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1 hr ago | GlobeNewswire

Rejlers conducts a network study to wind power developer

Rejlers has received an order by wpd Scandinavia. A network study will demonstrate how the company's wind farm in Skelleftea can be connected to the existing grid.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Sweden, World News, Europe

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Ubergizmo

SunnyBot Kickstarter Project Is Solar-Powered

When it comes to renewable energy sources, most of would automatically think of the likes of solar energy, wind power and perhaps hydro-electric dams.

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

The Daily Times

Wind power still tied up in politics

A first-of-its-kind plan to deliver offshore wind power to electricity users has been blowing in the wind.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Chris Christie, US Governors, Norfolk, VA

The Burlington Free Press

Green Mountain Power says saving bats would cost $4 million

The utility that owns the Lowell Mountain wind power project said it would have to stop its turbines from spinning at night for six months a year to eliminate any risk to the little brown bats known to fly on the mountain.

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Related Topix: Energy, Green Mountain Power, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Vermont

Media Matters for America

Wall Street Journal Hosts More Wind Myths

A Wall Street Journal op-ed authored by a staffer of the industry-funded Heartland Institute claimed that "[p]hysical limitations" will not allow wind to become a major source of our power.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, US News, Liberal Political News

Forbes.com

Beacon Power To Build A Flywheel Plant To Keep The Grid In Good Health

Beacon Power , the flywheel energy storage company that won a loan from a controversial federal program and survived bankruptcy, will kickstart the construction of a project in Pennsylvania this Friday.

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Related Topix: Economics News, Bankruptcy, Stephentown, NY, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance

$1.4M wind project at Pioneer High School advances to next stage in 8-3 vote

After a nearly 40-minute debate Monday night, the Ann Arbor City Council has decided to move forward with the next phase of a wind energy project at Pioneer High School.

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Related Topix: Ann Arbor, MI, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

WABI-TV Bangor

Wind Power in Bingham

Opposition is lining up against a proposed 62-turbine wind energy facility in Somerset and Piscataquis counties in central Maine.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Bingham, ME, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Somerset County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME, Abbot, ME

The Guardian

Google X working on green energy project

Google X project suggests putting tips of wind turbine blades attached to a long tether circulating in space.

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

AdelaideNow...

Wind power 'terrorising' communities

Alan Jones speaking at the anti-wind turbine rally on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra yesterday, was keen to keep the tone of proceeding polite.

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

The Winnipeg Free Press

Province blows off wind megawatt goal

While Manitoba's neighbours are building turbines like gangbusters, Manitoba's policy-makers are letting wind power breeze on by.

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

Triple Pundit

Masdar-Backed Wind Farm Opens in Seychelles

The Port Victoria Wind Farm in the Republic of Seychelles accounts for 8 percent of MahA© Island's energy capacity - the main island of Seychelles The Republic of Seychelles is among many small island nations that will be affected by rising oceans due to climate change.

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Related Topix: Seychelles, World News, Africa, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Plymouth Evening Herald

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South West commercial developer London and Devonshire Trust wants to create a 22-acre business park at the now demolished factory site at Ernesettle.

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

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Indiana's NewsCenter

Hundreds Show Opposition to Wells County Wind Farm

Wind farm company Apex Wind Energy not only wants to set up shop in Wells County, but now they're changing the height of the turbines, and where they want to build them.

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Related Topix: Wells County, IN, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Energy Tribune

Poland Could Generate 6 GW from Offshore Wind Energy

Poland could generate up to 6 GW from expanding its offshore wind energy program, provided that 6 GW of marine turbines are built by 2025, Ernst & Young wrote in a report prepared for the Polish Wind Energy Association.

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

Energy Tribune

Nalco Commissions Part of its Second Wind Energy Project

State-owned aluminium maker Nalco has commissioned a part of its Rs 283 crore wind power project in Rajasthan, taking its total green energy capacity to 65 MW.

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

National Geographic

Wind Power and the Thrum of Lawsuits

I encountered my first wind turbines in the early 1980s when, on a family holiday to the Pacific coast, my father drove through the Altamont Pass Wind Farm in northern California.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy, 9

Domestic Fuel

Sioux Indian Tribes Adopt Wind Energy

In this edition of "The Ethanol Report", we hear about a new study that shows no direct correlation between the Renewable Fuel Standard and the overall increase in food prices since 2008.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, US Politics, US News, Byron Dorgan, US Senate, Democrat

Sheffield Star

Minister defends lack of turbine restrictions

Visit to Banks Penny Hill wind farm site nr. Rotherham by Ed Davey MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

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Related Topix: South Yorkshire County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Alternative Energy

International Business Times

Early Monsoons Claim 10 Lives in Uttarakahand; Delhi's IGI Airport Inundated, Power Demand Falls

The early arrival of the monsoon is proving to be a bane with incessant rains causing floods and claiming lives in many parts of the country.

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