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Green Energy News for 10-02-2007

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Move coal miners to solar energy: Brown View Articles
Australia`s struggling solar power industry could easily absorb jobless miners under a plan by the Australian Greens to phase out the country`s lucrative coal export business.Comment
Company plans nuclear plant View Articles
An alternative energy company has announced an agreement to buy 4,000 acres of remote land along the Snake River to build a proposed nuclear power plant.Comment
Storing Wind Power In Cold Stores View Articles
Roland Piquepaille writes "According to Nature, a European-funded project has been launched to store electricity created from wind in refrigerated warehouses used to store food. As the production of wind energy is variable every day, it cannot easily be accommodated on the electrical grid. So the `Night Wind` project wants to store wind energy produced at night in refrigerated warehouses and to release this energy during daytime peak hours. The first tests will be done in the Netherlands this year. And as the cold stores exist already, practically no extra cost should be incurred to store as much as 50,000 megawatt-hours of energy. Here are additional details and a picture illustrating this brilliant idea."
State Should Capitalize On Wind Power View Articles
Olivia, Minn. Minnesota could do more to maximize its wind energy production, according to speakers at a renewable energy conference held in Olivia on Thursday and Friday.Comment
PSC OKs plan to factor renewable energy into customers` bills View Articles
The V.I. Public Services Commission on Friday unanimously approved a net metering agreement between V.I. Energy Office and the V.I. Water and Power Authority, which potentially could help hundreds of homeowners ...Comment
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