The Ontario Energy Board announced it is resuming work on province-wide programs related to low-income energy customers. The Board’s work on Conservation and Demand Management includes coordinating with the Ontario Power Authority as it develops a program for low-income residential consumers to ensure there is a coordinated approach to deliver CDM and Demand Side Management programs by electricity and natural gas distributors.
The Board also issued a draft CDM Code for electricity distributors on June 22, 2010 setting out the obligations and requirements that licensed electricity distributors must comply with in relation to their CDM targets. The targets aim to reduce electricity consumption by 6,000 gigawatt hours and to reduce peak provincial electricity demand by 1,330 megawatts over a four-year period…APS and NextEra Energy Resources of Florida announced plans for a 99-megawatt wind energy facility on public and private lands 13 miles north of Williams, Az.
The Perrin Ranch Wind Energy Center will contain 62 turbines spread across 20,000 acres west of Highway 64 with construction expected to begin in mid-2011.