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Wed Dec 14 10:33:55 PST 2016


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-energy-computers-idUSKBN1431RV
https://www.nrdc.org/

California regulators were poised on Wednesday to adopt the nation's
first mandatory energy efficiency rules for computers and monitors --
devices that account for 3 percent of home electric bills and 7
percent of commercial power costs in the state.
The state Energy Commission said that when fully implemented, the plan
will save consumers $373 million a year and conserve as much
electricity annually as it takes to power all San Francisco's homes.
Final approval of the standards, expected at a meeting in Sacramento
of the five-member commission, caps a nearly two-year planning process
that had input from environmentalists, industry, scientists and
consumer groups. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an
environmental group that helped devise the standards, has said the new
standards would cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel
combustion in power generation by 700,000 tons a year. The California
standards set a benchmark for a machine's overall energy use and leave
manufacturers the flexibility to choose which efficiency measures to
use to meet it -- an approach that the NRDC says fosters innovation.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/first-offshore-wind-farm-in-us-waters-is-delivering-power-to-rhode-island/
http://dwwind.com/press/americas-first-offshore-wind-farm-powers/
http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20161212/deepwater-gets-ok-for-full-throttle-at-block-island-wind-farm
On Monday, energy company Deepwater Wind announced that its wind farm
three miles off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island, has the
all-clear to sell electricity to the regional power grid. The Block
Island Wind Farm is the first offshore wind energy plant in the U.S.,
and it's expected to produce 30 MW of electricity at full capacity.
Deepwater Wind is slowly ramping up energy output and still must
provide additional paperwork to the Rhode Island Coastal Resources
Management Council, but the executive director of that organization,
Grover Fugate, told the Providence Journal, "we don't anticipate any
major issues" to getting the wind farm fully online. The one hitch in
the Deepwater's plan is that one of the five turbines was recently
damaged when a drill bit was left in a critical part of turbine.
According to the Providence Journal, "the bit had caused damage to an
unspecified number of the 128 magnet modules that line the circular
generator and are critical to producing energy." Although the magnet
modules can apparently be replaced easily, Deepwater needs to have the
components shipped from France, where General Electric, the
manufacturer of the wind turbines, makes them. For now, four turbines
capable of churning out 6 MW of power each are operational. The
Providence Journal notes that National Grid will pay Deepwater Wind
24.4 cents per kilowatt hour of power, with the price escalating over
time to 47.9 cents per kilowatt hour. Because the residents of Block
Island have some of the most expensive electricity rates in the
nation, they will actually see energy savings, despite the price.
Mainland Rhode Islanders, on the other hand, will pay an extra $1.07
per month on average.


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