OK finds success in building out windpower
|Working on what comes after coal in Appalachia
|Mont. coal plant asks city to cut water use
|
Calif. has a lot more solar power than reported
|
Colorado drafting order to cut CO2 emissions
|Read more“At present, procuring foreign loans for renewable energy projects is far easier than thermal power projects. A green power generation company also attracts global equity investors.”
– A senior analyst for India’s biggest power company, state-owned NTPC, on increasing renewables and decreasing thermal in its 10-year expansion plan.
Read more“By law, if my office can’t offer a tax break to a single mom who worries about feeding her children, I’m not going to offer one to a multi-national corporation that just asked the bankruptcy court to pay its executives $12 million in bonuses.”
– Brita Horn, Treasurer of Routt County, Colorado, on Peabody Energy’s efforts to avoid paying interest and fees owed for overdue property taxes.

Record low solar price set at Chilean auction
|
Getting rate-design right as renewables rise
|Read more“The impacts between now and 2030 were extremely modest.”
– Angus Duncan, chairman of the Oregon Global Warming Commission, commenting on a utility analysis showing that the state’s new clean energy law will have negligible impact on customer rates over the next 15 years.
No rate impact from Oregon clean energy law
|Judge upholds denial of coal export permit in OR
|
Solar growth smashes through U.S. milestones
|Read more“We’re initiating our … shift from today’s pipeline architecture – moving central-station power across wires to customers at the other end – to a platform architecture, which is the business architecture of the 21st Century.”
– ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore, speaking at the National Conference of State Legislatures and urging lawmakers nationwide to help utilities shift to new business models.

Power drain: deep cuts to coal industry lobbying
|Falling TX coal demand a threat to PRB producers
|Read more“The writing on the wall for the coal industry is clear. Young coal workers, in particular, should consider retraining for a job in solar now.”
– Michigan Technological University proferssor Joshua Pearce, commenting on a study he co-authored showing that many coal companies, even those filing for bankruptcy, could retrain all their employees to work in similar solar industry job for less than the CEO’s annual salary.
Read more“Anything [nuclear] that hasn’t gotten off the ground yet isn’t getting built. There is no economic rationale for it.”
– Greg Gordon, a utility analyst at New York investment advisory firm Evercore ISI on the future of new nuclear power plants being built in the U.S.

Customers stuck with bills for paper nukes
|
Study: coal jobs could transition to solar
|In China, coal output and use race downward
|Efficiency upgrades could save biz $11B
|
Colo. coal mines take big production hit this year
|Read more“This decision was not only the best environmental decision for our community, but it was also beneficial financially for all of our customers.”
— El Paso Electric CEO Mary Kipp on the utility’s decision to eliminate all coal from its portfolio
Read more“Battery experts are now saying that the cost of lithium-ion systems has dropped to the point where it would be less expensive to build a large battery facility than it would to build a peaker plant in today’s prices.”
– Rick Azer, Associate Vice President of Development for Black & Veatch’s Smart Integrated Infrastructure, on the precipitous drop in battery prices as scale increases.
Bill boosts storage, offshore wind in Mass.
|NY PSC sets high clean energy bar; 50% by 2030
|
Ukraine floats idea of Chernobyl solar farm
|