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The Business Journal of Milwaukee - by Chris Newmarker Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal Xcel Energy Inc.

The Patrick administration is rethinking its support of wood-burning power plants, a key element of its long-term strategy to wean Massachusetts off fossil fuels.

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District has approved a 20-year power purchase agreement with Buena Vista Biomass Power LLC to buy energy from the company's power plant, which generates electricity from woody biomass.

Green energy entrepreneurs want to build more wind farms like this one near Upolu Point on the Big Island.

VIEW: Seize the energy opportunity -Anders Eldrup In buildings and industry there are opportunities in changing the way energy is used.

In a TTMA article titled, 'Renewable Energy Development and the Manufacturing Sector' published during September 2009 in Newsday's Business Day, we expressed the view that given the non-renewability of fossil fuels, that conditions need to be created in Trinidad and Tobago to spur the growth of renewable energy industries over the medium to long ...

Last month I attended a webinar on the EPA's mandatory reporting of greenhouse gases rule, hosted by U.S. Energy and Wenck.

Comment on this article When the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, also known as 'cap-and-trade,' in June, that wasn't the last Americans would hear about greenhouse gases.

A northern Wisconsin utility's latest plan to replace coal with logging waste and dead trees as its primary fuel to generate electricity has been approved by the state Public Service Commission.

A new type of U.N. scheme is spreading clean energy technology to millions of people in India, promising to cut carbon emissions and help investors earn valuable carbon credits.

A team of researchers led by Univ. of California, Riverside Professor of Chemical Engineering, Wilfred Chen, has constructed for the first time a synthetic cellulosome in yeast, which is much more ethanol-tolerant than the bacteria in which these structures are normally found.

A "feed-in tariff" offering guaranteed premium prices for electricity from wind, solar, biomass and other green sources promises to attract large-scale international investors and developers, especially those aiming to erect wind turbines, to Canada's most populous province.

Comment on this article Largely known for its plentiful fossil fuel supply, the Lone Star State is also rich in renewable energy potential with abundant solar, wind, and biomass resources.

Both are great ideas. But a deal being made on the sidelines could undo much of what Smitherman and the Liberal government are trying to accomplish.

Czech power producer CEZ produced more than 234 GWh of electricity from biomass in the first three quarters of this year, approximately the same amount as in Jan-Sept a year ago, CEZ said in a press release on Tuesday.

A team of researchers led by University of California, Riverside Professor of Chemical Engineering Wilfred Chen has constructed for the first time a synthetic cellulosome in yeast which is much more ethanol-tolerant than the bacteria in which these structures are normally found.

Sandia researchers and others at the University of New Mexico , the Joint BioEnergy Institute , Novozymes and North Carolina State University's Center for Integrated Fungal Research have received a DNA sequencing award from the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute to study microbial genes in arid grasslands.

An adhesive used in products like laminate countertops may also help cement a place for economically viable biofuels, according to a Kansas State Univ.

The Senate's Environment and Public Works committee has begun hearings on climate legislation, and the heat in the hearing room is spiraling upward.

How does adaptation differ from mitigation? And what is REDD? The jargon of climate change can be hard to grasp.