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Intel Jumps Head First into Solar 8 with New Power Plants

The world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp. (NSDQ: INTC), today made another incursion into renewable energy with the announcement that contracts ar[...] read more »
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National Grid Announces Plan to Buy Electricity from Cape Wind 

Mass. Governor Deval Patrick Wednesday announced that the proposed offshore wind farm, Cape Wind, will negotiate for a long-term power purchase agree[...] read more »
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Ethanol Industry Calls for Country-of-Origin Fuel Labeling

Ethanol industry bangs the drum of energy independence, pushes for country of origin labeling on fuel. read more »
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Windlab Secures Venture Funding for Wind Farm Mapping Software

Australian renewable energy start-up, Windlab Systems, is moving forward with its proprietary wind-mapping software suite, thanks to an $8.4 million [...] read more »
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7 Arrested in Unprecedented Carbon Tax Fraud Scheme

Several arrests were made in the UK last week for a carbon tax fraud scheme that bilked the government out of millions of quid... A sign of things to[...] read more »
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Green Century Fund Becomes First to Report Carbon Footprint

Raising the bar in terms of private carbon reporting, the Green Century Balanced Fund (GCBLX) recently announced the results of its carbon footprint [...] read more »
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Smith Electric Vehicles to build world's largest electric vans in Kansas City

Smith Electric Vehicles has chosen Kansas City to be the home of its first US manufacturing plant, where it will build the battery-powered trucks. read more »
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Oasys Secures $10m in Funding for Engineered Osmosis Desalination

Massachusetts-based Oasys Water is moving forward with its proprietary desalination process that apparently makes drinking water from salt water usin[...] read more »
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Price of EU Carbon Permits Falls to All-Time Low

The cause of the most recent collapse in the price of carbon in the European market is not just blatant over-allocation—as it was in 2006— the precipitous drop is a direct result of the global economic downturn that has European manufacturing down. read more »
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Shell Pulls Out of UK Wind... Again

First it was the London Array; now its the UK’s Cirrus Array that’s getting the cold shoulder from Royal Dutch Shell, dealing the latest blow to the [...] read more »
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Aviva Creates €500 Million Fund for European Cleantech

The U.K.'s Aviva Investors announced plans to raise a €500 million ($625 million) fund for cleantech investing in Europe. read more »
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Beacon Power will Delay Expansion of Commercial Project

Beacon Power will delay its long-awaited commercial expansion because of the current credit crisis. Beacon's flywheels, if deployed on a large scale[...] read more »
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Evergreen Solar Signs Contracts for more than 160 Megawatts

Massachusetts solar company Evergreen inks some substantial delivery agreements. read more »
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Morgan Stanley and Atlantis announce plans for tidal-powered data center

Off-grid tide-powered data center in the planning stages for Northern Scotland. read more »
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Shell Quadruples Renewable Energy Spending

The oil giant quadruples the amount it will spend this year on cleaner energy, leading industry insiders to wonder how much impact oil companies will[...] read more »
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