Texas-based renewable energy company Pioneer Green Energy has announced plans to develop two wind energy projects in northeast Alabama, the state’s first wind energy facilities. “These wind energy projects will increase our energy independence and help move the country away from unstable foreign energy supplies,” stated David Savage, Pioneer Green Energy … [continued]
The 20-year deal to bring wind power to Alabama from two TradeWind Energy wind farms is enough to meet 3% of Alabama Power customers’ consumption…and it’s going to cost less than what it would have cost the utility to produce it. Sourcing clean, renewable wind power from the Chisholm View and Buffalo Dunes Wind Projects contributes to delivering substantial local green job and economic gains, carbon and GHG emissions reductions and other health and environmental benefits. […]
A new report ranks states on net metering and interconnection policies designed to boost small-scale renewables. […]
The first of 140 turbines is being erected on the Oklahoma wind farm, a project developed by TradeWind Energy and owned by Enel NA and GE Energy Financial Services that’s expected to inject some $5 million into the local economy, create 150 jobs, and avoid CO2 emissions equivalent to taking 110,000 cars off the road. […]
The U.S. has 78 GW of hydropower – that supplied about 63 percent of all the power from renewable sources last year. But there are also 80,000 navigation locks, dams and high river flows that could be utilized to generate electricity. The Ohio River and the Mississippi River are especially rich in this untapped renewable resource. … [continued]
