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Vision of the future?

Las Vegas Sun 3 days ago

Texas community bets on a progressive way to jump-start local economy — and wins A mayor in West Texas believes the way his city and the surrounding area approached economic development — resulting in ongoing revitalization — could be a model for ...

VYING TO POWER NEVADA'S FUTURE

Las Vegas Sun 3 days ago

To realize renewable energyÕs potential, Nevada needs transmission lines. Two utilities want to build them, but at what cost to customers? NV Energys plan to build a transmission line to move electricity between the northern and southern parts of the state could ...

UK energy regulator lifts grid spend cap

Reuters Environmental Online Report 4 days ago

LONDON (Reuters) - British electricity network operators should push ahead with extra investments of up to 1 billion pounds ($1.63 billion) to connect renewable energy sources to the grid by 2012, UK energy regulator Ofgem said on Tuesday. Britain's three electricity transmission ...

Tribes claim wind farm would destroy sacred ritual

AP News 4 days ago

Proposed Cape Cod wind farm could snag on tribes' claim turbines would ruin ancient ritual From a blustery perch over a Cape Cod beach, Chuckie Green gestures toward a stretch of horizon where he says construction of the nation's first offshore wind ...

Developers abandon plan for SD power plant

AP News 5 days ago

Developers of planned SD coal-fired electric plant give up, couldn't find enough investors Developers of a $1.6 billion electric power plant in northeastern South Dakota abandoned the project Monday, saying they were unable to recruit other investors after one of the principal ...

Wis. PSC approves utility's biomass plan

AP News 5 days ago

PSC approves plan to replace coal with dead trees, logging residue at Wis. power plant A northern Wisconsin utility's latest plan to replace coal with logging waste and dead trees as its primary fuel to generate electricity has been approved by the ...

Salazar Addresses The Media After Clean Energy Forum

Getty Images 5 days ago

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 02: U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (C) talks to the news media outside the White House November 2, 2009 in Washington, DC. Salazar hosted a Clean Energy Economy Forum peole from 39 States across the country to discuss "renewable ...

dwp kurilpabridge

WENN 5 days ago

Longest solar-powered footbridge powers up The world’s largest solar-powered footbridge has officially opened for leg-stretchers in Australia. The Kurilpa Bridge, which spans the Brisbane River in the state capital of Queensland, is expected to be used by 36,500 people weekly. The pricey ...

Wis. regulators approve utility's biomass plan

AP News 5 days ago

Wis. regulators approve plan to replace coal with dead trees, logging residue at power plant The Wisconsin Public Service Commission has approved a utility's latest plan to replace coal and use logging residue and dead trees as the primary fuel to generate ...

Harvard Univ. to buy power from Maine wind farm

AP News 5 days ago

Harvard University announced 15-year agreement to buy power from planned Maine wind farm Harvard University has entered into a 15-year agreement to buy power and renewable energy certificates from a wind energy farm to be built in Maine. Harvard officials announced Monday ...

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