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09.02.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
In an assessment that could damage the clean coal project’s prospects, Illinois utility regulators told the state legislature Wednesday that the proposed Taylorville coal gasification and power generating facility “features high costs to... 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... 08.31.2010
Marking the launch of the “Hydrogen South Africa” strategy to develop a manufacturing-based "hydrogen economy," California’s Altergy Systems said last week that it is partnering with Anglo Platinum's Platinum Growth Metals... 08.31.2010 | Eric Lindeman
In support of the state's “Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program,” the California Energy Commission last week issued its first project grant to Biodiesel Industries, Inc., for development of new, California-based biofuel... 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... 08.25.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
Responding to looming federal regulations to reduce power plant pollution, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s board signed off Friday on a proposal to shut down 1,000 megawatts of older coal-fired generation and replace it with an equal amount of natural... 08.24.2010 | Eric Lindeman
Rochester, N.Y.-based WindTamer Corp. has delivered a mobile trailer-mounted WindTamer turbine and renewable energy storage unit to the Army at its Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, the company said Aug. 23. An innovative portable combination turbine and... 08.24.2010 | Eric Lindeman
In what it describes as the largest ocean energy “power plant” ever installed in U.S. waters, Ocean Renewable Power Co. said it has successfully generated grid-compatible power from tidal currents at its Cobscook Bay site in Eastport, Maine, while... 08.18.2010 | By GEORGE LOBSENZ
In a lawsuit that revealed surprising new details about the controversial and politically sensitive $4 billion project, a New Mexico antinuclear group this week asked a federal court to stop construction of a massive new plutonium facility at Los Alamos... 08.17.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
After initially rejecting the utility’s smart grid program in June as not in the public interest, the Maryland Public Service Commission Friday approved a revised plan by Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. on the condition that the company drop its...
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