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| A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants |  |
| If companies commit at the outset to use union labor, they say environmental objections never materialize.
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| Texas oil billionaire eyes Alberta wind power | |
| T. Boone Pickens speaks to reporters in Calgary on Wednesday. Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens told a Calgary business audience he`s looking to make a potential investment in wind energy in Alberta. |
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| Missouri average on gains from clean energy push | |
| A national study on economic development linked to renewable energy predicts Missouri is on the cusp of significant growth. |
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| PV Powered Receives Significant Financial Commitment to Fund Growth and Invest in Future | |
| PV Powered, Inc., the largest US maker of grid-tied photovoltaic solar inverters and industry leader in inverter reliability, announced that it has received a multimillion-dollar investment from a Vancouver, Washington-based investment group, Evans Renewable Holdings II LLC – the principals of JH Kelly LLC, an 85-year old commercial/industrial construction company. The new funding will allow PV Powered to capitalize on the rapidly growing solar energy marketplace which could result in doubling or tripling the company`s size in the next two years. |
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| Industry Group Announces Workshop on Two New Growth Areas for Geothermal in the US -- Distributed/Small Power Generation and Direct Use Heating | |
| Washington -- Klamath Falls, Oregon will be the site of a workshop intended to promote two exciting growth areas for geothermal energy in the United States. On August 12 the Geothermal Energy Association and the Oregon Institute of Technology`s Geo-Heat Center will be holding a workshop focusing on direct heat and small power utilization. Pratt &Whitney Power Systems, maker of the PureCycle® Power System, is the Gold Level Sponsor of the event. |
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| Ameren to purchase wind power | |
| The St. Louis-based utility Ameren Corp. is purchasing wind power for the first time. |
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| groSolar`s Financing Program Bears Fruit | |
| BELLINGHAM, Mass. - Kim and Richard Loring have dreamed of installing solar panels on their Bellingham home for years, but assumed they would have to wait many more years before they could afford to make the investment. Thanks to a new solar financing program now available to Massachusetts homeowners, the Lorings are getting a new five kilowatt system on their roof this summer, designed and installed by Vermont-based solar provider groSolar. |
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| Airtricity and Port of Rømø Join Forces for Offshore Wind | |
| Airtricity, the renewable energy development division of Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), has signed an agreement with Port of Rømø to develop a service and maintenance centre for the proposed Butendiek offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. |
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| Horizon Signs 100-MW PPA with AmerenUE for Pioneer Prairie Wind Farm Output | |
| Horizon Wind Energy LLC, has just entered into a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with AmerenUE to sell renewable wind energy from the 102.3-megawatt (MW) second phase of its Pioneer Prairie Wind Farm, which has a total installed capacity of 300 MW already in operation. |
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| The Next Solar Frontier: Distributed Inverter Architecture | |
| Solar panel makers are spending tens of millions of dollars to make their products produce more power from the same amount of sunlight. Parallel to that, there is a growing number of companies that are building technologies that can squeeze out more power from the panels that are already on the market. These companies, large and small, are bringing to market software and hardware that provide solar systems with so-called distributed inverter architecture. If successful, they stand to disrupt the businesses of companies like Germany`s SMA that build the central inverters that currently dominate the market. |
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