Austin, Texas, will be closer to meeting its goal of 30 percent renewable energy once a biomass facility from Southern Power comes into play.
Southern Power, a subsidiary of the Southern Company, recently acquired a not-yet-constructed biomass facility from American Renewables LLC. The facility is being built in Sacul, Texas.
Southern Power plans to spend $475 million [...]
by Annie Carmichael and Jim Baak, Vote Solar Initiative
For the past eight years solar advocates throughout the United States lamented the lack of federal leadership on renewable energy issues. If only we had a President who fully realized the economic, environmental, and moral obligation to stem global warming and increase our domestic clean [...]
By Nolan Hertel, Ph.D, P.E.
President Obama’s decision to slash funding for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada may seem Draconian. It offers, rather, an occasion for imagination and innovative planning.
Three facts seem amply obvious: Used fuel from the production of electricity at nuclear plants is not waste; used fuel contains roughly 95 percent [...]
