To estimate the amount of electricity produced by the WindCube®, please use the WindCube® Performance Curve, which shows electric output per year at different average wind speeds.  For example, at an average wind speed of 7 meters per second (about 15 miles per hour), the WindCube® will generate about 160,000 kWh/yr of electricity.  There are many factors that go into calculating the performance curve and represents power generation under assumed average conditions and parameters. The actual power generation may vary from the average based on specific location. 

 

Just as added info an average home uses roughly 16,000 kWh/yr

 

The charts are shown here http://www.getsmartenergy.com/the_windcube_technical.php

 

The actual site for the windcube is http://www.getsmartenergy.com/index.php

New state energy fund to plow ahead

Thursday,  January 28, 2010 - 3:17 AM

By Mark Niquette

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

State officials hope that a program Gov. Ted Strickland announced in his State of the State address will produce loans no later than May to support alternative-energy projects in Ohio.

 

The new Energy Gateway Fund was one of about 20 initiatives that Strickland proposed Tuesday as a way to create "green" jobs.  It will make funding available to help wind, fuel-cell, solar and other alternative-energy projects move forward.  The plan is to pool $40 million in federal and state stimulus funding to attract at least $40 million in additional private funding to help finance new energy projects.

 

Full article at http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/01/28/copy/SOS_folo.ART_ART_01-28-10_B1_92GE6U1.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

Huge solar panel farm coming to southeast Ohio

Published: Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 2:41 PM    Updated: Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 3:03 PM

John Funk, The Plain Dealer

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- In a joint news conference with Gov. Ted Strickland, American Electric Power CEO Michael Morris said AEP is partnering with a developer to build a 50 million-watt solar field on 500 acres in southeast Ohio that was once a strip mine.

 

"The future has recognized Ohio," Strickland said in brief remarks.

 

Full story at: http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/10/huge_solar_panel_farm_coming_t.html

News Release

 

http://elpc.org/2011/01/05/new-elpc-study-finds-over-150-ohio-companies-working-in-wind-and-solar-power-industry

 

New ELPC Study Finds over 150 Ohio Companies Working in Wind and Solar Power Industry

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

 

 

 

Columbus – The Environmental Law & Policy Center has released a new study of Ohio’s wind and solar energy supply chain. The study finds that 106 Ohio companies are doing business with the wind power industry and 63 Ohio companies are part of the solar energy supply chain.

 

Ohio’s strong manufacturing base and skilled workforce, together with supportive policies and smart investments have helped make Ohio a center for clean energy manufacturing. From major companies like First Solar and Cardinal Fastener to over 100 small manufacturers, developers and service firms; clean energy means business for Ohio.

 

“Wind and solar power has created thousands of good jobs across Ohio,” said Howard Learner, Executive Director of the Environmental Law & Policy Center. “Longstanding manufacturing companies are retooling to supply the growing clean energy market and new businesses are expanding. Smart policies can continue that growth.”

 

The report finds that wind industry suppliers employ over 7,500 people in Ohio and, according to the Ohio Department of Development, solar manufacturing has created over 1,500 jobs statewide.

 

“Ohio has worked hard to develop a climate conducive to advanced energy suppliers. Ohio-based companies are providing components and products for the energy sector worldwide,” said Scott Miller, Director of Energy and Environmental Program’s at Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs. “As the global need for affordable clean energy increases, this state is poised to take advantage of new technologies and the business and job growth that will come with it.”

 

The report profiles Ohio businesses that see clean energy as a key part of the state’s economic future. These businesses are looking forward to sound policies that will support the domestic market for clean energy, creating more jobs and economic growth for Ohio.

 

“The Report comes at a critical time for the future or renewables in Ohio,” said Carrie Cullen Hitt of the Solar Alliance. “Many companies are exploring investment opportunities and this demonstrates that Ohio offers a hospitable environment for growing businesses. As described in the Report, Maintaining and expanding supportive policies in the future is key.”

 

The report notes that strong regulatory and tax policies are key to growing any industry, and the wind industry is no exception. The proposed strong federal renewable energy standard would help grow the local economy by increasing Ohio’s export opportunities for both wind power and manufactured wind turbine components and professional services.

 

To download a copy of the report, visit www.elpc.org/OhioEnergy.

 

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Former Michigan governor proposes national clean energy policy

She says America needs a national policy to compete for green jobs on a global scale.

By Laura A. Bischoff, Columbus Bureau

Updated 8:32 AM Thursday, April 28, 2011

 

COLUMBUS — While Ohio and Michigan are among the 29 states with renewable energy standards, America needs a national clean energy policy to compete for green jobs on a global scale, according to former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm.

