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Hawaii upgrading system to sell power to grid
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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After a slow start to a program allowing people to sell renewable energy to Hawaii's power grid, it's being revamped to attract more interest and reduce the state's dependence on imported oil. Only a handful of solar power
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Chris Keenan: The power of sunshine
Berlin :: Germany | almost 2 years ago
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Just why is it we rarely see solar electric panels on our roofs?...The cost of solar keeps plummeting, Australia is on to it, it's rapidly expanding overseas and we even export some of the technology. The answer is that New Zealand is almost alone in
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Impact of renewables on higher power costs minimal, report says
Ontario :: CA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Critics of the Ontario government's green energy policies have argued that paying high prices for renewable power will push up consumers' electricity costs sharply. Subsidies to wind, solar and biomass plants will ratchet up prices, making
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Vestas inks wind turbine deal with Chinese firm
Beijing :: China | almost 2 years ago
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Vestas, one of the world's largest wind turbine manufacturers, has signed a large contract with the China Datang Corporation Renewable Power Co, Ltd, Vestas said in a press release issued on Monday in Beijing. The contract consists of the delivery,
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Bill's clause makes power-purchase agreements private
Las Vegas :: NV :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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When it comes to the cost of green power, renewable-energy developers seem to want to keep Nevada ratepayers in the dark. A bill rushed through the Legislature in the wee hours Tuesday contains a clause that makes power-purchase agreements between
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Roland Kupers: It's not radiation risk that's wrong with nuclear power. It's the cost
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 years ago
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It's not radiation risk that's wrong with nuclear power. It's the cost Published Date: 26 April 2011 THE nuclear crisis in Japan, and the 25th anniversary of the meltdown at Chernobyl, have incited heated discussions about the desirability of nuclear
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Calif. to set ambitious renewable power standards
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | 2 years ago
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Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown plans to sign legislation that would require California utilities to get one-third of their power from renewable sources, giving the state the most aggressive alternative energy mandate in the U.S.
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Calif. to set ambitious renewable power standards
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | 2 years ago
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Gov. Jerry Brown plans to sign legislation that would require California utilities to get one-third of their power from renewable sources, giving the state the most aggressive alternative energy mandate in the U.S. Under the bill, California
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Utilities' renewable energy pacts expensive
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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More Business Since 2002, California's utilities have committed to spend about $6 billion more on renewable power contracts than they would have paid to buy the electricity from new power plants burning natural gas, according to a state report issued
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Energy NW meetings begin this week
Richland :: WA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Clean technology seminar offered Jan. 18 Clean technology seminar offered Jan. 18 The Three Rivers Entrepreneur Network will present "Clean Technologies for Tomorrow," a free seminar from 7:15 to 8:30 a.m...Speakers Peter Christensen and Eric Lund
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