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DTE's SolarCurrents program is installing photovoltaic systems in southeastern Michigan to generate 15 megawatts of electricity by 2015, enough to supply power to about 2,000 homes. The equipment is being placed at company facilities or on customers' ...

Several ethanol plants that had been idled are resuming production. This, plus stronger ethanol prices, improved margins, and greater efficiencies (thanks in part to improved corn hybrids and enzyme technologies) have raised optimism for the ethanol ...

The National Grid Corp of the Philippines (NGCP) wants to repair the transmission facilities that connect the Agus hydroelectric plant to the grid to help improve power supply in Mindanao.

Operator Tech Mike Taylor stands next to a spare steam turbine used to produce power at the Socrates geothermal plant at the Calpine facility in the Geysers. Calpine is one of several companies bidding to become part of a partnership with Sonoma County's ...

PD Editorial: County's rush to launch power agency. Steam travels through insulated pipes connecting all the geothermal power plants at Calpine geothermal facility in The Geysers. JOHN BURGESS / The Press Democrat ...

The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District will be making a presentation on their proposed construction of a solar power generation facility for a recycled water pump station at tonight's City Council meeting. The project is to be constructed on their Rancho Las ...

As noted in our prior article, New Twist to the Renewable PTC Extension: Defining "Under Construction," published March 12, 2013, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 ("ATRA") extends the Production Tax Credit ("PTC") and Investment Tax Credit ("ITC") for certain renewable facilities if construction of the facility begins prior to January 1, 2014, but did not define the "begin construction

The students and apprentices from Neath Port Talbot College were able to visit the power facilities to see the day-to-day workings of the renewable energy technologies through the eyes of the personnel who operate them. Stephen Holdroyd, Vattenfall's ...

US-based biotechnology company Aemetis is resuming production at its ethanol facility in Keyes, California after refurbishing the plant to produce advanced bio-fuels. The maintenance and transition to production of advanced bio-fuel comes in the wake of ...

BlackGold Biofuels, a Philadelphia-based company, has opened a recycling facility in Charlotte, N.C., for area restaurant kitchens' wastewater, cleaning up the water and recovering a biofuel in the process. While it has become common practice to recycle deep fryer oil, the recycling of oils that are in

University officials held a ribbon-cutting celebration Monday in Baltimore for the 25-acre solar power farm in Somerset County. Constellation financed, owns and operates the solar power system. The University of Maryland Medical Center will purchase the ...

BlackGold Biofuels of Charlotte has opened an innovative recycling facility for restaurant kitchens' wastewater, cleaning up the water and recovering a biofuel. While it's common to recycle deep fryer oil, recycling oils from kitchen wastewater has proven much ...

Aemetis, Inc., an advanced fuels and renewable chemicals company, announced today that the Aemetis 60 million gallon per year capacity ethanol facility in Keyes, California has completed planned maintenance and preparations for the production of ...

The project took shape in the shadow of Basin Electric's proposed wind farm near Crow Lake, with local farmers and other South Dakotans interested in taking part in the wind project. The result was a community-based carve out of the 100+ megawatt facility: ...