MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. and TransAlta Corp. (TA) formed CalEnergy LLC, a joint venture to market electricity from 10 aging geothermal power plants they own in Southern California. The companies are planning capital improvements designed to ...
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2013-05-17 12:51:13
Georgia Power also is undertaking the largest voluntary solar power construction program in the nation, while Southern Co. and Turner Renewable Energy bought a 139-megawatt solar project in California last month, the fifth solar purchase completed ...
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2013-05-16 18:14:06
Power generators will now have the option to schedule power in 15-minute intervals that allows variable resources to better forecast and schedule their renewable energy. The proposal also meets Order No. 764 issued last year by the Federal Energy ...
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2013-05-16 16:10:54
I grew up in Iowa and witnessed E10, or fuel made with 10 percent ethanol, enter the marketplace. I watched ethanol displace methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) in California, the Northeast and then nationwide. And as crude oil prices continued their inexorable ...
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2013-05-16 15:51:33
A program that encouraged thousands of California homeowners to install solar energy systems is under attack and could suffer crucial setbacks if one of the state's biggest utilities gets it way.
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2013-05-15 17:45:36
Solar Power - 2 Percent. Solar power and photovoltaic cells make up the smallest percentage of U.S. renewable energy production, but its future looks fairly promising. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway <a ...
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2013-05-15 07:41:43
A bill sponsored by Representatives Pete Olson (Republicans/Texas) and Jim Costa (Democrats/California) would allow fuel ethanol produced from natural gas to compete with biofuels under the Renewable Fuels Standard. Technically, the measure would ...
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2013-05-15 07:36:33
SoloPower, a manufacturer of photovoltaic solar modules, sold thousands of dollars' worth of equipment from its California headquarters last week and is preparing for more layoffs, according to a report from the Oregonian. The company recently avoided ...
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2013-05-14 21:24:28
San Jose, California - Talesun Solar Co., Ltd. ("Zhongli Talesun" or "Talesun"), a global solar solution company, announced that their high-quality photovoltaic modules series (TP672M/P and TP660M/P) have been awarded the Severity level 1 salt mist ...
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2013-05-14 17:26:45
Los Angeles’s power utility, which serves about 1.5 million customers, will seek bids from developers for 250 megawatts of solar power to comply with a California requirement to get 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources by the end of 2016.
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2013-05-14 02:53:16
Although California fancies itself a leader in the reduction of greenhouse gases, the state has the nation's second highest level of energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide and has lagged the rest of the nation in reducing those emissions, according to a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration
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2013-05-13 16:59:20
While it's not the bill we started with, it does help us advance the goal of broadening access to renewable energy.” The next day brought more good news: the California Senate Energy Committee voted 6 - 4 to pass SB 43. This bill got some pushback, ...
Energy Collective via Google News
2013-05-12 12:03:49
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grants exceptions to a wind farm and a building project in harassing or killing the endangered birds. Federal wildlife officials took the unprecedented step Friday of telling private companies that they will not be prosecuted for inadvertently harassing or even killing endangered California condors
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2013-05-10 22:36:35
A Burlingame-based startup is one of five companies awarded contracts with the U.S. Army to develop geothermal generating capacity to power military bases. The awards are the first in a series of contracts the Defense Department will issue to buy up to $7 ...
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2013-05-09 20:32:21
