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Weekly Clean Energy Roundup:March 2, 2005

News and Events Northwest Power Industry Commits $100 Million for Efficiency New York State Funds Two Wind Power and Three Hydropower Projects Utilities Pursue Biomass Power in Arizona, Alabama, and Georgia Ethanol Production Reaches New Heights in 2004 Hybrid Bus Fleets Grow in New York City, L.A., and Indianapolis One-Megawatt Fuel Cell Planned for San Diego Hotel Site NewsStudy Leads to New Web Site for Energy Efficiency Best Practices Energy ConnectionsEIA: U.S. Companies Achieving Greater Cuts in Greenhouse Gases News and Events Northwest Power Industry Commits $100 Million for EfficiencyThe Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance announced last week that it will receive $20 million each year over the next five years to support its efforts to increase energy efficiency in the region. The funds will come from the Bonneville Power Administration, electric utilities, and public benefit funds?state funds generated through a fee on electricity to support public benefits such as renewable energy and energy efficiency. The $100 million investment will support market-based energy efficiency programs throughout Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.Since the Alliance began in late 1996, energy efficiency efforts in the Northwest have saved the region an estimated 130 megawatts of electricity through 2003. The Alliance programs encourage appliance manufacturers […]

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Clean Coal Key to U.S. Greenhouse Strategy, Utilities Say

Coal gasification and other “clean coal” technologies offer the most feasible ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the absence of a carbon cap-and-trade system in the United States, industry experts said yesterday. Addressing the Sustainable Energy Institute roundtable, John Novak of the Electric Power Research Institute discussed a new partnership formed by utilities last fall to spur innovations in coal technology. The “Coal Fleet for Tomorrow” aims to encourage development of integrated gasification combined cycle coal plants, or IGCC — the Holy Grail of clean coal development, he said. IGCC plants belch far less pollution than others and are considered stepping stones toward carbon sequestration — the process of capturing a facility’s carbon dioxide emissions and storing them underground. Carbon dioxide is a so-called greenhouse gas whose emissions are blamed for an accelerated warming of the earth’s atmosphere. The Bush administration has advocated carbon sequestration as a means of reducing greenhouse gases from industrial plants without having to wean them from coal, the nation’s cheapest and most abundant fossil fuel. Four IGCC plants have been proposed, Novak said, including facilities from Cinergy Corp., American Electric Power, a Minnesota plant from Excelsior and a joint project by Southern Co. and […]

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