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| Iceland`s Data Center Push Finally Gets Traction |  |
| miller60 writes "Iceland is poised for the completion of its first major international data center project, after years of marketing itself as a potential data center mecca. Iceland offers an ample supply of geothermal energy and an ideal environment for fresh air cooling, but its ambitions were slowed by the the global financial collapse. But now the huge UK charity Wellcome Trust has provided funding to complete a new data center in a former NATO facility in Keflavik."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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| Prices, lack of government support impeding renewable energy: study | |
| Ernst & Young`s survey, of 132 executives in Canada and the U.S., showed that despite government incentives, prices for alternative energy such as wind and solar are impeding the shift to new fuel sources. |
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| Riverside Partners` Portfolio Company, Alteris Renewables, Wins Green/Environmental Deal of the Year Award | |
| Alteris Renewables received the `Green/Environmental` Deal of the year award at the 8th annual M&A Advisor Awards Gala in New York last week. In October, 2008, Riverside Partners structured and invested in the successful merger of Solar Works and Solarwrights, two renewable energy integration companies, to create Alteris Renewables, now the leading renewable energy integrator in the Northeast. |
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| Heritage Aviation Installs Nation`s First On-Site Wind Turbine at General Aviation Facility | |
| In a first for the renewables and aviation industries, Heritage Aviation, the new General Aviation Facility at the Burlington International Airport, has installed a wind turbine on-site at their new facility. It is a Northwind 100, a 100kW wind turbine manufactured by Northern Power of Barre VT. Heritage Aviation has also installed a 25kW solar electric system and a solar hot water (thermal) system, rounding out its complete on-site renewable energy generation portfolio. |
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| Ferraz Shawmut Offers Innovative Solar Power Circuit Protection | |
| Ferraz Shawmut, a global leader in the field of electrical protection, offers innovative circuit protection products for the commercial solar power industry. |
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| Amonix, MiaSolé & Spire Set to Receive Manufacturing Tax Credit | |
| Earlier this month, the White House announced the recipients of US $2.3 billion in tax credits designed to stimulate the U.S. renewable energy manufacturing sector. Details are now emerging about the recipients and how the companies will be using the funds allocated under the Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit. |
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| Iberdrola Signs Its Largest Ever PPA with TVA | |
| Iberdrola Renewables has signed its largest ever power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). TVA will purchase 300 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy from Iberdrola`s Streator Cayuga Ridge South Wind Power Project under construction near the villages of Odell and Emington, Illinois, south of Chicago. |
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| Xcel Energy Completes BRIGO Wind Energy Transmission Projects | |
| Xcel Energy this week announced the successful completion of the Buffalo Ridge Incremental Generation Outlet (BRIGO) Transmission Projects, designed to increase the system`s ability to carry wind power to Minnesota and South Dakota customers. The BRIGO series of projects installed approximately 50 miles of new transmission lines from the wind-rich Buffalo Ridge area of Minnesota and South Dakota. |
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| American Bar Association Forms Renewable Energy Committee | |
| With increased political focus on renewable energy and energy efficiency both in Washington and at the state level across the U.S., the American Bar Association (ABA) has created a new group to address the growing market. |
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| Energy Data Available Anywhere, Any Time | |
| Having rapidly established itself as a "go to" site for transportation and other related energy information, the Virtual Information Bridge to Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (VIBE) is expanding its reach to attract new users across the widest range of energy issues. A sister site to VIBE, called Open Energy Information, has been launched to allow organizations around the world to both post their own energy data and download data, for free. |
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| To Put Solar Power on Federal Land, or Not | |
| On December 21, 2009, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California introduced legislation that aims to prevent building massive solar power plants on certain federal lands. The news was not received well by the solar industry, but there remains reason for optimism. After several years of processing solar right-of-way applications with no results, we expect the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to issue its first ever approval in 2010. Conservationists concerned about wildlife including the desert tortoise have successfully delayed the BLM`s progress to date, but pressure from the White House and funding from Congress may finally break the logjam. We look for the battle between solar developers and conservationists to rage in 2010, and provide insight as to whether the US government intends to put gigawatts of solar power on its property, or not. |
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| Northeast’s Leading Sustainable Building and Clean Energy Conference Expected to Draw Thousands of Green Experts to Boston | |
| Some 4,000 renewable energy and green building experts will bring their cutting edge thinking to Boston in March for the BuildingEnergy10 Conference and Tradeshow. BuildingEnergy10 (BE10) is the annual event organized by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA). Now in its 35th year, BuildingEnergy is the oldest and largest regional building energy and renewable energy event in the country, with participants coming from across the Northeast – from Maine to Washington, DC. |
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