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THE GALLON ENVIRONMENT
LETTER
506 Victoria Ave., Montreal, Quebec H3Y 2R5 Ph. (514) 369-0230, Fax (514) 369-3282 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vol. 6, No. 21, September 28, 2002
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WIND ENERGY WILL PRODUCE 60,000 MW
OF ELECTRICITY WORLDWIDE BY 2008
According to Rakesh Bakshi, Chairman of the International Wind Energy
Conference held in Berlin, Germany, "Wind energy today is a global phenomenon.
It's the fastest-growing power technology. The world has taken about 25 years to
reach 25,000 MW, but over the next five years, we expect to reach 60,000 MW.
Wind energy today is a global phenomenon. It's the fastest-growing power
technology." The conference was hosted by the European Wind Energy Association
(EWEA), the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), and the Indian Wind Turbine
Manufacturers' Association (IWTMA). . Christian Pierret, French Minister of
Industry and Finance, said that 10,000 MW of new wind energy capacity would be
needed in France by 2010 to meet European clean energy commitments. India's
Minister for Non-Conventional Energy Sources, M. Kannappan, said that his
government has plans for an additional 6,000 MW wind power by 2012. He said that
wind would also help bring power to some of the 76 million households that
currently have no access to electricity. Brian Wilson, U.K. Minister for Energy,
said that Britain had yesterday taken its "biggest step ever toward the creation
of a significant renewables sector the setting into effect of the Renewables
Obligation." This aims for 10 percent of electricity from renewable sources by
2010. "This is going to mean a major expansion in the contribution of wind
power," he said. A part of that goal will be met by the 1,500 MW offshore
capacity already approved.
South Australian Member of Parliament Bob Such said his country is about to
see a large number of projects start generating because of the national mandate
for 2 percent of electricity to come from renewables. He expected a 1,100 MW
target for wind energy to be easily exceeded. Celebrating his county's leading
position in the world wind energy market, German M.P. Hermann Scheer projected
25,000 MW to be installed in Germany alone by 2010, not including a long list of
proposed offshore projects. "The German success is based on a mixture of
political support and a guaranteed price," he said. EWEA President Arthouros
Zervos said that a projection by the association and Greenpeace showed that 10
percent of world's electricity could come from the wind by 2020. This would ramp
up to a world investment of US$78 billion in that year. The U.S. Congress is set
to soon debate a national goal of 10 percent renewables in the energy mix by
2020." See the full story at SolarAccess.com website http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story?storyid=1797
. Also visit the American Wind Energy Association website at http://www.awea.org/ .
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WILL BE INSTALLED IN U.S. BY 2003
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) reaffirmed its assessment that
2003 will be a record year for the wind market in the U.S. Following an
all-time high of 1,696 megawatts (MW) of new installations in 2001, the current
year was expected to be a "breather" year, especially when the extension of the
wind Production Tax Credit was delayed until March 2002. AWEA is
projecting 400 to 450 MW of new wind capacity will be installed in the U.S. in
2002. They project that well over 2,000 MW of new wind capacity will be
installed in the U.S. in 2003," said Randall Swisher, AWEA's Executive
Director." The wind in the United States could produce more than 4.4 trillion
kWh of electricity each year--more than one and one-half times the 2.7 trillion
kWh of electricity consumed in the United States in 1990. The wind industry
worldwide is a multi-billion dollar industry and is growing by 30% to 35% per
year. Wind provides more than 17% of Denmark's electricity, and is forecast to
provide 50% of its electricity by 2030. For more information contact Randall
Swisher ph. (202) 383-2510 or Kathy Belyeu ph. (202) 383-2520, American Wind
Energy Association (AWEA), 122 C Street, NW, Suite 380, Washington, DC
20001, ph. (202) 383-2500, fax (202) 383-2505, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Visit their website at
http://www.awea.org/ .
