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3 hrs ago | Market Wire

Quantum Technologies to Acquire Schneider Power

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. and Schneider Power Inc. today announced the signing of a definitive business combination agreement under which Quantum has agreed to acquire in a stock-for-stock exchange all of the outstanding common shares of Schneider Power.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Alternative Energy, Energy, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy)

7 hrs ago | Lansing State Journal

Saginaw looks to land solar plant and 500 new jobs

SAGINAW - Saginaw officials are vying with a Texas community to land a California-based solar panel manufacturer that would create 500 new jobs within five years.

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Related Topix: Saginaw, MI, Solar Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, Saginaw County, MI

12 hrs ago | UPI

U.S. stimulus funds wind power batteries

North Carolina's Duke Energy said it plans to match a $22 million federal grant to examine the use of batteries to store wind energy from a Texas wind farm.

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

Thu Nov 26, 2009

The Sligo Champion

China to boost energy efficiency

China has said it is aiming for a big boost in energy efficiency by cutting carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product by up to 45% by 2020.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Global Warming, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

24 Hours Vancouer

24 Hours Vancouver

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will attend the Copenhagen conference on climate change next month.

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Related Topix: Stephen Harper, Canada, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, North America, World News

Edmonton Journal

Feds will contribute $30M to Alberta CO2 pipeline

The federal government said Tuesday it is contributing about $30 million to the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line project through the Clean Energy Fund.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

San Diego Union-Tribune

SoCal desert highway landmark demolished

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 7:46 a.m. A California desert highway landmark is history.

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Related Topix: Barstow, CA, Daggett, CA, Needles, CA, Solar Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, Phelan, CA

Battle Creek Enquirer

Thumb-area residents upset with loud wind turbines

Dozens of Thumb-area residents say their lives have been changed for the worse by noisy, energy-producing wind turbines and recommended that future installations be kept far away from homes.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, Michigan

Wed Nov 25, 2009

CW33 Dallas KDAF-TV

Texas to Receive More than $27 Million for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

Energy Secretary Chu announced today that the Department of Energy is awarding more than $27 million for 3 projects in Texas to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems that will help build a smarter, more efficient, more resilient electrical grid.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, Solar Energy

WSHM - News - News Now

Mass. moves to streamline renewable energy efforts

Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a bill designed to streamline the state's push for renewable energy.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government

TulsaWorld.com - Education

OU's Norman campus to become wind-powered

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' The University of Oklahoma's plan to power its Norman campus with wind energy was approved Wednesday by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.

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Related Topix: Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Oklahoma City, OK, Oklahoma City Metro, Science / Technology, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

CLTV - Chicago Land's TV

Obama to attend global climate summit in Copenhagen next month, outline pollution-cutting goal

Dousing rampant speculation, President Barack Obama has decided to travel to Copenhagen next month and spell out U.S. goals for curbing greenhouse gas emissions at a widely anticipated, high-stakes global climate summit.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

Summit Daily News

Salazar fires back at oil industry 'untruths'

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar lashed out at the oil and gas industry Tuesday, accusing some industry trade groups of acting like an arm of the Republican Party in criticizing the Obama administration's record on energy production.

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Related Topix: US News, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

CNET News.com

Norway opens world's first osmotic power plant

Norway opened on Tuesday the world's first osmotic power plant, which produces emissions-free electricity by mixing fresh water and sea water through a special membrane.

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

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Seeking Alpha

Pre-Thanksgiving Sale: First Solar Sells Project to NRG Solar

NRG Solar said Monday it has bought a near-complete solar power plant in California from First Solar , which entered the project development business to create demand for its solar panels.

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Related Topix: Solar Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, Riverside County, CA, Los Angeles Metro, Enbridge, Oil & Gas

KHOU-TV Houston

Report: Indiana power plants 4th dirtiest in US

Coal-hungry Indiana ranks fourth in the nation for carbon dioxide emissions from mostly aging power plants that contribute to global warming, an environmental group said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Ohio, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

Airport Business

Green Jet Fuel Powers Biofuel Demonstration Flight

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced today that its renewable jet fuel process technology was used to convert second-generation, renewable feedstocks to green jet fuel for a biofuel demonstration flight by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

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Related Topix: Chemicals, Biofuel, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Honeywell International, Aerospace-Defense, Transportation, Airlines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

CNN

Scientists create greener plastics

A team of South Korean scientists have produced the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel-based chemicals.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Biomass, Energy

IBJ.COM

Wind turbine maker adding 260 jobs in New Albany

California-based WindStream Technologies Inc. plans to locate a development and production facility at Purdue Research Park of Southeast Indiana, state officials said Monday morning.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, Indiana

Mon Nov 23, 2009

ClipSyndicate

Solar energy is hot topic in WNY

Can you imagine western New York as a solar energy hub? That vision has brought Governor David Paterson to the Cataract City Monday morning.

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Related Topix: Solar Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, Environmental, Video

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