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| Saudi royal: U.S. can`t be energy-independent |  |
| "If you are going to be paying for wind, electric and solar energy equivalents that cost five or 10 times more than it costs to use oil, you are going to price yourself out of the market. You are going to lose whatever competitiveness you have in your products."..said Prince Turki al-Faisal |
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| First Solar 1Q profit triples on new projects | |
| First Solar, the nation`s largest solar panel maker, reported Wednesday that first-quarter profits more than tripled as the company inked numerous new power projects and cut its production costs. |
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| India favours climate adaptation without cap on development | |
| By Arun Kumar, Washington, April 29 : Asserting that it cannot accept a cap on development, India has proposed a collaborative approach to the problem of global warming to achieve sustainable development with a strategic shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. |
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| Earth Day Visitors to SolarRating Online Tops 5,000 | |
| To celebrate Earth Day 2009 on April 22, Green Power Labs provided free access to its SolarRating Online service. Over 5000 people visited SolarRating Online to learn how solar technology might fit into their family`s energy mix. |
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| Antimatter mysteries: Can we make an anti-world? | |
| At the moment physicists are having enough difficulty just taming antihydrogen, the simplest possible anti-atom. Can we ever expect them to make a whole anti-periodic table? |
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| U.S. Wind Power Industry Installs More Than 2,800 MW in Q1 2009 | |
| GreenBiz.com, 29 April 2009 - The wind energy industry in the United States installed 2,836 megawatts of new generating capacity through the end of March, bringing total installed generating capacity in the country to 28,206 MW, the American Wind Energy Association announced. |
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| Creating Green Jobs for Colorado | |
| Colorado lawmakers say they`re making progress this year with an agenda to create jobs promoting renewable energy. |
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| New Report Shows Hydrogen Vehicles Will Drive Change | |
| Today, the National Hydrogen Association released a new report called the "Energy Evolution: An Analysis of Alternative Vehicles and Fuels to 2100." The Energy Evolution shows that a scenario which initially includes a mix of alternative vehicles, and is later dominated by hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles sales is the only way to simultaneously cut U.S. greenhouse gas pollution by 80% below 1990 levels; reach petroleum quasi-independence by mid-century; and eliminate nearly all controllable air pollution by the end of the century. The report also shows that an expansion of hydrogen stations is more affordable than most people think. |
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| First Solar To Supply PV Modules for 1-MW System in Australia | |
| First Solar Inc. will supply solar photovoltaic (PV) modules to Solar Shop Australia Pty Ltd. for a 1 megawatt (MW) rooftop project. The solar power system, installed on six separate buildings at the Adelaide Showground in South Australia, will be the largest PV installation in the country. The rooftop system is being commissioned by the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia. |
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| BP Signs Module Supply Deal with EWS | |
| BP Solar Deutschland GmbH and EWS GmbH & Co. KG have reached agreement on a supply contract this month. EWS will receive 33 megawatts of BP Solar modules, mainly monocrystalline products. |
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| Small Wind Energy Project Proposed for Massachusetts Turnpike | |
| In pursuit of Governor Deval Patrick`s goal of 2,000 megawatts of wind power in Massachusetts by 2020, the Secretaries of the Executive Office of Transportation (EOT) and the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) announced a project to install a utility-scale wind energy project on state land adjacent to the Massachusetts Turnpike`s Blandford Rest Area. |
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| EPA Recognizes Nation’s Leading Green Power Purchasers | |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Green Power Partnership issued a revised list of the Top 50 U.S. green power purchasers. The top two purchasers — Intel Corporation and PepsiCo, respectively — retained their positions from last year’s list. Intel purchases more than 1.3 billion kWh of renewable energy per year.
Kohl’s Department Stores more than doubled the size of its annual renewable energy purchase, the most significant increase in purchase size among the nation’s top buyers. Kohl’s increased annual purchase represents about 50% of its annual electricity demand.
New entrants to the Top 50 list include Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Sony DADC, Motorola, Inc., and Dannon Company Inc. Dannon’s purchase of 100 million kWh of green power represents 100% of its electricity demand.
EPA’s Green Power Partnership works with more than 1000 partner organizations that collectively purchase more than 16 billion kWh of green power annually.
News Release - EPA Unveils Top 50 U.S. Green Power Purchasers
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