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WIND ENERGY IN CALIFORNIA A US $3.2
BILLION INVESTMENT
To date, US $3.2 billion has been invested in the development of wind
energy in California. Wind mills now provide about 0.5 percent of the state's
total dependable installed electrical capacity. Wind energy now provides 1.27
percent of the state's production of electricity in 2000, including imports from
Southwest United States and the Pacific Northwest. California produced nearly 30
percent of the world's wind-generated electricity (2.9 billion kilowatt
hours). According to the Electric Power Research Institute, the cost of
producing wind energy has decreased nearly four-fold since 1980. The levelized
cost of wind turbines in 1993 was about 7.5 cents per kilowatt/hour Kwh).
Electricity produced by unsubsidized nuclear power cost the utilities between
8.0 and 14.0 cents per Kwh (that includes the exorbitant costs of
decommissioning the very toxic plants and the long-term disposal of the
high-toxic radioactive wastes). It was the high cost of nuclear power that
got the industry out of the business, not environmentalists. The cost of
coal-fired electricity ranges between 3.5 cents and 4.5 cents per Kwh. With
current research and development efforts, the Energy Commission estimates that
newer technologies can reduce the cost of wind energy to 3.5 cents per kWh. Some
current wind projects in other states have been bid at this lower cost. Total
private investment in wind energy in California amounted to $3.2 billion through
1991. For more information contact Dora Yen, California Energy Commission, 1516
Ninth Street, Sacramento, California 95814, Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Visit the
California Energy Commission's website at http://www.energy.ca.gov/ . See a map of
where California has high wind energy potential at the website http://www.energy.ca.gov/wind/wind_map.html
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VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS INC., ONE OF THE
LARGEST IN THE WORLD
While the United States, Canada and Australia sit on their hands, blocked
by their oil and coals industries, other countries are taking an economic
competitive advantage in the world market to innovate and sell new energy
technologies that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. One
of the advanced companies is Vestas Wind Systems AS, based in Denmark. It is the
world leader in wind technology and a driving force in the development of the
wind power industry. Vestas' core business comprises the development,
manufacture, sale, marketing and maintenance of installations that use wind
energy to generate electricity. In recent months, around 40 Vestas fitters have
been erecting wind turbines under somewhat unconventional conditions. Instead of
working on turbines on mainland sites throughout the world, they have been kept
busy with the establishment of the largest offshore wind farm in the world to
date, which is located at Horns Rev in the North Sea off the west coast of
Jutland, Denmark. Vesta employs 5,785 people in Denmark, Germany, India, Italy,
and Scotland.
The latest addition to Vestas' international network of production
facilities was officially opened on 6 May 2002. The new plant is located close
to Campbeltown on the Kintyre peninsula on the west coast of Scotland. The
10,000 m2 factory will comprise the assembly of nacelles and the manufacture of
wind turbine towers. Scotland is committed to developing its vast
sustainable energy resources and to making Scotland a "Centre of Excellence" in
the field of sustainable energy. The new Vestas operation
there already employs around 100 people. Later this year, the next
extension to the Vestas production network will be opened when a new blade
factory in Lauchhammer, Germany, starts production of the 39-metre blades for
Vestas' V80-2.0 MW wind turbines. In addition, it has been decided to establish
local production facilities in Oregon, USA. Construction of this plant is
expected to be completed towards the middle of 2003. For more information
contact Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Smed S�rensens Vej 5, DK-6950 Ringk�bing,
Denmark, Tel. +45 96 75 25 75, Fax +45 96 75 24 36, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Visit their website at http://www.vestas.com/ .
*************************************************************** C$4.5 BILLION WIND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL IN ONTARIO ALONE, SAYS CANWEA The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) estimates that there are well
over 3,000 Megawatts (MW) of commercially viable wind energy in the province of
Ontario, which, if developed, would result in thousands of jobs in construction,
manufacturing, wind resource assessment and maintenance. The development would
occur primarily in rural areas, providing much needed income to land owners in
some less developed areas of the province. The development of 3,000 MW of wind
energy would result in $4.5 billion in investment for the province, and would
supply 5% of the province's power. Ontario currently has only 3 MW of wind
capacity installed, 40% less than PEI, and 3% of Quebec's capacity. Planned
construction this year will expand Ontario's capacity by more than 400% to 14.5
MW. For more information contact the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CANwea),
3553 - 31 Street NW Suite 100, Calgary, Alberta T2L 2K7, ph. 1-800-922-6932, fax
403-282-1238, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Visit their website at http://www.canwea.ca/ .
