The attraction of renewable energy sources is that nature continuously replenishes them. As fuels, they may not be infinitely renewable or completely environmentally benign, but they all have one thing…
Geothermal
Geothermal power technologies, projects, potential, risks, and financing. Renewable Top Plant award winners.
In early February, Western GeoPower (WGP) announced its termination of a 20-year geothermal power purchase agreement (PPA) with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E). A WGP press release explains that…
Idaho began tapping its vast geothermal energy supplies as far back as 1892 to supply district heating to its capital city, Boise. A century later Idaho had no operating geothermal…
Pistachio plant gives new meaning to green Now you can feel really green about those tasty green pistachio snacks. Paramount Farms in California's agriculture-rich Central Valley, billing itself as the…
Many consumer magazines make their annual forecasts at this time of year on a variety of topics, such as politics or celebrity shenanigans. The prognostications, though seldom correct, are entertaining…
This generation roundup provides snapshots of activity—current, planned, and proposed—in the four distinct U.S. electric power generation market niches. Use the capacity and investment levels provided to gauge the relative…
In his keynote speech this May to the Global Roundtable on Climate Change, held in Iceland and hosted by the Earth Institute of Columbia University, Ólafur Ragnar Grimsson—the president of…
The length of term allowed for power sales contracts is a critical determinant of the ability of states to meet their increasingly ambitious renewable power targets. Many utilities advocate limiting…
Renewable power development will continue to grow in the U.S., with the nonhydro total reaching 53,121 MW by the end of 2016. So predicts a soon-to-be-released report from Boulder,…