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• States Remain Renewables Policy Laboratory

  

  Bill Opalka, Editor-in-Chief, Topic Centers, Energy Central

  04.30.08 - A national Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) once again failed in the U.S. Congress late last year when it was removed from a comprehensive energy bill that passed at the end of the session. The House of Representatives had passed its version of the energy bill that included a requirement for most U.S. utilities to acquire 15% of their energy from sources like wind and solar energy.
  

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• Why the Recent Texas Reliability Event Raises No Concerns About Much Higher Wind Penetration

  

  Rob Gramlich, Policy Director, American Wind Energy Association

  04.02.08 - On February 26, 2008, a drop in frequency on Texas's transmission grid caused the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to put in place an Emergency Electric Curtailment Plan. The event was reported in some media outlets as having been caused by a sudden drop in output from wind projects.
  

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• Lassoing Panhandle Wind - Oilman Plans Huge Complex

  Gary Stern

  03.05.08 - T. Boone Pickens is nobody's fool. Pickens, who has a net worth of $2.5 billion and is ranked as the 131st wealthiest person in the United States by Forbes, is not prone to invest in pipe dreams. Then why is Pickens, who runs BP Capital Management, a private equity firm, and Mesa Power, building a 4,000-megawatt wind energy facility in Pampa, Texas, in the Panhandle section about 70 miles from Amarillo, which could cost as much as $10 billon?
  

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• Cape Wind Passes Agency Test

  

  Bill Opalka, Editor-in-Chief, Topic Centers, Energy Central

  01.30.08 - The first proposed offshore wind energy facility in the United States passed a significant test with the mid-January release of a federal review as it starts what is expected to be its final year of permitting.
  

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• Grooming Wind

  

  Ken Silverstein, Editor-in-Chief, EnergyBiz Insider

  12.27.07 - Can wind be groomed to become a dependable source of electricity? Researchers at Stanford University say that it can. They conclude that various wind farms can connect and then join at a centralized transmission line to accomplish the mission.
  

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• The Quest for Big Money

  

  Erik Andersen, Economist

  12.05.07 - The wind turbine generation industry is setting a blistering development pace. An annual compounding growth rate of 30 percent is leaving everyone standing in awe. Reports from the Pacific Northwest describe "land rushes" for any and all reasonable locations for wind turbine parks.
  

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• A Motivating Force for Wind Energy: Galicia, Spain

  Juan Paredes, U.S. Director, Galician Institute of Economic Promotion

  11.30.07 - With no end to increased energy consumption in sight and a growing concern surrounding climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, the growth opportunity for wind farms, and firms, is significant. In fact, few industries today have grown as quickly as the wind energy market.
  

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• How Transmission Operators are Helping Renewable Energy, Especially Wind

  

  Bill Opalka, Editor-in-Chief, Topic Centers, Energy Central

  10.31.07 - Transmission operators say in a new report that they have adopted policies and practices that are advancing the acceptance and integration of renewable energy in North America. The report, "Increasing Renewable Resources: How ISOs and RTOs Are Helping Meet This Public Policy Objective," was one of three released by the ISO/RTO Council, an organization of 10 system operators in North America.
  

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• Transmission Project Joint Ventures Expanding ERCOT Market

  Calvin Crowder, Executive Director, Electric Transmission Texas

  10.02.07 - Electric Transmission Texas (ETT), a proposed joint venture between subsidiaries of American Electric Power (AEP) and MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company (MidAmerican), is awaiting final decisions over the next several weeks that will guide its role in helping the development of renewable energy within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
  

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• Dispatchable Wind: Enabling Wind to Play a Mainstream Role in Power Production

  

  David Marcus, CEO, General Compression

  09.11.07 - The conventional wind industry has done a terrific job at reducing the cost of extracting energy out of the wind, but has not yet been able to shape wind power production to meet grid demands and secure a good price for its power.
  

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