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| Desert Vistas vs. Solar Power |  |
| Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to protect a million acres of the Mojave Desert in California by scuttling planned solar plants and wind farms.
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| Virtual Energy Forum, the World`s Largest Online Energy Conference, Scheduled to Meet January 27th and 28th | |
| The Virtual Energy Forum, the world`s largest online energy conference, today announced event dates for 2010: January 27th and 28th and June 16th and 17th. The online conference, which had more than 5,500 attendees at its most recent June 2009 meeting, presents current topics and case studies in renewable energy, green buildings, energy management and controls, sustainability, smart grid and green cities. Virtual Energy Forum is free for attendees, who are typically Fortune 1000 and public sector executives actively interested in deploying energy efficiency and sustainability initiatives in their businesses. The event is held for two days from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Eastern and includes both keynote and track sessions. |
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| CVEC Buys 400-kW Hydro Plant | |
| Central Virginia Electric Cooperative (CVEC) has agreed to buy a small hydroelectric plant on Virginia`s Rockfish River from Blue Sky Power. |
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| Idaho Power agrees to by wind power | |
| The Idaho Public Utilities Commission has approved a plan to allow a Meridian-based wind developer to start selling power to the state`s largest utility in 2013. |
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| First Solar brings utility solar plant online | |
| Solar module maker First Solar on Monday opened the largest photovoltaic solar power station in California, which the company plans to replicate in order to grow its utility solar business. |
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| Mass. pushing whole energy efficient neighborhoods | |
| Massachusetts officials are hoping to use a federal stimulus grant to take the idea of energy conservation down from the lofty heights of solar panels and wind turbines and bring it back to the neighborhood. |
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| This Year In Clean Energy - What A Ride | |
| The year 2009 started off with a bang for the clean energy industries -- encompassing energy efficiency, renewable energy, clean distributed generation -- for manufacturers, project developers, installers -- the whole family of industries. President Obama assumed office in January `09 and by February the Stimulus Bill (ARRA) was signed into law, extending the portfolio of clean energy tax credits, but also setting in motion billions of dollars of loan guarantees and grants. |
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