March 15, 2010
By Tom Banse for Oregon Public Broadcasting: The West Coast is about to take part in the biggest rollout of electric cars and charging stations in the world. The first mass-market electric cars go on sale in greater Seattle and Oregon’s Willamette Valley at the end of this year. Pollsters are finding high interest in [...] Read More
March 14, 2010
By Richard Mauer at Anchorage Daily News: With some legislators fuming over the pace of in-state gas development and broadly supporting energy diversification, a special House committee summoned the promoters of six large Railbelt projects last week to explain themselves and whether they should be subsidized with public funds. One of the projects — a [...] Read More
March 14, 2010
From the Associated Press: Chugach Electric Association is looking to high-tech options to help customers lower costs. The Southcentral Alaska utility and a Colorado company, Tendril Inc., are working with 100 customers to test if onsite energy monitors can persuade customers to use energy more efficiently.The program is called Watt Busters and it’s aided by [...] Read More
March 13, 2010
From the Alaska Journal of Commerce: A state Senate committee completed work March 9 on a bill making comprehensive changes in state energy programs. Senate Bill 220, the Alaska Sustainable Energy Act, was voted out of committee and sent to the Senate Finance Committee, its last stop for consideration before passage by the Senate. Similar [...] Read More
March 12, 2010
By Tim Bradner of Alaska Journal of Commerce: Cook Inlet Region Inc. has field work under way on its proposed underground coal gasification project on coal-bearing lands the Alaska regional corporation owns about 40 miles west of Anchorage. It would be the nation’s first underground coal gasification project. CIRI is now nearing completion of the [...] Read More
March 11, 2010
By Steve Law of Pamplin Media Group: Green buildings are so 2000s. The next big thing for the 2010s? Green neighborhoods. After five years in the hopper, the group that ushered in popular “LEED” standards to certify and foster environmentally friendly buildings is expanding, along with two partner organizations, to promote green subdivisions and mixed-use [...] Read More
March 10, 2010
By Joe Viechnicki with KFSK in Petersburg: Officials say the state’s renewable energy fund created just two years ago is already starting to reduce the use of oil and gas to generate electricity in Alaska. (Hear the full story here) Read More
March 4, 2010
By Jad Mouawad of the the New York Times: INDIANTOWN, Fla. — In former swamplands teeming with otters and wild hogs, one of the nation’s biggest utilities is running an experiment in the future of renewable power. Across 500 acres north of West Palm Beach, the FPL Group utility is assembling a life-size Erector Set [...] Read More
March 2, 2010
From the U.S. Department of Energy: WASHINGTON, D.C. – At the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit today, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $100 million in Recovery Act funding will be made available to accelerate innovation in green technology, increase America’s competitiveness and create new jobs. Today’s announcement comes as some of the nation’s top [...] Read More
March 1, 2010
Congratulations to Kodiak Electric for being named the 2009 Wind Cooperative of the Year by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Kodiak Electric is the second cooperative in Alaska to receive the award. The Alaska Village Electric Cooperative, which operates in 53 villages in Interior and Western Alaska, was [...] Read More
