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| Green Power Challenges Generate Community Buzz |  |
| Over the past two years, utilities and their marketing partners have increased the use of "green power challenges" to increase participation and awareness for their green pricing programs. The utility typically develops the challenge in partnership with local governments, who make their own purchase in conjunction with the challenge, and environmental nonprofit organizations, who can help communicate the challenge. Utility and local government decision-makers typically agree on a goal for a fixed number of sign-ups within a specified time, usually about six months.
In 2007, at least fourteen utilities offered challenges, mostly in small- to mid-sized ... |
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| CSU Launches REC Offering | |
| Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) is now offering its customers renewable energy certificates (RECs) in 100 kWh increments at a price of 34¢ each, or 0.34¢/kWh. When a customer signs up under the program, CSU retires the requisite quantity of RECs on their behalf. The REC program comes in response to strong customer demand for renewable energy; CSU`s green pricing program is currently sold out.
The program is being supplied by a five-year REC contract between the |
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| DVP Seeks Regulatory Approval for Green Option | |
| Dominion Virginia Power, a subsidiary of Dominion, asked the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) for permission to offer its customers two new options to purchase renewable energy. Pending SCC approval, residential and business customers would be able to purchase renewable energy starting in January 2009 through their monthly bills in two ways.
The first option to purchase renewable energy would allow customers to offset 100% of their electrical usage with electricity generated from renewable energy sources. Payments under this option would ... |
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| Solar Power From Home Curtains | |
| kaliann writes "With the push for more sustainable energy, easy DIY kits for alternative energy sources are likely to become quite popular in the coming years. We may see some big improvements in our ability to `green up` if these photovoltaic curtains become widely available."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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| National Briefing | New England: Massachusetts: Be Green, It?s the Law | |
| Massachusetts will invest in renewable energy and require utility companies to obtain energy from sources other than fossil fuels under a new measure.
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| Mass. governor signs bill designed to dramatically raise state`s reliance on renewable energy | |
| Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a bill aimed at putting the state on a greener path. |
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| News of Big Solar`s death premature | |
| The government removes temporary ban on new solar power plant applications amid outcry that it threatened to cripple the industry.
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| ConocoPhillips funds C2B2 research | |
| ConocoPhillips Co. , which plans to build a renewable energy center in Louisville, will provide $5 million for multiyear research conducted in partnership with the Boulder-based Colorado Center for Biorefining ... |
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| Schumer Celebrates Wind Power Project in Wyoming County | |
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| DOE Announces US $10 Billion in Loan Guarantees for Renewable Energy | |
| The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a solicitation for up to $10 billion in federal loan guarantees for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. This marks the second round of solicitations for DOE`s Loan Guarantee Program, which encourages the commercial use of new or significantly improved energy technologies. |
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| Raser Receives Generation Units for New Mexico Geothermal Project | |
| Raser Technologies Inc. announced that it has begun taking delivery of the UTC Power geothermal power generating units ordered for the first commercial scale geothermal power plant to be built in the state of New Mexico. The New Mexico site is a well-studied, known geothermal resource that has provided direct use geothermal fluids to a local greenhouse operation for many years. |
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| MI&T Licenses WindFloat Platform | |
| Principle Power announced that it has secured an exclusive license from Marine Innovation & Technology (MI&T) for the WindFloat, a floating foundation technology that could enable the development of deep-water offshore wind installations. MI&T have redesigned their original oil and gas specific platform structure by integrating support for wind turbines. |
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| BLM Reverses Solar Moratorium in 6 Western States | |
| The Bureau of Land Management has reversed it’s 22 month moratorium on new applications for solar power development on public lands. |
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| Times Square Gets Solar-Powered Billboard | |
| A solar and wind-powered electronic billboard will debut in New York’s Times Square in December, becoming the flashy intersection’s first eco-friendly ad. Forty-five solar panels and four wind turbines will power the nearly 6,000 square foot billboard, resulting in a reduction of carbon dioxide usage by 18 tons a year |
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| Freeze On U.S. Solar Plant Applications Lifted | |
| necro81 writes "Barely a month ago, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a freeze on applications for solar power plants on federally managed land, pending a two-year comprehensive environmental review. After much hue and cry from the public, industry, and other parts of government, BLM has today announced that it will lift the freeze, but continue to study the possible environmental effects. To date, no solar project has yet been approved on BLM land."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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