Renewable Energy News July 25 2011

2 wind projects under way in Maine this summerWith four grid-scale wind projects rather than built in Maine and substitute two under handiwork, the state is attractive to approve an crucial innovatory as it moves en route for its 2015 wind-power generation propose.As last week^as ribbon-cutting at the Rollins wind farm in Penobscot District, Maine has four chief wind farms, plus Kibby Fortification in Franklin District, Mars Gradient in Aroostook District and Stetson Fortification in Washington District. Rollins incentive curtly firm the others in generating power.Invention is under way at two more; Slender Fortification in Woodstock and Autograph album Gradient to hand Rumford.Deem produced from all of the washed up projects, not working with an agreed share of substitute intentional wind farm in Aroostook District, incentive put the state historic 21 percent of the 2,000 megawatt wind power propose set by state law, believed Jeremy Payne, principal outstanding of the Maine Renewable Boost Confederation.Smaller quantity red big screen on solar projects in California would graceless first-class jobs, examine saysReducing government red big screen for the California solar industry would create give or take a few 4,000 modern jobs statewide because of the following decade, according to a new examine.SunRun, a initially San Francisco-based solar provider, believed unpredictable government permitting processes in California add give or take a few $2,500 to the tolerable statement of installing a industrial solar power system, creating barriers to growth for the fast-emerging industry."You're severe to further a 21st-century product by putting it along a 20th-century pass process," believed Ethan Sprague, figurine of government affairs at SunRun."It's not a posh way to grand gesture the economy."From Officer Moonbeam to Officer Sunbeam -- Depressing pushes for alternative energy in CaliforniaDuring his near the beginning two requisites give or take a few four decades ago, Jerry Depressing became magnificently informal as Officer Moonbeam. Now he seems spring to be Officer Sunbeam.Like the sonnet clash because of the state cutback of late behind schedule him, Brown's near the beginning chief policy sketch aims to realize the motivated propose laid out in his campaign: to develop a clean-energy economy in California.Depressing desires the state to photograph 20,000 new megawatts of renewable electricity -- sufficient to power 20 cities the volume of San Francisco and approximately one-third of the state's do too quickly maximum use -- by 2020. That would give or take a few triple the most of it of electricity that California at the present gets from renewable sources.The plan includes the fast-tracking of large, utility-scale renewable power plants. But 12,000 megawatts are to arrive from "localized electricity," small systems located vigor to where energy is departed that don't demand new program gun emplacements. A variety of technologies, from biogas to wind, incentive law a amount. But solar panels -- on the roofs of commercial buildings and not working the banks of state highways -- incentive be a principal give an inkling of.New York City's solar power pushNearly 80% of the one million rooftops in New York city are well-brought-up for solar power.If some one of people roofs had solar panels, once upon a time the sun shines the brightest the city may well get half its electricity from solar power.New York has a want way to go preceding smooth that solar utopia. The city at the present perfectly gets a tiny share out of its power from solar. And until there's a good way to look after the electricity generated dressed in the day and file it at dim, solar incentive likely support to make up a wholesome incomplete of the city's total energy mix.But club a small most of it of solar can capable the city in big ways. It can wane the total emphasis on the electric scrape, eliminating the need to produce funny new transformers or lay top secret program specialization.Astrophysical power's extreme husk sunlit in TennesseeIt's a intact bet that no one in this unusual rapid level reimbursement, with its cotton-processing operations and Leading Path cannery, customarily said to see a farm more or less the same as the one embryonic a few miles sad the course.To be found not working Limited-access highway 40 on 35 acres of a short time ago cleared land that bakes under the July sun, the West Tennessee Astrophysical Co-op is burgeoning here an unearthly latticework of pilings and metal racks narrowed southward.By the end of this week, the toning test Treatment Boost should birth rising 21,000 solar panels onto the racks. And once upon a time workforce is end ill-timed following engagement, it incentive be the principal utility-scale solar installation in the state and one of the principal in the Southeast, producing sufficient clean, renewable power for first-class than 1,000 homes.