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Officials are no closer to developing a solar panel project at the defunct Oak Avenue landfill than the township was in January 2011, when Pepco Energy Services scrapped its plan for 18 acres of solar panels.
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A group of Nebraska electric utilities is asking the state's largest power supplier to eliminate proposed investments in wind energy, emissions-reduction measures and energy efficiency programs to lower costs passed on to customers.
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General Electric Co., the nation's biggest supplier of wind turbines, expects domestic installations to double next year after the renewal of a tax credit boosts demand.
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Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox and Buckeye Mayor Jackie Meck today joined Sempra U.S. Gas & Power officials and community leaders to dedicate the 150-megawatt (MW) first phase of Sempra U.S. Gas & Power's Mesquite Solar facility.
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For years, chatter about the possibility of offshore wind power in North Carolina has hummed among state environmental groups. In the past year, that conversation intensified as concrete plans to develop the state's offshore resource moved forward through federal channels.
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Gov. Paul LePage wants to strip from state law goals for increasing the state's wind energy capacity over the next two decades.
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The wind power industry is expecting a tough battle in Congress as it seeks another extension of a federal tax credit that received a one-year renewal at the last minute in January.
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Part of local clean energy advocates' wish came true Tuesday night. The Minnesota House of Representatives passed its clean energy and jobs legislation, which will establish a 4 percent solar energy standard by 2020 and a 40 percent renewable electricity standard for investor-owned utilities by 2030.
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Property owners say they fear an energy measure passed by the City Council yesterday could eventually mean they'll be forced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade old buildings -- costs, they say, that would ultimately be passed on to their tenants.
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When the Archbold and Pettisville school districts brainstormed ways to reduce their electricity bills during the mid-2000s, they arrived at a common solution: wind power.
