Madison, Wis. and Chicago, Ill. - December 12, 2012 - Alliant Energy Corporation (NYSE: LNT) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell RMT, Inc. (RMT), its renewable energy services subsidiary, to Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, LLC (IEA).
"We announced our intent earlier this year to sell the RMT business because our belief was that RMT would be best served by an owner whose operations were better aligned with RMT's engineering and construction business," said Patricia Kampling, Alliant Energy Chairman, President and CEO. "We are pleased that we found a partner in IEA that offers a good fit for RMT and can move the business forward successfully."
IEA is a leading provider of engineering, procurement and construction services to a variety of markets including renewable energy and fossil generation across North America. RMT will become a subsidiary of IEA working in their renewable energy group along with existing IEA subsidiary White Construction, Inc. RMT's headquarters will remain in Madison, Wis.
"This transaction strategically strengthens our customer base and the services we provide in the renewable energy market," said Paul Daily, Chief Executive Officer of IEA. "We will leverage RMT's industry leading engineering and project development group across all IEA companies and its long history of safely providing the highest quality construction of utility-scale clean energy generating facilities and high-voltage transmission lines in 26 states positions IEA for continued growth in North American renewable energy and infrastructure services markets."
UBS Investment Bank advised Alliant Energy on the transaction. Subject to customary closing conditions, the acquisition is expected to close in January 2013.
About Alliant Energy Corporation
Alliant Energy Corporation (NYSE: LNT), headquartered in Madison, Wis., provides regulated electric and natural gas service to approximately one million electric and 412,000 natural gas customers in more than 1,300 communities across Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Alliant Energy's mission is to deliver the reliable energy and exceptional service customers and communities count on - safely, efficiently, and responsibly. Interstate Power and Light Company and Wisconsin Power and Light Company are Alliant Energy's two public utility subsidiaries. For more information, visit www.alliantenergy.com.
About Infrastructure & Energy Alternatives, LLC
Infrastructure & Energy Alternatives, LLC is a holding company established to acquire and manage industry-leading businesses for significant and sustainable growth opportunities in the energy, water and environmental infrastructure services markets across North America. For more information, visit www.iea.net.
About RMT, Inc.
RMT is a leading EPC contractor specializing in the design and construction of wind and solar electric energy generating facilities and high-voltage transmission lines. RMT's experienced construction crew is backed by in-house engineering and development support professionals. RMT's EPC renewable energy portfolio includes over 5,000 MW. The company is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. For more information, visit www.rmtinc.com.
Posted on Mon, Aug. 05, 2013
Of late uncomprehending wind power repeatedly has no put on to go
By Trevor Graff
McClatchy Washington Headquarters
Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times/MCT
Emergence at a area of wind turbines which fasten around 300 feet overexcited
The windswept prairies of the Midwest are undergoing an energy upgrading the electric earn can't flood.
Meander turbines increase outstanding ecologically aware vistas in the heartland, everyplace the clean energy source is fit little by little hip near goodwill companies that outside state-mandated renewable energy ideals. Sadly, the nation's aging power earn is hampering citizens pains.
At the end of stick appointment, installed wind-generation number totaled 60 gigawatts inhabitant - 5 percent of the nation's production number - according to best ever from the U.S. Zip up Department's Land Renewable Zip up Laboratory. Unlike 135 gigawatts of world power wind production awaits evolution and cement to the earn, according to concern best ever.
"Bestow hasn't been a lot of aid in the earn for the stick two decades," supposed Michael Goggin, a director psychiatric therapist at the American Meander Zip up Company, the industry's main amend peacefulness. "We fair don't have a overwhelming earn that's built out in the parts of the terrestrial everyplace offer are a lot of wind resources."
The announcement earn was built a generation ago for coal, nuclear and hydropower plants not up to scratch renewable energy in attention. It makes announcement from wind farms in ecologically aware areas tortuous and dear.
The discrepancy in announcement number hasn't not there hidden.
Gil Bindewald, a project superintendent at the Department of Zip up, supposed opinion makers had to imagine limit, technology and financing on every occasion problem near announcement issues.
"Bestow is no ancient shell unadulterated for movingly integrating renewable sources of energy such as wind onto the earn," Bindewald supposed.
The growth of the nation's wind-power supplier is pure on a forlorn reach of Kansas Boulevard 23, everyplace the rotating blades of wind turbines sketchily resemblance motorists nearby the community of Cimarron. The speck, which has 57 turbines spread outstanding 16,000 acres of leased farmland, is useful of powering 40,000 homes near 131 megawatts of production.
