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Source: Pew Charitable Trusts, 2009, based on the National Establishment Time Series Database; analysis by Pew Center on the States and Collaborative Economics.
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Watchdog Group Releases Latest Scorecard of State Energy-Efficiency Rankings
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) released their fourth annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard last week. The poll is a broad, comprehensive analysis of a variety of different factors that contribute to progress in increasing overall energy efficiency including information about residential, commercial, industrial and transportation energy use in each state. It looks at laws, policies, programs and incentives that residents are exposed to concerning energy use and how that successful they are at increasing efficiency and reducing waste. According to their website, the ACEEE is an independent, non-profit watchdog group that is focused on the advancement of energy efficiency as a means of promoting economic prosperity, energy security, and environmental protection.
The 2010 poll put California in the number one spot for the 4th year running. The state has occupied the top spot since the ACEEE began publishing its findings in 2006. According to information in the report, California nabbed the top spot because of its efforts in consumer energy efficiency programs and incentives, utility decoupling, alternative business models, reward structures for consumer efficiency and policies establishing efficiency as a priority resource.
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Wind Power Projects: A Discussion on the Industry’s Past, Present and Future
Together with the green jobs and wind energy industry’s growth, the average size of install wind farm projects have also grown. In 2007, installed projects averaged about 91 MW. This size is over 30% below the average project size of 120 MW in 2009. Wind farm project sizes change because of a number of reasons.
Possible reasons could be: increasing wind power demands; increasing turbine sizes; continued practice of large turbine orders which reached up until the 2008/2009 credit crisis; partnership of project developers so such orders can be supported; and the increasing turbine and project costs. Whatever the reason may be, larger project sizes are a manifestation of an increasingly mature energy source that is making its way into the domestic electricity market.
In 2007, strengthening of the wind energy business had slowed down. But by the final quarter of 2009, it had normalized at 2008’s tempo. 2007’s slowdown may have been caused by several factors, along with an opinion within the industry that many of the prime targets for wind power investment were already acquired in earlier years. Continue reading
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