Benefits Of Alternative Energy News

Alternative energy projects at risk

Central Maine Power Co.'s $1.4 billion transmission system upgrade isn't designed to handle the power that can be made available at times from new and existing alternative energy plants in northern and eastern Maine, federal utility regulators and the region's grid operator have determined.

Derided as fraud, Baldwin alternative energy company draws interest from Canadian investor

MOBILE, Alabama -- A trial in Mobile's federal court in 2009 appeared to expose a Baldwin County company's alternative energy operation as a fraud, but that has not stopped investors' interest in the Bay Minette-area plant.

For alternative energy producers, is it worth plugging in?

Questions about the adequacy of CMP's transmission grid – and the risk of losing so-called future capacity payments as a result – prompt questions on the part of several developers.

Regional city reps learn about wind energy

City representatives encountered high winds to and from Thursday evening's Northwest Iowa League of Cities meeting in Everly, where they learned the benefits of that wind. "As the cost of energy...

NRG opening alternative-energy resource center in El Segundo City Hall

The company that owns El Segundo's coastal power plant will open an alternative energy-focused resource center in City Hall as part of a pilot program set to launch this month.

Guayaki Introduces Sparkling Yerba Mate Beverages

CHICAGO, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Yerba Mate, the caffeine alternative with the "strength of coffee, the health benefits of tea and the euphoria of chocolate" is now available in a sparkling ...