Vermont Senate Panel Gives Towns More Regulatory Authority Over Solar Projects

Towns would have more regulatory authority over solar energy projects under a proposal in the Senate.

The Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee added a provision to the state’s renewable energy bill, H.40, that allows towns to adopt bylaws requiring solar developers to comply with setback and screening requirements.

The committee passed the bill 4-1. Senate Finance will now take up the legislation.

Government, IIT-Bombay Launch Solar Project to Reduce Kerosene Subsidy

According to reports, the government has joined hands with IIT Bombay to implement cost-effective solar powered lighting solutions for rural population that will help save 36 million litres of kerosene and slash the subsidy bill on the polluting fuel by aboutRs 30,000 crore a year.

The scheme will be implemented jointly by the ministries of petroleum and new and renewable energy (MNRE), and funded through state-run oil firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) fund, government officials said. The ambitious programme will light up the lives of about 47% of the country’s population that lives mostly in villages, they said.

Exelon, Enviros Agree on Law Change to Spur Green Energy

Exelon Corp., Illinois' largest power generator, and environmental groups have reached an agreement in principle on legislation to jump-start the state's stalled clean-energy industry.

More solar power projects would get built in Illinois under the proposal, which seeks to fix what environmentalists say is a broken Illinois renewable energy law.

Renewable energy can augment dwindling resources

What will we do when petroleum fuel gets even more ridiculously expensive and hard to find?

That scenario may be more likely than you think.

“If we are lucky, and there are no sizeable collapses or wars, we probably have 10-12 years of a fairly broad peak in petroleum production in which to get our act together to start looking at the next plan down the road,” said Charles Woodward, who owns Natural Resource Co., Victor, ID.

Woodward spoke at an energy efficiency workshop at the Driggs City Center, sponsored by the Snake River Alliance.