 

Granholm, a Democrat who served eight years as Michigan governor before stepping down due to term limits last year, is serving as a senior adviser to the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Clean Energy Program and urging adoption of national policies to promote clean energy jobs.

 

Granholm delivered a pep talk on green jobs to the University Clean Energy Alliance of Ohio on Wednesday in Columbus.

Read more at: http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/former-michigan-governor-proposes-national-clean-energy-policy-1146822.html

Gov. Brown pushes renewable energy goal at UCLA conference

July 25, 2011 |  4:05 pm

 

Gov. Jerry Brown wants a major chunk of California’s renewable energy to come from urban rooftops and backyards, rather than just the massive solar and wind installations scattered around the outskirts of the state.

 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/07/gov-brown-pushes-12-gigawatt-renewable-energy-goal-at-ucla-conference.html

 

I'm glad to see Brown pushing this. I've long been perplexed by remote solar-panel "farms" that use up land and detract from nice views -- all to collect in one concentrated point a form of energy available everywhere, and then build transmission infrastructure to take the energy to where the population is. Why not collect the energy at the point where it's needed? The only reason for solar farms that I can see is that power companies still are wedded to the old model of big plants and lots of infrastructure.

Cincinnati may soon be powered by 100% renewable energy

By Randy A. Simes, UrbanCincy

February 6, 2012

 

Cincinnati is working on a new power aggregation deal right now that could lead to the entire city being powered from 100 percent renewable energy sources. The deal, city officials say, could be finalized within the coming months and be in place for consumers by summer 2012.

 

Such a move would make Cincinnati the largest city in the United States to have its energy supply come from 100 percent renewable sources, and it might be accomplished without any significant cost difference for ratepayers.

 

The way it would work, city officials tell UrbanCincy, is by requiring power providers to include quotes for both the cheapest electricity available and 100 percent renewable electricity. In Oak Park, IL, for example, the bids came back so competitive that city officials decided to go with the 100 percent renewable solution.

 

“There is no guarantee that our bids will come in the same as Oak Park’s, but the question may be whether we are willing to pay an additional one percent to pay for renewable energy,” explained Office of Environment Quality (OEQ) director Larry Falkin.

 

The movement towards sustainability has evidently picked up steam in Cincinnati as of late. At the first of two required public hearings, approximately 70 people came out to speak in favor of using completely renewable energy sources, and the environmental advocacy group Greenpeace flew a hot air ship over Cincinnati last week advocating for such change.

 

“The biggest thing impacting our carbon footprint is how we get our electricity,” said Falkin who explained that Cincinnati currently gets approximately 85 percent of its energy from coal. “This is probably the biggest opportunity we’ll have over the next several years to dramatically reduce Cincinnati’s carbon footprint.”

 

After a positive first hearing at City Council’s Budget & Finance Committee, officials expect that the effort will move forward and receive approval from the full council on Wednesday. Should that take place, the request for proposals (RFP) would then go out within the next two to three weeks.

 

Even if the response to the city’s RFP does not come back as favorable as Oak Park’s, city officials may be able to structure the deal to offer consumers a choice between the cheapest electricity option and a 100 percent renewable electricity option.

 

“There are a lot of things Cincinnati is doing to position itself as a leader in sustainability and going green – both in the public and private sectors,” Falkin concluded. “This is a significant part of that total package in terms of branding Cincinnati as a progressive city, and cities across the country may start to look to adopt the Cincinnati solution for energy.”

 

More information and images here:

http://www.urbancincy.com/2012/02/cincinnati-may-be-powered-by-100-renewable-energy-by-summer-2012/

^ That would be weird. And cool. I'd be pleasantly surprised if the price is reasonable enough to implement.

 

Published: Sunday 20 January 2013

Conservative attacks on state renewable energy standards are on the rise.

 

States’ adoption of renewable energy standards—which require electric utility companies to produce a portion of their electricity from wind, solar, and other renewable sources—has considerably driven clean energy advances in recent years. Though Congress has failed to enact a nationwide standard, policymakers at the state level have enthusiastically filled the void, with 29 states and the District of Columbia adopting hard targets for renewable energy production and another eight states setting renewable energy goals. Standards place an obligation on electricity-supply companies to reach set targets, while renewable energy goals are voluntary for companies—although states might incentivize a utility for reaching a set goal.

