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| FPL to Issue RFP on Renewable Energy Sources |  |
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| Johanns Announces $19 M in Grants for Value-Added Ag Ventures |  |
| U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced the availability of $19.5 million to help independent agricultural producers enter into value-added activities, which includes renewable energy. |
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| Coalition Calls for Expansion of Solar Power in California |  |
| A coalition of policy makers, environmental groups and businesses launched a campaign to expand California`s solar power market to include solar water heating, a rooftop technology that captures sunlight to reduce fossil fuel use in homes and businesses. |
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| Tamarack Energy Announces Renewable Energy Contract with CL&P |  |
| Tamarack Energy, Inc., which has just executed a long-term Energy Purchase Agreement (EPA) with Connecticut Light & Power (CL&P), is developing a 30-megawatt (MW) biomass energy generation facility in Watertown, Connecticut, the first of its kind in the state. |
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| Helping Yahoo! Go Carbon Neutral |  |
| Perhaps your idea of setting up wind turbines at various Yahoo! office locations in the U.S. may not be selected, but founders David Filo and Jerry Yang will certainly be taking the suggestion into consideration in the quest to make their multibillion-dollar search engine company 100% carbon neutral by the end of 2007. |
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| SatCon Announces Certification of Its Photovoltaic PowerGate(R) Inverters for Commercial Photovoltaic Applications |  |
| SatCon Technology Corporation(R) (Nasdaq CM: SATC), a developer of power management and system architecture solutions for the alternative energy and distributed power markets today announced that it has obtained certification of its PowerGate(R) Inverter product-line for commercial photovoltaic applications to the new UL standard coming into effect May 7, 2007. In January of 2006, SatCon announced certification under the new UL1741 of its innovative ground fault detection interrupter (patent pending) resulting in significant savings for installers of photovoltaic systems. This new certification for the entire product-line is a follow on to that approval. |
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| NABCEP Announces Departure of Executive Director |  |
| The Board of Directors the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) is saddened to announce the upcoming departure of it`s Executive Director, Pete Sheehan. Pete has resigned his post to help his new son, Corey adjust to life in Albany. Pete be will leaving our organization effective May 22,2007. In a statement issued by Mr. Sheehan he says, "I thank the Board for the privilege of representing NABCEP for these last four years and for the opportunity to work with our certificants, the technical committees and all those who have supported NABCEP`s mission. It has been a pleasure and honor to work with such an outstanding group of committed professionals. I look forward to resuming work in the renewable energy field." |
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| SatCon Provides ``Green`` Power to the Greater Boston Area |  |
| SatCon Technology Corporation(R) (Nasdaq CM: SATC), a developer of power management and system architecture solutions for the alternative energy and distributed power markets, reports that its power conditioning units for a 425 kW photovoltaic solar energy system located on an environmentally remediated brownfield (brightfield) have been providing highly efficient "green" power at a Brockton, Massachusetts site since its dedication on October 26, 2006. This site is also the largest brightfield in the nation. |
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| North America`s biggest solar farm set for Ontario |  |
| TORONTO (Reuters) - Work on North America`s biggest solar power plant will start next year in Ontario, the Canadian province`s energy minister said on Thursday.
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| [PERSPECTIVES] CHEMISTRY: A Promising Mimic of Hydrogenase Activity |  |
| A chemical compound that mimics the active site of nickel-iron hydrogenases is catalytically active. Related compounds may serve as catalysts in a hydrogen economy.Author: Thomas B. Rauchfuss |
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| [REPORTS] A Dinuclear Ni(?-H)Ru Complex Derived from H2 |  |
| A compound containing nickel and ruthenium mimics the active site of iron-nickel hydrogenase and, like the enzyme, is able to cleave H2 in water.Authors: Seiji Ogo, Ryota Kabe, Keiji Uehara, Bunsho Kure, Takashi Nishimura, Saija C. Menon, Ryosuke Harada, Shunichi Fukuzumi, Yoshiki Higuchi, Takashi Ohhara, Taro Tamada, Ryota Kuroki |
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