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Wind Energy Is Behind A Historic Shift in US Electricity Production
Wind generation has grown by more than 11 million megawatt-hours (MWh) in just a year in the huge ERCOT market of Texas Wind Energy Is Behind A Historic Shift in US Electricity Production was...
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Wind Booms & Oil Busts: A Tale Of Two Texases
Two stories this week — both from Texas — illustrate the precarious nature of fossil fuel jobs and the economic power of renewable energy Wind Booms & Oil Busts: A Tale Of Two Texases was...
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Duke Energy to Construct Its Fifth Wind Farm in Texas
Duke Energy Renewables is going to construct its fifth wind farm in Texas, and it is to be 202
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New Wind Energy Record Set in Texas
Wind turbines in Texas, in the service territory of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) -- which is the main Texas electric grid -- set a new electricity output record on October 7, it...
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Texas Wind Power to Double by 2013
A new $6.8-million project is expected to help Texas double it's total installed wind power by 2013. The project isn't a wind farm, though. It's a transmission project that would connect more remote...
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Texas Schools Get Huge Improvements from Wind Farm Revenue
The large number of wind farms in Texas (and West Texas, in particular) drive a lot of revenue to the locals there. And a recent article in The Texas Tribune reports that they have driven hundreds of...
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EnXco Acquires Cielo’s 161-MW Texas Panhandle Wind Ranch; Accelerated...
San Diego-based enXco has purchased Cielo Wind Energy's 161-MW Spinning Spur Wind Ranch project. Producing enough clean, renewable energy to supply more than 54,000 households, enXco, Cielo - which...
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Embrace of Renewables in Heartland Wows Execs
Here’s a great guest post by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on renewable energy success stories in the US Heartland: Seventeen executives traveled through middle America last month...
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E.ON Climate & Renewables Raises Needed Financing For 203MW Texas Wind Farm
E.ON Climate & Renewables (EC&R) North America announced yesterday that it had secured institutional equity financing of around $167.7 million dollars and a commitment to fund the expected...
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8,521 MW Of Wind Power Achieved In Texas (Record)
Texas, a state better known for oil production, just hit an all-time record of 8,521 MW from wind power (sent to its largest grid). 8,368 MW sent to the grid from wind power was the previous record....
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Texas Grid Sets New Wind Power Record & Aims Much Higher
Texas recently set a new record for wind power across its grid by generating over 8,500 MW for 26 percent of total demand -- and it could soon reach 75 percent
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New Wind Energy Records Set On ERCOT And SPP Grids
Both the ERCOT and SPP power grids benefited from America's wind energy boom by setting new wind power integration records in December
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EDF Renewable Energy Commissions 150MW Wind Energy Project In Texas
According to a recent announcement made by EDF Renewable Energy, formerly known as enXco, 150 MW Bobcat Bluff wind farm in Texas became operational on 26 December 2012. EDF Renewable Energy had...
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Google To Invest $200 Million In EDF-Backed 161MW Wind Project In Texas
Google continues to make significant investment in renewable energy sector with a recent investment of about $200 million in a wind farm in western Texas near Amarillo. The Spinning Spur Wind project...
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Shell Charging Forward … E-Motorcycles … Ad-Supported Charging … Benefits Of...
We started this episode talking about the LMX-161 e-motorcycle, then got into Shell EV charging stations, Big Oil, natural gas, ad-supported EV charging stations, and the benefits of low-energy-density...
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Wind Power Resources In America Are Abundant & Underdeveloped
Wind power might seem like a fringe source of electricity to some, and critics certainly have gone after it aggressively at times, but it's now a large source of electricity in the United States and...
View ArticleTexas Going Big On Renewables: Phase II Has Started
When a wind power discussion comes up, Texas is often mentioned. It’s not just that Texas has a lot of wind power. (It does.) It’s not just that Texas has a big, very isolated grid. (It does.*) There’s...
View ArticleIntuit Hits 100% Renewable Electricity Goal 10 Years Early
The 419 MW Mesquite Star wind farm was just completed in Fisher County, Texas, and is now providing electricity for Ecolab, Lowe’s, Intuit, and Brown University. In the case of Intuit (which you may...
View ArticleSolar Will Kick Most Of Texas’s Remaining Coal Fleet Offline
In Texas, solar will soon push most of the remaining coal fleet offline, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)
View ArticleA Red State Goes Green — Why Texas Is Adding So Much Solar
In this article, I'll talk about what Texas is doing with utility-scale solar and how the motivation is different than many other states
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