 

Those mandates have brought a wide range of benefits, ranging from robust clean energy economies to lower carbon emissions and improved public health. Since the beginning of 2009, eight states—California, Colorado, Delaware,Hawaii, Kansas, Nevada, New Jersey and New York—have increased their standards, while three states—Indiana,Oklahoma and West Virginia—have established voluntary goals. Six other states—Colorado, Maine, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio and Washington state—have beaten back attempts to repeal their standards. Most of the states with renewable energy standards on the books are meeting or are close to meeting their interim targets.

 

Nonetheless, conservative attacks on state renewable energy standards are on the rise.

 

Read more at:  http://www.nationofchange.org/states-renewable-energy-policies-under-attack-alec-heartland-institute-and-koch-brothers-1358698613

Page 3 of this thread is full of references to Republican Jon Husted introducing the "renewable energy portfolio standard", along with other energy policies in 2008.  Big sigh

Drops in Ohio clean energy investment could hurt jobs, growth

Posted on 01/22/2015 by Kathiann M. Kowalski

 

A drop in investments in Ohio’s clean energy industry could cost the state jobs, say industry experts. Matters could be made worse by continuing uncertainty about the future of Ohio’s renewable energy and energy efficiency standards.

 

Last week the Pew Charitable Trusts released a report documenting the huge growth in investments in Ohio’s clean energy industry in the years following adoption of those standards in 2008.

 

That same report also shows a huge drop after state lawmakers began debating changes to those standards in 2013. The study’s authors expect investment levels will stay low through at least 2017.

 

MORE:

http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2015/01/22/drops-in-ohio-clean-energy-investment-could-hurt-jobs-growth/

Ohio is turning into Mississippi. Remind me again why I should stay in a state that doesn't know what century we're in?

 

House Votes To Pause Enforcement Of State's Green Energy Standards

http://radio.wosu.org/post/house-votes-pause-enforcement-states-green-energy-standards

That would be nice.

 

Recycling more would add jobs and create a more plentiful environment. I can't find the page on Los Angles' sanitation web-site at the moment (can't remember if it was through the city of Los Angles or the county...), but by attaining a 50% recycling rate (a goal set for attainment for 2000 IIRC back in the 1980s), it has created thousands of jobs and millions upon millions of economic benefit.

 

 

Kasich vetoes renewable energy freeze, putting standards back into effect

By Tom Knox, Reporter - Columbus Business First

Updated: December 27, 2016, 4:50pm EST

 

Ohio Gov. John Kasich has vetoed a bill that would have continued a freeze on the state’s renewable energy standards.  Kasich turned away the Republican-backed bill that would have made renewable and energy efficiency goals for electric companies voluntary for the next two years.  It would have been an effective continuation of a freeze of the standards he signed in 2014.

 

The governor has repeatedly said that continuing the suspension of the standards was not an option, though he had not explicitly stated whether he would veto this specific bill.  It was the last day he could sign or veto the bill and others that legislators delivered to his desk this month.

 

MORE: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2016/12/27/kasich-vetoes-renewable-energy-freeze-putting.html

^ And some reactions to Gov. Kasich's veto from republican legislators - particularly from Sen. Bill Seitz, R-Cincinnati:

 

Seitz hopes Trump will 'save us' and more reactions to Kasich vetoing renewable energy freeze

 

Environmental groups are loudly cheering Ohio Gov. John Kasich's veto of a bill that would have effectively frozen the state's renewable energy standards for another two years.  Kasich vetoed House Bill 554 on Tuesday, going against his own Republican party that passed the legislation to make voluntary a rule that electric companies meet a portion of their power through clean-energy sources like wind and solar. ... The governor's veto message cited businesses, especially tech companies, that increasingly look to renewable energy as power sources. He said the bill "amounts to self-inflicted damage to both our state’s near- and long-term economic competitiveness. Therefore, this veto is in the public interest."

 

Not all are giddy at the governor's decision.  Sen. Bill Seitz, R-Cincinnati, has tried to halt the standards for years ... "It is apparent that Governor Kasich cares more about appeasing his coastal elite friends in the renewable energy business than he does about the millions of Ohioans who decisively rejected this ideology when they voted for President-elect Trump," Seitz said in a statement.  "We can only hope that President Trump and his amazing cabinet of free market capitalists will save us from the regulatory overreach of Al Gore-style policies that take unnecessary money out of ratepayers’ pockets. ... We will do our part by launching a full scale effort next session to totally repeal these (former Gov. Ted) Strickland-era mandates."

 

The 2017 legislative session will feature both chambers with enough Republicans to potentially pass veto-proof bills, posing a challenge and, perhaps, just a short-term win to Kasich and supporters of the bill.  Lawmakers, including incoming Senate President Larry Obhof, R-Medina, say the new session will feature a comprehensive look at energy policy.