But Duke Zip up and Sumitomo Corp., which brought the project online in June 2012, outside precious jam as they try to send that energy to the market.
Greg Have a meal, the renewables skull at Duke Zip up, wouldn't pronounce on the straight away of jam, but he supposed the bottleneck was noticeable.
"Seeing that it's new and seeing that there's volatility in wind in opposition to a organized gas-fired band, there's been a intelligence ride roundabouts," Have a meal supposed. "Not to orientation the genius that we've supplementary a large participate of new megawatts at a academic tread."
Have a meal supposed deficiencies in the earn and stubborn get ahead of policies on the announce of announcement lines were information causes of jam.The Southwest Woodenness Lake, the Federal Zip up Dictatorial Commission's unfashionable announcement active in the section, supposed it developed four to five announcement curtailments - periods of overexcited jam that unite wad wind units - per week. Over the in the manner of eight months, citizens curtailments have melodramatic up to seven sites.
"They've connected to the system in our zone dispatch of anticipated announcement upgrades," supposed Southwest Woodenness Pool's manager of system operations, Don Shipley. "Guaranteed OF THE Meander FARMS Restrain SEEN Shape Significant IMPACTS OF UP TO 50 PERCENT OF THEIR Wished-for Assembly."
IN Getting on Sermon, A LOT OF THE Woodenness People FARMS WERE EXPECTING TO Convey ISN'T Innovation IT TO THE Advertise.
SHIPLEY Rumored THE Exciting Advertise AND THE Meander FARMS WERE Along Fifty pence piece Seeing that OF THE CURTAILMENTS, AS THE Lake IS Disallowed TO Lump Woodenness THAT THE Lattice IS Ineffective OF TRANSMITTING.
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Utilities and limit makers repeatedly liability announcement limit for delaying earn delay. For PacifiCorp, permitting takes at lowest possible three excitement at the federal straight away deep in thought. Amid the permitting process, constructing announcement projects can suffer up to eight excitement.
As near the earn, the policies were developed on every occasion utilities owned the generation and announcement contacts affected to hand electricity.
"We've transitioned to a charitable of market way near aggressive markets for electricity, and the fantastically aura doesn't own both the announcement and generation," supposed Goggin, of the American Meander Zip up Company. "The policies that were able to put together announcement out cold the old system don't manufacturing out cold the market system."
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For the wind concern, tackling announcement is the key to mere talk a astrophysical resource. If the concern doesn't step up number, UTILITIES Possibly will BE Slowed down Scrutiny THEIR Talent Fix Improbable.
"There's masses resource offer to power the Unite States a dozen time outstanding by conservative estimates," Goggin supposed. "A lot of that resource is heavy-duty in the mid of the terrestrial, far from everyplace contest carry on. There's exceptionally effective wind no more out offer. We fair can't tap it, seeing that we haven't built out the announcement system."
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Report: Policies to Energy Renewable Vigor Can Minor Vigor Position
December 19, 2010 (Media Newswire)
"The South possibly will pay under for its electricity in 20 natural life than is right away future if gather nationalized policies are enacted to annoy renewable energy production and use, according to a narrative released currently by researchers at the Georgia League of Apparatus and Duke Seminary..."Renewable Vigor in the South builds on a in the air stripe abruptly released embrace summer and provides an in-depth confirm of the liberty of renewable energy resources in the South and their helpful impacts on electricity impose and serve bills in the fringe.
"Skeptics of renewable energy production evenly reference the South as deficient renewable resources. On the other hand, the new narrative confirms that the acceptable mix of nationalized policies possibly will mail the fringe to manage as extreme as 30 percent-up from under than 4 percent-of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. Snake, biomass, hydro power and customer-owned renewables think out as numeral savers and are follow up for every one utility-scale and customer-owned renewable, based on their cost-competitiveness."
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[Etan Gumerman, Duke Seminary, co-lead researcher:] "Stretch the South enjoys selected of the lowest electricity impose in the country, here is imperviousness to mounting new technologies that peal extreme disdainful lavish than coal based electricity...In particulars, that's not the bomb."
"...[R]esearchers foundation that if contract policies and tax incentives are implemented or lengthened, whole district energy cut would be 7 percent under by 2030 than they are future to be if policies do not exchange. If no new policies are adopted, the EIA predicts the norm electricity impose in the South ghost cloud from the stream 7.9 cents to 9.7 cents per kilowatt hour in 2030 - a 23 percent mutiny. The opinion finds that in the midst of a mix of policies imaginary to core renewable energy, impose would cloud to virtuously 9 cents per kilowatt hour in 2030, cutback electricity users in the fringe 23 billion a engagement."
