Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association has scheduled public meetings in Ignacio and Farmington next month to explain the rationale for installing a 230-kilovolt transmission line between the two towns.
The line, for which a corridor has not yet been chosen, is needed to support growth in the region as well as the work of the gas and oil industry, Tri-State public affairs manager Brad Jones said during an interview last week at The Durango Herald. Tri-State’s existing generating capacity will supply the power.
A 115-kilovolt Tri-State line between Durango and Bayfield that …

CALGARY – Calgary’s mayor and aldermen say they don’t see the need for costly Edmonton-to-Calgary electricity transmission lines that consumers will have to help pay for, unofficially joining the anti-line campaign of city-owned power firm Enmax.
Those critics included the alderman bidding to join some of the line’s biggest promoters: Ald. Diane Colley-Urquhart, who’s running for the Stelmach Tories in next week’s Calgary-Glenmore byelection.
“I haven’t bought into the ‘blackout, brownout’ concern to raise fear among people,” she said, referring to Energy Minister Mel Knight’s warnings that without the major transmission network …

Calif. debates high standard for renewable energy
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Friday began approving legislation that would establish the nation’s most ambitious renewable-energy standards, even as some warned that the rules would increase energy costs and hurt the state’s economy.
The Senate and Assembly began voting on two companion bills that would require utilities to get one-third of their power from renewable energy sources by 2020. One bill cleared an initial hurdle in the Senate on a simple majority vote with just a few hours remaining in this year’s regular …

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IBM Global Financing to Speed up Broadband Access to Rural America With New
Financing That Benefits IBEC and DS2.
ARMONK, N.Y., and HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IBM
Global Financing, the lending and leasing business segment of IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced that it has recently reached a new financing arrangement that
would help accelerate customer access to high speed Internet in rural areas.
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The funding agreement would benefit Broadband over Power Line (BPL) technology
provider International Broadband Electric Communications, Inc. (IBEC) and one
of its leading integrated chip (IC) suppliers, DS2.  IBEC has developed
technology …