 

MORE: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2016/12/27/seitz-hopes-trump-will-save-us-and-more-reactions.html

Hilarious.  Republicans complaining that we can't continue to destroy the planet and our natural resources.  What a joke.

"Also on Tuesday, Kasich used his line-item veto to reject a $264 million sales-tax break for the oil and gas industry"... https://t.co/Clkd6a8bT0

Maybe someone from Ohio Solar has been in Kasich's ear --

 

Not to mention that the Chinese government is highly committed to renewables. In fact, it was largely owing to Chinese investment and research and development that solar costs have fallen 80%. In fact, China is able to reduce its subsidies to renewables because solar panel prices have fallen 30% this year alone! The world is one market, with some lags, so if Chinese panels fall dramatically in cost (they will) it cuts costs for everyone. The problem is that then it is the Chinese who get the profits on this $100 billion sector (which will grow in size), not American companies. What Trump and the GOP may actually accomplish is to create a loud whooshing sound of American energy dollars hurtling toward Beijing, while we are left with old costly inefficient coal and natural gas plants.

 

http://www.juancole.com/2016/12/chinese-solar-juggernaut.html

 

I doubt the solar industry is dominated by "Coastal Elites" any more. Too many greedy Flyover Country fat cats are attracted when there's real money in something.

I somehow strongly doubt that Kasich takes advice from Juan Cole, even when the blind squirrel finds a nut.

 

That said, the article Columbo posted is still missing some important details, i.e., what the actual 2017 impact of unfreezing the standards will be.  The article says:

 

The Ohio legislature approved standards in 2008 but revisited them in 2014. The law mandates electric companies by 2025 produce 12.5 percent of their power via renewable energy sources – 0.5 percent must come from solar – and find ways for customers to cut electricity consumption by the same year.

 

OK, but does this mean that the two-year freeze from 2014 to 2016 bumps that target out by two years?  Is this something with interim targets less than 12.5%?  Or is it possible for a utility to bring a massive amount of wind power online in 2024 in order to meet the target?  (That might even be practical if the cost of wind power continues to fall, in which case you'd wait as long as possible before springing for the costs, though that also presumes a steady combined average cost of capital, which is anything but guaranteed if interest rates rebound before 2025, which seems far more likely than not.)

Bill Seitz's entire statement was one big oxymora.

 

He acts like fossil fuels already don't receive public subsidy and Trump doesn't want to rescind global free trade. ?

That's right, Salt of the Earth people such as oil barons and Donald Trump deserve our real respect.

FirstEnergy announces likely closure or sale of Davis-Besse nuclear power plant:

 

http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/ohio/davis-besse-plant-may-be-closed-in-cost-cutting-move/380390567

Bill Seitz's entire statement was one big oxymora.

 

He acts like fossil fuels already don't receive public subsidy and Trump doesn't want to rescind global free trade. ?

 

Including the $264 million tax credit bonanza for the oil/gas industry Seitz sneaked into the lame-duck bill before Kasich line-item vetoed it.

Hey Ohio. 1.3% is Embarrassing.  That means there are Billions of dollars in paychecks that are NOT being cashed by Ohio workers....

 

#Windpower fact of the day: Four states now generate 30% or more of their electricity using wind energy. https://t.co/IgJpCzrWdN

Traditionally conservative states are adopting renewable energy for economic reasons -- Ohio should follow suit.

https://www.juancole.com/2018/10/economics-embracing-climate.html

 

The U.S. risks being left behind as other countries bring more renewable energy online.

But there is one worry here, which is that China will realize so many technological and economic gains from its renewables revolution that it will leave the rickety old fossil-fuels based United States in the dust. Geopolitics is in part economic competition. China is on the cusp of being the world’s largest economy even in nominal gdp, and if it realizes a 6 percent of gdp savings from renewables (the fuel of which is free) while the US goes on using much more expensive legacy fuels (as the Trump administration insists), Beijing’s rise to the foremost superpower could be accelerated.

https://www.juancole.com/2018/10/renewables-revolution-china.html

Scotland Is Generating So Much Wind Energy It Could Power Two Scotlands

https://www.intelligentliving.co/scotland-wind-energy-twice/

On 9/4/2019 at 7:21 AM, KJP said:

Scotland Is Generating So Much Wind Energy It Could Power Two Scotlands

https://www.intelligentliving.co/scotland-wind-energy-twice/

But what of all the cancer it will cause?????? ?

Think of the bald eagles shredded to pieces...