Tag Archives: renewable energy

L.A. needs desert solar farms — but not everyone’s happy about it

Currently the city of Los Angeles gets about one-fifth of its electricity from renewable resources. By the end of the decade this will increase to one-third. As the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), the largest municipal utility in the United States with over 4 million customers, slowly phases out coal and some […]

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August 13, 2012 0 Comments Short URL , , , , , , , , Ari's Blog, California, Climate change, Energy, Environment, Solar, Water

Transmission Projects in the Southwest

Today I had the privilege of sneaking into, i.e. walking into with permission, a panel on current transmission projects in the Southwest held as part of the two-day “Energy in the Southwest” conference currently underway at the Santa Fe Hilton (price tag in the quadruple digits). Jeremy Turner, Executive Director of the New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Authority (RETA) […]

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July 9, 2012 0 Comments Short URL , , , , , , , Ari's Blog, Arizona, Energy, Environment, New Mexico, Solar, Wind

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