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| Difficult start at solar boat race in Netherlands |  |
| Forty boats sped off silently Monday in what is billed as the world`s largest race for solar powered watercraft. |
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| HECO seeks to add 100 megawatts of renewable energy for Oahu | |
| Hawaiian Electric Company is looking for developers interested in supplying additional renewable energy to Oahu`s power grid. |
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| UK green energy push planned | |
| British homeowners may face higher bills as part of a "green revolution" to reduce fossil fuel reliance. |
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| Inventor - Worlds most efficient wind turbine. | |
| Leviathan Energy`s Daniel Farb claims to have invented the world`s most efficient wind turbine. "The cut-in speed [on the Wind Lotus wind turbine] was two meters per second. The equivalent turbines on the market start at three meters per second. |
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| Solar Supporters Win Key Vote | |
| Supporters of an effort to help Arizona utilities pay for renewable energy have won a key vote in the Legislature. |
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| News Siemens Plant To Produce Mechanical Drives for Wind Turbines | |
| Siemens Energy & Automation Inc. announced that it plans to invest more than US $20 million to develop a second plant in Elgin, Illinois for its Drives Technologies business. Siemens is the largest producer of wind turbine gear drives in the United States. |
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| Bluewater Wind Signs Contract for Sale of Offshore Wind Power | |
| Bluewater Wind Delaware LLC, a subsidiary of Babcock & Brown, announced that it has signed a 25-year contract with Delmarva Power to sell the utility up to 200 megawatts (MW) of power from an offshore wind farm that will be built 11.5 miles off the coast of Rehoboth Beach in Delaware. |
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| Solar Power Plan for Sakai City Announced | |
| Kansai Electric Power Co. Inc. and Sharp Corporation have agreed to cooperate on the Sakai City Waterfront Mega Solar Power Generation Plan in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Under the plan, solar power generation is planned at two sites one with a 10-megawatt (MW) capacity and one with a 9-MW capacity. |
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| Oregon Farmer Cuts Costs with Wind Power | |
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| Push Towards Green Energy May Carry High Costs for Consumers, Experts Warn | |
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| Eastern Ontario Is Canada`s Green Energy Patch | |
| Alberta may be Canada`s oil patch, but Eastern Ontario may be Ontario`s only "green energy" patch for the next few years. The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) recently announced changes to Ontario`s standard offer program for renewable energy that will limit new projects in almost all parts of Ontario except Eastern Ontario. A new map of available transmission capacity in Ontario was released on June 2. |
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| Renewable Energy Incentives for Low and Middle Income Families | |
| What are some incentives that can be authorized by the U.S. government that would promote the use of renewable energy for low and middle income families? What kinds of renewable energy are most suitable for lowering household energy costs and most reliable? |
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| First US Offshore Wind Power Park In Delaware | |
| Dekortage writes "Offshore wind power company Bluewater Wind has announced an agreement to build America`s first offshore wind turbine park off the coast of Delaware. `Each turbine [will sit on] a pole about 250 feet above the waterline... the units are to be constructed to withstand hurricane-force winds. From the shore, the park will be visible only on clear winter days, and the turbines will be nearly invisible during summer months when Rehoboth Beach fills with vacationers. Each blade on the three-blade rotor is to be 150 feet long.` The wind farm will power 50,000 homes in Delaware, using about half of its capacity."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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| Couple Puts Windmill In Back Yard | |
| A Baltimore County couple is seeking to put a 120-foot windmill on their Phoenix farm as part of a plan to build a `green` home powered by clean and renewable energy sources. |
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