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CANADA GOVERNMENT OFFERS NEW WIND
ENERGY TAX CREDITS
The Government of Canada has made a $260-million commitment in Federal
Budget 2001 to harnessing wind energy. It is called the Wind Power Production
Incentive (WPPI)and will support wind power production and the deployment of
wind energy across Canada. While the total cost to the government is very small
compared to the subsidies provided to the oil and coal industries, it is a step
in the right direction. "This is a major kick start for the industry, and shows
the Federal Government is committed to solving emissions and climate change
issues in Canada," says Guy Painchaud, president of the Canadian Wind Energy
Association (CanWEA). "The Federal Government has now provided their half of
what the industry believes is needed to build substantial volumes of wind
energy, comments Fred Gallagher, CanWEA's past president. We now challenge
provincial governments to do their part, as well."
"Canada has taken a strong step towards improving the security of its
electricity supply," says Painchaud. "Wind-generated energy is more secure than
other sources of supply, such as nuclear or fossil plants, because it is
indigenous and distributed widely, providing regional economic benefits while
being less vulnerable to disruption. Wind energy also has stable cost, and is
not subject to unexpected price changes resulting from changes in fuel cost."
The Canadian Wind Energy Association has been promoting the implementation of
wind friendly policies at both levels of government. Provinces can encourage
wind energy development by introducing Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS),
green procurement, as well as reviewing taxation and land use policies. RPSs
requires electricity retailers to obtain a percentage of their power from
renewable sources. To date, only British Columbia has introduced an RPS. CanWEA
believes that wind energy can contribute 5% of Canada's supply by 2010, if the
right government policies are implemented. For more information contact the
Canadian Wind Energy Association (CANwea), 3553 - 31 Street NW Suite 100,
Calgary, Alberta T2L 2K7, ph. 1-800-922-6932, fax 403-282-1238, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Visit their website
at http://www.canwea.ca/ . See
the Government of Canada website on wind energy at http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/css/imb/hqlib/200276e.htm
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VISION QUEST WIND ELECTRIC INC.,
ALBERTA, ONE OF THE LARGEST WIND ENERGY PRODUCERS IN
CANADA
Vision Quest Wind Electric Inc. is in the business of selling energy from
the wind, and products related to that wind generated electricity. They own and
operate sixty-seven wind turbine power plants in Alberta. Four of the plants
have a peak output of 600 kilowatts, and an annual energy production of
approximately 1.75 million kilowatt-hours, the balance have a peak output of 660
kilowatts, with annual production of about 2 million kilowatt-hours. The first
turbine at this growing site, Castle River East (#1), was commissioned in
November 1997. Tower is 40 m high. Turbine is V44-600. Subsequent units are 660
kW unit, the first of which was installed in June 2000. Fourteen more turbines
were installed in autumn 2000, seven more installed in winter 2001, eighteen
more installed in July 2001, fifteen more installed by early October, and four
more were installed in November 2001, for a total of 60 wind turbines at this
windfarm. For more information contact Vision Quest Windelectric Inc., Suite
100, 3553 - 31 Street NW, Calgary, Alberta T2L 2K7, ph. 403-289-4553, fax
403-282-1238. Visit the website at http://www.greenenergy.com/facilities.html
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LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
YOU GUYS ARE DUPED ABOUT WIND ENERGY'S BENEFITS
Dear Editor, Gallon Report:
Those first two articles in your last newsletter on the conflicts of
opposing wind energy in Cape Cod are pretty naive. You must have someone
working for you who could analyze the claims coming out of the U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE) and the wind industry and keep you from buying the false and
misleading claims about the benefits of wind energy. Sincerely,
Glenn R. Schleede
Reston, Virginia, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************
LOCALS FIGHT PROPOSED NEW WINDMILL
IN PICTON, ONTARIO
Here we go again. Yet another "Not in my Backyard" (NIMBY) group is opposed
to the construction of one windmill outside their town. Wind farm developer
Vision Quest Windelectric Inc., of Calgary, proposes to build a wind farm
in Prince Edward County, near Picton, Ontario, Canada, on the shores of Lake
Ontario. The Ontario windfarm would have either 32 small wind turbines or 12
large turbines on 280 hectares of land in a project estimated to cost
$35-million. Following public concern over aesthetics and bird deaths. The
Ontario project would be Canada's fifth wind farm. There are two in Alberta and
two on Prince Edward Island.. Vision Quest received approval in August for one
test windmill on the Ontario site. Local environmentalists, Barbara Moon, of
Soup Harbour, Ontario, opposes the southern Ontario wind energy project. She
says the turbines would have deadly effects on the area's hawks, eagles,
long-tail ducks, herons and the endangered Henslow's sparrow. "I'm really,
really angry that this tourist area will be ruined by industrial development,"
she recently told reporters.
