Green Energy Times

Reposted from: New York Times 4/9/12 It was described by one participant as a “party for engineers”: a conference of more than 500 specialists brainstorming about a grid so powerful that New York State could embrace wind power, cut electricity rates and close the Indian Point nuclear plant.  Yet many participants emphasized obstacles and uncertainties [...]

Repost from: VT Digger  04/12/2012 Gov. Peter Shumlin stepped away from the podium at his weekly news conference Wednesday, allowing state and federal geologists to display new maps of Vermont’s literal foundation, including bedrock which has been around for 1.4 billion years and scattered deposits of hard, flinty, granite. After the geologists left the room, [...]

            _ _______________________ Dear Renewable Energy Supporter, The Clean Energy Development Fund is a vital program for promoting local jobs and local renewable investment. H. 782, which is currently being considered in the Senate, will only provide $1.5 million per year for the CEDF – not enough to sustain a [...]

Reposted from: New York Times 4/11/12 NUCLEAR energy is going through an odd patch. It refuses to die, but it does not prosper. This is how modest the nuclear industry’s prospects now look: Senator Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican who has called for building 100 reactors in the next few years, told a conference of [...]

Reposted from: VPR  4/9/12   State environmental officials are continuing to float the idea of building a renewable energy project on the site of the abandoned asbestos mine in Eden and Lowell.  Voters in the towns refused last month to declare the mine a Superfund site, which would have provided money to clean it up. Click [...]

Reposted from: VT Digger  04/10/2012 The Vermont Department of Public Service is not convinced that the company that owns the Vermont Yankee nuclear power station will live up to its obligations. The plant, which is owned by Entergy Corp., is currently operating on an expired state permit while the Vermont Public Service Board considers approving [...]

The Department of Energy Website is a wealth of knowledge for resource about efforts to conserve energy and make US residential, commercial, and industrial buildings more energy efficient. Some of the DOE initiatives these initiatives include: The Better Buildings Neighborhood Program is working with hundreds of neighborhoods across the country to promote energy efficiency upgrades [...]

By N. R. Mallery On Wednesday, October 26, Vermont celebrated a banner day in advancing clean, sustainable, local energy production by marking the completed construction of two wind power projects. First Wind commissioned Sheffield Wind, a 40 megawatt (MW) wind facility, which will produce enough electricity for the whole of Caledonia County. In nearby East [...]

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VNRC supports a ban on fracking in Vermont. There are natural gas deposits in the northwestern region of the state…