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Treehugger

Arizona Lege Tries to Scuttle Solar; Colorado Works to Support It
Energy Collective (blog)
The Arizona bill would have ended a state program requiring utilities to generate 15% of electrical power from renewable sources (such as solar and wind) by ...
Xcel Energy Honors Colorado State University as One of 12 Energy Efficiency ...Colorado State University News (press release)
Penry clings to past as renewable energy program advancesGrand Junction Sentinel
Colorado Shoots for 30% Renewable Energy by 2020, a Stark Contrast to Its ...SolveClimate (blog)
SustainableBusiness.com -Instal Biz -PR-USA.net (press release)
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ViaLogy wins renewable energy contract with Enel
Reuters
L) said it signed a contract with the North American unit of Enel Green Power to identify geothermal drilling locations in Nevada, sending its shares up 10 ...
ViaLogy Signs Renewable Energy Contract With Enel North America to ...PR Newswire (press release)
ViaLogy plc enters into renewable energy contract with Enel North AmericaTrading Markets (press release)

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GWSC Is Growing Rapidly in the Green Energy Sector
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Federal Regulation is beginning to require more of our energy to come from renewable sources like solar power, wind energy and hydro electric production. ...
GWS Technologies, Inc. Becomes Technology Supplier to CHS Farms LLCMarketWatch (press release)
SmallCapNewsRelease:(OTCBB: GWSC) To Supply CHS Farms With Green TechnologyWebWire (press release)

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The Business Insider

Future role of natural gas discussed at Houston energy conference
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar energy, "just cannot ramp up fast enough" to replace carbon-based fossil fuels -- oil, natural gas and coal ...
Conoco's Mulva Sees Gas Supplies Meeting Demand for CenturiesBusinessWeek

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Arizona Corporation Commission Approves APS' AZ Sun Solar Program
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
"AZ Sun is good for customers and good for solar power in Arizona," said Don Robinson APS' president. "To meet the growing energy needs of customers, ...

TFM (blog)

Wind turbines blowing into the state
Batesville Herald Tribune
Wind farms and other alternative energy technologies “are very encouraging to see,” Chad Martin told about 75 attendees, including some Marian University ...
Suzlon To Bring 728 MW Online in US in 2010SustainableBusiness.com
Report Adds Fuel to Sen. Schumer's 'Buy American' Stimulus FeudSolveClimate (blog)
RES: Saves $, Creates Jobs ... Duh By Tom Gray (AWEA)REVE
PR Newswire (press release) -Instal Biz
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Adam Capital Drives Momentum in Renewable Energy Solutions Market
PR Web (press release)
The loan to Arizona-based Solar Solutions will fund the installation of five or more residential solar electric PV systems in the Phoenix area. ...
Apollo Alliance Report addresses global clean energy economy.ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release)

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Weekly Clean Energy Roundup: March 10, 2010
SustainableBusiness.com
The five companies are: SunEdison, AECOM Energy/Solar Power Partners, SunPower Corp, SunDurance Energy, and Chevron Energy Solutions. ...

Examiner.com

Incentives for cutting-edge Dow Chemical solar shingles plant
Examiner.com
Despite new incentives to attract alternative-energy companies to Arizona, Scottsdale-based Kyocera Solar Inc. announced last week that it will open a new ...
Stabenow highlights clean energy supportMidland Daily News
The chemical titan plans to build its first full-scale production facility for ...Area Development Online
Excerpts from recent Michigan editorialsMLive.com

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Clear Skies Ahead For Colorado Clean Energy
GetSolar.com (blog)
This would boost Colorado solar tremendously. But Ritter's push for a clean energy economy doesn't end there. Shortly after the bill passed the Senate, ...
Increase Colorado's renewable standardsDenver Post
Colorado Senate passes increase to renewable energy standardSummit Daily News
A hard working senatorAspen Times
Fox 31 KDVR.com -Denver Daily News -The Durango Herald
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Sunpluggers.com

First Solar Wins Project
Zacks.com
Based in Phoenix, Arizona, First Solar designs, manufactures and sells solar electric power modules using a proprietary thin film semiconductor technology. ...
2010-03-10 PG&E to buy 300MW of First Solar's Desert SunlightNew Energy Matters (subscription)

