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In this February 8, 2011 issue of
Intelligent Energy Portal
Intelligent Energy Portal Changes Name
Electrical Safety Violations at USPS
Poll Finds New Incentives Needed to Persuade Americans to Make Their Homes More Energy-Efficient
SDG&E Contracts for 315 MW From New Wind Energy Facility
Six ARPA-E Projects Illustrate Private Investors Willing to Fund Clean Energy Innovation
Georgia Power and EPRI to Study Solar PV Installation on Power Lines
Running Into the Wind
Leasing Your Rooftop for a Solar Installation
Intelligent Energy Portal Changes Name
Beginning February 8, 2011, the Intelligent Energy Portal website will take on its new name: SmartEnergyPortal.net.

Energy Spotlight
Electrical Safety Violations at USPS

 EC&M

As of the end of last year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration had issued fines totaling more than $6.2 million for what it describes as “willful and serious” electrical safety violations at 30 U.S. Postal Service processing and distribution and bulk mail facilities across the country (Safety Citations Time Line).

Energy News
Poll Finds New Incentives Needed to Persuade Americans to Make Their Homes More Energy-Efficient

 Smart Energy Portal

A national poll finds new incentives will be needed to persuade Americans to make energy-efficient improvements to their homes.

SDG&E Contracts for 315 MW From New Wind Energy Facility

 Smart Energy Portal

San Diego Gas & Electric has announced a 20-year contract for 315 megawatts (MW) of wind energy to be generated at Pattern Energy's Ocotillo Wind Energy Facility near Ocotillo, Calif., approximately 25 miles west of El Centro in the Imperial Valley.

Six ARPA-E Projects Illustrate Private Investors Willing to Fund Clean Energy Innovation

 Smart Energy Portal

In a little over one year, six projects that received a total of $23.6 million in seed funding from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Project Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) have generated more than $100 million in outside private capital investment.

Georgia Power and EPRI to Study Solar PV Installation on Power Lines

 Smart Energy Portal

Georgia Power and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) are conducting an 18-month study to evaluate how solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems may affect the utility's distribution system.

Energy Insights
Running Into the Wind

 By Gene Wolf, Technical Writer, T&D World

Who would have thought that storage would be a controversial topic? Not only controversial, but contentious enough to cause engineers to track me down and express their displeasure.

In the Know
Leasing Your Rooftop for a Solar Installation

 Electrical Wholesaling

As owners of enormous amounts of warehouse space, electrical distributors may take special interest in the announcement earlier this year that warehousing giant ProLogis, Denver, Colo., had signed new leases with Southern California Edison to let the electric utility install photovoltaic systems on 4.8 million square feet of rooftops at its warehouses.

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