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• Ontario Government Phasing Out Coal Usage

  
  Energy Business Daily — Authority: 427
  In a radical move in Canada, the government of Ontario has declared the closure of four coal fired generating power stations. The move is being seen as an indication of the Ontario government to move towards utilizing more of renewable energy and also to further boost the concept of energy conservation. Read more ...
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• Brazilian Wind Power Gets a Boost

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 744
  The Brazilian government will soon hold its first wind-only energy auction, as the nation tries to diversify its energy portfolio beyond hydropower.
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• UK-wide success for Easdale Island in Green Streets £2m shareout

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  The community team from Easdale Island has seen off almost 100 other applicants from across the UK to make it to the final shortlist in the Scottish Gas Green Streets programme. The 14 shortlisted projects will each receive a share of a £2 million funding pot.The Easdale Island project involves the installation of a ...
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• Punj Lloyd forays into solar energy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Punj Lloyd, a diversified construction and engineering group, has tied up with Singapore-based Delta Solar to foray into the solar utility space, the company said Monday.The joint venture, Punj Lloyd Delta Renewables, will provide solar photovoltaics (SPV) and solar thermal solutions with a ...
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• Energy and Emissions Policy of the Conservative Party – the missing bits

  
  Robert Kyriakides's Weblog — Authority: 127
  If the Conservative Party form the next government of the United Kingdom what will be their specific environmental and climate change policies? So far the Conservatives have not published a cohesive strategy, neither have they provided details on their likely energy policy, and energy policy will be an essential part ...
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• Fossils from Animals and Plants Not Required for Crude Oil and Natural Gas According to Swedish Research

  
  Energy Business Daily — Authority: 427
  Researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm have managed to establish that fossils from animals and plants are not necessary for crude oil and natural gas to be engendered. The determinations are radical because this means, on one hand, that it will be a great deal easier to determine these ...
  4 days ago

• Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Externalities of Coal

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 541
  Coal has been used by man for several centuries as a means of warmth, transportation (via Watt’s steam engine ) and most recently electric power. It is currently used nearly exclusively for the generation of electricity in the US ( in 2001: 86% of total US coal production ). It has always been claimed that coal ...
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• Business Roundtable Calls on Congress & Obama Administration To Support Renewables and Traditional Sources of Energy

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 118
  Business Roundtable log.jpg The Business Roundtable has called on Congress and the Obama Administration to support both renewable and traditional sources of energy as we transition to a low-carbon economy.
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• Storing solar electricity with molten salt

  
  Sustainable development and much more — Authority: 421
  One of the main hindrances of solar energy is that when there is no more sun, there is no more electricity as well. This problem is being solved with the molten salt technology which stores energy for seven hours . A Californian company is willing to build a 150 Megawatt plant – The Rice Solar Energy Project ...
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• Energy famine is turning into a glut

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Finance Blog — Authority: 668
  My colleague, Roland Gribben,  tells me that back in the 1960s, the then chief economist at BP forecast that the world’s oil wells would be largely dry by the mid-1990s. Even with burgeoning demand from the emerging markets of Asia and Latin America, I’ve always been suspicious of the “peak oil” brigade, ...
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• The Green Building Market and Impact Report 2009

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 628
  This second annual report, by Rob Watson and the GreenBiz.com editorial team, explores the impacts that LEED-certified buildings have already had on energy, water, waste and employee productivity -- and projects those impacts for the next 20 years.
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• The Green Building Market and Impact Report 2009

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 535
  This second annual report, by Rob Watson and the GreenBiz.com editorial team, explores the impacts that LEED-certified buildings have already had on energy, water, waste and employee productivity -- and projects those impacts for the next 20 years.
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• Maldives announces windfarm plan to provide 40% of island’s electricity

  
  Carbon Commentary — Authority: 108
  The Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed stands in the sea off Kurumba to show the threat the islands face. Photograph: Chiara Goia. Source: Guardian. Plans for a new windfarm are set to make the Maldives the country with the highest proportion of renewable power in the world. The 30-turbine proposed windfarm, ...
  6 days ago

• A brilliant video on electric cars and Better Place

  
  Sustainable development and much more — Authority: 421
  At first I wasn’t that convinced that electric vehicles were the solution to end our oil addiction and decreasing carbon dioxide emissions. But reading Sustainable Energy – Without the hot air changed that. Before proposing you a series of articles on electric vehicles (it will begin after my series on ...
  1 week ago

• Book Review: Sustainable Energy -– Without the Hot Air, by David JC MacKay

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 477
  I recently finished reading  a book I strongly recommend to anyone interested in sustainable development and energy. It is packed with figures and findings that I believe will easily start discussions among CleanTechies. The author, David JC MacKay, is Professor in the Department of Physics at Cambridge University ...
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• ‘Cleantech’: The Green Economy

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 599
  Cleantech depends on energy policy. US President Obama deals with two core climate issues: meeting the larger goal of reducing carbon emissions, and finding a way of rescuing the renewables industry from Wall Street’s collapse. The benchmark of 450 ppm is a crucial figure issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on ...
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• Problems of PV feed in tariffs

  
  Robert Kyriakides's Weblog — Authority: 127
  Next April, when no doubt the United Kingdom will be distracted by the noises and excitement of a General Election, the photovoltaic industry will be hoping for a boost as a result of a new feed in tariff incentive. This incentive is very similar to the incentive that has been operating in Germany for several years, ...
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• Sustainable Design Awards: the Conservation finalist

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  Today we’re bringing details of the Machrimore Mill conversion at Southend on the Mull of Kintyre. This is the single finalist in the Conservation category so there is nothing to vote on. The panel of judges who will decide on the main awards of winners in each category will be charged with finding the right [...]
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• The Jacobson-Delucchi plan revealed

  
  The Nuclear Green Revolution — Authority: 492
  The devil is in the details, and the details are where the renewable energy schemes come apart. This is the case for the Jacobson-Delucchi plan recently published in Scientific-American to set the world on a course to an all renewable energy scheme. But support for Mark Z. Jacobsons thinking about renewable energy ...
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• Is It Viable To Make Solar Panels At Home?

  
  Go Solar Power For Homes — Authority: 439
  Modern technology has performed it possible for thousands of people to make their own solar panels . Thousands are now opting to put this new technology to use by making their own efficient and affordable solar systems at home. The American economy is encouraging a big number of families to ...
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