In 2001, when IREC entered the renewable energy workforce arena, it was a group small enough to fit around a coffee table. According to IREC’s Jane Weissman, it was uncharted territory with no standards or procedures in place to accredit institutions or certify instructors and practitioners. A few outposts of renewable energy education existed ... Read More
Archive for September, 2009
IREC Updates its University Directory and Renewable Energy Training Catalog
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009Interconnection Rulemaking 101: A conversation with Jason Keyes
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009Utah has recently opened its interconnection docket, based on half a dozen workshops conducted in 2007 and 2008. According to Jason Keyes of Keyes and Fox, IREC’s law firm for regulatory work, not only does the draft rule look pretty good, but the process was efficient. I wanted to know how it went, ... Read More
President Obama Goes to Hudson Valley Community College and meets Joe Sarubbi
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009How many times in your life do you go to work and find out you’re going to meet the President of the United States?
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 started off a typical work day at Hudson Valley Community College for Joe Sarubbi, over-scheduled with meetings and phone calls, and dozens of emails to go through. ... Read More
Spire Solar and UNICOR to provide solar modules to the U.S. government
Monday, September 21st, 2009Recently, Spire Solar and UNICOR (Federal Prison Industries, Inc.) entered into a non-exclusive Teaming Agreement to supply PV systems to the Federal Government.
The Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI) provides job skills training to inmates within the Federal Bureau of Prisons and produces goods and services ... Read More
Colorado PUC issues emergency net metering rules
Friday, September 11th, 2009COLORADO – On August 26, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission issued emergency rules for the state’s Renewable Energy Standard, to implement changes required by SB 51, signed into law in April 2009. The changes became effective September 1. SB 51 required several changes to the state’s net metering rules for investor-owned utilities as ... Read More
Michigan PSC seeks comments on using dispatchable customer DG
Friday, September 11th, 2009MICHIGAN –On August 11, the Michigan Public Service Commission announced it is seeking public comments on the plans that Consumers Energy Company and The Detroit Edison Company have filed for utilizing dispatchable customer-owned distributed generation. Public Act 286 of 2008 requires regulated electric utilities to file with the MPSC a plan for utilizing dispatchable customer-owned ... Read More
D.C. Neighborhood Solar Cooperative begins installations
Friday, September 11th, 2009DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA – After two years of networking and negotiating, D.C.’s Mt. Pleasant neighborhood is installing solar panels on 48 homes in a cooperative move that neighborhood leaders say could be replicated around the region. In a tour Sept. 19, the Mt. Pleasant Solar Cooperative is going to show off the results of efforts ... Read More
Connecticut IOU’s express intent to suspend small generator insurance practice
Friday, September 11th, 2009CONNECTICUT – In August, the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control acknowledged receipt of a letter from Connecticut’s two investor-owned utilities – Connecticut Light and Power Company (CL&P) and United Illuminating Company (UI) – in which they informed the DPUC that they intend to suspend the practice of tracking the insurance requirement for small generator ... Read More
New York adds CHP, fuel cells to list of eligible net metering technologies
Thursday, September 10th, 2009NEW YORK– On August 26, Governor Patterson signed AB 2442 into law. This bill adds residential micro-CHP systems and fuel cells to the list of current eligible technologies that can be net metered. Unlike other systems which are subject to net metering, however, in the event a micro-CHP or fuel cell customer-generator produces more ... Read More
