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ASPEN — Aspen city leaders say contractors will begin drilling a new geothermal test well Monday after the previous attempt failed. Jeff Rice, the city's utility efficiency manager, told the Aspen Daily News that alluvial soil was crumbling and filling the previous ...

Customers' defection to other suppliers, language in Illinois law are hindering investment in green electricity Five years ago, Illinois passed legislation requiring electric suppliers to buy more renewable energy such as wind and solar power and then pass those costs on to customers. But that was before customers of the state's two major electric utilities defected en masse to other suppliers

The Lincoln Journal Star reports ( http://bit.ly/10s1M9S) wind power development in Nebraska has been hurt because the state's public utilities can't qualify for the same incentives as private companies. Critics say Nebraska should do more to encourage ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska's wind power production continues to lag behind Iowa and other nearby states that offer better incentives. The Lincoln Journal Star reports ( http://bit.ly/10s1M9S ) wind power development in Nebraska has been hurt because the state's public utilities can't qualify for the same incentives as private companies

(AP) -- Aspen city leaders say contractors will begin drilling a new geothermal test well Monday after the previous attempt failed. Jeff Rice, the city's utility efficiency manager, tells The Aspen Daily News (http://bit.ly/10iygYa) that alluvial soil was crumbling and ...

The State should initiate steps to implement projects to utilise solar energy in the villages where electricity is yet to reach, V.K. Damodaran, former Director of the State Energy Management Centr...

COLUMBUS -- A group of Nebraska electric utilities is asking the state’s largest power supplier to eliminate proposed investments in wind energy, emissions-reduction measures and energy efficiency programs to lower  costs passed on to customers.

“The importance and value of accurate renewable energy generation forecasts increases with the size of our renewable energy generation portfolio,” says Ben Fowke, chairman, president, and CEO of Xcel Energy. “Xcel Energy has been the largest utility ...

ST. PAUL — Major power companies in Minnesota are being prodded by the state Legislature to generate more electricity from the sun. The question is how much. The Senate passed a bill Friday mandating that investor-owned utilities use solar power for 1 percent of their customers’ needs by the end of 2025

The plant — along with Bowersock's turn-of-the century hydroelectric plant on the south bank of the Kaw — sells all its electricity to the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities. Don Gray, general manager for BPU, said the 25-year contract with Bowersock is an ...

When completed, the new turbines will have the capacity to generate up to 1,050 megawatts of wind power. MidAmerican estimates that by January 2016, it will be capable of generating nearly 40 percent of its power by wind. MidAmerican is Iowa's largest ...

General Electric (NYSE: GE ) unveiled its largest, most efficient wind turbine to date this week -- and NextEra (NYSE: NEE ) nabbed 59 for its new wind farm. NextEra is the largest renewable-energy producer in the country, and these newest purchases will ...

Major US companies that financed the majority of rooftop solar installations form a lobbying group to counter efforts by 'monopoly utilities' to quash programs that support renewable energy in 43 states.        

An Iowa utility owned by Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway plans to add 656 wind turbines by the end of 2015.