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Wind power report favors Colorado's future in field
Bizjournals.com, NC - May 12, 2008
The DOE report, "20% Wind Energy by 2030: Increasing Wind Energy's Contribution to US Electricity Supply," concluded that wind power is capable of becoming ...
Wind power potential seen brewing Las Vegas Review - Journal
Feds eye surge in wind power The Casper Star Tribune
Report says strong growth in wind energy possible Kansas City Star
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CCM Research Issues Technical Research Report on Nevada Geothermal ...
CNNMoney.com - 5 hours ago
"Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. (NGP) is currently trading under the key 5- week modified moving average at 1.073..." "My model shows weekly support at 1.002 ...

Legislature's energy plan presses for renewables
Arizona Republic, AZ - 16 hours ago
For example, Schott AG, a German company, took its plans for a $100 million solar plant to New Mexico earlier this year after that state sweetened the pot ...
Florida’s Energy Bill: The Cliff Notes Palm Beach Post
Let Arizona shine Arizona Republic
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UW Trustees Approve Planning For Wind Energy Research Center
North American Windpower - 9 hours ago
The Wind Energy Research Center, created by the College of Engineering and Applied Science in affiliation with the School for Energy Resources, ...

Vestas to Build World's Largest Wind Tower Plant in Colorado
SustainableBusiness.com, NY - 9 hours ago
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter said, "This is another great victory for the New Energy Economy and all of Colorado." Vestas said it was confident the US will ...

Utility Exec Works to Keep Lights Shining
RedOrbit, TX - 13 hours ago
Nevada has ample supplies of sunshine, geothermal resources and wind energy, none of which pollute the air like coal. These critics say the company's ...

LCCC's Wind Energy Technician program popular
Wyoming Business Report, WY - 44 minutes ago
Petersen pointed to a map display depicting wind strength in various areas of Wyoming as evidence that the state is ripe for wind energy development, ...

Outsourcing opens door to renewable energy for Chadron man
Chadron Record, NE - 3 hours ago
His training has taken him to Wisconsin and Colorado, where he has studied at the Midwest Renewable Energy Association and the Solar Energy Institute. ...

SRP to buy power from new Coolidge plant
Arizona Republic, AZ - May 12, 2008
SRP is part of a coalition of utilities expected to decide next month on a builder for a new solar-thermal power plant to be built in Arizona or Nevada.

DNC: McCain on the Environment: Different Issue, Same Double Talk
Earthtimes (press release), UK - 6 hours ago
He is speaking at a wind turbine manufacturing company, despite consistently opposing efforts to invest in wind and solar technologies. ...
Obama, speaking in Bend, turns energy to oil alternatives The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
McCain in pledge on climate change The Press Association
McCain rips Bush record on warming Chicago Tribune
MSNBC - Chicago Tribune
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Xcel plans to mothball Cameo
Grand Junction Free Press, Colorado - 17 hours ago
Others intervenors, as provided by the PUC include Ratepayers United of Colorado, Western Resource Advocates, Colorado Solar Energy Industry Association, ...

BBC News

States remove local barriers to eco-friendly homes
USA Today - May 12, 2008
Renewable-energy proponents say cases such as the Canfields' show that only a national law will make homegrown wind and solar power as common as they should ...
Green initiative creates some unwanted heat Houston Chronicle
Green Light for Eco-Friendly Homes eFluxMedia
Cash cuts see green grants halved BBC News
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Perambulating the Energy Grounds
Manufacturers' Blog, DC - 13 hours ago
[snip]For electricity generation, the EIA concludes that solar energy is subsidized to the tune of $24.34 per megawatt hour, wind $23.37 and "clean coal" ...

CTV.ca

McCain Targets Independents with 'Green' Effort
NPR - 3 hours ago
The Arizona senator delivered his speech at the US headquarters of Vestas, a Danish wind-energy company. McCain hopes his environmental message will ...
Video: McCain Takes Swipe at Bush on Global Warming AssociatedPress

McCain pledges to combat climate change Reuters

Comment by Jim DiPeso, Policy Director Republicans for Environmental Protection
VentureBeat - guardian.co.uk
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Colorado Governor Ritter Applauds Vestas Wind Tower Decision
All American Patriots (press release), Sweden - May 12, 2008
Just as we did with Vestas, we will continue to pursue economic opportunities and investments for Colorado's New Energy Economy."

Going, going green
YourWestValley.com, AZ - 8 hours ago
Skyrocketing gas prices and Arizona's nearly constant sunshine mean one thing for Classic Golf Cars owner Jack Santoro: solar-powered golf cars. ...

Vestas Expanding Colorado Facility
North American Windpower - May 12, 2008
Bill Ritter, D-Colo., has welcomed the news that Vestas plans to build the world's largest factory for wind turbine towers in Colorado. ...

Vestas to build second plant in Colorado, USA
High Performance Composites - May 12, 2008
The plant announcement comes at a crucial time for wind energy, when the PTC still has yet to be extended, even as the industry inches dangerously closer ...

Acciona Energy will build two solar thermal power plants in Cordoba
Construction and Maintenance News, Belarus - May 12, 2008
Acciona is the first Spanish company with a commercially operational plant using parabolic trough technology -Nevada Solar One, in the USA-, ...

HelioVolt Exceeds 12% Solar Thin Film Efficiency with Rapid ...
Business Wire (press release), CA - May 12, 2008
Confirmed by independent testing at Colorado State University, the high-throughput printing process delivers a uniform photovoltaic cell with high ...