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Energy Matters

University of Toledo fights to outpace solar power rivals
Toledo Blade
According to the US Department of Energy, the universities picked as lead Frontier centers to study solar and other forms of renewable energy were Arizona ...
ACS Enters Renewable Energy Market in the United StatesAZoCleantech
Clean energy conundrumThe Daily Evergreen
Report: Ohio missed out on solar industry jobsDayton Daily News
Tonic
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Senate amends bill to restore geothermal money to counties
Las Vegas Sun
With a boom in geothermal energy expected over the next decade, the counties stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue from geothermal leases ...
ENSIGN, REID LEGISLATION WILL BRING GEOTHERMAL ROYALTIES BACK TO NEVADABigNews.biz (press release)
Relief may be around the cornerLahontan Valley News
Proposal Would Share Geothermal Money With State, CountiesKTVN
Lahontan Valley News -Lahontan Valley News
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State work on wildlife guidelines for wind goes on
Laramie Boomerang
The department in November released a draft document meant to provide guidance for wind developers seeking state permits. Biologist Scott Gamo said this ...

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Array to meet 5% of a year's demand
Arizona Daily Star
MAMTA POPAT / ARIZONA DAILY STAR The Cox array includes 120 photovoltaic panels, producing 17.5 kilowatts, atop the building's parking structure at 1440 E. ...
Alpha Energy Commissions Grid-Tied System for Cox in TucsonRenewableEnergyWorld.com

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Reuters

White House hosts meeting on energy, climate
The Associated Press
"Climate change is about pricing carbon, and creating a whole new wind, solar panel, fuel cell industry in this country," Brown said. At the same time, ...
Obama meets with (too many) swing Senators on bipartisan climate and clean ...Energy Collective (blog)
Obama Pushes Climate Change In White House MeetingBernama

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Today's Energy Solutions

Floral company completes solar installation
Mother Nature Network (blog)
Much of this success is due to New Jersey's Solar Financing Model, which relies on high renewable energy standards and the use of Solar Renewable Energy ...
Solar Blooms in New Jersey: World Class Flowers Unveils 178kW Solar Energy SystemPR Newswire (press release)

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California climate change law may cause short-term job loss and energy cost ...
California Independent Voter Network
Texas already does this, and they are also the leader in wind energy. In another example, Friends of the Supergrid, ten huge engineering and energy firms in ...

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USA Today

Wyoming to tax wind power as many states court clean energy
USA Today
States are not only pushing for wind and solar but also for biomass and geothermal energy. The story adds: Hawaii and Texas will count wave energy toward ...
Wind Energy America Inc. Submits Interconnection Request for 250 MW Wyoming ...MarketWatch (press release)
Wind tax bill breezes through third readingLaramie Boomerang
BP to Start Building Three US Wind Farms This Year and NextBusinessWeek
PR Newswire (press release) -American Spectator
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Wyo legislative studies agenda set
Casper Star-Tribune Online
CHEYENNE -- Wind energy rights, food freedom and poker are three interim studies approved by legislative leaders last week. ...

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Taxing wind
newjerseynewsroom.com
Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal shot ahead of the wind-state pack by becoming the first chief executive to back a tax on wind energy. ...
Lawmakers head home; what they did will affect youGillette News Record
Wyo. lawmakers position the state for hard timesBusinessWeek

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The Leader Newspapers

Study: Renewable-energy mandate bill could create 23000 jobs in Colorado
Bizjournals.com
Colorado's rules don't include hydroelectric power, instead focusing on solar and wind power as well as biomass and other renewable energy sources. ...
Report: Renewable Energy Bill Could Spark 20000 New Jobs in ColoradoArea Development Online
Renewable energy bill passes another hurdleSummit Daily News
As state Senate mulls renewable energy bill, report shows jobs potentialThe Colorado Independent
BusinessWeek -Pueblo Chieftain -CleanTechnica
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RenewableEnergyWorld.com

Geothermal Power Heats Up
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
But while geothermal energy gets far fewer headlines – and far less venture capital – than solar or wind power, it actually supplies more megawatt-hours ...

Trina Solar Signs Sales Agreement with U.S. Wholesale Distributor Essco
PR Newswire (press release)
Essco Wholesale Electric is one of the largest distributors in the Arizona and Southern California markets, and leader in the renewable energy market space. ...

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A new solar plan rises from the dust
Marketplace (blog)
Los Angeles is planning to install solar panels on a dry lake bed in the shadow of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. Besides providing green energy for ...

