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48 min ago | KGWN

Biofuel executives praise US support for industry

Executives with the Danish firm that invested $200 million in a new enzyme plant in Nebraska praised the U.S. government's continued support for biofuels.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Biofuel, Energy

4 hrs ago | Albany Times Union

US again imposes clean-energy tariffs on China

The Obama administration moved Wednesday to impose stiff new tariffs on wind-energy towers made in China, the latest strike in an escalating trade war over clean energy.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Wind Power

8 hrs ago | Star-Telegram.com

Obama calls Romney; congratulates him on GOP nod

President Barack Obama called Mitt Romney on Wednesday to congratulate him on winning the Republican nomination, just as the Democrat's campaign opened a new critique of Romney by focusing attention on his economic record as governor of Massachusetts.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Economics News, Bankruptcy

11 hrs ago | Times-Standard

First-ever electricity for parts of India

The solar power company SunEdison is launching a program to get electricity for the first time to more than two dozen villages in India.

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Related Topix: Solar Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, SunEdison, Semiconductors, Memc Electronic Materials, Electronics

15 hrs ago | Boston.com

Grid operators say Germany must invest $25 billion

The operators of Germany's electricity grid said Wednesday the country must invest about 20 billion in new transmission networks over the next decade as the nation abandons nuclear power and uses more renewable energy.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Wind Power

19 hrs ago | The Times Herald

Snyder questions renewable energy ballot plan

Gov. Rick Snyder says he has serious concerns about a proposed constitutional amendment that would require Michigan utilities to produce 25 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Rick Snyder, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Tue May 29, 2012

Boulder Weekly

2. The truth about renewable energy: Inexpensive, reliable, and inexhaustible

But as technological advances and plummeting costs drive explosive growth - U.S. installed wind capacity has grown sevenfold to nearly 47 gigawatts in the last seven years - real-world experience is shattering long-held assumptions every day.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Immigration Reform, us Travel, Travel

National Public Radio

Maine Independent Aims To Be Senate King, Acknowledges Potted Plant Potential

The most potentially influential politician you've probably never heard of, former two-term Maine Gov.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Olympia Snowe, Energy, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Joseph Lieberman

Bloomberg

GOP Moves to Cut Military's Alternative Fuels

The Navy launches a supersonic flight test of the "Green Hornet," an F/A-18 Super Hornet strike fighter jet powered by a 50/50 biofuel blend at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, MD, April 22, 2010.

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Related Topix: Energy, US Military, US Navy, Biofuel, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), US News, US Politics, Michael Conaway, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Marine Corps

Las Cruces Sun-News

Albuquerque Mayor Berry to announce Sunport to get more solar power

Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry is set to announce that Albuquerque Sunport will be getting more solar panels to power elevators, lights and offices at the airport.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Solar Energy, Energy

Daily Mail

Residents of No Name Key island in Florida upset that they are finally going to get electricity

When it comes to the remote Florida island of No Name Key, the residents of its 43 homes are practically in the midst of a civil war over a debate on green energy.

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Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Solar Energy

SavannahNow

Group: Companies might cut China investment

Frustrated by China's market barriers, European companies might shift future investment to other economies, a business group said Tuesday, in an unusually pointed warning about a possible backlash over Beijing's trade policies.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Mon May 28, 2012

WNYC-AM New York

For Future Energy, Volcanic Indonesia Bets On Heat

A local resident entertains visitors to the Kawah Kamojang geothermal field in West Java.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Geothermal Power, Energy

Canada.com

Solar firm Day4 Energy to delist from Toronto Stock Exchange

Solar power company Day4 Energy Inc. announced a plan Monday that will see its senior management acquire the company's assets in exchange for $500,000 and assumption of its liabilities.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Solar Energy, Energy

Ocean Resources

Germany sets new solar power record, institute says

German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour - equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity - through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, World Records, Angela Merkel

The Daily Record

Scottish News: Former RAF base set to become green energy centre...

The deal at the Argyll and Bute town is the most complicated and largest under land reform legislation, according to the Scottish Government.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Strathclyde County, Scotland, United Kingdom,

Yahoo!

Green bank to accept lower rate of return

The federal government's $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation could lose 7.5 per cent of the capital it invests on unsuccessful projects, but overall it still aims to make a profit of four per cent a year.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Solar Energy

Chicago Sun-Times

U. of C. MBA grad spurns job market for alternative energy startup

This May 2, 2012 photo shows Daniel Shani on the University of Chicago campus. In June 2012, at 25, Shani graduates with an MBA from the university's Booth School of Business.

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Related Topix: Energy, us Travel, Travel, Chicago Travel, University of Chicago, Marketing, University of Illinois Chicago

Sun May 27, 2012

The Daily Star

12 percent renewable energy by 2020: mission possible

In the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit, the Lebanese government made a pledge to develop renewable energy production capacity to reach 12 percent of the total electricity supply by 2020.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Lebanon, IN, Solar Energy, Wind Power

Star of Mysore

KREDL educating people to harness solar energy

Mysore, May 27- In a bid to promote renewable energy concepts and to create awareness on harnessing solar energy in city, the Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd.

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