Headline News:
- The World Wildlife Fund offered the people of the village of Sardar Para, in Bangladesh, home solar systems, but many were skeptical. Then local women formed a self-help group and found an acceptable answer. A 4.1-kW PV array provides power, and each home has its own battery-powered energy access kit. [The Weekend Leader]
Residents of Sardar Para in Satjeliya Island and the village’s solar panels. WWF photo.
- Xcel has reduced carbon by 30% since 2005, according to the company’s CEO. He says Xcel will continue its environmental work and will reduce carbon by another 30% over the next 15 years. The company will invest in the grid, moving power from wind farms to customers in a way that is affordable to them. [Minneapolis Star Tribune]
- According to the American Wind Energy Association, Virginia currently has no wind projects online. Hopefully, that will change soon. Apex Clean Energy, a Charlottesville-based independent renewable energy company that ranks as one of the nation’s leading developers, hopes to construct the first wind project in Virginia. [Richmond.com]
- Opinion: “Who owns the wind? We do, Wyoming says, and it’s taxing those who use it” • Four years ago, the Wyoming Legislature began entertaining a lofty question: Who owns all of that wind? They concluded, quickly and conveniently, that Wyoming did. Then they did something no other state has done: They taxed it. [Los Angeles Times]
- In a boost to wind energy potential in Tamil Nadu, the government of India announced a policy for repowering wind energy projects. Repowering refers to replacing ageing wind turbines with powerful and modern units in order to boost power generation. It can help old wind sites to more than double their installed capacities. [The Hindu]
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August 14 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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