Jason Edworthy, executive director of Vision Quest Windelectric, said
that, "I respect the public's right to be concerned and everybody should
be. It is a problem, though, when you run into people who will not accept
facts." Vision Quest has a wind farm near Pincher Creek, Alta., producing enough
electricity for 20,000 homes. "There seems to be an incredible amount of pride
in them. The Chamber of Economic Development in Pincher Creek has on its
letterhead, 'Wind energy Capital of Canada.' The mill [municipal tax] rate went
down slightly because of the wind energy industry, a lot of people have jobs and
it's environmentally benign," Mr. Edworthy said. Source, "Wind power
generates controversy: Picton, Ontario," by Robert Remington, The National Post
newspaper, September 27, 2002.
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DENMARK ARTICLE ON WIND ENERGY
SITING CONFLICTS IN THE U.S.
The following is an article by Lyn Harrison, Editor of the Denmark
Windpower Monthly Newsletter, entitled, "Elitist NIMBYism."
"The United States is not a country to be left out of trail-blazing
technology advances. While Europe this month celebrates the completed
installation of the most ambitious offshore wind power station yet built,
America has far grander plans for the ultimate in environmentally-friendly power
production. Astonishingly, however, proposals for a series of offshore wind
stations off the crowded coast of the United States Northeast are being
torpedoed in a dirty-tricks campaign captained by some of the nation's most
influential political heavyweights: Senator Ted Kennedy, Representative William
Delahunt, and, to a lesser degree, presidential hopeful Senator John Kerry. All
are Massachusetts Democrats and all, ironically enough, call themselves
environmentalists. More to the point, what all three also have in common is a
vested interest in protecting the scenic vistas of multi-million dollar seaside
homes in the region."
"All this at a time when the American people crave change. A year ago they
watched terrorists destroy downtown New York City, a disaster wrought upon
America partly because of its addiction to oil. Then they watched as much of the
continent was parched by drought, while news flooded in of an awaiting
ecological disaster from melting glaciers. A year after the Twin Towers
disaster, a genuine nationwide grassroots effort has materialised out of the
misery. Fuelled by both the left and the right, the desire for both carbon free
energy and energy security has legitimised the search for clean, renewable
energy in the United States. But when the search for fossil-free energy meets up
with the fossils running the US Congress, we meet with the ultimate NIMBYism:
"If I can't keep it out of my own backyard, then I'll keep it out of all the
national backyards." Most ironic of all, perhaps, is that the very American
politicians who are opposing offshore wind farms are also opposed to drilling
for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This begs the question: where do
they expect our energy to come from?" Source, Windpower Monthly, PO Box 100,
DK-8420 Knebel, Denmark, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
See the full article at the website http://www.wpm.co.nz/WPM:CURRENTLEADER:109706
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NEW BOOK ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL
IMPACTS OF WIND MILLS
Sometimes windmills can be ugly and change the natural horizon with
hundreds of very tall and obtrusive power structures. This
causes aesthetics problem and can ruin the view for many people. A new book
entitled, "Wind Power in View: Energy Landscapes in a Crowded World," has been
published by Academic Press, an American imprint of Dutch publisher Elsevier. It
reports that, "wind energy is one of the world's fastest growing sources of
energy. The manufacture, installation, and operation of wind turbines has become
a multi-billion-dollar industry. With thousands of new wind turbines sprouting
from fields and backyards across Europe and North America, questions naturally
arise about what they should look like and where they should and should not be
installed." Few books have attempted to tackle the thorny land-use questions
raised by wind energy's hard-won respectability. As the world increasingly turns
toward renewable sources of energy to avert global warming, what will wind's
role become? Will it be welcomed as the "green saviour" that some see, or will
it be fought as vigorously as nuclear power? The outcome could well hinge on how
the public views wind energy on the landscape. The book, Wind Power in View, is
a collaboration by four American and five European writers. Wind Power in View:
Energy Landscapes in a Crowded World; Academic Press, San Diego, California,
February, 2002, ISBN 0125463340; US$59.95. Go to the website http://www.apcatalog.com/ , and type in the
words "wind power" and hit "Search" and it will bring up the book for you.
