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Community Based Energy Development (C-BED) Legislation Considered in MN

Report: DG Interconnections Improve Dramatically in California

California’s Public Interest Energy (PIER) Program has received a final report that provides an analysis of the impacts, costs and timelines for distributed generation interconnection...

Neat Biodiesel (B100) Producers Fighting For Tax Incentive

About 70 biodiesel manufacturers and distributors have urged the IRS to allow 100 percent biodiesel (known as neat biodiesel or B100) to qualify for the...

Comparing Solar Electric Policies in the U.S.

Top notch researchers, Ryan Wiser and Mark Bolinger, from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have presented estimates showing how solar electric power goals established in California...

Report: High Value for Solar Power During Peak Times

A recent report done for the Vote Solar Initiative shows that on-peak solar electricity has a value of between 23 and 35 cent per kilowatt-hour....

CPUC Moves to Protect Ratepayers from Future Greenhouse Gas Regulations

A decision by the California PUC directs the state’s largest electric utilities to include CO2 costs between $8-25 per ton when evaluating the economics of...

FERC Issues Proposed Rules for Wind Power Interconnection

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is proposing to amend its regulations to require public utilities to include specific technical provisions for wind energy in...

DG Technology Spotlight: Micro Hydropower

Small-scale and micro hydropower technologies are helping bring distributed electricity generation to remote areas around the world. The impacts on the environment are negligible and...

Minnesota Seeks 20 Percent Biofuels Requirement

Already a renewable fuels policy leader, the state of Minnesota is considering adopting a stricter mandate for biofuels content in the state’s gasoline supplies. Governor...

Energy Efficiency in California – A Matter of Community Control

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is scheduled to vote tomorrow (1/27/05) on who will control about $400 million in state energy efficiency funds [see...

Portland Investigates City Ownership of Renewable Energy Projects

Hundreds of communities around the country have committed financial resources to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency improvements and through purchases of renewable fueled...

Working Group Recommends Update To Interconnection Standards in California

The California Energy Commission (CEC) began an investigation in April 2004 via a diverse working group to explore a variety of issues associated with the...

Distributed Generation State Legislative Update

Many state legislators around the country have returned to their respective capitol buildings for another year of debate. We’ve run across a few interesting proposals...

Groups Demand Broader Access to Energy Decisionmaking

An effort spearheaded by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance resulted in a coalition of groups petitioning the MN Public Utilities Commission requesting that they establish...

Mandate It and They Will Come: Minnesota’s Biodiesel Law

Since enactment of the nation’s first state mandate for nearly all diesel fuel sold in the state to contain a small percentage of biodiesel, there...

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