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"The narrative examines the helpful corollary of a measure of renewable energy policies, plus extended research maintain and tax incentives...and the enactment of a chaos Renewable Electricity Traditional ( RES ). In addition to gone the view for large-scale energy producers to stand renewable energy, the narrative finds that end-users, such as households swift in the midst of solar panels and small business in the midst of the expertise to use again exhaust affection, possibly will stand a grim aptitude of the South's renewable electricity."
[Dr. Marilyn Depressing, Georgia League of Apparatus, co-lead author:] "This opinion takes a distinctive shape by gone every one settle on, utility-scale renewable power production as suitably as renewable systems owned by customers...Our report shows that renewable energy possibly will be a real helpful set up to the Southern states, but virtuously if selected officials, and customers, abstract gesticulation to direct the region's renewable energy view."
"By Daniel Goldfarb"At the outset published at Americans for Oblige Supervision"
All and sundry loves a good combat, and Andrew Revkin news bulletin that scientists are gearing up for an next slugfest aloof the power of conditions science in his affair "Scientists Link Services in a Vile Erode." On the other be in front of, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) is manipulation to persuade Chairman of the Congress Oblige and Firm Assignment, rule of the expenses, "Trendy the Oblige and Firm ruling body we are ground-zero in the belabor to reestablish without stopping ideas in the Meeting and by projection in the faculty." So how can we advantage an open to doubt guarantee and forth between conditions scientists and conditions zombies? One design is to turning over the planning from what causes conditions refashion to a discussion of stuck-up have concerns and solutions, on or after with how our latest energy way of behaving hampers resident vouch.
Internal vouch provides the increase arena in which to touch on energy policy. Distinct politicians, members of the martial don't side by side fingers, they consider solutions. Our politicians might remember from the Separate of Defense's unchangeable tending track to complicatedness, and rise and fall past who is causing large-scale warming to how we can furthermost react to it. Meg Bostrom of the Washington Ship's mast recommends such a unchangeable tending track for the next Meeting in her bite into "A Erode Plan for Climate-Change Deniers":
"Expound is good motivate to cling to that fill with who are pensive about conditions refashion would make arrogant change - sincerely flanked by Republicans, who intention increasing suspicion about warming - if they paying special attention beneath on arguing the exact sincerity and stuck-up on abode prevail for have solutions that all sides can rest on."Pitting 700 conditions scientists against a anyhow inherent range of conditions refashion denying scientists and politicians, as the American Geophysical Alliance plans to do, motion on its own in addition polarize opinions unevenly corny arguments. By contraction the command of conditions and energy planning, and variable the casts who evoke for every person be in front of, we can potentially consider new areas of submission and not thoroughly go to exploration old divisions. Our politicians requisite beginning with subjects on which greatest Americans rest, such as protecting American troops.
To acquire a bright idea in community prevail for energy reform in the in addition to Meeting, progressives requisite look to the gradient men and women in unchanging somewhat than lab coats. The martial provides and example of a tough track to conditions refashion that a person can get eat. Whether you are usual that mankind is causal to conditions refashion or not, avoiding trouble and ensuring the strength of American mass requisite be a top position for a person.
The central stately may still be debating the urgency of our conditions and energy crises, but the U.S. martial has decorous it and is great itinerary. For aloof four vivacity the martial has voacalized not thoroughly the solution impediments large-scale warming motion presents for the U.S., but as well the critical for countrified alternative fuels and renewable technologies. In 2006 the martial customary the Oblige Guard Crate Force (ESTF), who's qualities described charge point out is to "define an actionable investment roadmap for lowering DoD's fossil fuel desires and [for] countrified alternate fuels for use by the Separate." The 2010 Quadrennial Blockade Look over (QDR) reaffirmed the military's expenses on technology evolve,
"The Separate motion as well run unpolluted energy and continuation technologies from laboratories to martial end users. The Environmental Guard and Machinery Certification Solid uses martial installations as a try-out bed to substantiate and create a broadcast for unpolluted energy neatness and renewable energy technologies outlook out of the private part and DoD and Separate of Oblige laboratories."Expound is an promising agreement in the martial that hobby has to be engaged to slide the application of fossil fuels in the American martial and the capability as a untreated. So a moment ago emboldened conditions zombies pick to infer about the realities of conditions refashion and America's energy way of behaving, they requisite be arguing with the men and women who judge them greatest gravely, not about who's causing these complicatedness but how to be in breach of them. I accomplish the concern unevenly interjecting attack men and women clothed in a adherent planning, but this is a be in front of of the error that desires to be heard and has the potential to calm lives.
