This blog was co-authored by Katie Stokes. This is the last of five blogs in a series where the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy has highlighted states throughout our region and their role in the wind industry. Georgia’s wind resource is vast; however, no large-scale wind farms have been built onshore or offshore of the [...]
This blog was co-authored by Simon Mahan. This is the fourth blog in a series of five where the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy will be highlighting states throughout our region and their role in the wind industry. Tennessee is the proud home to the Southeast’s first, and as yet only, wind farm. Utility customers [...]
The recent release of the Tennessee Green Jobs Report from Tennessee’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development reveals an expanding workforce in the state’s green economy. 43,804 green jobs were counted in 2010 with 3,645 green job vacancies across the state. If just these jobs are filled over the next year, that would represent an [...]
This blog was co-authored by Katie Stokes. This is the third of five blogs in a series where the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy will be highlighting states throughout our region and their role in the wind industry. South Carolina’s wind resource is vast; however, no large-scale wind farms have been built onshore or offshore [...]
This blog was co-authored by Simon Mahan. This is the second of five blogs in a series where the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy will be highlighting states throughout our region and their role in the wind industry. Kentucky has no utility-scale wind farms currently. However, wind developers are starting to take interest in the [...]
Contributors: Sam Gomberg, John Bonitz, Anne Blair Disappointing news came out of the House of Representatives’ Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee on Wednesday concerning energy programs for America’s rural businesses and farms. The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) and the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) were eliminated from the fiscal year 2012 appropriations bill. REAP is [...]
This blog was co-authored by Katie Stokes, Simon Mahan and Glenn Mauney There’s wind in the North Carolina desert! OK, it’s not really a desert. An area in Perquimans and Pasquotank counties in northeastern N.C., locally referred to as ‘the Desert’, may soon be home to N.C.’s first wind farm. Iberdrola Renewables recently announced they [...]
Place your Bets If you were going to spend (bet) $8 billion on two nuclear reactors, would you invest in a nuclear reactor design with the following history? They were designed in the late 1960s. Their design has never received a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) operating license. Only four reactors of this design were [...]
1 MW solar farm in Georgia installed by ESA Renewables Renewable energy continues its expansion in the Southeast with the recent unveiling of two 1-megawatt solar farms in Tennessee and Georgia. Each is the largest solar energy project in the history of its state, but more importantly, these facilities continue the recent trend of economic [...]
Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED) recently released a report, “Building Clean Energy Careers in Kentucky.” The report justifies the creation of clean energy policy in Kentucky for economic development. Kentucky has a long history of profiting from jobs and cheap energy from coal. The concern is that as coal resources deplete and its [...]