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AUSTRALIA INVESTS IN WIND POWER WITH
VESTAS IN TASMANIA: 128 MW
In February 2002, the Hydro Tasmania utility in Australia committed to a major partnership agreement with Vestas. The partnership was formalised with Hydro Tasmania giving a Notice to Proceed to the Danish manufacturer for construction of the plant for Hydro Tasmania's wind farm developments. "The Notice to Proceed that we have signed today in essence places an unconditional order for 128 megawatts of wind turbines which we can call upon over the next few years as our specific development plans move into construction," Hydro Tasmania Chairman Peter Rae said in Burnie, Australia. In order to meet the growth expected in the Australian market, Vestas has now committed to the assembly of the turbine nacelles and the manufacture of fibreglass components for the turbines in northern Tasmania. Hydro Tasmania indicated that the project value, including operations and maintenance support and civil works, was likely to amount to some $200 million over the life of the agreement. Hydro Tasmania will develop Bluff Point wind farm. The Bluff Point development is 54 megawatts involving 31 turbines, each of 1.75 MW. They expect to have the Bluff Point stage, together with the new transmission line, in service by mid 2003. For more information contact Gill McCabe, Australian Wind Energy Association, GPO Box 1004, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia, ph. (+61 3) 9249 9636, fax (+61 3) 9249 9646, Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Visit their website at http://www.auswea.com.au/ . ******************************************************************
AUSTRALIA'S WIND MONITORING TOWERS
ARE UP
Australia's Wind Energy Research Unit (WERU) now has 23 out of 25
monitoring towers up and running for SEDA (Sustainable Energy Development
Authority) as part of a wind monitoring campaign for New South Wales. The sites
cover a diverse range of locations including Lord Howe Island, Broken Hill,
Yass, Orange and Armidale. Each site consists of a 40 metre tower and the wind
will be monitored for a period of two years. A regional wind resource assessment
tool called WindScape is under continuing development at the Wind Energy
Research Unit (WERU) of CSIRO Land and Water. The system makes use of data and
model predictions from global/continental-scale analysis down through to very
fine scale calculations on the scale of individual topographic features with
length scales from tens to hundreds of metres. Visit their website at http://www.clw.csiro.au/products/windenergy/
. Also see New Zealand's "Windpower Monthly" newsletter at http://www.wpm.co.nz/WPM:CURRENT:109706
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ATTEND THE WORLD CONFERENCE ON WIND
ENERGY IN SOUTH AFRICA IN 2003
The Minister of Minerals and Energy of South Africa, Ms Phumzile
Mlambo-Ngcuka announced during the World Summit on Sustainable Development
in Johannesburg, that South Africa will host the World Wind Energy
Conference and Exhibition 2003, in Cape Town, 23-26 November 2003. For more
information contact the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA), Avenue de la
Fauconnerie 73, 1170 Brussels, Belgium, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Visit the
website http://www.wwindea.org/default.htm
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U.S. NREL VALIDATES WIND ENERGY MAPS
FOR U.S. NORTHWEST
You must place windmills where the wind is. A wind company must be assured
of good strong winds in an area before investing in the equipment to turn wind
into electricity. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in Golden,
Colorado, with the U.S. Department of Energy recently led a project to validate
updated state wind resource maps for the northwestern United States. It was
produced by a private U.S. company, TrueWind Solutions (TWS). The independent
validation project was a cooperative activity among NREL, TWS, and
meteorological consultants. It became clear that using a numerical modelling
approach for wind resource mapping was rapidly gaining ground as a preferred
technique and if the trend continues, it will soon become the most widely used
technique around the world. The numerical modelling approach is a relatively
fast application compared to older mapping methods and, in theory, should be
quite accurate because it directly estimates the magnitude of boundary-layer
processes that affect the wind resource of a particular location. Numerical
modelling output combined with high-resolution terrain data can produce useful
wind resource information at a resolution of 1 km or lower.