Treehugger

More Efficient Biomass Gasification Through Solar Concentrating Mirrors
Treehugger
Technology Review is highlighting the efforts of Colorado-based Sundrop Fuels to develop a system which uses the heat of the sun to vaporize biomass and ...
Gasifying Biomass with SunlightMIT Technology Review (blog)

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New York Times (blog)

Flat-earth Obama or politically duplicitous?
East Valley Tribune
It has been suggested that the latter is the case and that Obama is yanking money from the project not only because of a win-in-Nevada campaign promise he ...
Obama wants more nuclear power, but what about the waste?Crosscut
Obama energy plan implodesWND.com

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Energy efficiency other half of formula
Denver Post
The home's energy efficiency has kept utility bills as low as $25 for an entire month, according to the new owner — and that's without the benefit of solar ...

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stv.tv

Nuclear power -- not a green option
Los Angeles Times
Compared with other non-coal energy technologies, it is the most authoritarian and least democratic. Granted, large and expensive wind and solar farms will ...
Democrats Revolt Over EnergyWall Street Journal
The country needs a place for atomic garbage. So why is the president closing ...Philadelphia Inquirer
Chu pushes for nuclear power, carbon capsPacific Coast Business Times
Las Vegas Review - Journal -TheStreet.com (subscription) -Aiken Standard (subscription)
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For Senators on the Fence on Climate, Everything's in Play
New York Times
And Graham has floated a "clean energy standard" that would allow power sources to count new nuclear capacity alongside wind and solar power when it comes ...

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Windy Wyoming debates excise tax for wind energy
The Associated Press
They are offering tax breaks or incentives, according to national wind and solar energy associations. "It is very disturbing to hear that one of the great ...
Wind energy jeopardizes landCasper Star-Tribune Online
Don't limit reforms of eminent domain to windCasper Star-Tribune Online

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Seattle Post Intelligencer

Freudenthal signs bills on wind energy
Billings Gazette
CHEYENNE — Wyoming will have more authority over the siting and development of wind farms and the state will begin taxing wind energy production under bills ...
Wyoming Set to Tax Wind ProductionClean Skies News
Freudenthal signs 3 wind bills into lawLocalNews8.com
Bills to regulate wind development advance in Wyo.BusinessWeek
Wyoming Tribune -Wyoming Business Report -The Associated Press
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Obama Administration Recruited Left-Wing Lobbyists to Sell Bogus 'Green Jobs'
Right Side News
After two studies refuted President Barack Obama's assertions regarding the success of Spain's and Denmark's wind energy programs, a Freedom of Information ...

Los Angeles Times

New Energy Economy backfired, time to move on
Denver Post
The promise of the New Energy Economy is a world that uses less fossil fuel; a world forever powered by renewable energy such as wind and solar. ...
Jobs report 'a bit of a stretch'Grand Junction Sentinel
Colo. Gov. Bill Ritter Suffers Rib Injuries In Bike AccidentState Bill Colorado

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MiamiHerald.com

Sage Grouse Will Not Be Listed As Endangered Species
North American Windpower
"AWEA and the wind industry have shown their commitment to wildlife conservation by working with such collaborative efforts as the American Wind Wildlife ...
Energy groups relieved sage grouse won't be listedThe Associated Press
It's man vs. bird in quest for powerLas Vegas Sun
Bird of Politics, Sage Grouse Slated for ListCourthouse News Service
Marketplace (blog) -Los Angeles Times -Washington Times
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The Colorado Independent

Gov. Ritter, Xcel and Coalition Announce Energy Plan
INDenverTimes.com
Natural gas can play a key role as a cleaner-burning source of baseload electricity generation, which also will support increased use of wind and solar as a ...
Statement from ANGA on the Proposed Colorado Clean Air-Clean Jobs ActPR Newswire (press release)
Colorado Senate advances higher renewable-energy standardBizjournals.com
Demand for natural gas could growGrand Junction Sentinel
Gaea Times (blog)
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DAWN.com

Don't buy Obama's greenwashing of nuclear power
The Guardian
The Yucca Mountain facility, the government's radioactive waste repository project in Nevada, was marked by billions of wasted dollars, numerous legal ...
Where our power comes fromThe Courier News

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New York Times

Industry experts discuss solar project development best practice
AltEnergyMag (press release)
Whilst stimulus dollars and new incentives have helped the US solar industry stay strong during the worst global recession of a generation, significant red ...
Incentives for Solar Energy Projects Drive InterestEnvironmental Leader
Fruita Video Plus gets solar power, lower expensesGrand Junction Free Press
Hawaiian Utility Fights Solar Industry Over Private InstallationsSolveClimate (blog)
Cooler Planet -CNNMoney.com (press release) -Sunpluggers.com
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San Antonio's woulda-been-groundbreaking solar PACE program on the rocks
San Antonio Current (blog)
Loans would be offered not only for the installation of solar panels, but also for solar hot-water heaters, geothermal systems, reflective roofs, ...

