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A sleek, 102-foot catamaran covered with silver solar panels that make it look like a Star Trek set captured the world's imagination as it circumnavigated the globe powered only by the sun.
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Washington Gas Energy Systems, Inc., today announced it signed a contract with Rio Rancho Public Schools, AMSOLAR and Conergy to build, own and operate two 1,215-kilowatt solar arrays at Cleveland and Rio Rancho High Schools.
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AEP-PSO has not added any new wind power capacity in more than two years, but the Tulsa-based utility announced this week it is seeking bids for long-term purchases of up to 200 megawatts of new wind energy resources.
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The owners of four biomass power plants in Maine, including those in Stratton and Livermore Falls, were at the State House on Thursday to announce their company's recent certification for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative standard.
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A bill to revamp the criteria for siting large energy projects is headed to the governor's desk. Originally Senate Bill 99 would have established a one-year moratorium that would have halted the Northern Pass transmission project and numerous proposed wind farms.
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Met-Ed is alerting customers that it has suspended its energy-saving Easygreen program.
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Every two years, Puget Sound Energy -- the largest western Washington utility with 1 million electric customers and 760,000 natural gas customers -- submits an Integrated Resources Plan to the Washington State Utilities Commission.
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A Superior Court judge has ordered town planners to reconsider two items -- tower heights and sound levels -- from its October 2011 approval of Pisgah Mountain wind farm, and the local panel decided Wednesday not to allow public comment during the remand process.
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Renewable energy and natural gas could work together as sources of electricity generation, rather than as competitors on the Texas grid, according to a new report produced for the Texas Clean Energy Coalition.
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The members of South Bend's Common Council unanimously approved two measures recommending the installment of a "green roof" on Century Center and shifting control of day-to-day operations at Potawatomi Zoo from the city to the Potawatomi Zoological Society during their meeting Monday.
