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Minnesota Power says it probably needs to raise rates to pay for damage caused by last year's historic flooding to a hydroelectric facility near Duluth. The Duluth News Tribune reports ( http://bit.ly/11pWh2Q) that repairs and upgrades to the dam complex in ...

About a dozen Republican legislators met on the steps of the state Capitol on Thursday to call for a veto on the rural renewable energy bill, arguing that it, along with gun-control bills passed earlier this year, are an attack on rural Colorado. Senate Bill 252 ...

Energy Minister Bryan Green has been under pressure since early March to say if Tasmania's nation-leading generous feed-in tariffs will be cut when Aurora Energy's customer base is sold off next year. The Treasury report Mr Green needed to make his ...

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota Power says it probably needs to raise rates to pay for damage caused by last year's historic flooding to a hydroelectric facility near Duluth.

After falling 15% in 2012, solar photovoltaic wafer production is forecast to grow 19% this year, passing 30 GW and recovering to the 2011 level, according to a new report from NPD Solarbuzz. However, the report says industry utilization will remain below ...

With this tender almost 50% of the energy produced will be from renewables" said Fernando Carbel, president of the wind farm. "We want to continue year after year expanding our farm in order to exceed the amount of energy consumed in our province." ...

The USDA projects corn used for ethanol and by-products will total 4.55 billion bushels for the current marketing year, 461 million bushels less than used last year. Use during the first half of the marketing year was estimated at 2.27 billion bushels, 302 million ...

President Obama at an Iowa wind farm during last year's campaign. MidAmerican, controlled by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway company, is responsible for a big portion of all this wind power, owning and operating 2,285 MW of capacity in the state.

This week's Grain Farmers of Ontario market commentary says slow U-S corn planting is being reported at the same time that ethanol production there is increasing. GFO Analyst Todd Austin says the USDA is calling this year's corn planting the slowest since ...

If you are interested in renewable energy for your farm or business, you have more time to apply for federal grants. USDA Rural Development announced the deadline to apply for grants under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) for fiscal year 2013 ...

The U.S. Army has just launched the first in a series of renewable energy contracts that will eventually total $7 billion by the end of this year, using power purchase agreements along with a standard procurement tool that is expected to crush any obstacles that ...

Police in Watertown tell local media outlets the body of 47-year-old Edward Whitfield III was spotted in the Black River by a hydroelectric company worker at about 8 a.m. Wednesday. Whitfield had been missing since being swept downriver while trying to save ...

Wind power now makes up 13 percent of the region's total generating capacity, according to energy analysts with the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. But uncertainty over the future of federal tax credits for wind production has the industry in a lull, with no new projects ... Major projects last year included the 845-megawatt Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in Morrow and Gilliam counties

SHELBURNE — In the second half of a four-hour annual town meeting, residents unanimously approved a one-year extension of the town's wind-turbine moratorium and bought the Highway Department a new, used pick-up truck and a reversible, power-angled snow plow. Voters also bought $4,000 worth of new voting booths, to bring the