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Saturday, January 29, 2011

FSLR: Continues to lead even the Chinese in driving down cost/W

http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/8703339102/articles/Photovoltaics-World/thin-film_solar_cells/cadmium-telluride/2010/july/fslr_-mixed_results.html

Improving the economic case for commercial and utility scale solar

Friday, January 28, 2011

Power Generation to Get Much Cleaner | EnergyBiz

The view forward from two key players.

http://www.energybiz.com/article/11/01/power-generation-get-much-cleaner?utm_source=2011_01_28&utm_medium=eNL&utm_campaign=EB_DAILY&utm_term=Original-Magazine

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

best Obama quote. the new moonshot.

“We're telling America's scientists and engineers that if they assemble teams of the best minds in their fields, and focus on the hardest problems in clean energy, we'll fund the Apollo Projects of our time. We need to get behind this innovation. And to help pay for it, I'm asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies. I don't know if you've noticed, but they're doing just fine on their own. So instead of subsidizing yesterday's energy, let's invest in tomorrow's.

Now, clean energy breakthroughs will only translate into clean energy jobs if businesses know there will be a market for what they're selling. So tonight, I challenge you to join me in setting a new goal: by 2035, 80% of America's electricity will come from clean energy sources. Some folks want wind and solar. Others want nuclear, clean coal, and natural gas. To meet this goal, we will need them all--¿ and I urge Democrats and Republicans to work together to make it happen.

Monty Bannerman

ArcStar Energy

646.402.5076

www.arcstarenergy.com

PJM Glossary of utility terms

http://www.pjm.com/Home/Glossary.aspx

Monday, January 24, 2011

Power system simulation - Decent primer on transmission engineering

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_system_simulation#Short_circuit_analysis

short circuit analysis

Short circuit analysis analyzes the power flow after a fault occurs in a power network. The faults may be three-phase short circuit, one-phase grounded, two-phase short circuit, two-phase grounded, one-phase break, two-phase break or complex faults.

Monty Bannerman

ArcStar Energy

646.402.5076

www.arcstarenergy.com

power flow studies

AC power flow model is a model used in electrical engineering to analyze power grids. It provides a nonlinear system which describes the energy flow through each transmission line. Due to nonlinearity, in many cases the analysis of large network via AC power flow model is not feasible, and a linear (but less accurate) DC power flow model is used instead. Both of those models are very crude approximations to reality, but are accepted practice in transmission engineering.

Monty Bannerman

ArcStar Energy

646.402.5076

www.arcstarenergy.com

Industry Economists: 2011 Hiring Plans Most Positive in More than a Decade | Product Design and Development

http://www.pddnet.com/news-2011-hiring-plans-most-positive-in-more-than-a-decade-012411/?et_cid=1020410&et_rid=45614407&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.pddnet.com%2fnews-2011-hiring-plans-most-positive-in-more-than-a-decade-012411%2f

Thursday, January 20, 2011

How strong are Canadian banks, really?

http://www.financialpost.com/news/financials/strong+Canadian+banks+really/4134907/story.html

Solar Firms Call for a Common Permit Process - NYTimes.com

And how.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/business/energy-environment/20permit.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Duke Energy, Progress Energy merger to create largest U.S. utility

A combination of monsters. Maybe some of Duke’s pro-solar views will seep into Progress’s FL franchise.

http://www.hydroworld.com/index/display/article-display/8960790429/articles/hrhrw/News-2/2011/01/duke-energy__progress.html

Monday, January 17, 2011

FW: Utility-Scale Renewable Energy Report

Monty Bannerman

ArcStar Energy

646.402.5076

www.arcstarenergy.com

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This report analyzes how utilities are incorporating renewable energy into their mix, and how they are using of new government incentives to do so. No less than 28 states have established a renewable portfolio standard, requiring electric utilities to get some part of their power from renewable energy sources.

Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are naturally replenished. Renewable energy accounted for 10.5% of the domestically-produced electricity used in the United States in the first ten months of 2009. Hydroelectricity is the largest producer of renewable power in the United States.

The California Public Utilities Commission requires utilities to supply 20% of power from renewable sources by 2010. By the end of 2007, the total amount for the state’s three IOUs stood at 12.7%, short of the mandate. But growth of renewable energy resources in the state have been impressive, and federal funding is helping to continue the growth.

U.S. wind power installed capacity now exceeds 35,159 MW which is enough to serve 9.7 million average households. Texas is firmly established as the leader in wind power development, followed by Iowa and California. The Department of Energy anticipates that wind power could generate 20% of U.S. electricity by 2030.

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