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Busy spring at Aegis Renewable Energy
At Aegis Renewable Energy in Waitsfield, president and CEO Nils Behn said the company has been busy this spring and is doing a lot of work in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Asked about new advances in solar and alternative energy, he offered a few thoughts. The first has to do with bifacial (two-faced) solar panels. Advertisement
“These have gotten a lot of traction in the last one and a half to two years. They have panels on the front and back and the reflected light off the back side (or snow side during the Vermont winters) will generate power,” he said.
Rob Donnelly John Ovitt has a sticky problem. The Franklin Foods cream cheese plant he runs in Enosburg Falls makes more wastewater than the tiny village treatment plant can handle. Eric Fitch has an innovative solution. The founder and CEO of New Hampshire-based renewable power company PurposeEnergy could transform that foul cheese water into a valued commodity: renewable electricity. Their partnership seemed like a perfect match until the state s energy regulators recently raised an inconvenient truth: The power grid in the northern third of Vermont already has more renewable energy than it can handle. Big wind and solar projects developed in recent years in rural parts of the region generate far more power than businesses and residents there consume. The surplus electricity is exported to more densely populated parts of the state over older transmission lines tha
In the Northeast Kingdom, the electric grid is out of balance. Several big local wind and hydro projects, plus power imports from Canada, mean the wires carry much more power than the region can consume. The imbalance has caused the regional grid operator to reduce the output from the wind generators. It s also led to the de-valuing of local generation and a two-year moratorium on new renewable projects in the Kingdom.
Several big generation projects, like these wind turbines in Lowell, have strained the local transmission grid in the Northeast Kingdom, leading to a moratorium on new renewable energy development.
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State officials are working to address a problem involving the physics of electricity, the surge in solar development and a local transmission grid that is seriously strained.
In the Northeast Kingdom, the electric grid is out of balance. Several big local wind and hydro projects, plus power imports from Canada, mean the wires carry much more power than the region can consume.
The imbalance has caused the regional grid operator to reduce the output from the wind generators. It s also led to the de-valuing of local generation and a two-year moratorium on new renewable projects in the Kingdom.
The state now wants to break the impasse with a plan to impose a local surcharge on new solar projects.