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| Renewable energy technology stores the wind underground |  |
| Mr. Nakhamkin has helped develop technology to pull excess energy off the power grid - usually at night when usage has waned - to run compressors that pump air into sealed, underground caverns that once held ... |
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| Wyoming wind power developers to ship power to Colorado | |
| Wyoming officials say a pair of wind developers have committed to buying 585 megawatts of capacity on a transmission line that would connect to Colorado`s Front Range. |
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| The Energy Challenge: Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid?s Limits | |
| The dirty secret of clean energy is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not.
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| New twist on generating hydroelectricity | |
| An former steel town in the US is planning to turn its local river into a source of power by using a grid of electricity-generating smart materials. |
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| Granholm`s green talk plugs Mich. | |
| Gov. Jennifer Granholm was in her element at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night: microphone in hand, facing a friendly audience, moving around the stage, chatting about alternative energy. |
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| Japan`s Mitsubishi plans big expansion in solar power | |
| An employee of Japanese electronics giant Mitsubishi displaying the world`s highest efficiency solar power cell in Tokyo on August 27. |
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| GreenHunter Wins Auction for WCI Transmission Line Capacity | |
| GreenHunter Wind Energy LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GreenHunter Energy Inc. announced that it has won new power transmission capacity on the soon to be built Wyoming-Colorado Intertie (WCI) power transmission line through an auction. The WCI power transmission line will be the first transmission line built in this region of the U.S. in more than five years. |
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| SolarGenerations Program Expands to Include Wind & Hydro | |
| Sierra Pacific Power and Nevada Power Company have announced that they are expanding their SolarGenerations renewable energy programs to include cash incentives for wind and hydroelectric power systems as well as solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. Both Nevada utilities are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Sierra Pacific Resources. |
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| REC Chooses Quebec For Silicon Expansion | |
| Renewable Energy Corporation ASA (REC) announced that is has chosen Becancour, Quebec as the site for its next phase of polysilicon production expansions. The site will be developed in stages and could potentially hold four production units similar in size to the factory that the company is currently finishing in Moses Lake, Washington State. |
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| REC Solar Partners with MySpace to Recharge the Democratic National Convention | |
| REC Solar (www.recsolar.com), an industry-leading provider of residential and commercial solar electric systems, has teamed up with MySpace.com (www.myspace.com) to acquaint Democratic convention participants with solar energy through a solar-powered recharging station fueled entirely by the sun. Home to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver, Colorado proudly boasts over 300 days of sunshine per year. |
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| Allegheny Gains Regulatory Approval for Green Pricing | |
| Allegheny Power, the electric delivery subsidiary of Allegheny Energy, Inc., announced today that the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has approved Allegheny’s request to offer a voluntary wind energy program to its electric customers in the state.
In conjunction with its Watt Watchers energy conservation campaign, Allegheny has partnered with Community ... |
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| City of Gresham Becomes EPA Green Power Community | |
| The City of Gresham has been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as an EPA Green Power Community, becoming the seventh community in Oregon and the 14th in the nation to receive the designation. The federal agency extends the honor to communities that show their environmental commitment by purchasing renewable energy in amounts that meet or exceed EPA purchase requirements.
Gresham electricity customers have surpassed the Gresham Green Power Challenge goal of 300 new renewable power ... |
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| Xcel MN Customers Save on Wind in July | |
| Minnesota customers that are signed up for Xcel Energy’s Windsource voluntary renewable energy program found a pleasant surprise in their utility bills for July 2008. Windsource customers in the state actually paid less for wind energy than customers paid for fossil-fuel generated electricity. Windsource customers are exempted from paying a separate fuel cost (known as the energy cost adjustment) because wind energy does not use the fossil fuel paid for by the charge. When the ... |
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| How bacteria could help power the future | |
| Hydrogen is the cleanest and most abundant fuel there is, but extracting it from water or organic material is currently not a very efficient process. Scientists are therefore studying certain bacteria that exhale hydrogen as part of their normal metabolism. |
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