White House expedites 5,000 MW of renewable energy projects

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White House expedites 5,000 MW of renewable energy projects

The Obama Administration said on Aug. 7 that it will expedite seven renewable energy infrastructure projects. The proposed projects include wind and solar plants in Arizona, California, Wyoming and Nevada to be run by companies such as First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) and NextEra Energy Inc. (NYSE: NEE). The White House said additional projects to be expedited will be announced in the coming weeks.

All together, the White House said it expects the projects to total 5,000 MW. The announcement is part of President Barack Obama's "We Can't Wait" initiative, issued in March.

The Department of the Interior said that in the past three years, it approved more utility-scale renewable energy projects on public lands than in the past two decades combined, totaling 31 new projects.
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We Can’t Wait: Obama Administration Announces Seven Major Renewable Energy Infrastructure Projects that Would Power 1.5 million Homes to be Expedited

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, as a part of his We Can’t Wait initiative, President Obama announced that seven nationally and regionally significant solar and wind energy projects will be expedited, including projects in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Wyoming. Together, these job-creating infrastructure projects would produce nearly 5,000 megawatts (MW) of clean energy – enough to power approximately 1.5 million homes, and support the President’s all-of-the-above strategy to expand American made energy. As a part of a Presidential Executive Order issued in March of this year, the Office of Management and Budget is charged with overseeing a government-wide effort to make the permitting and review process for infrastructure projects more efficient and effective, saving time while driving better outcomes for the environment and local communities. Additional expedited infrastructure projects will be announced in the coming weeks.

“As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above strategy to expand domestic energy production and strengthen the economy, we are working to advance smart development of renewable energy on our public lands,” said Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. “These seven proposed solar and wind projects have great potential to grow our nation’s energy independence, drive job creation, and power economies across the west.”

The renewable energy projects announced today build on the Obama Administration’s record of success in permitting an unprecedented number of utility-scale renewable energy projects. Thanks to a coordinated and focused review process, in the past three years, the Department of the Interior has approved more utility-scale renewable energy projects on public lands than in the past two decades combined – a total of 31 new projects. When constructed by the companies, these projects are expected to generate enough renewable energy to power 2.3 million American homes.

Mohave Wind Energy (BP Wind)
State: AZ
Coordinating Agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation
Target date for completing Federal permit and review decisions: January 2013
The proposed Mohave County Wind Farm is a wind-powered electrical generation facility that would be located on approximately 38,099 acres of public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and 8,960 acres of land managed by the Bureau of Reclamation in Mohave County, Arizona. If approved, it would produce up to 425 MW of wind energy and help the state of Arizona meet its targets for renewable energy.

Quartzsite Solar Energy (Solar Reserve)
State: AZ
Coordinating Agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Target date for completing Federal permit and review decisions: December 2012
The proposed concentrating solar power plant would be located on approximately 1,675 acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. It would produce an estimated 100 MW of clean energy – enough to power about 30,000 homes – and help the State of Arizona meet its renewable energy goals.

Desert Harvest Solar Energy (enXco)
State: CA
Coordinating Agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Target date for completing Federal permit and review decisions: December 2012
The proposed Desert Harvest Solar Energy project would utilize photovoltaic technology on approximately 1,200 acres in Riverside County, California. The project would produce an estimated 150 MW of solar energy, enough to power about 45,000 homes.

McCoy Solar Energy (NextEra)
State: CA
Coordinating Agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Target date for completing Federal permit and review decisions: December 2012
This proposed solar photovoltaic array would be situated on 4,893 acres in Riverside County, California. It would produce an estimated 750 MW of solar energy – enough clean energy to power 225,000 homes – while helping the State of California meet its targets for renewable energy.

Moapa Solar Energy Center (RES Americas)
State: NV
Coordinating Agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs
Target date for completing Federal permit and review decisions: December 2013
This solar project is being developed in cooperation with the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians on a 2,000 acre site on the Moapa River Indian Reservation and on lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Clark County, Nevada. If approved, the 200 MW project would employ 100 MW of photovoltaic technology and 100 MW of concentrated solar power technology. Once constructed, this proposed project would be one of the first large-scale solar projects on tribal lands in the U.S.

Silver State South (First Solar)
State: NV
Coordinating Agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Target date for completing Federal permit and review decisions: March 2013
The Silver State South Solar Energy project is a solar energy generation plant proposed on 13,043 acres of public land. If approved, it would produce an estimated 350 MW of clean energy utilizing photovoltaic technology– enough to power approximately 105,000 homes – and help the State of Nevada meet its renewable energy goals. Construction on the 50 MW Silver State North project has been completed, making it the first solar project on public lands to be delivering power to the grid.

Chokecherry/Sierra Madre Wind Energy (Power Company of WY)
State: WY
Coordinating Agency: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Target date for completing Federal permit and review decisions: October 2014
The proposed Chokecherry and Sierra Madre project, located on approximately 230,000 acres in Carbon County, Wyoming, could produce up to 3,000 MW of wind energy – enough to power over 1 million homes. The Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Farm Project is the largest proposed wind farm in North America. The project, as currently configured, avoids critical sage-grouse habitat identified as “Sage-Grouse Core Areas.” Chokecherry is a multi-tiered decision process that includes a land use plan decision anticipated in October 2012, followed by review of a series of right-of-way applications through 2014.
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I sure hope for the sake of Michelle and the beautiful daughters -- that this guy never gets loose in a Vegas casino.. He is DOUBLING DOWN on all his original misconceptions. And these "investments" are gonna fail AFTER the American people retire this clod..

