This thread was better when it was DEAD!
Hey is that your underwear flappin' in the breeze?
Here's where Kevin was.
msnbc.com
PowerPark to test distributed-generation model, alternative-energy concepts
By Stephen Lacey
RED HERRING
March 15 — The California energy crisis has turned deregulation into a dirty word. Yet the Golden State’s electricity woes, however painful, provide the ideal backdrop to rethink completely how businesses and consumers generate and purchase electricity.
TAKE PLEASANTON PowerPark, a 150,000-square-foot industrial complex under development about 15 miles east of San Francisco. By the time the site is completed, RealEnergy, its Los Angeles-based developer, will have phased in a fleet of distributed-generating technologies that would make the facility not only self-sufficient, but also able to sell power back to the electric grid. RealEnergy will sell these technologies to real estate developers, which can offer alternative energy at their properties. ‘We’ll take retail tariffs, wholesale clearing price at the exchange, and let our software decide whether we sell upstream [to utility companies] or downstream [to customers],’ says RealEnergy CEO Kevin Best. |
