The Maryland Energy Administration has awarded $600,000 to a company developing energy-efficient, solid-state lighting.
“This award will not only benefit TDI and Maryland, but also better position the USA to compete in the global solid-state lighting market,” believes TDI’s president Bernard Scanlan. “Governor O’Malley and his team are working to create jobs by putting Maryland on [...]
Maryland gets about 60 percent of its in-state electricity from generation plants burning toxic coal. According to the Maryland Department of the Environment:
A total of approximately 2 million tons of coal ash (fly and bottom ash) is generated annually from Maryland plants. Approximately 1.6 million tons of coal ash (fly and bottom ash) is generated in [...]
The L-Prize will be awarded to LED lamps that replace the standard 60W lightbulb — if they can pass the U.S. Department of Energy’s rigorous tests.
What’s at stake?
The solid-state lighting LED bulb will use only 10 watts. If all 971 million 60W bulbs currently use were replaced, the DOE estimates that:
the country would save approximately [...]
Peak summer demand drives the electricity system in important ways. It determines the minimum amount of generating and transmission capacity that must be on hand. It drives costs as generation capacity must be kept on standby for peak periods. Peak demand activates more costly, less efficient and even more polluting generation capacity. Projected increases in [...]
A new report from the Abell Foundation details the potential of Maryland’s offshore wind resource to meet our state’s electricity needs:
… Maryland’s feasible wind resource off of its Atlantic coast (including both state and federal waters) is large enough to significantly contribute to the electric demand in the state. Using existing, proven technology (monopile; 5 [...]
Thatcher-era Britain provided the inspiration for the global effort to deregulate electricity markets, including Maryland’s 1999 reforms. Now the Brits are having a rethink.
When transmission, generation and distribution were broken up and privatized, a regulator called “Ofgem” was put in charge:
Energy experts said that the regulator’s proposals represented an “extraordinary volte-face”. Ofgem has been [...]
The massive offshore wind resource on the East Coast holds great potential for tackling Maryland’s energy challenges.
Governor O’Malley is leading a steady march towards realizing this opportunity. Last year, he joined other governors in a letter urging Congressional leaders to speed up offshore wind development, instead of promoting on-shore transmission only.
In November, O’Malley signed a Memorandum [...]
It’s time for West Virginians to have a frank discussion about the future of their economy. Mining and burning toxic coal hasn’t been all that great for the poverty-stricken state and the future doesn’t look much better.
Senator Byrd has called the question:
Change has been a constant throughout the history of our coal industry. West Virginians [...]
The NSA (“No Such Agency”), located “in the vicinity” of Fort Meade, Maryland, is reported to be BGE’s largest single customer — and getting larger.
Agency officials anticipated the problem nearly a decade ago as they looked ahead at the technology needs of the agency, sources said, but it was never made a priority, and now [...]
Montgomery County has led years of efforts to make Maryland a leader among states in combatting human-caused global over-heating. The County’s delegation to Annapolis holds its annual “Priorities Hearing” in Rockville this evening.
Maryland Energy Report submitted a statement urging legislators to ask tough questions about the PATH proposal that would bring more dirty, coal-fired power [...]
