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Lower Snake River Wind Project will generate enough electricity to serve up to 100,000 homes(29/04/2011)
Puget Sound Energy is constructing its 343-megawatt Lower Snake River Wind Project - Phase I, in southeast Washington’s Garfield County. When all 149 turbines are erected and operating in spring 2012, the facility will be PSE’s largest wind-power operation and one of the largest in the Pacific Northwest – generating enough electricity to serve up to 100,000 homes. Final assembly of the first turbine had been delayed for a week by high winds, ... [more]
Lucky visitor to name wind Turbine A-1(30/06/2010)
More than 45,500 people have visited Puget Sound Energy's Renewable Energy Center since its opening in 2008, with thousands coming each month during the tourist season. To celebrate the 50,000th visitor to its Renewable Energy Center near Ellensburg, Wash., Puget Sound Energy will honor the lucky individual with the opportunity to name Turbine A-1, one of the best producing wind turbines at the highest point of PSE’s Wild Horse Wind and Solar Fac... [more]
PSE assists with the roll-out of charging stations for the Nissan LEAF electric vehicles(05/10/2009)
Puget Sound Energy has announced that it will be working closely with Nissan and ECOtality as a member of The Electric Vehicle (EV) Project to bring new environmentally friendly transportation options to widespread use by consumers and businesses in Western Washington by late 2010. PSE’s effort will support a $100 million Department of Energy grant awarded to ECOtality’s Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec) subsidiary to depl... [more]
Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility increases capacity to produce electricity from the wind(19/08/2009)
Semi-truck long, slender turbine blades, 80-ton generator nacelles and 221-foot, steel-tube towers are now coming together at Puget Sound Energy’s Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility to increase the utility’s capacity to produce electricity from the wind. The 22 new turbines now being installed will add to the 127 turbines that entered service at Wild Horse in December 2006, and will increase the facility’s impact on jobs, added tax revenues and t... [more]
Solar-powered system blocks corrosion in buried natural gas steel pipes(01/09/2008)
Puget Sound Energy has added two new solar-powered systems to dozens installed since 1984 that help protect the utility’s underground natural gas system in Western Washington. PSE’s two newest solar-powered systems in Edmonds, Wash., use the sun to produce electric current along more than six miles of buried natural gas steel pipe to block corrosion caused by the electrochemical reaction between the metal pipe and the surrounding soil. The... [more]
Puget Sound Energy intends to acquire 250 MW of wind power(20/08/2008)
Puget Sound Energy is pursuing the acquisition of 560 megawatts (MW) of new, long-term electricity supply – including more wind power – from three outside parties. The targeted resources constitute the screened “short list” of more than 30 power-supply bids PSE received from regional energy producers and marketers in response to the utility’s Request for Proposals (RFP) in January. PSE hopes to secure the short-listed resources over the next 1... [more]
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