Weekly Clean Energy Roundup:November 9, 2005

News and Events U.S. Government Exceeds its Goal for Renewable Energy Use Renewable Energy Markets Showed Strong Growth in 2004 U.S. Wind Power Grows at Record Pace in 2005 California Approves Contract for 500-Megawatt Solar Facility University of Delaware to Lead $54 Million Solar Cell Project VeraSun and Ford to Convert Gasoline Pumps to EthanolU.S. Government Exceeds its Goal for Renewable Energy UseThe federal government exceeded its goal of obtaining 2.5 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources by the end of September, according to figures released last week by DOE. As the largest energy consumer in the nation, the federal government now uses 2,375 million kilowatt-hours of renewable energy per year. That represents a nearly 14-fold increase in renewable energy use since 1999, when an Executive Order set the goal. Today, the federal government’s annual use of biomass, geothermal, solar, and wind power is enough to power 225,000 homes or a city the size of El Paso, Texas. See the DOE press release.The federal government now has a new goal to meet, as the Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires the government to obtain 7.5 percent of its electrical power from renewable sources of energy by 2013. A […]

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