Posts Tagged ‘Hydroelectric’

State Programs: Integrated Resource Planning, Renewable Portfolio Standards, Net Metering and Renewable Energy Credits (Continued) & an Introduction to Local Government Programs: Municipal Utilities, Coops, and Community Aggregators – September 10, 2008

A look at the state laws about requiring energy service providers to maintain a specified mix of renewable resources. In addition, an effort to create tradable renewable energy credits raises many strategic choices and some Commerce Clause concerns; The special opportunity that user-owned energy providers have to promote renewable energy, and other local programs to programs to promote renewable energy

Duration : 1:45:47

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Technorati Tags: alternative green power, biofuel, biomass, Coal, demand side management, deregulation, design, distributed generation, distribution, economic utilities, Efficiency, electric fuels, Electricity, energy, energy law, energy use, envi, Environment, environmental law, geothermal, Hydroelectric, Law 270.7, natural gas, nuclear windpower, oil, Photovoltaics, rate setting, response, solar, Steve Weissman, yt:quality=high

PURPA, EPAct 1992, and EPAct 2005, EISA 2007 (Continued) – August 27, 2008

The basic concepts underlying the economic regulation of energy. In addition, discussion, of three federal acts that form reference points for our national conversation about renewable energy.

Duration : 1:34:48

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Technorati Tags: alternative green power, biofuel, biomass, Coal, demand side management, deregulation, design, distributed generation, distribution, economic utilities, Efficiency, electric fuels, Electricity, energy, energy law, energy use, envi, Environment, environmental law, geothermal, Hydroelectric, Law 270.7, natural gas, nuclear windpower, oil, Photovoltaics, rate setting, response, solar, Steve Weissman, yt:quality=high

Tyler Suiters travels to Iceland to explore how Reykjavik Energy’s use of Iceland’s sources of renewable energy have allowed the company’s customers to pay three to four-times less than their European neighbors.

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Technorati Tags: Clean Skies News, geothermal, glaciers, Hengill, Hydroelectric, hydroelectricity, Iceland, oil

Hydroelectric energy is a renewable energy source dependent upon the hydrologic cycle of water, which involves evaporation, precipitation and the flow of water due to gravity. Canada has abundant water resources and a geography that provides many opportunities to produce low-cost energy. In fact, accessing the energy from flowing waters has played an important role in the economic and social development of Canada for the past three centuries.

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Technorati Tags: Dam, electric, electron, energy, Environment, generate, hydro, Hydroelectric, Power, turbine, water

A new wave of technologies is on the verge of producing energy that’s clean, renewable, and most importantly, affordable.

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Technorati Tags: affordable, alternative, cheap, cost, energy, farm, home, hydro, Hydroelectric, plant, Power, solar, water, wind