OCI Solar Power adding 145MW of PV power to Texas energy mix

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PV developer OCI Solar Power is making progress on a number of solar projects that will add 145MW of solar power to Texas’ energy mix this year.

Once all three projects are completed, they will produce enough energy to power 25,000 homes on an annual basis.

Tony Dorazio, president and CEO of OCI Solar Power, said: “The progress we’re making with the opening and construction of new projects means more than half of our Texas projects are now complete or underway. This also means the number of solar jobs in the state is increasing.”

OCI Solar Power recently completed the Alamo 4 project in Brackettville, Texas, which will generate 39MW of energy for San Antonio utility CPS Energy. The plant – OCI Solar Power’s first Texas PV facility built outside of the San Antonio metropolitan area – is comprised of 150,000 solar panels and covers around 242 hectares of land.

With the Alamo 4 project now operational, work has commenced on both the Alamo 3 project in San Antonio and the Alamo 5 facility in Uvalde, Texas. The 5.5 MW Alamo 3 will be the first Alamo project to be built with locally made solar panels from Mission Solar Energy.

At 100MW, Alamo 5 is set to be OCI Solar Power’s largest PV project. The facility, expected to be completed in 2016, will cover 404 hectares of land.

OCI Solar Power adding 145MW of PV power to Texas energy mix

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Duke Expands Texas Wind Farm Arsenal With 110-MW Project

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Law360, New York (September 03, 2014, 2:55 PM ET) — Duke Energy Corp.’s renewable energy arm said Wednesday that it will build a fifth wind farm in southern Texas that will generate 110 megawatts of electricity, the utility giant’s 10th clean energy project in the Lone Star State.

Duke Energy Renewables said it will build, own and operate the Los Vientos V Windpower Project, sited approximately 100 miles west of Brownsville, Texas. The company said it’s inked 25-year power purchase agreements with Texas municipal utilities Garland Power & Light, Greenville Electric Utility System and Bryan Texas…

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Japan Looks to Increase its Renewable Energy Target

While Australia is looking to scale back its renewable energy efforts, Japan is looking to expand its own quite dramatically.

Japan’s environmental minister Nobuteru Ishihara was quoted as saying 30% of Japan’s energy should come from renewable sources. This is a 10% increase from the target Japan laid out in 2010 of having 20% of all energy be renewable by 2030.

The plan is part of a long-running effort to change the country’s energy profile in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in March of 2011. At last year’s UN Summit in Warsaw, Poland, the Japanese government reneged on its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. It argued that to meet its goals would be impossible because of the disaster.

Since then, however, the government has made more attempts to go green, becoming a leader in renewable energy in the Asia-Pacific region. Large clean energy subsidies have driven solar investment in the country as well, making them one of the sunniest in the world.

Beyond the environmental issue, Ishihara believes that driving clean energy production would help foster jobs and economic growth in regions of the country that are severely lacking. Some also believe that the focus could lead to partnerships with other countries in the region, such as Korea and the U.S.

The ramping up of the target could also lead investors leaving Australia as they look to scale back their RET to look toward Japan, as the country looks as it will present strong investing opportunities in the near future. 

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Alabama A&M professor leading the charge in renewable energy

“The energy crisis has just started, and we’re not going to easily get out of it. Renewable energy is one of our best solutions.”

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Alabama may not yet be at the forefront of the renewable energy movement, but an Alabama A&M University mechanical engineering professor isn’t waiting around.

Dr. Showkat Chowdhury, who’s been teaching mechanical engineering at A&M for the past dozen years, has launched a new series of courses this fall term aimed at getting engineering students geared up in the basics of renewable energy technology.

Funded by a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant, the two new courses will ground A&M engineering students in the growing renewable energy field. They include:

• ME 441 Renewable Energy, a survey course touching on all renewable technologies:  solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and hydroelectric. 


• ME 442, offered in Spring 2015, will take a deeper plunge into solar thermal, solar photovoltaic (i.e. solar electricity) and wind power.

Both courses will have additional work options for graduate students.

Chowdhury says the energy situation in the U.S. is bad and getting worse.

 “The energy crisis has just started, and we’re not going to easily get out of it. Renewable energy is one of our best solutions.”

About $100,000 of the grant has been used to buy renewable energy research equipment to support the course and Chowdhury’s ongoing research.  A six-foot long wind tunnel will allow various windmill scenarios to be tested.

 “We can change the number of blades, the pitch of the blades, and wind velocity.” 

A unique solar testing device will allow researchers and 15 student assistants to study how changes in solar radiation intensity and electrical loads affect solar energy output and efficiency.

Chowdhury heads a energy research team consisting of himself as principle researcher assisted by his wife Tamara and fellow A&M engineering professor Dr. Wing Chen.

Alabama A&M professor leading the charge in renewable energy