Henry Harrell"s Blog: September 12 Green Energy News

Headline News:

Nevada has a ballot measure that aims to deregulate electrical service. If the Energy Choice Initiative passes a statewide ballot in November and again in 2018, it will enshrine in the Nevada Constitution the right for customers to choose their energy provider and to produce their own power to sell to others. [Mohave Valley News]

Solar array supporting Las Vegas police communications. (Balloonboy101, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA)

“Beginning of the End for Fossil Power” • The prospectus of E.ON’s conventional generation spin-off, says, “Conventional generation of power faces the risk of losing competitiveness against renewable energy and thus market share, and, over the long term, even faces the risk of disappearing completely from the market.” [Bloomberg]
Australia has consistently led the world with its funding of fossil fuel research and consistently lagged other nations when it comes to developing renewable energy, according analysis by the Australia Institute. Now the federal parliament is considering the “omnibus” bill, essentially abolishing ARENA renewables funding. [The Guardian]
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is to unveil a tidal turbine that is to be deployed in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth. The device is the first of four to be completed at the Nigg Energy Park in the Highlands for Atlantis Resources’s MeyGen project. The project is said to be the world’s first large-scale tidal energy farm. [BBC News]
Some downstate New York lawmakers don’t like the fact that their constituents must now subsidize energy produced at nuclear plants in upstate regions. The legislators take issue with the state Public Service Commission’s decision to include subsidies for nuclear power in the Clean Energy Standard, approved in August. [WatertownDailyTimes.com]

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