Authority and the Ontario Energy Board to prepare a standard offer approach by the end of the year for distributed generation projects under 10MW. The new rules will be designed to encourage homeowners, farmers, schools and community co-ops to build renewable energy systems and sell excess clean electricity back to the grid at standardized prices.

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