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| Windmills split town and families |  |
| An Amish farmer rakes hay as wind turbines from the Maple Ridge Wind Farm work in the distance in Lowville, N.Y., Monday, Aug. |
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| Inside Business: Wind Power | |
| Germany slashes subsidies, threatenibg soalr system; Analysis by Mcnamara of Jefferies International |
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| Vestas to Test World’s Longest Turbine Blades | |
| Doesn’t it seem fitting that Vestas Wind Systems, the world’s largest manufacturer of wind turbines, should be the maker of the world’s largest wind turbine? Well, they’re not - at least not yet. Today, Vestas revealed plans (pdf) for a new research and development center on the Isle of Wight (UK) |
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| World`s Largest Solar Plants Planned In California | |
| Pickens writes "Two photovoltaic solar power plants will be built in San Luis Obispo County in California, covering 12.5 square miles, that together will generate about 800 megawatts of power, the latest indication that solar energy is starting to achieve significant scale. `If you`re going to make a difference, you`ve got to do it big,` said Randy Goldstein, the chief executive of OptiSolar. OptiSolar will employ enough of its amorphous silicon thin-film solar panels at its Topaz Solar Farm project to generate 550 MW. Meanwhile, SunPower will install mechanical tracking for its more expensive 250 MW-worth of crystalline silicon photovoltaics at High Plains Ranch II in a bid to boost their efficiency by 30 percent from following the sun across the sky. The power will be sold to Pacific Gas & Electric, which is under a state mandate to get 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2010. The utility said that it expected the new plants to be competitive with other renewable energy sources, including wind turbines and solar thermal plants. `These landmark agreements signal the arrival of utility-scale PV solar power that may be cost-competitive with solar thermal and wind energy,` said Jack Keenan, chief operating officer and senior vice president for PG&E." Reader thefickler notes some related news that researchers have developed a method of collecting infrared rays at night to supplement day-time solar power.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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| Missouri governor candidates discuss energy at fair | |
| First they shared a warm handshake and then Missouri governor candidates Jay Nixon and Kenny Hulshof outlined similar ideas Thursday for a state energy policy focused on biofuels and renewable energy. |
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| Solar Efficiency Record Broken | |
| When it comes to eeking another fraction of a percentage point of power out of a solar panel, we`re pretty good at not paying attention. I mean, what`s the difference between 40.7% and 40.8% anyway? Generally these efficiency gains aren`t all that important to the future of the solar economy. Yes, it`s a new world record, but the photovoltaic modu |
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