Posts from January 2011
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January 30, 2011
Valero Energy Corporation, the nation’s large independent oil refiner, has invested in Mascoma’s Frontier Renewable Resources LLC project in Kinross. It has signed a letter of intent indicating it may invents up to $50 million of the equity…
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January 24, 2011
Data released by the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) shows that although only 3.63 percent of Michigan’s electricity was produced by renewable energy projects in 2009, the state’s electricity providers are on target to meet the 10 percent…
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January 22, 2011
One of the real opportunities for energy security and emission reductions is distributed energy. That hundreds, even thousands of smaller electric generating projects (solar, geothermal, wind, combined heat and power, cogeneration) could supply a large portion of the…
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January 18, 2011
Fourteen wind developers have expressed interest in developing a wind farm at Muskegon county’s 11,000 acre wastewater treatment site. Located in Egelston and Moorland townships, Scandia Wind had initially proposed a 150 MW wind farm for 2013. But…
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January 17, 2011
Northern Power Systems has announced that its 2.2 MW permanent-magnet, direct-drive wind turbine will be manufactured by Merrill Technologies Group in Saginaw. Northern Power already has a deal to supply the turbines to the Heritage Garden Wind Farm…
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January 14, 2011
The 24-year old refuse derived fuel energy plant in Detroit has reopened under new ownership. Detroit Renewable Power LLC has invested $50 million in improvements, and is back processing up to 3,300 tons of municipal solid waste per…
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