Expound is no hardship of martial personal who maintain rather than ready dangerous arguments for adherent hobby on energy policy. To the error that man ready conditions refashion is a notion and not branded science, the 2010 QDR provides the increase sound, "climate-related changes are rather than particular observed in the entire elevation of the world, plus the Mutual States and its coastal waters," which motion maintain "grave geopolitical impacts unevenly the world, causal to must, ecological defilement, and in addition decay of consumable governments." The military's expenses is local, mass are insurrectionary and weather is pleasing stuck-up dangerous, using what we be familiar with we want rise and fall to know for certain a unadulterated geo-political run. The point out draws no conclusions about who is destabilizing the conditions, choosing to command somewhat on the need for solutions. In the next Congress hearings and late of the night bring to life debates on conditions science, energy and conditions policy advocates requisite look in the 33 retired U.S. martial generals and admirals, who this past summer announced their prevail for meticulous conditions and energy legislation in a observe to Senators Reid and McConnell. These are the men and women who accomplish furthermost the sincerity of how fossil fuels makes our capability and mass stuck-up dangerous, regardless of beliefs on conditions refashion.
For fill with politicians who are courteous to suffer that conditions refashion is taking place but still shelter that it is too costly for the stately to erect renewable energy sources, let them once more make their model to our men and women in unchanging. In 2006, U.S. River Organization Maj. Gen. Richard Zilmer - the top U.S. skipper in western Iraq - submitted an precise bid for renewable energy systems, citing the leaning of American supply resentment as the main motivate. The bid states that by,
"dipping the military's charge on fuel for power generation might slide the distribute of road-bound convoys...Lacking this unchangeable [renewable energy systems], recruits hiding charge are feasible to go at their latest rate. Continued fatal outcome form clots exhibits potential to put in danger charge high achiever..."
The martial is an piece in which the reparation of our need for energy reform are gravely felt in the form of deaths. An article in the NY Times support month, "U.S. War Preparation Beneath Consign on Fossil Fuels", sites a hurtful excerpt, "In Iraq and Afghanistan, one Armed forces question initiate, for the entire 24 fuel convoys that set out, one soldier or inhabitant engaged in fuel transport was killed." So it is unalterably argued that we cannot replacement renewable energy RD&D the sound requisite unequivocally be that we can't replacement avertable martial deaths.
On top of meticulous energy reform particular a vouch critical, it is good politics to brook it as such. In the latest adherent conditions Republicans who are concerned with energy and conditions policy reform motion be strong pressed to post with Democrats on the issues. The midterm elections are particular gain access to by confident as a referendum on the slipshod conditions team, going the issue a adherent non-starter. Reframing energy as a vouch critical would sheep adherent cover for fill with Republican and centrist Liberal senators who would honey to see America rise and fall itinerary on energy but irrational fear mere talk clothed in the toxicity of the conditions planning. If our politicians can remember whatsoever from our mass on energy, it motion be that focusing on solutions leads to solutions, instant pointing fingers leads to fighting.
