Here is a post on where Wind Power estimated to be 150 gigawatt by 2020 going to be.

U.S. Wind Poised to Hit 150GW by 2020

Written by Craig Rubens

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Posted August 15th, 2008 at 12:00 am in Big Green

The booming U.S. wind market is set to cross the 150 gigawatt mark by 2020, according to a report from market research firm Emerging Energy Research (EER). That includes 5.33 GW installed last year, and another 8 GW currently under construction and planned for completion by the end of this year, EER says. But it will take actually double that 2020 projection — a total of 300 gigawatts — if we want to get 20 percent of our electricity from wind like the DOE and T. Boone Pickens think we can.

 

This graph shows the US power companies.

WSJ's environmental blog has a post about the US Army Green efforts.  In it they mention 85% of Army's diesel is used to provide cooling for

the troops and  computer equipment.

About 85% of the diesel hauled up to forward areas goes straight into air-conditioning, both for tired soldiers and to keep communications equipment cool. That means more, larger, and more vulnerable supply lines targeted by insurgents. Just spraying foam insulation on Army tents cut energy loss by 45%, Reuters reports.

And just as Baghdad is installing solar-powered streelights to improve security, clean energy could mean immediate security for American troops, and not just eventual energy independence for the American people:

“If we can reduce consumption on our forward operating bases by using renewable energy, let’s say wind or solar instead of a diesel generator outside the tent … then we can reduce the number of these supply convoys that need to come forward that are getting hit by these IEDs,” [said the Pentagon’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for environment, safety, and occupational health Tad] Davis.

The Pentagon is among the country’s biggest users of electricity and transport fuels, and the run-up in oil prices has led to a four-fold increase in the Pentagon’s gas bill since the Iraq war started. Most of its environmental initiatives so far have been like those of any other big, multinational firm—simple measures that reduce energy use and save money, and thus free up resources for other uses.

And even the Army is thinking Green.

Army Green: U.S. Military Gunning to Curb Carbon ‘Bootprint’

Posted by Keith Johnson

Expensive supply lines (AP)

The U.S. military has been trying to green up its operations in response to skyrocketing energy bills, toying with everything from biofuel for Air Force planes to solar panels at air bases.
On the ground, the lean green fighting machine is now trying to live up to all its name implies—and save lives in the process.

Reuters reports on the U.S. Army’s latest initiative to cut its own greenhouse-gas emissions by 30% in 2015—its carbon “bootprint.” One of the biggest opportunities? Slimming down the massive and vulnerable supply convoys carrying fuel for the mobile and energy-hungry U.S. forces operating in forward areas of Afghanistan and Iraq.

I was showing a friend this weekend how I blog and at the time I was writing about Russia’s Hyrdroelectric capacity.

Checking my web stats I saw hits from http://gigaom.com/2008/07/27/russia-data-centers/, and it turns out GigaOm’s Om Malik linked to my entry.

Russia, The Final Frontier For Data Centers?

Om Malik, Sunday, July 27, 2008 at 3:30 PM PT Comments (3)

To paraphrase (and mangle) StarTrek’s famous tagline: Can Russia be the place where Internet companies boldly go looking for the final frontier of data centers? At least one blog thinks so, and it points to the massive hydroelectric power capacity on tap in Russia. An article in this week’s The Economist points to RusHydro, a Russian company with the capacity to produce 25 gigawatts of electricity.

Thanks Om.

There have been rumors of Google, Microsoft, and others going to Siberia for data centers. The Economist writes on the Russia's hydroelectric industry.

A clean-power colossus hopes to grow even bigger

MANY investors believe there is gold in greenery. They see a sunny future for firms that generate power from solar panels, wind turbines and so forth. After all, their fuel is free, whereas the bills of power stations that run on coal and natural gas are high and rising. And ever more countries are making “renewables” even more attractive through subsidies or taxes on grubbier fuels. So what is the world’s biggest listed renewable-power firm, in the vanguard of this trend?

The answer, perhaps surprisingly, is RusHydro, a partly state-owned company that owns most of Russia’s hydroelectric plants. Its capacity, of 25 gigawatts (GW), makes it the largest power-generation firm in Russia, the world’s fourth-biggest market for electricity. (Hydro-Québec, a firm owned by a Canadian provincial government, generates more power but is not listed.)

There are additional comments on the WW Hydropower

Hydropower produces about 15% of the world’s electricity, compared with 3% for other renewables. There is still lots of room for growth, anti-dam activists permitting. New Energy Finance, a research firm, reckons that less than one-third of the world’s potential capacity has been developed. Much of the unused part is in Russia, RusHydro says. It has 5GW of new capacity under construction and more than 20GW on the drawing board—enough to double production.