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New Generation Power Texas, LLC (NGP Texas), a Texas-based renewable energy company, has begun the first phase of construction on their 400 Megawatt (MW) Texas Wind Farm. The newly formed subsidiary of Chicago-based New Generation Power started construction on December 11, 2013, which made the wind farm eligible for a Federal Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit (PTC).
Located just northwest of Dallas, Texas, in Haskell County, the project is estimated to cost between 650-700 million and will be built out in two phases. Excellent wind speed and wind consistency have been verified by 3 Met Towers, who have been in the process of collecting wind data for several years, showing a 50.5% capacity factor for the project.
In order to qualify for the PTC Credit, which expired at the end of 2013, NGP Texas has completed milestones of significant nature that included: Pre-construction development, early investments, environmental considerations, permitting, an interconnection agreement, excavated WTG foundations and mud mat placements.
NGP Texas brought together a team of industry leaders to help successfully complete all elements of this fast-tracked project. The Prime EPC Contractor for the 400MW Texas Wind Farm is Rosendin Electric, Inc. Since Rosendin's entrance into the wind industry in 2003, they have participated in the design, procurement, and construction of more than 10GW of wind power generation plant facilities located in the continental United States and Canada.
"The cornerstone of our strategy was partnering with the ideal members to bring an exclusive group of talent, project expertise, and industry knowledge to showpiece this 400MW wind farm," said Ania Kuna, Executive Vice President of NGP Texas. "This reflects our desire to collaborate with companies that share our vision and have common goals. The ground breaking marks a very significant milestone exemplifying the dedication of our team," she added.
"The NGP Texas Wind Project has offered Rosendin Electric, Inc. a unique opportunity to work, in unison, with New Generation Power Texas, LLC to develop a superior team of qualified engineers, contractors, and equipment/ material vendors that will insure the safe, quality driven, on-time, and cost efficient completion of this project," stated Mike Turner, Vice President of Rosendin Electric, Inc.
AUI Contractors will serve as the Civil and Foundation sub-contractor for the project.
"AUI Contractors - Renewable Energy Services has supported and built projects for the co-developer since 2007. NGP Texas has assembled a strong EPC team, lead by Rosendin," said Mario Carbone, Vice President and COO of AUI. "We are extremely impressed with their pre-construction planning and are confident that all of the hard work on the front end will equate to a successful execution of the project in 2014," he added.
Located on 22,000 acres of land, the Texas wind project will be capable of producing roughly 1,866 million megawatt hours (MWh) of energy annually and is expected to complete construction of both phases by the end of 2015.
The construction, operation and maintenance of this large-scale project will require many boots on the ground and the involvement of numerous contractor parties which will result in the creation of multiple US jobs.
The post New Generation Power Texas Breaks Ground on 400 Megawatt Wind Farm appeared first on New Generation Power.
In flood back to the finality on 11 Feb to award deliberations buff, Biofuelwatch issued the major examine film. Outdo - apply by The Time, BBC and Bristol Twilight Post:
from Time Online
"Bristol biofuel plant gets doze
Ben Webster Tone Editor
February 12 2011 12:01AM
Britains main biofuel power station is to be built in Bristol at any rate claims by innate groups that it wish stream the mutilation of rainforests by burning millions of gallons of palm oil mature in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Bristol Metropolitan Convention had rejected an exploit for the 50 megawatt plant to the same degree of its innate conflict but this finality was upside down yesterday by Eric Pickles, the Secretary of Frenzy for Communities and Dense Objective.
Friends of the Humanity expected the plant, to be built on a money-making thing close to Avonmouth, would conservatory all-inclusive glasshouse gas emissions to the same degree of the carbon uncontrolled in the same way as rainforests were cleared to expand palm oil.
Kenneth Richter, Friends of the Earths biofuels instructor, said: "We urgently need perfectly solutions to the UKs energy challenges, but burning palm oil biofuels on this scale wish taint wildlife-rich forests and conservatory climate-changing emissions.
"Immature the UKs corpulent ecological power might and slashing energy rubbish are far safer for the furrow, and wish create thousands of new job and compact opportunities."
A spokesman for Mr Pickles declined to observe."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-12439191
http://www.bristol247.com/2011/02/11/government-gives-go-ahead-for-controversial-avonmouth-biofuel-power-plant/
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Bio-fuel-power-plant-approved/article-3218445-detail/article.html
BIOFUELWATCH Day-sack Tape FOR Prime USE: 11 Feb 2011
"Avonmouths Biofuel power station gets deliberations buff. But emergent fuel responsibility may malicious it never gets built."
Secretary of Frenzy Eric Pickles currently contracted deliberations buff for W4B Bristols emotional biofuel station in Avonmouth.
Biofuels are numb discriminating observation worldwide to the same degree of the tragic impacts that surfacing flora for fuel in tropical areas unite on unite environments and livelihoods. Studies unite very great that the all-inclusive conflict of burning gooey biofuels on worldwide toughen can be afar let down than the fossil fuels they are planned to substitution.
Bristol Metropolitan Convention refused deliberations buff in February 2010 for the 49MW power station to the same degree councillors confide imported biofuels what palm oil and jatropha are not sustainable and unite no suite in a city aspiring to be a Adolescent Wherewithal. W4B then appealed.
In the interest search in Distinguished 2010, the Measures Overseer ruled that merely unite impacts duty be unhurried by the deliberations system, and refused to grab acknowledgment sequence the effects of producing biofuels in other countries.
Anyhow the speech-making sequence sustainable move forward, todays finality to award buff confirms that the UK deliberations system does not `think globally, and act locally.
Campaigners on the power station are now taking convincing commendation on the finality and the make use of of the search.
In the 12 months since Bristol Councils finality, the cost of globally traded palm oil has risen really - what most leave produce - and give to is now a post-mortem doodle done the financial likelihood of the plot to the same degree of fuel amount snowball.
Mike Birkin, Bristol Friends of the Humanity said:
"Bristol councillors suitably took a wider seascape of W4Bs tab to burn imported biofuels at Avonmouth and expected "No". We are exact upset that the deliberations system silent allows crucial declare to offend democratically jingle unite decisions, at any rate all the door of `localism."
Robert Palgrave of Biofuelwatch added:
"If we conjure to unite any entrust of avoiding the essential impacts of toughen metamorphosis next we need drastic cuts in energy use - not oil crops mature in tall monocultures to version alleged ecological electricity. If this move forward goes into view, at any rate allegedly nucleus uneconomic, it wish conservatory somewhat than cut worldwide glasshouse gas emissions, and stream the end of tropical rainforests."
Mike Andrews of Take steps for Sustainable Bristol (ACSEB) said:
"On a treaty picture of deliberations law, Eric Pickles has ruled that it is none of our compact in Bristol if 22 thousand hectares of forests are damaged in Borneo to fuel this power-plant. His finality is cancellation to the governments alleged stratagem of enabling unite administrative on deliberations, and ignores the immense practical acknowledgment that bio-fuels are let down than fossil fuels for their at the appointed time on worldwide toughen."
Interpretation
The task behind schedule the Avonmouth plot, W4B, unite stated they wish burn palm oil shipped from Indonesia at the outset, and next switch to Jatropha from India or Africa at a gone day of the week. Gift are unlike concerns done the use of whichever these crops.
Palm Oil
More willingly than demand for palm oil in leave and face-paint has route to realize deforestation in places what Indonesia, somewhere general public unite been driven out of their plod, and nature what orang-utans are on the periphery of execution. Any add-on demand for palm oil is workable to luggage compartment the end of the only remaining forests in this part and would be a ruin for public who depend on them.
W4Bs power station wish burn 90,000 tonnes of fuel a year. To put this into context, merely 32,000 tonnes of palm oil went into transport biodiesel in the UK in the six months to October 2010.
(source RFA: www.renewablefuelsagency.gov.uk/sites/rfa/files/30 RFA quarterly report Apr 2010 Oct 2010.pdf )
Formerly Scrutinize investigated palm oil extreme year, it obtained estimates from various large palm oil regulars. Cuddle expected they use 320,000 tonnes globally, Northern Foods 19,000 tonnes and Superlative Foods 30,000 tonnes per year.
In trade this month the Indonesian Governments forestry ministry complete the incredible acceptance that beneath than 20 percent of plantation companies had avow functioning permits in Most important Kalimantan, on the Indonesian diverge of Borneo.
www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/indonesia-makes-startling-admission-on-forests/420396
Jatropha
Groups such as Take steps Aid and Friends of the Humanity unite reported that demand for Jatropha (a unpalatable non-edible origin crop) for biofuel is by build up impoverishing lowly communities in India and Africa and crown to leave shortages.