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New York Times (blog)

Foreign Wind Power Firms Reap Stimulus Funds
Capitol News Connection
They says it could have a negative effect on alternative energy jobs in Colorado. Led by New York Sen. Charles Schumer, the group says the stimulus is ...
Obama administration colluded with 'windmill welfare queens' to rebut European ...Washington Examiner (blog)

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East Valley Tribune

APS gets Corporation Commission approval for solar, energy-efficiency programs
Bizjournals.com
“The approval of the AZ Sun program will solidify Arizona's status as the solar energy hub of the nation,” said ACC Chairwoman Kris Mayes. ...
Regulators OK APS solar expansion projectsEast Valley Tribune
APS gets approval for solar energy programs for customersABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
Arizona Commission Approves AZ Sun ProgramEnergyOnline
MarketWatch (press release) -GetSolar.com (blog) -SYS-CON Media (press release)
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MyFox Phoenix

Alpha Energy Opens Phoenix Headquarters
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
"Arizona is one of the most productive solar energy regions in the world, but the state government needs to support that natural resource with action to be ...
Solar Industry Fights Arizona Bill That Favors Nuclear, HydroEnvironmental Leader
In Arizona's Ideological Fight, Solar Power Could Be The Big LoserOnEarth Magazine
HB2701 | Arizona “Great Leap Backward for Solar Power” Passes CommitteeEnergy Collective (blog)
Green Chip Stocks (blog) -BusinessWeek -Bizjournals.com
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Vail town meeting includes giveaways, interactive displays
Vail Daily News
Participants also will be invited to test their skills at a recycling station, learn about energy conservation, solar energy and how infrared cameras work ...

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UNR NevadaNews

Misra, Baker receive research awards from NSHE
UNR NevadaNews
Misra is one of two University of Nevada, Reno researchers who have been honored by the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents for their ...

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CalFinder (blog)

Controversial "Anti-Solar" Bill Yanked After Industry Uprising in Arizona
CalFinder (blog)
Currently, and apparently in the foreseeable future, Arizona's RPS requires utilities to get 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2025. ...
China's Influence Creeps into Arizona SolarSolar Glazing Magazine

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What's Wrong With Nebraska's Wind?
EV World
Yet, Nebraska is estimated to rank fifth in the nation in terms of its wind energy potential. So, a lot of people in the state are asking: What's wrong with ...

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Inhabitat (blog)

Wind Energy Could Power the US
Motley Fool (blog)
As I read the site I'm linking to, I was thinking "wow, there's more captureable wind energy than I thought." By the end of reading the post, ...
Farmers and ranchers invited to learn more about renewable energy incentivesSilver Pinyon Journal
Suzlon to generate 728 MW wind energy in US this yearNDTV.com
Media Mayhem: A trade war in the windMother Nature Network
BloombergUTV -Forbes (blog)
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Instal Biz

Boulder-area solar companies wary of 'community solar gardens' bill
Daily Camera
Levy said she's heard the concerns of Brolis and other members of the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association, or CoSEIA, that the bill will cut into ...
PGE plans new rooftop solar project with ProLogisInstal Biz
Energy Conversion Devices Announces 2.4-Megawatt Rooftop Solar Project in PortlandPR-USA.net (press release)

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Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP, Representing Investors Who Purchased Ormat ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Ormat and its subsidiaries engage in the geothermal and recovered energy power business in the United States and internationally. ...

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Suntech to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conferences and Industry Events
PR Newswire (press release)
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP) is the world's leading solar energy company as measured by production output of crystalline silicon solar ...
Suntech powers up profits for China EconomyStock Markets Review
Brigantine Advisors Initiates Coverage on Suntech Power (STP) with a Hold ...StreetInsider.com (subscription)

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