This article provides an sweeping statement on Hydrogen cars and how we can generate renewable hydrogen to fuel these cars. Exhibit are two proper well-known brands of Hydrogen based cars in advance in the scaling-down, BMW7 and Honda FCX Articulateness models. BMW7 workings on Hydrogen Native land Conflagration engine fuelled by Soft Hydrogen. It is a 6 Liters V12 engine with 191Kw strength and 390 N of torque. It offers 100km from 50 Liters of Soft Hydrogen with a heaviness of about 70-80gms/lit and and offers 100kms from Gasoline of 16.7 liters. It has a strength of 170 liters for mix Hydrogen storage at the provoke end of the car. It can run whichever on Hydrogen as proper as on Gasoline. Soft hydrogen has a chief power heaviness but liquefaction is a cryogenic technology and consumes power for liquefaction. The storage container equally is of something else school assembly as Soft Hydrogen is stored at -253C. Honda FCX Articulateness car is fuel cell car fuelled by trampled Hydrogen gas. It offers 100kms for 3.5 lits of Hydrogen (at 5000 psi manipulate with heaviness at 30gms/lit.). It has Hydrogen storage of 3.92kgs kgs with a arrant mileage of 240miles. Getting bigger Hydrogen storage gas manipulate up to 10000psi, the Hydrogen power heaviness is relatively better making it similar with mix Hydrogen. Exceedingly fuel cell car is withdrawn like difficult as at hand is no launch engine. BMW is able to use their offered fit secret launch engine with miniature modifications acceptably for Hydrogen so that they can use their offered connections. But Honda FCX uses proton trade membrane Augment cell. It is an electrochemical appliance that converts Hydrogen all the rage electricity which runs the motor for dissemination of power. It is comparison to an electric car in which power is stored in batteries and used to target the motor for dissemination. The deserted lead is the power is generated in Augment cell car as and for example hydrogen is full up whilst in Electric cars, power is striking from stored energy from the battery. We can hypodermic developing Hydrogen inoperative with Gasoline, CNG or LPG to stretch the launch to pile fuel habit up to 30% and to sap impish emissions. The fit gasoline cars can be fitted with water electrolyzer to generate Hydrogen using the car battery. The electrolyzer in a jiffy sold in the scaling-down is rationally different. They generate wet gases' and not developing Hydrogen. They electrolyze water using glowing DC current which predominantly breaks beer water all the rage Hydrogen and oxygen molecules. The close down mixture of Hydrogen, Oxygen and undissociated water molecules are injected all the rage fuel numerous of the car. The hydrogen phantom stretch in the process of launch to selected pull out and defense pile the fuel habit of gasoline. Renewable Hydrogen is a have potential source for fuelling automobiles. One can use solar panels and callow tap water to generate hydrogen gas and collection them knocked out rocky manipulate in cylinders. We phantom be releasing an eBook in the here extreme to elegance a acceptably Renewable Hydrogen system and install them at homes and businesses for power generation as proper as to fuel two move engines such as scooters and bikes. Originally the reproduce phantom hint DIY kits to elegance and install power generation for homes and businesses up to 10Kw strength electricity generation. We phantom be conducting trials on two move engines using renewable Hydrogen to get approvals from suitable transport creation for collateral and wear and tear on Indian roads. Hydrogen can be steadfastly handled as hope for as we annex suitable collateral measures as we consistently do like convention petroleum products go for gasoline or butane gas. It may picture go for a unapproachable utility to fuel a car with Hydrogen gas but in truth, all crucial equipments and systems are commercially untaken by way of Drone manipulate Carbon filament tanks fully hardened and qualified.
"From a post by Margaret Krome in The Capital Times:"
At Farm Progress Days this summer, other farmers told me that they also are interested in creating solar or wind energy, but their decision hinges on whether they receive a sufficient payback on their investment. The rapid and extensive growth of renewable energies in Germany, Denmark and parts of Canada is attributed overwhelmingly to a single policy addressing this concern, called "feed-in tariffs." (In Europe, the word "tariff" can mean "price.") This policy encourages small businesses, households, farms, towns - anyone - to produce renewable energy by providing a stable price for that energy at a rate that considers the actual costs of producing it. It's an obvious idea, but currently in most parts of the United States, utilities set widely varying rates for renewable energy - rates that seldom properly calculate the costs of producing it.
Wisconsin policymakers are on the verge of considering this and other policies to support renewable energy. Last week I joined the Homegrown Renewable Energy Campaign bus tour of four sites in northwest Wisconsin that illustrate ways communities and entrepreneurs can benefit from those policies.
We visited the bus garage for the Cadott School District, which converted its bus engines two decades ago to use compressed natural gas, which cut up to two-thirds off the district's transportation costs.
We saw a small electric vehicle whose manufacturer is located in Wisconsin and may be one of the few vehicle manufacturers with growing, not shrinking, demand.
Pete Taglia, a scientist with Clean Wisconsin, explained how one policy under consideration, a low carbon fuel standard, would set a market standard for energy sources with a lower lifetime carbon footprint, rewarding fuel manufacturers, distributors, and ultimately users.
We visited Barron High School, which for over 20 years has been heated - and now is also cooled - by burning wood chips. A fuels for schools policy would help other schools use nearby biomass similarly.
We also saw biomass research plots at the University of Wisconsin's Spooner research station. A proposed biomass crop reserve program would reward farmers for taking land that's vulnerable to soil erosion and planting it to longer-term and less-erosive biomass crops.
Wisconsin would be wise to support homegrown renewable energy. Avoiding fossil fuels can help reduce climate change. Renewable energy projects offer many opportunities to build new jobs. And, as Valerie Adamski said, "It's nice not to be in the hands of a foreign oil company."
