A little info. closer to home. Solar Industry just released that AEP Ohio just entered into contract with Wyandot Solar to purchase all the output from a new 10.08 MW facility to be built in Ohio.
It is getting closer to home OH, NJ, and PA have all got utility sized solar!
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:00:18 -0400 > From: jkotcon@wvu.edu > To: ec@osenergy.org > Subject: [EC] Fwd: [GW-ACT-LEADERS] CEC Decision Means U.S.-Wide Rooftop PV Capacity Has Great Relevance to RPS Go > > This is a huge decision, with relevance to PATH/TrAILCo and related West Virginia issues. > > If on-site urban photovoltaics can come in at 9-11 cents per kilowatt (compared to the current cost of 5-6 cents for new coal plants), and if local utilities can avoid the cost of multi-billion dollar transmission lines, new fossil fuel plants are not needed, at least not for peaking power. As carbon emissions costs get factored in (adding 20-50 % to the cost of coal-fired electricity), the challenge for generators will be to decide how to ramp down and phase out existing fossil fuel plants. > > JBK > > >>> Edward Mainland <emainland@COMCAST.NET> 7/19/2009 8:00 PM >>> > Landmark decision: In June California's Energy Commission ruled that > PV solar arrays on rooftops and parking lots may now be considered a > viable alternative to gas turbine projects. The decision's relevance > to RPS goals is clear, according to Bill Powers (see below) who says it > has far-reaching implications for renewable energy development in > California and the nation. California's investor-owned utilities now > will have more difficulty ignoring or neglecting this resource, which > Bill estimates nationally as more than one million MW (more than twice > the average U.S. electrical load). Utilities no longer can so easily > promote more gas peaker plants, large remote solar thermal projects and > new transmission lines in wild lands at the expense of distributed > power closer to consumers. For CEC, the urban PV alternative is now the > potential "first in line" generation resource. Proponents of any new > gas-fired generator or large, remote renewable facility arguably must > now pass a much more rigorous urban PV litmus test to gain CEC project > approval. See below an exchange between Bill Powers and Carl Zichella. > See also Bill's attached article in "Natural Gas & Electricity > Journal". -- Ed M. > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To unsubscribe from the CONS-SPST-GLOBALWARM-CHAIRS list, send any message to: > CONS-SPST-GLOBALWARM-CHAIRS-signoff-request@LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG > > Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: > http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp > > To view the Sierra Club List Terms & Conditions, see: > http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/terms.asp > > > > > > > >
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