DWP LAG IN WIND PROJECT BLASTED.Byline: Dan Laidman Staff Writer The Board of Water and Power Commissioners lashed out Tuesday Tuesday: see week. at the slow pace of DWP's clean-power efforts after being told a prominent wind project will be delayed another year. The revelation that a shortage of wind turbines will hold up the Pine Tree Wind Project came as part of a general update on the Department of Water and Power's renewable energy Renewable energy utilizes natural resources such as sunlight, wind, tides and geothermal heat, which are naturally replenished. Renewable energy technologies range from solar power, wind power, and hydroelectricity to biomass and biofuels for transportation. efforts that struck the commissioners as lacking urgency. ``With all due respect, I'm I'm Contraction of I am. Our Living Language Speakers of some scattered varieties of American English sometimes use I'm instead of I've or I have in present perfect constructions, as in sitting here and I can hardly contain my sense of dismay,'' said David Nahai, vice president of the board. ``It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have still no clearer to me today than the first day how we're we're Contraction of we are. we're we are going to get to the goal of 20 percent (renewable power) by 2010.'' The DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection commission has made increasing the utility's share of green power one of its top priorities. One of the most prominent portions of the renewable energy portfolio has been Pine Tree, a $278 million project first approved in 2003. The project calls for a contractor to develop a wind farm in the southern Sierra Nevada Sierra Nevada, mountain range, Spain Sierra Nevada (syā`rä nāvä`thä), chief mountain range of S Spain, in Granada prov., running from east to west for c.60 mi (100 km), parallel to the Mediterranean Sea. that the city would then purchase. It originally had been slated for completion in 2004 but has been delayed amid local opposition and an Audubon Society lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. about bird safety. Now the project will be held up another year because the DWP could not secure the wind turbines from the vendors, including General Electric, said Henry Martinez, head of the utility's power system. ``With such a high demand for wind turbines, at this point, we were unable to lock in those turbines,'' he said. ``It appears this project will be delayed a year until we get the turbines locked in and completed.'' Commissioner Edith Ramirez said the news came ``as a great shock,'' and she joined fellow panelists in saying the issue should have been brought back to the commission earlier. The lack of communication over Pine Tree was part of a larger pattern, said Commissioner Nick Patsaouras, who called for more frequent updates on renewable energy efforts. The utility is working hard to add clean power sources but it takes time to create the transmission infrastructure to deliver the energy, DWP General Manager Ron Deaton said. ``Transmission doesn't happen overnight,'' Deaton said. ``You cannot bring the produce to the market unless you have a road to travel.'' Dan Laidman, (213) 978-0390 dan.laidman(at)dailynews.com |
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