Thoughtful Piece

It’s April — Do You Know Where Your Legislatures Are?

Scott Hempling

NRRI Executive Director

 

April brings showers, flowers — and legislative intervention.  State legislatures want commissions out of wireline but into green power; they want electric rates lower but electric reliability higher; they want …

German Success

This just in from the Daily Grist:

 

 

Germany has become a world leader in renewable power thanks in part to its Renewable Energy Act (EEG), which came into force in 2000. It established a feed-in tariff program that guarantees producers of carbon-free power an above-market …

First Wind Misses Critical Deadline

First Wind misses critical ‘Big Wind’ project deadline

Pacific Business News – by Sophie Cocke, Pacific Business News

Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 2:50pm HS

First Wind, the developer for a proposed 200-megawatt wind farm on Molokai, missed the March 18 deadline to show …