May 2014 This update summarizes recent green power marketing activity, including news and information on competitive green power marketing, utility green pricing programs, renewable energy certificates, green power purchasing, and related market activity. Additional information on green power markets and products, as well as links to the companies mentioned below, can be found on the U.S. Department of Energy's Green Power Network website. |
Renewable Energy Markets 2014 Conference Call for Abstracts
Deadline: Monday, June 30, 2014 This year's conference will be held December 2–4 in Sacramento, CA. Proposals for presentations and panels are being accepted through June 30, 2014. Renewable Energy Markets (REM) is looking for speakers with a compelling story to tell. Presentations should be 10 to 12 minutes, featuring new data or ideas, consideration of important issues and fresh thinking about where renewable energy markets are headed. Proposals are being sought in the following topic areas: - Organizations Using Renewable Energy
- Project Development
- Marketing Renewable Energy
- Policy And Legal Issues
- Markets And Trading
- Bundled Electricity Products
For more information on the panels and to submit your abstract, see the Call for Abstracts page. Abstracts are due no later than Monday, June 30, 2014 at 5:00 pm PT. |
SunEdison, a solar technology manufacturer and provider, partnered with Rosedale Union School District (RUSD) in Bakersfield, California, to install, monitor and manage 1.8 MW of solar shade canopies in parking lots of the district's nine schools. This solar energy project is expected to save the district approximately $55,000 in year one and more than $2 million in energy costs over 20 years. The solar system is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2014. SunEdison plans to install, monitor, and maintain the solar system at no additional expense to the district. Southern Company subsidiary, Southern Power, partnered with Turner Renewable Energy to acquire New Mexico's largest solar facility, 50-megawatt Macho Springs Solar Facility. The facility has just been completed by First Solar and is the second-largest renewable energy acquisition undertaken by the partnership. Once operational, the facility is expected to provide enough power for approximately 18,000 homes. All electricity will be sold to El Paso Electric through a 20-year power purchase agreement. Xcel Energy, an investor-owned utility, and SunPower, a designer and manufacturer of solar systems, have signed a power purchase agreement to build a 50-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power plant in San Luis Valley, Colorado. Xcel Energy estimates that the electricity needs of approximately 13,500 average Colorado homes will be served by the plant. SunPower expects to start construction in 2015 and to achieve full commercial operation by the end of 2016. First Solar, a provider of comprehensive photovoltaic (PV) solar systems, sold the 250-megawatt (MW) AC Silver State South Solar Project to a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, a wholesale generator of electric power from clean energy. The project is on approximately 3,000 acres of federally-managed land in Clark County, Nevada, adjacent to the 50-MW AC Silver State North project developed and built by First Solar in 2012. On May 1, 2014, Sonoma County officials and participating cities launched Sonoma Clean Power, a public power program that presents an alternative to Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) with a greater amount of renewable energy. Sonoma Clean Power's customers are expected to realize a 4–5 percent savings in electricity charges, or a total of $6 million in savings, in the first year. Sonoma Clean Power's renewable portfolio consists of 33 percent of its power obtained from renewable sources that include wind, solar, geothermal, and renewable energy certificates. Kaiser Permanente has received a 2013 Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the organization's use of solar power. Kaiser Permanente uses more than 17 million kilowatt-hours of power annually from multiple onsite solar energy installations in California, amounting to 7% or the equivalent of its annual electricity consumption at these sites. Another health care company, Gunderson Health System is investing in on-site renewable energy production. Onalaska Campus in Onalaska, Wisconsin — meets 100% of its electricity and thermal energy demand through the energy produced by a landfill waste-to-energy site located on the Gundersen Onalaska Campus. In partnership with renewable energy developer Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, Mars, Incorporated, the global food and snack manufacturer, committed to purchasing 100% of its U.S. operations's electricity from a new 200-MW wind farm. The 118-turbine Mesquite Creek Wind farm was jointly developed by Sumitomo and BNB Renewable Energy and is based near Lamesa, Texas. With an annual output of over 800,000 MWh, the energy created from the wind farm will supply 70 sites, including 37 factories, and is the equivalent of 24% of Mars' total global factory and office carbon footprint. purchase is managed by a Maine-based consulting firm, Competitive Energy Services. |
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