Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) Opening Keynote at 2nd Annual Transmission Siting Policy Summit, October 5, 2010 in Washington D.C.                    Sign up for a free trial to the Energy Daily Network today.
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09.02.2010

The operator of the Philadelphia-area subway system announced Wednesday that it has been awarded a $900,000 grant from the state of Pennsylvania to run a test program to capture, recycle and sell waste energy produced by braking trains along the city’s...

09.01.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY

Resolving what is likely one of the last remaining legal battles in a decade-long struggle by Cape Wind Associates LLC to build the nation’s first offshore wind farm, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Tuesday rejected a last-ditch challenge by...

09.01.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ

Exelon Corp., the nation’s leading nuclear plant operator, Tuesday took its first sizable step into the renewables market with the purchase of some 735 megawatts of operating wind farms and 230 MW of advanced wind projects from John Deere, the farm...

08.31.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ

After months of public comment and debate, the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin announced final wind siting rules that set parameters on restrictions that local governments in the state can impose on wind farms of less than 100 megawatts to address...

08.27.2010

In a binding accord cementing a tentative deal signed by the energy giants in February, Royal Dutch Shell plc and Brazilian sugar, biofuels and electric power conglomerate Cosan S.A. announced Wednesday a $12 billion deal to create one of the world’s...

08.26.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY

An Environmental Protection Agency plan to tighten emission limits for new and existing industrial boilers has sparked alarmed protests from the biomass generation industry and electric utilities, who say the proposed regulations are so onerous they threaten...

08.26.2010

Lighting Science Group announced Wednesday that its new solar-powered streetlights are being installed along 14 miles of a new elevated superhighway in Mexico, the first...

08.24.2010

The U.S. subsidiary of Spanish wind-turbine manufacturer Gamesa has won a contract to provide equipment and services for Honduras’ first utility-scale wind project, with the support of project financing from the Export-Import Bank of the United States...

08.24.2010

The Energy Department announced Friday it is giving developers of energy efficiency, renewable energy and advanced transmission and distribution technologies an extra six weeks to apply for a loan guarantee under two of the agency’s loan guarantee...

08.23.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ

In some of the most ambitious solar initiatives to date in the Midwest, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn last week signed legislation accelerating solar power purchase requirements for the state’s two investor-owned utilities, and he also awarded $4 million in...


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