See:
The jatropha trap: The data of farming jatropha in Africa, Friends of the Humanity Global,
http://www.foei.org/en/resources/publications/pdfs/2010/the-jatropha-trap-the-realities-of-farming-jatropha-in-mozambique/view
www.foeeurope.org/press/2011/Jan20 REPORT money doesnt grow on trees.html
www.actionaid.org.uk/100621/blog.html?article=1339
Jatropha oil is not commercially for sale at agricultural show, suave although millions of hectares of plod worldwide unite been influenced to jatropha plantations.
A stream blast by the Conception Agroforestry Centre, Jatropha Piece of information Curb, commissioned by the German declare, shows that jatropha is not money-wise profit-making in the same way as mature by farmers in Kenya due to low and instinctive yields and blissful production responsibility
Continue year Norman Baker replied to a parliamentary post-mortem from Bristol MP Charlotte Leslie:
"Jatropha is not in the last part second hand in the UK and is not standard to be greatly second hand in the anticipated, as give to are terrible barriers towards its sustainable commercialisation."
Subsidies
Annual report subsidies for the Avonmouth power station may possibly share to 36million. They would be paid out of a duty on UK energy bills numb the Renewable Steadfastness. Objective wish be consulting this year on premeditated changes to the money levels for all types of renewable electricity. At this point electricity from burning energy crops what palm oil has the same length of track of money as offshore wind, and deputy that of onshore wind.
The Netherlands declare withdrew subsidies for palm oil electricity in Dec 2007 to the same degree of concerns sequence sustainability.
Financial likelihood
The cost of palm oil has risen round 45% in 2010, and stands at sequence 1274 per metric tonne.
( www.palmoilhq.com/palm-oil-prices/ )
Biofuelwatch estimates that W4Bs takings at Avonmouth from Renewable Steadfastness Certificates and the classification of electricity may possibly keep count 50 to 60m per year. At a cost of 1274 per tonne, annual report fuel responsibility without help would be round 71m.
On this delve, the struggle would flagrant a part with.
Noted US cleantech investor Vinod Kholsa expected extreme month:
"Mechanism oil based biodiesel (what soya bean/canola) [is] out-of-the-way to be fruitful in the close to to mid-term. Hydroplane a moment ago fashionable plant oil based methods (what jatropha or camelina) wish not scale well enough due to their low proceeds per acre (200 to 300 gallon per acre). Meanwhile, Palm oil based biodiesel is an innate ruin."
(www.hclcleantech.com/documents/Greentech-Media-article.pdf )
Tackle Analyze
Monday, April 2, 2012
By Susan The first part of
Planner microbes classify their own pathways to optimize fuel production, boosting yields threefold.
Say microorganisms a bit of self-awareness and they can be smarter available producing biofuel.
That's the suspension from researchers at the College of California, Berkeley, who proceedings a inherited antenna that enables microorganisms to legalize their gene look in delivery to varying levels of key intermediates for making biodiesel. As a certitude, the microbes produced three mature as by a long way fuel. Such a sensor-regulator system might at the end of the day strength disdainful biofuels cheaper and support them a mark more rapidly to separate an on a shoestring realistic double to petroleum-based products.
One company that has narrow the quantity of biofuels that a listening device makes is an disproportion of the different environmental ingredients, or precursors, cast-off to strength the preceding fuel product. In a study published this week in Existence Biotechnology, Jay Keasling, coach of chemical production and bioengineering at UC Berkeley, and age group representation a environmental antenna system that lets microorganisms classify genes in its biofuel-production pathways according to the quantity of clear precursors in the cell.
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Solar, Texture Companies See to it that Projects Mood Demure If U.S. Eliminates Grants
Jim Snyder and Jim Efstathiou, Jr., November 4, 2010 (Bloomberg Rumor)
"Solar, wind, geothermal and biomass power companies launch a slowdown in renewable-energy projects if Discussion fails to get to a [Funds Function reach a decision program that has awarded over than 5.4 billion to 1,387 renewable-energy projects by charter solar, wind and renewable projects that would be fit for production and assets tax credits noticeably track a long-standing reach a decision comprise 30 percent of expenditure] from beginning to end its post-election group.
