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Offshore wind energy faces stiff challenges
In an informative article yesterday (US Offshore Wind Project Updates ) Renewable Energy World staff writer Graham Jesmer reports on the considerable obstacles faced by the intrepid companies that are seeking to convert offshore winds into the electr...
How offshore wind won in Delaware
Two developers hoping to build off-shore, wind-energy projects.Both seeking public acceptance and local government approval.In two different states--Massachusetts and Delaware.Today, Delaware's project is moving toward construction.Massachusetts' pro...
NJ\'s late season crop of green legislation
Returning to Trenton from a prolonged vacation that began before July 4 and extended through the November 4 election, state lawmakers have already introduced a truckload of new environmental legislation--much of it addressing the hot areas of energy ...
New Jersey boosts solar energy, green building
A new program providing rebates for solar panels and related equipment manufactured in New Jersey has been kicked off by the state's Board of Public Utilities (BPU).Also making New Jersey environmental news is a bill scheduled for action on Monday in...
Delaware: First to sign and the first to spin?
The little state of Delaware's primary claim to fame for the last 222 years has been that it was the first of the original 13 states to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Today it wants to make history again by becoming the first state to get some of its ...
Will NRG save Bluewater\'s wind projects?
Princeton-based NRG Energy Inc. is reported to be discussing the financial rescue of Bluewater Wind, the company that hopes to build the nation's first wind-energy farm off the coast of Delaware and has similar plans for New Jersey.Bluewater has been...
Offshore Rhode Island wind power at a dead calm
Plans to build the first offshore wind farm in Rhode Island have suffered a setback after the developer, Hoboken, New Jersey-based Deepwater Wind, failed to reach an agreement to sell electricity to the state’s largest electric utility, National Gr...
A big environmental issue awaits PA lawmakers
For three months, state lawmakers in Pennsylvania have been twiddling their thumbs as Governor Rendell and Legislative leaders played hard ball over the state's 2010 budget.The weekend's news that a budget resolution may be at hand means that lawmake...
Wind energy out to hook fishing industry support
With up to 30 square miles of fishing territory at stake, plans by three developers to build wind-energy farms off New Jersey's coast could have been in very troubled waters had the developers tried to put the area off limits to the state's commercia...
We should all be in the solar and wind business
"The Obama administration split a half-billion "recovery" dollars among nine U.S. windmill operators and a couple of solar-power projects yesterday, and said it has lots more where that came from."So reports Philadelphia Inquirer business writer Jose...
Should New Jersey require prevailing wage for any private real estate projects?
The question in the headline above was posedby NJBIZ to New Jersey's Democrats and Republicans.The business publication said it received no response from the Democrats. The Republican response, sent by Assemblyman Michael J. Doherty, was:"The governm...
Will TX beat NJ and NY to offshore wind energy?
The governors of New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Delaware would all like to claim credit for being the first state to meet some of its energy needs with electricity produced from clean and renewable offshore winds.Each of the states has propos...
NJ Governor's race picks up (renewable) energy
Any Republican candidate who wants a realistic shot at becoming governor in New Jersey has to learn to speak like Rush Limbaugh in the primary and Barack Obama in the general election.No doubt to the chagrin of those managing Democratic Governor Jon ...
New York plans U.S.'s largest offshore wind farm
New York government agencies and power companies said on Wednesday they are gauging interest from developers and manufacturers about building a wind farm about 13 miles off the New York city coast that could end up being the largest such project in t...
Pave the fairways, put up a solar farm
No, it's probably not what Joni Mitchell had in mind when she wrote her early-enviro-era lyrics, but down in Cape May, the owner of the B.L. England power plant wants to build one of New Jersey's largest solar arrays on what is now its nine-hole publ...
Solar advocates urge veto of NJ union wage bill
A coalition of New Jersey solar energy businesses, electrical contractors, independent electricians, and solar energy workers is urging Governor Jon Corzine to veto (A-3372), legislation that the group says will not only drive up costs for ratepayers...
NJ's ocean wind pick lobbying large in RI
The firm selected by New Jersey to develop a wind farm off its coast is spending $10,000 a month to straighten out a political impasse that's keeping it from moving ahead on a similar project in Rhode Island.Deepwater Wind was selected in September, ...
Are you sure the NJ Sierra Club said that?
In an Op-Ed in today's New Jersey Newsroom, the Sierra Club's state director calls for: "a simple and straightforward permitting process for offshore wind farms."Is that really Jeff Tittel urging state government to apply the words "simple" and "stra...
Rebate for home-grown New Jersey solar panels?
New Jersey residents interested in installing solar-energy panels on their rooftops--and those in-state companies that manufacture the panels--would both benefit from a new rebate plan under consideration by the state Board of Public Utilities.Scott ...
Atlantic City DOE meeting on off-shore energy
Among dozens of other important environmental and political news stories, today's edition of EnviroPolitics, will carry extensive coverage of yesterday's public hearing in Atlantic City on the nation's future offshore energy options.The meeting, cond...
Stimulus plan energy funding for NJ, NY, PA, DE
The author of the guest article below is Lawrence Cohen, a director at Gibbons P.C., a 220-lawyer business and litigation firm with offices in Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.Mr. Cohen's varied national practice includes advising comp...
NJ offshore wind energy's new gust of intrigue
There's an intriguing new development likely to intrude into the discussion today when Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar opens an all-day session in Atlantic City on the nation's offshore energy prospects (Interior Secretary to discuss NJ...
Interior Secretary to discuss NJ's offshore energy
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is coming to Atlantic City Monday to discuss the future of offshore energy. He says he wants to know what you think, too.It will be the Obama Administration official's first stop on a tour of public meetings to be foll...
Whistling past the...solar farm?
Several New Jersey legislators are pushing hard to enact bills that will make it easier to site solar farms and wind turbines:-- in industrial areas (A-2550-on Governor Corzine's desk) and,-- on farms (S-1538 - Senate floor) and (A-2859 - Appropriati...
The alternative energy industry is DOA...or is it?
How many stories have you read in the last two weeks declaring that the worldwide economic slowdown and credit crunch are combining to strangle the alternative energy industry in its cradle? A prime example is the NY Times piece Dark Days for Green E...
NJ's Great Power Line Debate: Round 2
In case you're just joining New Jersey's big power-line debate, here's where things stand.Public Service Electric & Gas, New Jersey's largest and most politically powerful utility, wants to erect the 500-kv Susquehanna-Roseland electric transmiss...
Week's top environmental news in New Jersey and Pennsylvania: Jan. 19-23
Below are just a few of the environmental news stories for New Jersey and Pennsylvania which appeared in EnviroPolitics during the week of January 19-23.PSE&G looking to spend $888M Public Service Electric and Gas Co. announced Thursday that it i...
Delaware's off-shore wind park inches ahead
Bluewater Wind's plan to erect 66 turbines some 11 miles east of Rehoboth Beach hasn't reached the construction stage yet but the company has selected a site for a onshore facility for maintenance employees.Rob Propes, the company's Delaware project ...
News over troubled waters--wave and wind
Choppy waves reported this week for two companies planning to construct wind and wave energy farms in northeast U.S. waters.The CEO of Deepwater Wind, which partnered with NJ utility giant PSEG to win the Garden State's approval for an offshore wind ...
Alternative energy flickers in NJ & PA - Part I
Alternative energy has never had an easy path.Coaxing energy from the sun and wind—not to mention from rotting garbage, corn, switchgrass and algae—has long been the dream of lab technicians, garage-tinkers and environmental dream weavers.But as ...
