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The testimony of Steven F. Hayward, PhD, to the House Committee on Energy & Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Hearing on "Green Jobs" and Energy Investment on 4-22-09. He clearly states that "increased federal investment in existing renewable energy technologies should be subjected to more rigorous scrutiny." Click here to read more.
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The Wrong Way To Get to Green
April 27 2010
By TREVOR BUTTERWORTH
Once you've carpeted the wilderness with wind-farm turbines, and crushed any guilt about the birds you're about to kill, prepare to be underwhelmed and underpowered.
Xcel outlines system investments, new rates
Posted: 5:04 pm Mon, August 2, 2010
By Bob Geiger
Expect more, pay more.
More renewable energy, combined with higher costs for investing in electricity transmission, generating facilities and development of additional wind energy, were contained in an Upper Midwest Resource Plan that Xcel Energy filed Monday with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC).
The plan lays out the Minneapolis-based utility’s plan for generating energy from 2011 through 2025.
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HOW LESS BECAME MORE...Wind, Power and Unintended Consequences in the Colorado Energy Market
Wind energy promises a clean, renewable resource that uses no fossil fuel and generates zero emissions. Careful examination of the data suggests that the numbers do not add up as expected.
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Are Wind Turbines a Solution for Climate Change?
Britain, Germany and the U.S. Explore Wind as a Renewable Energy
Mar 30, 2010 John O'Sullivan
Once trumpeted, wind turbines are coming up short as a realistic alternative energy source despite billions spent on green technology.
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Pickens wind turbines coming to Goodhue: A partnership between the Texas oilman and GE will help finance and supply a new big wi
Posted on: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:37:41 EDT
After shelving plans for a mega wind farm in the Texas Panhandle, Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens renegotiated his headline-making order of 667 wind turbines from General Electric Co., cutting it to about 334 machines with plans to stick them somewhere in the country's gusty central zone. Now we know where some of his stash is headed: Goodhue.
One of Pickens' companies, Dallas-based Mesa Power Group, is helping finance and supply wind turbines for a proposed 78-megawatt wind farm near Goodhue, Minn., south of Red Wing. A fairly large project for Minnesota.
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Energy Under Our Feet
Ken Fisher, 07.01.10, 05:40 PM EDT
Forbes Magazine dated July 19, 2010
Environmentalists hate well fracking. But ultimately good, cheap technology wins out over paranoia.
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July 2, 2010 2:40 PM CDT
Xcel study envisions $20B in electric lines by 2029
by Bob Geiger Staff Writer
Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy and six other utilities on Thursday announced a study that maps out up to 16,000 miles of new high-voltage transmission lines across 11 states, transporting wind energy to larger urban markets.
The 83-page study, issued by a joint venture called Electric Transmission America, recommended three transmission upgrade scenarios from concepts that would cost $23.6 billion to nearly $25.8 billion over the next 20 years
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Wilting at Windmills Posted by Long Islander on June 22, 2010 at 7:00am
Summertime, and the living is breezy --- NOT. Just as the air conditioners are starting to crank up in earnest, the wind turbines stop turning. They hardly produce any electricity in the windier winter. And they produce almost zero electricity when Maine turns on its air conditioners. Brilliant, simply brilliant.
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Master Resource Free Market Energy Blog: Grass Roots information on Wind energy
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T. Boone Pickens’s Mighty Wind
Newsweek
Pickens isn't waiting for the government. He's buying a Honda Civic GX, which runs on natural gas. And he's building a $10 billion wind farm in the Texas panhandle, where he's persuading neighboring ranchers to plant turbines in their fields. But even Pickens isn't averse to the sort of NIMBY-ism that has impeded new energy infrastructure. "There are no turbines on my ranch, because I think they are ugly."
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