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| Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:20:26 GMT |
 The tanks look like they could hold propane, gasoline or any other form of conventional energy. |
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| Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:08:45 GMT |
 Maybe it was because Seeking Alpha did not carry my annual list of 10 Clean Energy Stocks for 2012 this year, but no one seems to have noticed that there were actually 11 stocks in the list. Call it the Spinal Tap of top-ten lists. |
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| Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:55:31 GMT |
 The year 2011 may be remembered in clean energy circles as the moment when India became a major player across several industries. |
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| Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:01:00 GMT |
 In a series of deals the investor-owned utility says is good for consumers' wallets, American Electric Power subsidiary Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) recently signed long-term power purchase agreements for a total of 358.65 MW of capacity from wind projects in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. |
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| Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:11:27 GMT |
 Today the Obama administration moved forward with plans to develop the enormous offshore wind energy resources along the Mid-Atlantic coast, using a "Smart for the Start" approach designed to expedite the siting process while incorporating strong environmental protections. |
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| Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:37:00 GMT |
 Renewable energy in the United States is at a crossroads. With several federal tax grants set to expire by the end of 2012, utilities are trying to decide if the falling prices of solar and wind technology makes renewable energy competitive enough to invest in despite vanishing federal aid. |
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| Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT |
 Wind energy is becoming one of the most widely used sources of renewable energy. In fact, according to the American Wind Energy Association, the wind energy industry has added more than 35 percent of all the new power generating capacity since 2007. As the industry grows in popularity, new developers continue to enter the market, and existing developers may likely expand their investments in wind farms. |
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| Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:05:45 GMT |
 Twenty years ago, international leaders descended on Brazil to lay the groundwork for what would eventually become the Kyoto Protocol. This summer, a 20-member United Nations panel will once again head to Rio de Janeiro with an even more ambitious agenda. |
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| Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:51:05 GMT |
 Due to growing urbanization and resulting environmental threats, China has invested nearly US$50 billion annually into its renewable energy sector since 2009. China's five-year investment in environmental protection is on track to reach 3.1 trillion yuan (US$454 billion). By 2015, its environmental protection industry is expected to top 2 trillion yuan (US$317 billion). |
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| Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:55:51 GMT |
 With developers having made their final end-of-year push through the last day of December, the January ritual of announcements concerning new projects entering commercial operation and new PPAs kicking in continued this week. |
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| Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:58:32 GMT |
 The U.S. wind industry posted strong fourth quarter results, AWEA reported on Thursday during a webinar for members and press. |
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| Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:43:33 GMT |
 Solar players on both sides of the Pacific have been warily anticipating the Feb. 13 deadline when the Department of Commerce was set to announce whether it would impose duties on solar cells and modules coming in from China. |
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| Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:37:44 GMT |
 During the fourteen years that I've lived in Switzerland, the Germans have been the world's staunchest supporters of green power and alternative energy. Their aggressive development of wind power was breathtaking, as was their warm embrace of photovoltaic power. |
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| Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:17:01 GMT |
 In his Jan. 24 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama reinstated his commitment to renewable energy. Despite the demise of solar manufacturer Solyndra looming over the past year of his term, Obama said that he “will not walk away from the promise of clean energy.”
Obama called for a commitment by the Defense Department |
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| Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:57:05 GMT |
 I have a new favorite word — aggregation. At the risk of sounding like a reporter, I'm going to summarize a pre-holiday news story you might have missed but need to know about. |
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| Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:33:01 GMT |
 Securitizing renewable energy networks from cyber-attacks is not complicated by their oft-cited operational headache of intermittency, but rather by their separation from a utility's control system, said smart grid executives at the Gridwise Global Forum in Washington, DC in early November. Though renewable intermittency adds to the challenge of stabilizing a grid, the forum revealed new evidence of real-world smart grid load shifting that continues to chip away at the tired argument that renewable energy cannot successfully integrate into a legacy grid. |
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| Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:03:47 GMT |
 So far, the complaint by American wind tower manufacturers against their competition from Asia has mirrored the solar industry petition filed in October. |
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| Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:17:43 GMT |
 If we want wind to continue growing, more turbines will need to be placed in our communities and close to our backyards. And that will inevitably cause more social friction. |
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| Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:16:40 GMT |
 In news that clears the way for construction to start immediately, California-based NaturEner USA, LLC, secured a $320 million construction loan with Morgan Stanley for the189-MW Rim Rock wind power project in Montana. |
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| Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:30:33 GMT |
 They stand as looming testaments to innovation, growing ever more prominent and powerful. Yet for much of 2011, wind installations remained somewhat obscured, eclipsed by the media storm surrounding the solar industry. |
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Source: www.renewableenergyworld.com |
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