HEADLINES

U.S. to Slash Marcellus Shale Gas Estimate 80%

Bloomberg

That supersedes an Energy Department projection of 410 trillion cubic feet, said Philip Budzik, an operations research analyst with the Energy Information Administration. “We consider the USGS to be the experts in this matter,” Budzik said in an ...
 
Ranking of renewable energy and nuclear energy use varies by sector
U.S. Energy Information Administration
 
Consumption of primary energy derived from renewables recently exceeded current and historical consumption levels for nuclear energy. In the short term, nuclear outages coincided with the start of the high-water season for hydropower generation in March 2011, pushing renewable energy consumption past that of nuclear. The multi-year upward trend in renewable consumption is driven by increasing consumption of biofuels and wind capacity additions.


It Turns Out Electric Vehicles Are So Fun To Drive, You Won't Want To Go Back

Fast Company

It can seem crazy to think that electric vehicles will replace gasoline engines anytime in the near future: range anxiety, charging times, price, and plain old inertia are all touted as deal-killers. But a new study found that drivers actually ...

Building a Community Wind Project: A Landowner's Perspective

RenewableEnergyWorld.com

Besides farming, we've been in the commercial fertilizing and spraying business for 30 years and have spent many, many hours sitting around waiting for the wind to die down so that we could spray. We've had a long-term interest in wind energy. ...

Mondays Headlines

Pennsylvania Clean Energy Industry Endangered

EarthTechling

Programs created by previous administrations have been eliminated while key agencies such Department of Environmental Protection's Office of Energy and Technology Deployment and the Office of Energy Management have had their directors reassigned and ...
 
Trains That Run Like, and on, the Wind

New York Times

By ERIK KIRSCHBAUM
REUTERS BERLIN — It will not be easy to run a national railroad on renewable energy like wind, hydro and solar power, but that is what Deutsche Bahn of Germany aims to do, for one simple reason: It is what consumers want. ...
 
DOE advisory board releases shale gas recommendations

American City & County

A subcommittee of an advisory board for the US Department of Energy (DOE) is recommending several new regulations for the natural gas industry, including requiring full disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing. ...
 
VW to unveil single-seat electric car

Financial Times

VW wants to capture a lead in electric cars and other new technologies as it aims to become the industry's largest carmaker by 2018. On Friday the company said it delivered 4.75m vehicles in January to July, bringing it closer to its goal of overtaking ...
 
Greenacres couple pay almost nothing for electricity

Palm Beach Post

By Julie Patel That's Willever's payoff for spending more than $60000 — after tax credits and expected rebates — to install a solar water heater, 51 solar panels and foam attic insulation in his three-bedroom Greenacres home. Until they made the ...
 
SoloPower Gets Its DOE Loan Guarantee

EarthTechling

by Pete Danko, August 19th, 2011 With time running out on a key federal loan guarantee program intended to boost renewable energy production and technologies, the US Department of Energy (DOE) today finalized another loan deal, backing $197 million for ...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

They Make My Job Promoting Clean Energy So Easy And Necessary

"The U.S. Department of Environmental Protection has ordered Chesapeake Energy to stop work on a natural gas drilling well pad in Pennsylvania for failure to comply with regulations and contaminating a water source". according to a Reuters report. The Galeton Borough Water Authority serves a population of about 1,400 through about 600 metered connections. The authority has been now forced to use another permitted water source to serve its customers.The order to cease comes after Chesapeake did not respond to Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection's notice of violation for several violations of the Clean Streams Law and Oil and Gas Act. DEP met Chesapeake on March 10 after a routine site inspection on March 8. As reported on Reuters

Around the country there is a race for energy. Every where you look someone is working to make energy available to needy customers. The previous report by Reuters emphasizes the need for clean energy sources such as Ohio's first commercial wind farm – a project that will result in numerous jobs and a significant contribution to the local economy, as recently reported by Horizon Wind Energy, the company responsible for the project.

Horizon Wind Energy's
Kittitas Valley Wind Farm

The 99 megawatt Timber Road II Wind Farm currently employs over 200 construction workers and is expected to generate tens of millions of dollars in landowner royalties and property tax payments over the life of the project. This is the first of three phases of this wind farm that Horizon plans to construct in northwestern Ohio.

Horizon has been working with over 100 local landowners since 2007 to develop the wind farm that consists of 55 wind turbines which will produce enough electricity to power more than 27,000 homes. The wind farm will bring cleaner, homegrown electricity to Ohio's power lines. Horizon has also made a $100,000 contribution to the Paulding County Soil & Water Conservation Office and the Agricultural Extension Office and plans on partnering with Vantage Career Center to educate and train employees for careers in the renewable energy industry.

These good and bad scenarios are playing out all around the country and the world. If we continue to keep score, the good vs. bad comparison will no longer be needed because the winner will undoubtedly be Clean Energy.

Make it Happen!

by George Lopez