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07.29.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
Teeing up a new effort to boost clean energy deployment that is expected to move in the fall, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin on Monday unveiled draft legislation to extend some $25 billion in energy tax incentives, including a three-year... 07.27.2010
Tenaska, a leading merchant generator, announced Monday it has tapped Fluor Corp.’s Econamine FG Plus carbon capture technology for use in Tenaska’s proposed Trailblazer Energy Center, a 600 megawatt coal-fired power plant to be built near... 07.26.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
Acting on a blue-sky clean energy concept championed by Energy Secretary Steven Chu when he headed DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Poneman last week announced the department would provide $122 million to... 07.26.2010
Senate appropriators, under pressure to resolve a partisan dispute over Democratic domestic spending initiatives, Thursday night removed $18 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear reactors and renewable energy projects from a war supplemental spending bill... 07.23.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
Giving up for now on climate change legislation after months of fruitless efforts to build support among Republicans and conservative Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Thursday he will bring to the Senate floor next week a scaled-down... 07.21.2010
Energy ministers from 24 countries attending a “clean energy ministerial” meeting hosted by Energy Secretary Steven Chu have agreed to launch 10 international initiatives to accelerate the development of energy efficiency, bioenergy, solar... 07.19.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
In a moderately bullish report on global efforts to boost deployment of clean energy technologies, the International Energy Agency said this month that global investments in renewable electricity generation reached an all-time high of around $110 billion in... 07.14.2010 | BY CHRIS HOLLY
Up and coming energy technology developer Raser Technologies Inc. announced July 2 it has inked a memorandum of understanding with Korean industrial behemoth Hyundai Heavy Industries to jointly develop “blended” renewable energy facilities and... 07.06.2010 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
The House last week approved an additional $18 billion for Energy Department loan guarantees for nuclear, renewable and energy efficiency projects and also inserted language in a fiscal 2010 supplemental appropriations bill making policy changes to the loan... 07.01.2010
The Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration Wednesday named Kevin Smith, currently the acting manager of its Kansas City Plant site office, as the new manager of its site office overseeing Los Alamos National Laboratory. Smith, who...
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