05.06.2015
New Wind Turbines Could Bring Huge Benefits to Mississippi
New wind speeds maps released by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) demonstrate the greatly increased potential for wind turbine development in Mississippi with advanced turbines. As...
05.01.2015
Bigger Turbines, Bigger Opportunities for Virginia
Virginia is currently home to at least six wind energy-related manufacturing facilities serving the domestic and international wind industry markets. In 2013, there were up to 500 direct and indirect...
04.28.2015
TVA 2015 IRP Public Comment Period Closes – What’s Next?
While the scope of TVA's IRP process has been unprecedented in the Southeast, some significant gaps between the IRP planning intent and recent decisions by TVA’s management and Board of Directors...
Nirvana Fallacy: Must Wind Energy be 100%?
Nirvana Fallacies are ways to justify the status quo. Put another way, the "Perfect is the enemy of the Good." In some bizarre sense, these fallacies implicitly claim that wind energy is worse than...
04.27.2015
Congressman Sanford Stands With the Coast, Rejects Offshore Drillling This Morning
04.24.2015
A Bright, Sunny Forecast for the Tennessee Valley
This blog was written by John D. Wilson, former Deputy Director for Regulatory Policy at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
04.23.2015
Duke fines for coal ash pile up, but the ash piles don’t shrink
04.22.2015
Wind Powers Jobs in Alabama
This is the second of eleven blogs in a series where the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy will highlight states throughout our region and their opportunities for wind energy development in advance...
04.20.2015
Could States Benefit From Revenue Sharing in the Atlantic?
04.17.2015
Is TVA Undervaluing Wind Energy?
TVA recently released its Draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). An IRP is a planning exercise to determine utility power plant needs 20 years into the future. The exercise depends on inputs (such as...