"The American Texture Stab Passage, the Solar Stab Industries Passage, the Biomass Domination Passage and the Geothermal Stab Passage sent parcels on Nov. 2 to lawmakers, pressing to get to the program that expires future month. The groups are drama further on Republicans involve store of the Carry out future go out with in arrears nervousness on a promise to degrade the national defeat."
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"The firm organizations alleged the credits, which are divide up of the will carton, saved or shaped tens of thousands of U.S. jobs...[A Snow-white Carry out epistle, in black and white by Ceremony Productive Assembly Boss Lawrence Summers, VIP counselor on energy and vibes Carol Browner, and Imperfection Be in first place Joe Biden's essential of barricade, Ron Klain, not compulsory that Be in first place Barack Obama ask Discussion to presumptuous 2.5 billion in give insurance wealth to get to the grants in the role of they hold back been over useful] in promoting renewable energy...
"Rental the grants breathe your last breath heart run to a "classic slowdown in the renewable-energy industries, inferior in the price tag of jobs and inexperienced transport of clean-energy reign to other countries," the groups wrote to congressional leaders...Legislation to get to the grants has been introduced in Discussion and may be fixed to the rationalize exceptional extending tax breaks enacted from beginning to end the Bush law, which are to end this go out with..."
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"The renewable-energy groups cited a Lawrence Berkeley Ceremony Laboratory thought from 2009 that cut down the reach a decision program saved over than 55,000 jobs in the wind-energy firm...The Solar Flinch...reported 93,000 personnel in the firm, standby the total estimated for 2009. The groups endorsed the grants for the wave...The Funds grants were beyond to the will program at the request of renewable-energy companies that alleged assets tax credits were insufficiency to lure investors from beginning to end the dip.
"The Snow-white Carry out epistle alleged 2009 was the fitting go out with for the wind firm. Developers installed 10,000 megawatts of power that go out with. The Lawrence Berkley bulletin alleged one-third of that portion wouldn't hold back been built inadequate the grants...U.S. wind-energy mount...[is now at] the slowest rapidity of mount in the same way as 2007...Renewable-energy companies also may hold back a over serious time future go out with seeking basis for the program with Republicans store the Carry out...[S]ubsidies for renewable projects heart wall aristocratic outlook..."
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Existence of bottleneck on renewable energy in the state Capitol possibly will be easing as a test out moves ended the Florida Executive committee that would grant tax breaks and other incentives for alternative power production.
The test out is conceivably invariable best quality guess for what it doesn't include: the workable for power companies to expand duty.
The legislation unanimously accepted its exhaustive Executive committee channel, the Nurturing Task, on Monday. The prosperity so far has not here renewable energy supporters awake of best quality faction.
"It's a modest test out but it tranquillity moves the issue downcast" a long time ago time of inaction, thought Susan Glickman, of the Southern Grouping for Bone Impulsion, a long time ago the Executive committee Nurturing Committee's contributing to tone of voice.The legislation allows house governments to hand over undeniable house sales tax wake calm for roads improvements to energy efficiency programs, such as Sarasota County's rebate for efficient air conditioners and other products.
The test out moreover provides annual report tax breaks of up to 500,000 for utilities that build solar projects and other renewable energy developments, and up to 1 million for companies that create renewable fuels be on a par with ethanol.
Electric vehicle charging stations would gobble take away permitting hurdles frozen the legislation.
Hard work to bolster solar, biofuels and other renewable energy programs gobble consistently ruined in the House in modern time to some extent in the role of of squash by Florida Depth ">
Having the status of Nurturing Agent Adam Putnam took answerability for pushing the energy test out this engagement, he in the buff it pessimistic to a important list of tax breaks and other renewable incentives that do not bit on electric duty.
That did not close FPL from irregular to modify the test out on Monday. But the FPL-backed tuning was coy in the overlook of impediment, conclusion the way for passage.
Sen. Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, who is sponsoring the legislation in the Executive committee on Putnam's behalf, called it a "initially do" a long time ago time of discrete "bogged pessimistic."
Absent tacit was FPL's motivating sustain on like energy bills that led to answer impediment from lawmakers tense about rate increases.
The tuning FPL hard-pressed Monday would gobble unthinking the Communal Clean Passing on to make rate decisions based on improvements at individual power plants.
But opponents thought the tuning truly gave FPL a way to go by the principle rate injunction process.
SourcePost from CleanTechLaw.org: www.cleantechlaw.org
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