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VC Investment in Green Tech Up to US $1.2B in Q2
Greentech Media Inc. this week released quarterly data showing that venture capital investment in green technologies totaled US $1.2 billion in 85 deals in the second quarter of 2009. This is up from $836 million in 59 deals in the first quarter of 2009. [MORE]

Riverstone Acquires Babcock & Brown's North American Wind Holdings
Riverstone Holdings LLC and the management team of Babcock & Brown's North American Energy Group confirmed the purchase of the wind development portfolio from Babcock & Brown LP to form Pattern Energy Group LP. Pattern Energy will be an independent, fully integrated energy company that develops, constructs, owns and operates renewable energy and transmission assets across North America and parts of Latin America. [MORE]

New Gamesa Prototype Unveiled
Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica has revealed the first prototype of its G10x - 4.5 MW product platform at the Cabezo Negro R&D wind farm located in the Jaulín local authority in the Spanish province of Saragossa. [MORE]

Nominations Open for Lifetime Leadership Awards
People who know worthy nominees for the Building Efficiency Lifetime Leadership (BELL) award are encouraged to visit http://bit.ly/BELLdoc to review the nomination criteria and download the award nomination form. [MORE]

Nacel Energy To Build 20-MW Texas Wind Project
Nacel Energy Corporation has entered into four long term wind development rights agreements covering 1025 acres in Donley County, Texas. The rights include access to the area where the company plans to develop Leila Lakes, its fifth wind energy project in the state. At project build-out, Nacel Energy anticipates 20 megawatts (MW), or more, of installed capacity at Leila Lakes. [MORE]

Federal Efforts a Travesty
"'We've ensured a role for coal," said Rick Boucher, Democratic Congressman from West Virginia, regarding the federal climate change "mitigation" bill that recently passed the House. I'm forced to use quotation marks around "mitigation" because this "deal with the devil," as Ted Nordhaus, of the Breakthrough Institute, described it, confirmed my worst suspicions: even under a progressive and popular President the chance of an effective federal climate change mitigation bill passing through Congress is minimal to none. [MORE]

Thornton Bank Offshore Project Officially Commissioned
Thornton Bank, Belgium's first offshore wind farm, has been officially inaugurated. [MORE]

Funding for a wide range of energy related projects
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South Dakota PUC Adopts Interconnection Rules for Systems up to 10 MW
SOUTH DAKOTA –On May 29, the South Dakota PUC issued an order approving their proposed South Dakota Small Generation Interconnection Rules. The rules specify interconnection procedures for systems up to 10 MW, based on the following tiers: Tier 1: Includes inverter-based systems of 10 kW or less which uses only lab tested equipment, interconnecting to a distribution line. Tier 2: Facilities that do not qualify for tier 1 review, with a nameplate rating of two MW or less,... [MORE]

Virginia SCC Adopts Favorable Interconnection Rules
VIRGINIA – On May 8, Virginia’s State Corporation Commission adopted significant improvements to the state’s interconnection procedures. This order was published in the Virginia Register of Regulations on June 8. The procedures specify a three-tiered rule set covering all utilities, all eligible technologies and systems up to 20 MW, including those interconnecting to both the distribution grid and the transmission grid (if an interconnection is subject to state... [MORE]

Vermont Enacts Feed-in Tariff, Adopts Net Metering Rules
VERMONT – The Vermont Energy Act, (H.B. 446) which was passed in May 2009 without Governor Douglas’ signature, included a provision for a Feed-in Tariff (FIT). The bill requires all Vermont retail electricity providers to purchase electricity generated by eligible renewable energy facilities through the Sustainably Priced Energy Enterprise Development (SPEED) Program via long-term contracts with fixed standard offer rates. Eligible renewable energy facilities are qualifying SPEED... [MORE]

Kansas Enacts State-Wide Net Metering Legislation
KANSAS – On May 22, Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson signed HB 2369, establishing a renewable portfolio standard and a state-wide net metering law. The bill’s approval came days after Kansas’ new governor reached a compromise with Sunflower Electric Power that would scale down the company’s plans to build two 700-MW coal plants (and allow it to build one 895-MW plant) in exchange for the renewable energy provisions in the bill. Former Governor Kathleen Sebelius last... [MORE]

Maine Enacts Legislation to Authorize Shared System Net Metering
On April 30th, Governor John Baldacci of Maine signed a significant reform bill (LD 336) on net billing to allow for shared ownership, an increase in eligible system size to 660 kW, and to expand the eligible technology to include micro-CHP with any technology and any fuel. Earlier in January, the Maine Public Utilities Commission had adopted draft rules that would amend the current net energy billing rule to allow net billing for customers who share in the ownership of an eligible facility... [MORE]

Freeing The Grid: States moving to the head of the class
How does something so unglamorous as, say, a state's net metering and interconnection policies, normally of interest to a small group of people, become so sophisticated, so fashionable, so competitive? Since 2006, The Network for New Energy Choices (NNEC) has issued Freeing the Grid (FTG), a report card grading states' policies for allowing homeowners and small business owners who generate renewable energy to connect to the grid and receive credit for the electricity they produce. "It (2006... [MORE]

Colorado PUC Issues Recommended Decision on NM/IC order; Governor Signs Renewable Energy/NM Legislation
COLORADO – On April 20th, an Administrative Law Judge for the Colorado PUC released a recommended decision modifying rules related to the state’s Renewable Energy Standard (RES). If ruled upon by the Commission, these rules would move Colorado further towards best practices in net metering and interconnection. These rules: 1. Clarify that third-party ownership is allowed for smaller systems ( [MORE]

Virginia Legislature Enacts Several Bills Pertaining to NM/IC
VIRGINIA – On April 8, the Virginia legislature and Governor Kaine enacted several bills pertaining to net metering and interconnection: HB 2155 retains system size caps for net metering but adds a clause to allow utilities to approve a higher capacity limit if they choose to do so. The bill also permits customers that are served on time-of-use tariffs to participate in net metering. Additionally, the bill specifies that customer-generators own the renewable energy... [MORE]