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• California utilities push for solar, wind and carbon-capture projects

  
  Greenspace — Authority: 552
  California regulators went out of this world today and gave thego-ahead to a power-purchase agreement involving the nation’s firstsolar power plant in space. Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the state’s largest utility, willproceed with a 15-year contract with Manhattan Beach start-up Solaren Corp.,after receiving ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• Buy a Solar Cooker and Offset 1 Ton of CO2

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 686
  Image via: Solar Cookers International Solar Cookers International has come up with a new program just in time for the holidays that allows you to give a gift, help out someone less fortunate, clear the air of harmful emissions AND offset one ton of carbon dioxide. Just might be the best $50 youve ever spent this ...
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• Veterans Affairs Hospitals to Get Solar Power

  
  GetSolar.com Solar Homes & Solar Installers Directory Blog — Authority: 133
  Judging from recent announcements, the Department of Veterans Affairs is aiming for a solar-powered future. On November 20, the VA announced plans to install a solar photovoltaic (PV) system at a facility of the West Texas VA Health Care System. And today, via the Phoenix Business Journal , we learned that VA ...
  3 days ago

• Veterans Affairs Hospitals to Get Solar Power

  
  GetSolar.com Solar Homes & Solar Installers Directory Blog — Authority: 133
  Judging from recent announcements, the Department of Veterans Affairs is aiming for a solar-powered future. On November 20, the VA announced plans to install a solar photovoltaic (PV) system at a facility of the West Texas VA Health Care System. And today, via the Phoenix Business Journal , we learned that VA ...
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• Public’s Input Sought on Proposed Solar Thermal Power Plant

  
  MYGreen Education and Career — Authority: 131
  The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) are inviting the public to a public informational hearing, a site visit, and an information/scoping meeting on Thursday and Friday, Dec. 10-11, 2009, on a proposal from NextEra Energy Resources LLC, to build a 250-megawatt solar thermal ...
  4 days ago

• Capstone and Israel’s HelioFocus Get R&D Grants To Fire Up Solar Powered Micro-Turbines

  
  Green Prophet — Authority: 504
  Captsone’s microturbine could be fired up by solar power in new project with Heliofocus. California based Capstone Turbine Corporation (NASDAQ:CPST) and Israel based HelioFocus Ltd ,  have entered into an agreement to develop a micro-turbine to produce power from concentrated solar energy.  The project is ...
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• Million Solar Roof Initiative – U.S. Department Of Energy

  
  Go Solar Power For Homes — Authority: 448
  The U.S. Department of Energy has been given a mission of reducing fossil fuel dependence and pollution in the country. Its answer is the Million Solar Roof Initiative. Million Solar Roof Initiative – U.S. Department of Energy For the past 20 years, the Department of Energy has been trying to motivate private ...
  6 days ago

• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
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• First Solar sells Riverside County facility to NRG Energy

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 685
  Photovoltaics producer First Solar Inc. sold a 21-megawatt Riverside County solar facility to leading power company NRG Energy Inc. for an undisclosed amount, the company said today. First Solar, based in Tempe, Ariz., is building the project in Blythe and has worked out a 20-year power purchase agreement to sell ...
  1 week ago

• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Mongolia on Its Way to Becoming a Solar Power Giant

  
  Solar Power Updates & News — Authority: 114
  Great things are happening in Inner Mongolia when it comes to solar power. This Mongol autonomous region located in northern China is becoming a powerful player in the alternative energy sector, and as such China wants to use the region to house various solar farms.This post was originally published on Solar Power ...
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• No Sunny Skies for Two Solar Projects in Texas, California

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 606
  Two major solar projects are at a standstill; one over contract renewals and the other due to environmental concerns. Meanwhile, New York lawmakers are making it easier for businesses and homeowners to install solar systems and makeenergy-efficiency improvements.NRG Energy’s plan to build Texas’ largest solar ...
  2 weeks ago

• SunPower Completes 1-Megawatt Solar Power System at Agilent Technologies Headquarters

  
  GreenEnergyForEarth.com - Solar & Wind Power Products — Authority: 129
  Nov 19, 2009 – SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, announced the completion of a 1-megawatt solar power rooftop system on three buildings at Agilent’s headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. This is SunPower’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Supervisor opposes massive solar project in San Bernardino County [Updated]

  
  Greenspace — Authority: 552
  A solar energy project proposed for development on public land in the Mojave Desert would create jobs mostly for Las Vegas and electricity for San Francisco at the expense of the relatively pristine area of east San Bernardino County where it would be built, San Bernardino County Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt said ...
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• The Pursuit of New Ways to Boost Solar Development

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 521
  The solar power boom in Germany, Spain, and parts of the United States has been fueled by government subsidies. But now some U.S. states — led by New Jersey, of all places — are pioneering a different approach: issuing tradable credits that can be sold on the open market. So far, the results have been promising. ...
  3 weeks ago

• We Need More Investment in Green Training and Education-Nationwide Instructor Training

  
  MYGreen Education and Career — Authority: 131
  In California the US government is investing $3.5 Million  in a regional resource and training center for Solar Power technology. The center, one of nine in the nationwide Installer Instructor Training Network, will enable California to build a highly capable clean energy workforce and to maintain its worldwide ...
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• P&G Launches 1.1 MW Solar Array

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 606
  Procter & Gamble will use a 1.1 megawatt solar array to help electrify its Oxnard, Calif., paper plant.The photovoltaic solar array should generate more than 1.9 million kilowatt hours of electricity during its first year of operation, and more than 34 milion kWh over 20 years, according to a press release.The ...
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• Salt-Based Solar Power Tower To Be Built in California

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 502
  Permission was sought from authorities in California for a solar power tower to be built near Rice, a town in San Bernadino County, California. The California-based company called SolarReserve claims the technology it will use for the solar tower will allow the plant to supply electricity to consumers around the ...
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• San Diego Solar Projects Get $154 Million Funding

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 502
  A total number of 192 solar installation projects in the public sector of San Diego were awarded with $154 million in allocations through the Clean Renewable Energy Bonds (CREBs) program. Seven hundred thirty-nine projects were given $800 million in allocation by the IRS in all. The funding given to San Diego will ...
  4 weeks ago

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