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• Universities Look for Heat Underground

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 745
  With the help of federal grants, universities around the country are turning to geothermal energy for heating and power as they try to cut their carbon footprint.
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• City to Test the Geothermal Waters Near Salton Sea

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 640
  On Friday, the City Council adopted a resolution authorizing a very complicated-sounding lease that will let the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) look into the possibility of developing a geothermal energy facility near the Salton Sea . The move comes despite the Energy and Environment Committees ...
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• Ormat (ORA) Secures 20 YR Geothermal Energy Deal With Nevada Power

  
  Green Stocks Central — Authority: 508
  Ormat Technologies (ORA) is announcing this morning that one of its subsidiaries has secured a 20-year power purchase agreement with Nevada Power Company to purchase 30MW from the McGinness Hills Geothermal project, which is currently under construction and expected to come online in about two years. Once the ...
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• Alternative energy down on the farm: A still-untapped resource

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Energy , Technology , Green As the federal government hands out billions of dollars to subsidize, push, prod and canoodle companies into jump-starting a green revolution in the U.S., one segment of the economy has been more or less left out. That would be farmers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
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• New Power Lines and Power Plants Needed To Strengthen Already Stressed U.S. Power Grids

  
  KFFB 106.1 FM -- Arkansas Radio -- Online Radio--Arkansas Politics — Authority: 144
  WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 6, 2009) – The Western Business Roundtable told a U.S. House Committee this week that economic recovery will require rapid new investment and government approval of additions to the nation’s already stressed power grids or “we may end up pushing the grid into the red zone and leaving ...
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• The Ten Essential Renewable Energy Stories This Week

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 121
  news.JPG Well, its Friday, and for those of you that follow EnergyBoom you know what that means.  And, for those of you who are reading EnergyBoom for the first time, you are about to find out.
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• Geothermal Energy Incentives To Attract $2.5 Billion In The Philippines

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 477
  The Philippine government plans to approve 19 new contracts to develop the nation’s massive geothermal energy resources in the next five months. A top energy official said financial incentives for the development of renewable energy projects could attract more than $2.5 billion in private dollars from domestic ...
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• US Department of Energy Awards $338 Million to Accelerate Domestic Geothermal Energy

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 143
  Innovative geothermal projects are funded in support of project deployment, technology development, and data collectionWASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu has recently announced up to $338 million in Recovery Act funding for the exploration and development of new geothermal fields and ...
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• Philippine Government Attracts $2.5 Billion from Geothermal Investors

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 143
  HONG KONG – The Philippine government aims to approve contracts to explore and develop the country’s massive geothermal energy resources, which could attract over $2.5 billion in private investment, a department of energy official said.The Philippines, the world’s second-largest developer of geothermal energy, ...
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• Geothermal Leader Ormat (ORA) Posts Another Strong Quarter, But Sees Growth Moderating Next Year

  
  Green Stocks Central — Authority: 508
  Ormat Technologies (ORA) posted another strong quarter as earnings increased 48% over the year ago quarter on revenues that increased 20%.  The company reported an EPS of .52/share which smashed analyst estimates of .37/share.  Revenues also beat analyst estimates coming in at $119.8 million vs Wall St estimates of ...
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• Raser (RZ) Gets Yet Another Extension Agreement

  
  Green Stocks Central — Authority: 508
  Raser just announced that they have come to yet another extension agreement with the financing partners for their Thermo No. 1 Plant. The extension gives Raser until November 30th to redo its financing agreements so that they conform to changes in tax law caused by the stimulus. Once the agreements have been ...
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• Geothermal Research Gets boost with DOE Grant

  
  Tampa Ethanol — Authority: 143
  Now here is an energy resource that we don’t hear or talk enough about: geothermal. Engineered Geothermal Systems (EGS) projects produce electricity using heat extracted through engineered fluid flow paths in hot rock. Geothermal energy has the ability to produce electricity 24 hours a day. Electricity produced by ...
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• Department of Energy awards $338 million in grants for geothermal energy

  
  Politics in the Zeros — Authority: 488
  These grants will support 123 projects in 39 states, with recipients including private industry, academic institutions, tribal entities, local governments, and DOE’s National Laboratories. The grants will be matched more than one-for-one with an additional $353 million in private and non-Federal cost-share funds. ...
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• Berkeley Lab Gets $7 Million to (Do What Could) Save Humanity (Maybe)

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 507
  It seems like the Lawrence Berkeley Lab is always getting in the news for something or other . Now, it’s for getting a pretty sweet cut out of the Recovery and Reinvestment Act pot— $7 million , to be vaguely precise. And this time the funding is for geothermal energy research. “Now wait a minute, ...
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• PG+E Won’t Meet California’s 20% Renewables Target By 2010

  
  TechPulse 360 — Authority: 581
  Pacific Gas and Electric won’t meet California’s ambitious requirement that 20 percent of its electricity come from renewable sources by 2010. The utility get 13 percent of its power from renewables today, says PG&Es Mark Bramfitt “We’re not going to get 20 percent of our portfolio to be renewable” ...
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• DOE Awards $338M for Geothermal R&D

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 620
  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $338 million in Recovery Act funding for geothermal research and development. The grants were awarded to 123 projects in 39 states, across private industry, academic institutions, tribal entities, local governments, and DOE’s national laboratories. The grants will be ...
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• The Future of Green Jobs in the US Geothermal Energy Industry

  
  MYGreen Education and Career — Authority: 134
  U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu this week announced up to $338 million in Recovery Act funding for the exploration and development of new geothermal fields and research into advanced geothermal technologies. These grants will support 123 projects in 39 states, with recipients including private industry, ...
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• SMU Geothermal Lab awarded $5.25 million DOE grant

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  (Southern Methodist University) SMUs DOE grant to provide content for the National Geothermal Database is part of the $338 million Recovery Act funding package announced by Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
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• Green Career Trends: Using CO2 in Geothermal Energy, Using Electricity in Making Algae Biodiesel, Using Software to Accurately Measure Power Consumption

  
  Green Career Central Blog — Authority: 122
  Greenfire Energy(based in Salt Lake City, UT) has a new take on geothermal energy. Instead of pumping water into rock fissures to be heated and using theresulting steam to spin a turbine, they use carbon dioxide, (CO2).  CO2 from coal fired plants could be used in this process, creatingco-generation stations with ...
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• Midwest tech firm now wind driven

  
  GreenTech Pastures — Authority: 554
  Other World Computing (OWC) is in McHenry County, Illinois, and now their power comes from the wind. OWC claims the title of “first 100 percent on-site wind powered technology manufacturer/distributor in the U.S.” It’s using Vestas-made wind turbines for all its daily electricity needs. The new OWC Wind ...
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