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The Icing on the Cake: Greenhouse Gas Inventories for the Mining Industry

By Zack Gorstein, Miner’s News, February 2010

Active, aggressive energy management at mine sites has never been more important. As energy costs become higher and more volatile, and as future climate regulations threaten to boost energy prices even higher, energy reduction strategies can provide incredible value to mines. Process efficiencies, retrofits, and behavioral modifications can greatly reduce energy costs, usually at low or no cost. On-site renewable energy deployments – which leverage a mine’s standing infrastructure, existing permits and transmission access – can slash energy demand and even create new revenue streams through the sale of excess power to the grid. Read More>>

Solar power project development partnership announced

June 17, 2010 — The development of a solar-electric power plant in south central New Mexico is gaining momentum with the formal addition of Reno, NV based Remote Energy Solutions (RES) to guide the project through feasibility into construction. It was announced last week that RES is now a management partner and minority owner of Warm Springs Renewable Energy Corporation (WSREC), the New Mexico company that will own and operate the plant. Read More>>

Renewables developer targets mine sites

Rob Sabo, 7/19/2010

Mines may prove to be attractive locations for renewable energy operations, says the founder of a Reno company that’s working to bring a solar facility to reality at a New Mexico mine.

Remote Energy Solutions was founded just over two years ago by Reno’s Ann Carpenter, a career geologist and former executive with U.S. Gold.

Carpenter believes that large and small mining operations are ripe for development of renewable energy power generation facilities because the majority of infrastructure already is in place — as well as much of the required permitting. Read More>>