The wind resource is expressed in terms of wind power classes, ranging from
class 1 (the lowest) to class 7 (the highest). Each class represents a range of
mean wind power density or approximate mean wind speed at specified heights
above the ground (see power class legend). Areas designated class 3 or greater
are suitable for most wind energy applications, whereas class 2 areas are
marginal and class 1 areas are generally not suitable. Local terrain features
may interact with the windfield to cause the wind power to vary as much as ~ 50%
to 100% from the assessment value. Thus, there may be local areas of high wind
power in regions estimated to have low wind power; conversely, some local areas
may have lower wind power than that shown by this assessment. Maps depicting the
degree of certainty of these assessment values should be used in combination
with this wind resource map. See the U.S. Wind resources map at the
website http://rredc.nrel.gov/wind/pubs/atlas/maps/chap2/2-01m.html
. Also see the website http://www.nrel.gov/wind/usmaps.html
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SWEDEN'S ENVIRONMENT MINISTER CALLS
FOR END OF SUBSIDIES TO COAL MINING AND LARGE SCALE
FARMING
"State support to coal mining and large-scale farming poses a major threat
to the environment and should be cut, both in Europe and worldwide," Sweden's
environment minister said. Sweden, often in the lead on environmental and
development issues, wanted the Johannesburg summit on sustainable development to
tackle subsidies and set clear targets on issues such as clean water,
bio-diversity, and poverty reduction. "If you focussed on one single issue that
would be important for the future, it would of course be to get away from the
environmentally unsound subsidies and to replace them with environmentally sound
incentives," minister Kjell Larsson said. "As long as we subsidize, for example,
the mining of coal, it will be extremely difficult for green energy to break
through in the marketplace," he said. Reducing subsidies in industry and
agriculture would lead to job losses, but it would also create new jobs in the
renewable energy field, said Larsson, a Social Democrat facing elections on
Sept. 15, 2002. The European Union, though divided on issues such as farming
subsidies and fishing, has been a leader in promoting the Kyoto Protocol on
greenhouse gases, and all E.U. states plan to ratify the treaty on climate
change by the end of May. Washington's rejection of Kyoto last year has removed
European companies' incentive to develop new technologies, whereas the treaty
should be seen as creating new business opportunities, Larsson said. Demand for
new technology to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions will grow, he predicted.
"The response of the industry has been a bit too weak.... I would have liked to
see more effort coming from companies," he said. Source, Anna Peltola, Reuters
News Service, Stockholm, Sweden, May 24, 2002. See the full story at http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/05/05242002/reu_47335.asp
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PRO-FORM IS A NEW SOFTWARE FOR
EVALUATING RENEWABLE ENERGY AND EFFICIENCY PROJECTS
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has introduced ProForm, free software
that assesses the environmental and financial impacts of renewable energy and
energy efficiency projects such as wind turbine installations, residential
lighting efficiency programs, and energy efficiency improvements in commercial
buildings. This can be used to calculate the reduction of global warming
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The spreadsheet-based software calculates a
project's expected financial indicators and avoided emissions of carbon dioxide
and air pollutants. Proform allows users to investigate how changes in basic
assumptions affect a project's key parameters. Proform can be used to help
developers prepare proposals to submit to potential investors, financiers or
regulators. Source, The Green Business Letter, September 2002. See the software
at the website http://eetd.lbl.gov/proform
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