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Posts Categorized Hydroelectric
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25x25 is Now Ballot Proposal 3
October 16, 2012The 25 percent renewables by 2025 ballot initiative has been given the number “Proposal 3.”
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Why Michigan Utilities May Be Hostile to PPAs
July 30, 2012A power purchase agreement (PPA) with an electric utility is the holy grail for independent power producers. Yet, for regulated investor-owned utilities, such as DTE Energy, or Consumers Energy, they offer little, if any, economic benefit. As a regulated monopoly, these investor-owned utilities (IOU) cannot “mark up” the cost of wholesale power purchases. They can only recover their actual cost, dollar for dollar. If they cannot mark up their wholesale purchases of electricity, how can they earn a profit for their shareholders?
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Want to Buy a Used Dam?
November 16, 2010Upper Peninsula Power Company, a subsidiary of Integrys Energy Group, is offering to sell its three hydroelectric dams on the Escanaba River. The nameplate generating capacity of the three dams is 9.2 MW. They currently sell power to… Read More » -
Hydrokinetic Technology to be Tested in the St. Clair River
May 6, 2010Ann Arbor-based Vortex Hydro Energy is scheduled to place a prototype hydrokinetic power generator in the St. Clair River this summer. The technology does not use turbines or propellers, but instead harnesses the motion of the river currents… Read More »