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by Kate Galbraith September 8, 2010 This is the first part in a three-part series examining Texas’ $5 billion build-out of transmission lines to support wind power, which is encountering increasing opposition. Last week, to cheers from a crowded courtroom, commissioners in Denton Countyunanimously passed a resolution opposing the construction of a big new transmission line
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HERMAN K. TRABISH: AUGUST 10, 2010 Strong Growth, But Are Rocky Times Coming for Wind? Wind is strong, but natural gas, transmission line issues loom “We’re growing dramatically,” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory staff scientist Ryan Wiser said of the wind industry’s 2009 performance. “We’re on a path to achieve much higher levels of wind.” This is
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MARK BOSLET: JULY 9, 2010 PACE Program on Life Support FHFA statement could bring PACE residential retrofits to a halt unless Congress steps in. Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse, there’s more bad news for the home energy retrofit program PACE. PACE was already under pressure from mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Date: June 29, 2010 to June 30, 2010 Cost: $1595+ Website: http://www.reffwallstreet.com Location: New York, NY US Why Attend Held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on June 18-19, 2008, the conference once again took the lead as the annual event for the US renewable energy and finance industries. Over 700 senior decision makers from 450 companies and 20 countriesattended
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Put the power of knowledge behind your RETC transactions. Hear industry news and updates, hone your technical skills and spend two days exploring the many opportunities made available by the renewable energy tax credit program. Who Should Attend? Accountants Developers Investors and lenders Government agency officials Not-for-profit representatives Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists Why You Should
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A national response over lender concerns about green retrofit programs ROSALIND JACKSON AND ANNIE CARMICHAEL: JUNE 8, 2010 Cities and counties throughout the U.S. are developing new finance programs that support green retrofits in their communities. Called PACE, these programs represent one of the most promising tools available to local governments eager to bring new
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June 13, 2010 First small wind certifying exam set for September 11, 2010 By Ezra Auerbach Clifton Park, NY The North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) has just released its Small Wind Installer Certification Exam Resource Guide, a useful and practical resource for those planning to take NABCEP’s Small Wind Installer Certification Exam. The
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April 29, 2010 Adam Capital offers collateralized loans between $250,000 and $3 million to commercial scale renewable energy developers of Solar, solar Thermal, Wind, Waste to Energy, and Biofules. SONOMA, Calif., Adam Capital Clean Energy Asset Finance, the leading collateral-based lender serving distributive commercial renewable energy developers, today announced the closing of a $500,000 loan
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RSS feeds Inside Renewable Energy Wind Technologies: Size Matters, But Only So Much The wind turbine – standing tall, sleek and uniquely modern – is arguably the most powerful symbol of the technological advancement of renewables. And although size is typically the metric for such progress, it’s the less visible improvements that have allowed the
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Salt Water: The Tangy Taste of Energy Freedom Florida, United States [Biofuels Digest] A visitor to Eastern Europe after the fall of communism would have been awestruck by the massive posters touting Winston cigarettes as “the taste of freedom” that often plastered locations where posters of Chairman Stalin and his ilk has once fluttered. It