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| White House promotes clean energy tax credits |  |
| The White House is promoting a $5 billion increase in tax breaks for clean energy manufacturing in hopes of contributing to job growth and expanded use of renewable energy. |
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| 25 Ways A Renewable Energy Business Can Fail | |
| 2GreenEnergy.com has released a brand-new, free report about the central business components of renewable energy enterprises, from small start-ups to large corporations. Although the report focuses on the reasons why clean energy businesses fail, it is presented in a format of how to succeed. The 13-page report is titled, "25 Tips for Renewable Energy Business" by Renewable Energy Business Analyst, Craig Shields. |
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| GEI to Construct Thompson Falls Fish Ladder | |
| PPL Montana has selected engineering firm GEI Consultants to provide ecological engineering services for the construction of a US$7million full-height fish ladder at the Thompson Falls hydroelectric project in Thompson Falls, Montana, GEI reported. |
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| National Semiconductor`s SolarMagic Power Optimizer Wins Renewable Energy Design Award at 2009 Elektra Awards | |
| National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM) today announced that the company`s SolarMagic™ power optimizer received the renewable energy design award at the 7th annual Elektra Awards, on Tuesday, December 1st. Electronics Weekly and a panel of industry experts recognized National`s innovative design for its achievement in increasing the energy output and system effectiveness of solar arrays when challenged with real-world conditions. |
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| Ritter Announces New Colorado Solar Energy Jobs | |
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| KYOCERA Solar Modules Supply Approx. 40 MW at Large-Scale Solar Power Plants in Spain | |
| Kyocera Corporation today announced that it has supplied roughly 190,000 solar modules, equivalent to approximately 40 megawatts (MW), for two newly completed large-scale solar power plants in Spain. |
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| Eilat-Eilot Conference to Address Importance of Regulation as Tool for Achieving Global Renewable Energy Targets | |
| The Eilat-Eilot International Renewable Energy Conference (www.eilatenergy.com), one of the world`s most important renewable energy events, announced today that at this year`s forum, it will be addressing the important role that regulatory bodies play in helping achieve global renewable energy targets. This announcement comes following the recent unexpected revelation by the Israel Electric Corp. (IEC) that due to the rapid expansion of the Israeli solar energy market, it has finished the State`s quota for subsidizing solar installations undertaken by local companies and will no longer pay out incentives to future solar installations built on rooftops. The Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy conference will be held from February 16-18 in Eilat, Israel. |
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| ECN & REC Hit 17% Efficiency with Multicrystalline Solar Panel | |
| Energy Research Centere of the Netherlands (ECN) has made the world`s first multicrystalline silicon solar panel with 17% efficiency. The full findings will be reported in the January 2010 issue of the journal "Progress in Photovoltaics" and represents a 1.5% improvement over the previous 15–year old listing of 15.5% efficiency held by Sandia National Labs. |
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| Report: Solar Energy Could Meet 15% of US Electricity by 2020 | |
| Leaders representing the U.S. solar energy industry reported on the potential of solar energy in the U.S. this week. The findings, which were presented at an UNFCCC press briefing in the Bella Center, the hub of activity at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP15), are that solar is capable of meeting 15% of U.S. energy needs by 2020. |
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| Brazil Conducts First Wind-only Power Auction | |
| Brazil this week held its first wind-only power auction. More than 1,800 megawatts (MW) of wind power capacity was contracted. The average selling price for electricity from these projects was US $84.88/megawatt-hour. The auction will allow for the building of 71 wind power plants located in five states of the northeastern and southern regions of the country. In the 20 year period in which the contracts will run, the projects are expected to drive investments of more than $11.2 billion. |
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| 24-MW Solar Power Plant in Italy Completed | |
| SunRay Renewable Energy and SunPower Corp. announced that the 24-megawatt (MW) Montalto di Castro solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant, the largest in Italy, has been completed and is transmitting electricity to Italy`s national electric grid. The two companies announced the completion of the system at an interactive conference on renewable sources, Re-Event, being held this week in Rome. |
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| Nordex Receives Order for First US Project | |
| Nordex USA Inc. has recieved the first U.S. order for eight of its N100 wind turbines, which will be installed at a 20-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Glenmore, Wisconsin outside of Green Bay. Developed by Emerging Energies of Wisconsin, the project will generate close to 64 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually |
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| This Year in Geothermal Energy | |
| In 2009, geothermal energy appeared to be on a launch trajectory. Six new geothermal plants came online in the United States and another 144 were under development, raising the prospects of 10 gigawatts (GW) of geothermal power in coming years. Geothermal power projects were being developed at an accelerating rate, despite the economic recession. |
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