The Money Flow

On 19.Dec.23, Senator Heinrich sent an email that included the statements below...

"There’s been a major development with the SunZia Wind and Transmission Project, the largest clean energy infrastructure project in U.S. history:  

Thanks to a major labor agreement reached last week, the SunZia transmission line will be constructed by union members."

Curious about the money flow, I learned (from) that:

"The 580-mile, $1.3 billion transmission line is one part of the SunZia Transmission and Wind Projects, under development by San Francisco-based Pattern Energy. The projects broke ground outside of Corona, New Mexico, in early September after receiving a series of regulatory approvals in November 2022."

From Pattern Energy's website:

"Pattern operates a global portfolio of high-performing renewable energy facilities."

Their portfolio page offers a map view (below) and a List View. The blue circles are wind farms. The orange are solar arrays.

Delving further, Pattern Energy is a member of the American Clean Power Association. From their website, it's not clear what they do, but they list the number of "Clean Energy" jobs and manufacturing facilities in operation.

They claim to be "Powering America's growth"

The clean energy industry powers more of the United States every day and contributes more to the economy than any other source of energy.  From across the country and clean power technologies, ACP unites the most prominent policy leaders, industry experts, and companies to grow the industry. 

The Canada Investmemt Pension Plan has a finger in the pie somewhere.

INYENYERI - Helping to Keep The Home-Fires Burning

I do everything on a propane-fired two-burner with a refillable one gallon tank. This is good since I frequently camp in the desert where wood is a major player in the multi-millenium soil-development process. But I've met folks who have issues with propane. So, when I ran across these two stoves I decided it was time to break the vow-of-silence and.....

Eric Reynolds, one of the founders of Marmot Mountain LLC (backpacking gear) is the founder and Executive Director of INYENYERI. Mr. Reynold's thinks things would be better in Rwanda if there were more trees. Trees are the main source of cooking fuel and indoor pollution (wood smoke).

INYENYERI is Eric's "wild, big dream" to help create a more efficient, healthful means of preparing meals. INYENYERI encourages people to exchange dry bio-mass (such as chaff from winnowing and plant stalks) for burnable pellets. INYENYERI takes the dri-mass, converts it to pellets which it sells to city folk who otherwise would buy charcoal (made from trees) to cook with. The pellets are cheaper so INYENYERI's market share is expanding. Here's an interview with Mr. Reynolds about how it all got started.

This link is to the INYENYERI site's videos.

Here's a Youtube vid of the Philips stove...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBrgUQBSFAw