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10.05.2009
FPL Group Inc. subsidiary Next-Era Energy Resources LLC announced Thursday it was spending $352 million to purchase three operating U.S. wind projects with a combined capacity of 184.5 megawatts from struggling Australian investment firm Babcock & Brown... 10.05.2009
California forestry products company Sierra Pacific Industries Inc. and Equator LLC, a natural resources asset management firm, announced Wednesday they have agreed on terms for what was billed as the nation’s largest single forest carbon transaction, a... 10.01.2009 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
In twin initiatives aimed at spurring U.S. action on climate change, Sens. Barbara Boxer and John Kerry unveiled comprehensive legislation Wednesday to establish a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program covering much of the U.S. economy, while the Environmental... 09.30.2009 | BY GREGORY E. ABEL and GLENN ENGLISH
COMMENTARY The commentary No ‘Cash for Clunkers’ in Climate Bill (in the September 15 issue of The Energy Daily) creates a fictitious history of climate change and seriously harms good faith efforts within the industry to address the legitimate... 08.13.2009 | Eric Lindeman
In what it termed “a partnership between Treasury and Energy,” the Obama administration rolled out a new program Aug. 13 to award $2.3 billion in tax credits to manufacturers clean energy equipment. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Energy... 08.05.2009 | BY JEFF BEATTIE
To the dismay of provincial officials, clean power developers and some environmentalists, British Columbia regulators last week refused to endorse BC Hydro’s plans to secure much of its future power from merchant wind, hydro and biomass projects, saying... 08.05.2009 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
In an analysis hailed by Democratic congressional leaders and the Obama administration, the Energy Information Administration said Tuesday that House-passed climate and energy legislation would have only modest impacts on consumers and the U.S. economy if the... 08.04.2009 | Eric Lindeman
Second-quarter U.S. venture capital investment in cleantech businesses showed significant improvement over the first three months of 2009, but is still way off the pace of investment in the same period a year ago. Cleantech investment in the second... 07.30.2009 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
A 10-year, $520 billion effort to improve the energy efficiency of American homes, businesses and factories would cut U.S. energy demand by 23 percent, reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels and yield net cost savings across the... 07.30.2009
Moving to solidify the Democratic majority on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, President Obama late Tuesday renominated Commissioner Suedeen Kelly for a new five-year term at the rate-making agency. The reappointment of Kelly, who has served at FERC...
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