HelioVolt claims CIGS thin film efficiency record
VentureBeat, CA - May 12, 2008
All are competing to lower the cost of solar cells by using copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) instead of the costlier, but more efficient, ...

SunPower, Heliovolt tout record efficiencies
Solid State Technology, NH - May 12, 2008
May 12, 2008 - Two firms developing technologies with application in the solar industry are claiming new records in efficiency -- one with its thin-film ...

HelioVolt Achieves CIGS Photovoltaic Milestones
Solar Industry, CT - May 12, 2008
The efficiencies place HelioVolt's CIGS devices among the highest performing solar thin-film products on the market today, the company says. ...

HelioVolt Hits 12.2% Efficiency
Greentech Media, MA - May 11, 2008
Global Solar Energy, which opened a 40-megawatt CIGS factory in Arizona in March, expects to produce cells of about 10 percent efficiency, and Miasolé, ...

HelioVolt Achieves 12.2% Solar Thin Film Efficiency with Rapid ...
Compound Semiconductors Online (press release), TX - May 12, 2008
Heliovolt noted independent testing at Colorado State University confirmed the throughput, uniformity, and efficiency of the CIGS solar cells produced using ...

CNET News.com

HelioVolt claims CIGS solar efficiency mark
CNET News.com, CA - May 11, 2008
Another CIGS company, Global Solar Energy, also uses co-evaporation. Earlier this year, it said it broke the 10 percent mark with its commercial products ...

Kids focus their energy on green thoughts: Students' posters take ...
Muscatine Journal, IA - 6 hours ago
Cole drew a bright sun missing a pie-shaped slice with a caption that read, “Have a slice of energy’s future.” The sun represents the use of solar power, ...

The Cost of Utility-scale Solar: PV vs. CST
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, NH - 12 hours ago
Lisa B, Denver, Colorado The short answer would be that on an apples-to-apples comparison in the southwestern United States, concentrating solar thermal ...

Solar Variability: Striking A Balance With Climate Change
Science Daily (press release) - May 12, 2008
Using space-based tools, like the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), they have studied how much solar energy illuminates Earth, and explored ...

University of Arizona News (press release)

Solar Concentrator Shows Promise for Bringing Electricity to ...
University of Arizona News (press release), AZ - 19 hours ago
To help move the state toward this goal, an engineering design team at The University of Arizona decided to build a low-cost solar concentrator that could ...

US Energy Corp. Provides Operations Update
CNNMoney.com - May 12, 2008
The new initiative will focus initially on advanced biomass, solar and wind power technologies. Company officials see tremendous opportunity and potential ...

Viewpoint: Nuclear energy is not the answer
San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA - 14 hours ago
Wind, solar, bioenergy and other renewable sources of energy—coupled with energy efficiency andconservation— can meet our electricity needs. ...

Raser Continues Geothermal Investments in 1Q
SustainableBusiness.com, NY - 10 hours ago
Raser Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Arca: RZ) a company involved in geothermal energy development and electric vehicle drive trains reported $5.4 million net ...

PhysOrg.com

CU Team To Build $34 Million Instrument Package For US ...
CU Boulder News & Events, CO - 4 hours ago
A $34 million solar instrument package to be built by the University of Colorado at Boulder, considered a crucial tool to help monitor global climate change ...
Colorado-designed instruments bound for space Rocky Mountain News
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Raser Breaks Ground, Draws Attention to Geothermal Power
Resource Investor, VA - May 11, 2008
Largely obscured by all the attention and interest being devoted to ethanol, solar and wind, interest in geothermal power is coming to the fore. ...
Energy hot spot found St. George Daily Spectrum
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GreenHunter Energy CEO to Present Tomorrow at Renewable Energy ...
Earthtimes (press release), UK - 3 hours ago
Our assets consist of leases of real property for future development of wind energy projects located in Montana , New Mexico , California , and Texas ...

Solar Energy Centre – an attractive option to supplement the ...
Press Information Bureau (press release), India - May 12, 2008
The Solar Energy Centre is a technical focal point of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy for the development and promotion of solar energy ...

New wind blows: Idea to put turbines on ranch raising discussion ...
Sierra Vista Herald, AZ - May 11, 2008
The commission’s Renewable Energy Standards allow utilities to use solar, wind, biomass, biogas, geothermal and other similar technologies to generate ...

Geothermal Energy Sources 101
Seeking Alpha, NY - May 12, 2008
Other noteworthy geothermal power companies include Constellation Energy Group (CEG), IdaCorp Inc. (IDA), Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. (NGLPF. ...

Why we need nukes and Gitmo
Los Angeles Times, CA - 20 hours ago
Clean, efficient, safe nuclear energy could force enormous savings in CO2 emissions, replacing coal- and gas-burning power plants on a scale solar never can ...

PPG Dedicates Reno Architectural Coatings Production Facility
WELT ONLINE, Germany - 4 hours ago
The building incorporates environmentally-sound, "green” building technologies by PPG such as ENERGY STAR-rated Duranar coatings and Solarban 70XL solar ...

Arizona in the running for up to 34 German solar projects
Bizjournals.com, NC - May 6, 2008
Arizona could be in line for as many as three dozen solar energy projects and facilities from Germany. But California, New Mexico, Oregon and other states ...

Fort Carson Goes Green
Fox 21, CO - 20 hours ago
On what was once a landfill sits 27000 solar panels, twelve acres of renewable energy. "They are exceeding the production output that they expected," said ...

Christian Science Monitor