Not just his Green Fantasies -- but every other failed Collectivist notion about how America works..
 
"Expedite" = Plunge head-first into another "green" energy venture without first assessing the monetary risk (see "Solyandra").
 
Oddball is a willing buttboy of the oil industry.

And you're a willing dupe of BIG Alternative PipeDreams..


U.S. Pays First Solar To Buy Its Own Panels As Europe Scales Back Subsidies

The subsidies for renewable energy cost German consumers about $14 a month for a family of four. Companies that generate renewable energy get a guaranteed above-market rate for 20 years. In Schlicht’s case, the owner of the building will get a cut of the proceeds in exchange for giving over part of the roof to Geosol.

Though solar energy supplied 3.1% of Germany’s electricity needs in 2011 — hampered in part by the country’s famously dreary weather — the industry consumed closer to half of the overall renewable subsidies, which also support other energy sources such as wind and biomass.

Words like "disaster", monumental mistake and fraud are commonly being used in Europe right now.. $14 a month for something that only produces energy 7 months of the year and not on Tues or Sunday.
 
New technique to produce jet fuel from sea water...
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US Navy Develops a Technique to Produce Jet Fuel from Sea Water
Wed, 26 September 2012 | The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington is working to develop a system that can produce jet fuel from seawater.
Last year the US Naval Military Sea Lift Command, the main fuel supplier to Naval vessels that are at sea, delivered around 600 million gallons to ships that were on the open water.

Refuelling is a very difficult and dangerous procedure when two vessels are at sea, especially if the seas are rough, or there is a storm, or even in the middle of a fire fight. Yet it is also vital as running out of fuel would be devastating to a naval ship in action.

The NRL has designed a system which harvests carbon dioxide and hydrogen, the raw ingredients of jet fuel, from the seawater. NRL discovered that gathering carbon dioxide from the seawater was far more efficient than getting it from the air because the concentration in seawater is 140 times greater. The hydrogen and carbon dioxide go through several processes to create olefins (a hydrocarbon), and then two more steps to turn the olefins into suitable jet fuel.

So far the lab tests have indicated that the process will produce jet fuel at a cost of around $3 - $6 per gallon. Now all that is needed is large scale tests on the open sea.

Source
 
New technique to produce jet fuel from sea water...
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US Navy Develops a Technique to Produce Jet Fuel from Sea Water
Wed, 26 September 2012 | The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington is working to develop a system that can produce jet fuel from seawater.
Last year the US Naval Military Sea Lift Command, the main fuel supplier to Naval vessels that are at sea, delivered around 600 million gallons to ships that were on the open water.

Refuelling is a very difficult and dangerous procedure when two vessels are at sea, especially if the seas are rough, or there is a storm, or even in the middle of a fire fight. Yet it is also vital as running out of fuel would be devastating to a naval ship in action.

The NRL has designed a system which harvests carbon dioxide and hydrogen, the raw ingredients of jet fuel, from the seawater. NRL discovered that gathering carbon dioxide from the seawater was far more efficient than getting it from the air because the concentration in seawater is 140 times greater. The hydrogen and carbon dioxide go through several processes to create olefins (a hydrocarbon), and then two more steps to turn the olefins into suitable jet fuel.

So far the lab tests have indicated that the process will produce jet fuel at a cost of around $3 - $6 per gallon. Now all that is needed is large scale tests on the open sea.

Source

You can do all that Waltky -- because you have a nuclear reactor on board and electricity is cheap and plentiful.. Guaranteed the process uses more energy from the reactor than they produce in jet fuel....
 
man people, get this man out of our taxpayers monies

He believes it's HIS to do with AS HE WISHES

vote him out
 
I'd like to see 40 gw of offshore wind power.

I think it would be a good idea....Of course with the nuclear, wave, natural gas.

Absolutely. All of the above is the only reasonable approach. Nukes, you have to be damned careful of siting. Had the Fort Peck dam given way last year, we might have had a few Fukashima's right in the middle of the nation. And the electricity is expensive from them. However, solid and dependable source.

Here in Oregon, we have a vast area in Southeastern Oregon that can produce wind, solar, and geothermal. Very few inhabitants, and all that is lacking is the grid. A ready market in California and Idaho.
 
How about Obama "expedite" the true job makers in this country?
Oil and natural gas. It's what makes your suppers, bitches.

Agriculture can't agrigate without it, industry can't industrialize without it.

You can't even shine a flashlight on a monkey's ass without it.

Drill here, drill now.

More energy, more jobs, more of everything... for America.
 
Gamechanging Vestas V164 Wind Turbine Continues Groundbreaking Development (8MW Wind Turbine!)

October 3, 2012 By Joshua S Hill 5 Comments



Vestas Wind Systems has been at the heart of the wind industry’s development across the world and continues in that role with the development of its V164 platform, which is not only on track for prototype deployment but has recently seen a technological development allowing the turbine to now reach a capacity of 8 megawatts!

“The V164 platform was from the very beginning developed with a possible potential of increasing the turbine size,” said the Danish company in its press release. The development of the technology behind the V164 has now reached a point where an 8MW version will offer low-cost energy while leaving the reliability and structural integrity of the turbine unchanged.

“As we progressed in the technology development it was clear that an 8 MW version of the turbine will offer lower cost of energy and at the same time keep the reliability and structural integrity of the turbine unchanged,” said Executive Vice President and CTO, Anders Vedel.

Clean Technica (Gamechanging Vestas V164 Wind Turbine Continues Groundbreaking Development (8MW Wind Turbine!) - CleanTechnica)
 

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